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But "shay" is pronounced how it looks. And so is "chaise", unless you're a pretentious dipshit that says "shayz" like the annoying woman in one particularly annoying Value City Furniture commercial.

There's even an overdub of that commercial called "Bitch, I said 'chaise'!"

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Or this?
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I suppose the hyperloop track will look something like this?
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Until a la carte comes along, cable can suck it.

Maybe we should send Mr. Spock to these negotiations.

Yes, I know... RIP, Mr. Nimoy.

Microsoft has put a video on Youtube, and a new blog [post about Natick today. They are both linked from my article. http://www.datacenterdynamics.... The Youtube video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Peter Judge

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It produced more power than they predicted.

How much more? You should watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I mean, you don't hear about cheating nearly as much in other "sports" where they depend upon mechanical equipment... Nascar

Good thing you quoted it if you will mention nascar. If you can do it with a beer belly and 30kg extra weight around the midriff it is not a sport! The reason you see this in cycling is that it is a sport: your athletic ability is a key determinant of your success.

Yeah, you see a lot of those, don't you.
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Why would they waste money on this? It's a scam. Thunderf00t debunked this last year.

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Just a correction - the 400-500W is the sustained peak value, not the average. An olympic winner track cyclist can get to 700 Watts for about 2 minutes (and be completely exhausted afterwards) - that's about the highest output any human can do. Averaged over the whole Tour de France the champion does maybe 150 Watts.

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Why bother with just the wheel, it is not uncommon to throw the entire bike away

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Exactly. Look what happens when you introduce a small dent into a metal tube under vacuum. Collapsing hyperloop tubes would become the new frat initiation "prank".

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We don't need no stinking carriages!

I suggest watching at least the first video in the link I originally posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

How about this Israeli generals son for a fairy story, very interesting interpretation of events https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and very interesting changes in time line as presented by main stream media under the direction of Mossad and well, the history as presented by the Israeli.

vision for true innovation died with Steve Jobs

Not berating Apple (it's the same for everyone), but Apple did not do anything that was not at least in science fiction or talked about a long time before. ipad - Star Trek, 2001. iphone - improved cell phone+palm pilot. Remember he apple newton? Most techy people knew that it was only a matter of time before technology and economics developed to the point of where these devices could realize their full potential, but the idea was there. I believe the problem that Apple, and others, are facing is everyone is out of ideas that can be accomplished at that scale (smaller than a breadbox). I mean I've worked in a number of engineering disciplines in my career and used stuff a decade before making it into public consciousness, but now nothing really new.
Not to say there are no more things to be done, but things for the consumer scale? 32k resolution tv, yawn. If someone were to make a video like this today, what would it show? The most accurate predictions that I've read, IMO, have been by Kurzweil and Gersenfeld and other than wildly futuristic things like nanotechnology, there is nothing that isn't already out there.

Dave Jones over at the EEVBlog has a great video as to why solar roadways are crap https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Of course, there's traction and such to consider.

There was a successful kickstarter for something similar, which IMO gets ripped to shreds in this video:
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If you love solar panels, then why not put them, well, anywhere else instead of on a road surface where they will be under constant, severe assault by heavy vehicles with tires that can leave light-blocking rubber on them.

Doing this would be expensive and ineffective, if not impossible. It seems good for nothing but a scam to bilk investors or as another vacuous Green PR campaign.

Do government ministers check their brains into deep storage when they are elected?

There are sooo many things wrong with this concept; the first being grip.
How do you make glass grip? You have severely roughen the surface which will make the light scatter severely reducing efficiency.
They are not angled correctly. They will get damaged. Very expensive because they have withstand trucks... any anyway, next time France gets invaded, the tank tracks will rip them to pieces.
Just go find a nice field to put them in,

Dave at EEVblog has already covered the concept in depth.
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/b...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.eevblog.com/2015/05...

RRV #632 for the tech. For the political sorts, this is what happens when you have a stupid EU policy requiring the state to pay private companies to build infrastructure rather than employing their own talent.

Yeah, a better example of highly suspicious and quite likely to be motor assisted cheating is Fabian Cancellara in Roubaix-Vlaanderen in the second part of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This look just like angular momentum of the rotating wheel giving the spin though the partial friction, look for instance on this.
Two reasins:
a) look at the pedals, they are not rotating... All practical solutions would use drive coupled to crank axis bolt / crank wheel, it woul be very difficult to coulpe the drive directly to back wheel...
b) They were going down with nearly no push required (they are not pedaling), it would be stupid to switch the drive on in such situation

One system mentioned has an effect of about 110W, with either 60 or 90 minute battery, total package weight with 60 minute battery is 1,8kg, with battery and motor all hidden away, wireless activation button etc.And yes, it can be disengaged.

Ironically, it's on the mountain stages it'd really help. 0.148hp for a total of 60 minutes during a stage can help you build a massive lead spread over a few climbs.

Also, look at some suspected motorized cheating like Fabian Cancellara in Roubaix-Flaanderen for example.

Links:
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Different rider, but look what happens to the bike after the fall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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Can it load a 2Mb file?

I built a crystal radio when I was a kid. It's a normal radio, but runs the antenna through a diode to rectify the energy to power the radio and speaker. This is the exact same concept unless some new laws of physics have been found. Instead of powering the speaker (earphone), charge a battery instead.

You won't be in the "cockpit" of the drone, because drones don't have cockpits. By the way, can we get rid of the word "cockpit"? It means "a pit or enclosure for cockfights" or "a place noted for especially bloody, violent, or long-continued conflict". If we could talk about aviation without reminding ourselves that we put innocent animals to fight for our amusement in blood sports, that would be great.

Son of a.... I spent, literally, 4 hours yesterday trying to troubleshoot a 3d Printer (Tinyboy 3D), with it not working. MProg from FTDI said the chip was fine (right vendor and product ID), but it just wouldn't work. I tried every driver I could find. Finally, I uninstalled the driver, disabled wifi, plugged it in, waited for Windows 7 to install the version it knew (2.4 something), used Mprog 3.5 to reprogram the chip as legit (as per: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...), unplugged, replugged (at which point windows reinstalled it again, with 2.4), and suddenly it started working! I can confirm this "Non Genuine" serial data, since I opened up the Arduino IDE and saw that on the serial console. You know, I sympathize with FTDI. They're having their tech ripped off. But, it's inappropriate to punish end users who don't have any say. Sure, we could not buy stuff that uses counterfeit chips, but many sellers aren't even going to know. FTDI should be pursuing the counterfeiters in China, and using what legal system China has to stop it. Either that, or create a version of the chip that has such a low price point, they put the cloners out of business by providing legit-working-alternatives for a price point. So annoying that I've lost time because FTDI does this crap, and apparently Microsoft is okay with it (I don't see how this should have passed WHQL).

I see you've gotten a 'Troll' for your seasoned GP remark. Around here that means you're on the right track. There's a lot of delusion around here.

The 'smart grid' argument is a 21st century phenomenon where smart takes on the meaning that robust used to have. And the term robust has slipped too --- it used to mean engineered well enough to be truly resilient to failure, now it is often used to describe a mere excess of something, usually taken to absurd limits.

Advocates of 'smart' things center their argument on waste and inefficiency, as if we had attained some optimum level of energy production years ago and have been just pissing it all away. They'll reach into thin air (and other places) for figures like 30-50% waste and when someone presents a study that identifies a specific loss in a certain place that is say, 3-5%, unacceptable only in some perfectionist sense of engineering, those who claimed the higher figure will cry "See? I told you so!" as if their error of magnitude is unworthy of note. They will then go on to propose changes that require everyone to manufacture and purchase and deploy centrally monitored smart widgets everywhere that are all watched over by machines of loving grace to nip that 50% (oops actually less than 10%) in the bud. They're actually just saying, "We like to think about complicated things and (fragile) intricate networks, so every time you speak of increasing capacity we'll derail the discussion to talk about smart widgets and waste because no one can stop us."

Advocates of 'robust' windsolarwhatever multipliers run smack into your stochastic wall, but even though you have expressed it well it will not faze them a bit. If you point out that even at 'optimum' efficiency the yield for wind is typically 30% they'll take that unimaginably ludicrous number of turbines that would need to be built and triple it, problem solved. Your stochastic point is completely lost. There is no way to counter the idea that the wind is always blowing somewhere and these people are actually imagining giant wind turbines hopping back and forth across the continent trailing transmission umbilici behind to gather in throngs where the wind is the strongest. Or easier still, simply imagine them as having been built there. They saw a wind map one day and imagined that's the way it 'is' and do not recall the continent ever being under a stable high pressure dome for weeks with generally light and variable winds. Not one of them would be willing to gamble their own lives on the bet that there will be wind on any day in any location, yet they'll do their small part to drive society, by small degrees, to a point where it is hanging on a desperate and stupid gamble.

When someone mentions 'storage' technology it should be whispered, with the eyes gazing heavenward to beg forgiveness. For these folks know or care little of the devastating ecological horrors they are proposing. By going with that gigajoule-level storage paradigm to somehow salvage what is an (already) ridiculous idea of replacing few 1-10GW plants with many intermittent geographically dispersed 3-50MW sources... the storage solution for this level of energy is freaklishly and chemically insane. Storage is where the most bizarre bedfellows emerge from the shadows. They imagine a few lithium batteries the size of skyscrapers that rendered large areas (in other countries) uninhabitable in their manufacture, or (if they're more practical) great lakes of acid and lead plates. Of course if you press them on the matter they won't admit to imagining any of those things. Instead they are thinking of the little safe and friendly batteries in their cellphones and cars gently and lovingly encased in plastic, maybe a little bigger, connected by enough copper wire to render large areas (in other countries) into desolate open pit mines. Or taking temporary refuge from reality altogether --- imagin

They do in the USA. You don't know how lucky you are. In the UK it's increasingly called "hate speech", a term originally intended to shut down insane Mullahs in UK Saudi funded pest houses (Mosques), but of course it's increasingly used to shut down just about anyone who isn't on-message.

FROM (& I'd suggest listening to Mr. Chaplin do it, he delivers like NO other could have (even Robert Downey Jr., as good as a "thespian" as he is couldn't in the film "Chaplin")) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.

Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.

And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers: Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!

You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts!

You don't hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery - Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!

In you!

You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.

By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!

Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.

Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers: in the name of democracy, let us all unite!"

APK

P.S.=> Quoting a great man (Charlie Chaplin) from LONG AGO on that one - he said it better than I ever could - CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU, in "little revolutions"... apk

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Balancing caloric input with exercise is missing the point. We're all going to live a life of some enjoyment, and then die a death of some misery. What should maximized is enjoyment over misery. For example, This woman is my hero.

Wrong again. The low standards of the volunteer military have been a joke for about a dozen years. Gee, I wonder why the standards dropped in the early 2000s.

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Oh let's do it! Let's harness the wind and crack the storage problem and lay thousands of miles of connecting feeders and create shell companies that live off of subsidies and hammer consumers for long term investments to build massive machines in the most hostile, corrosive environment amortized over 30 years that need major maintenance and replacement parts in 10! Let's Suck 'Em dry!

We really need to build one of these things, because we can, and the first one should be special. To showcase the idea that offshore wind can run a whole continent from miles away, let's run the wires all the way to Toad Suck, Arkansas in (Perry County). With a population of ~10,000 the turbine's peak 50MW should be able to handle the pumps in the water treatment and distribution plant and the sewer plant for a few hours a day, with maybe a thousand or so watts left over for each resident. They'll be able to run their whole houses on one outlet and one circuit breaker because there won't be much left over. They'd better have natural gas or plenty of firewood for Winter heating.

The residents of Toad Suck are hardy folk who'd gladly participate in this experiment. Maybe they could even put up fake 'charging stations' so yuppie tourists arriving in electric cars to catch a glimpse of the community of the future can have the juice sucked right out of them, so Toad Suck can run their pumps for a couple minutes more every day.

Oh wait--- you thought this megalith was going to power your own city or sprawling suburb and ensure a bright and prosperous energy future for your kinfolk? That's funny. Not this one, not so fast. There's maybe around ten thousand of them left to build out there in the ocean before the great project is scrapped, as the last vestige of this great country has been laid waste by famine, revolution and debt to foreign manufacturers. The next one we build will power neighboring Conway County Arkansas to the North of Toad Suck. It's a better fit for this experiment because with a population of ~20,000, double that of Perry, we can determine whether a modern community can get by with only half the energy capacity of Toad Suck. The folks in Conway will be casting envious eyes towards Perry, with their one house with Xmas lights per block. Conway will be almost entirely dark at night, gotta run those pumps! Good time to invest in sustainable whale-oil futures!

Or we could build small self contained buildings protected from the elements close to where the energy is needed, that just produce gigawatt-years of electricity from a few tons of barely-radioactive Thorium seed fuel that can be stored in a single room.

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Please see Thorium Remix and my own letters on energy,
  To The Honorable James M. Inhofe, United States Senate
  To whom it may concern, Halliburton Corporate

This is an interesting change that adds more insight to the nature of this spammer. For a while it was "Republicans hate children." Now it's "Democrats are servants of the devil."

I always read these in the voices of the pink a blue unicorns from Charlie the Unicorn.

Nothing really meaningful to add here.

why didn't you just ask it once? what is the reason for asking it several times? what made you decide to type the same question out with different words? what good is asking the same thing over and over doing?

Perhaps like one of my less technical managers, they felt that by asking the same question a different way, they would get a different answer, since they didn't like the answer the first 11 ways they asked the question, asking it a slightly different way a 12th time would magically change the laws of physics so that they could have the answer they wanted, and I was just being obstructionist by insisting gravity pulls towards the center of mass instead of towards, you know, Cleveland or something.

"Anderson here is our expert in all matters related to the drawing of red lines..."
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and I can't even choose where on my homescreen I want to place an icon.

Yes you can.

Oh wait, you're serious, let me laugh even harder.

I laugh because you think an explanation to stupid Wall Street analysts was a complaint - thus proving you are dumber than a Wall Street analyst.