As a University of Toronto Engineer, I was a member of the UofT Blue Sky Solar Racing Team in 2003 and 2004. In that time, I had a lot of fun and met many great people, one of whom was Andrew Frow, who lost his life in a solar car accident in August of 2004. He was a great leader with a vision, who always kept the big picture in mind. He made every member of the team feel like they were doing something useful, even us F!rosh that didn't know anything about Engineering yet.
I had no idea about this until recently, when I watched a documentary called Who Killed the Electric Car?, but General Motors already had a fully-electric car on the market: the EV1. This came as quite a surprise to both myself and my father, who has worked either with GM directly or as a GM dealer for many years here in the snowy state of Canadia. I have always had a special place for GM in my heart, and I always will, but I'm not naive enough to neglect some of the information put forth in this documentary. I've yet to do further research regarding the biasedness of this documentary etc., but even still, it seems quite disturbing.
How can so few people, including my own family, have known about this car? It looks like it could have done wonders for modern transporation..
I'm not expert at the English language, but couldn't it also be argued that encyclopedias should be encyclopediae? Oh.. maybe that i near the end throws things off... anyone know?
Not me*, I only listen to the highest quality Gothic Industrial.
*Actually, I do.. I'm 21 and I've known about Chris de Burgh for quite some time now. Among my favourites are Lady in Red, High on Emotion, The Spanish Train, and in fact most of his older stuff. I also listen to metal, jazz, [math|post|indie|punk|etc.] rock, classical, a bit of hip-hop, R&B, and an assortment of other stuff.
Thank you so very much for pointing this out, as the rest of us "Slashies" are far too stupid to have figured out what he meant by the context. Would you like a hero cookie?
"And the large majority of people already favoured the one-button mouse from apple very strongle, so much in fact, that apple never was asked for mice with more buttons, and most pc-users today buy and use one-button mouses."
I'm sorry, what? I've never even seen a PC mouse with only one button O_o
I think your analogy is flawed.. While it is true that any AC generator could be called an alternator, this term is usually reserved for devices used in the automotive industry, specifically with internal combustion engines. A turbofan engine has much more in common with a gas-turbine engine, the output shaft of which is then connected to an electrical generator. Even still, this analogy is weak, as the primary use of a gas-turbine engine is to generate rotary power at the output shaft, while in a turbofan engine this power is put directly into increasing the airflow through the intake fan.
Your point however remains: the power requirements of a jetliner a large when compared to the power required to charge the passengers' iPods, and the vast majority of this power is reserved for thrust. Conventional turbofan engines are built with quite broad safety margins. I don't have a reference handy, but I'm sure the additional power requirements of charging these iPods would be negligible in most of the requirements calculations.
You forgot the 3 micron clump of moon-dust located directly below (with respect to the moon's center of gravity), ergo the feather hits first. Spatial bodies are not, in general, perfect spheres.
Forgive me, but I call shenanigans. At a resolution of 1920x1080, an HDTV (in full 1080i/p) has only slightly more pixels than my desktop computer at 1600x1200. I can very clearly see individual pixels on my 19" monitor. Watching HDTV from cable or hooking up my computer through DVI-HDMI, I can clearly see pixelation on my 42" plasma HDTV, as well as on my sister's 42" LCD HDTV, as well as my house-mates 50" rear-projection HDTV (no, they're not all in the same house, they're in three different cities).
No matter how good the composited graphics look, there is no making up for a lack of resolution at the specification/hardware level. I don't doubt the view was gorgeous, and the colours intense and vibrant, but HDTV is still a grid of pixels and you just can't get any better than that.
I haven't been keeping up with this, so please don't bite.. I gather that this has bene passed in the U.S., but are any other nations planning on following suit? I have to say I agree with many of the posters above in that the whole concept of DST is silly.. I don't need the sun to rise at precisely 6:47am for my day to be right.. In fact, I'm already off-kilter since I'm much more comfortable with a 25 or 26 hour day (left to my own devices, I go to bed a few hours later than the previous night, and thus wake up a few hours later as well).
Ideally I'd like a move to a global standard time, such as GMT, but I'd even be happy with time-zones.. Just don't change the hour halfway through the year!
So, are you saying that if you gave such a cloak to a blind person, they would suddenly lose all their other senses? I see nothing here that would prevent transmission of aromatics, sound waves and temperature gradients through the shield.
To a blind person, they would perceive nothing different, except the lack of high-pitched squeals when they went tramping through the ladies' washroom.
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As a University of Toronto Engineer, I was a member of the UofT Blue Sky Solar Racing Team in 2003 and 2004. In that time, I had a lot of fun and met many great people, one of whom was Andrew Frow, who lost his life in a solar car accident in August of 2004. He was a great leader with a vision, who always kept the big picture in mind. He made every member of the team feel like they were doing something useful, even us F!rosh that didn't know anything about Engineering yet.
Aikon-
The problem with AppleTV is the name.. they should have gone with iTV, and then it'd have been a hit!
I had no idea about this until recently, when I watched a documentary called Who Killed the Electric Car?, but General Motors already had a fully-electric car on the market: the EV1. This came as quite a surprise to both myself and my father, who has worked either with GM directly or as a GM dealer for many years here in the snowy state of Canadia. I have always had a special place for GM in my heart, and I always will, but I'm not naive enough to neglect some of the information put forth in this documentary. I've yet to do further research regarding the biasedness of this documentary etc., but even still, it seems quite disturbing.
How can so few people, including my own family, have known about this car? It looks like it could have done wonders for modern transporation..
Aikon-
I'm not expert at the English language, but couldn't it also be argued that encyclopedias should be encyclopediae? Oh.. maybe that i near the end throws things off... anyone know?
Aikon-
8 b = 1 B, therefore 8 Tb = 1 TB (or 1 Tb = 1/8 Tb if you prefer)
Less confusing? You just stated that 1Tb = (1/8)Tb..
Aikon-
Through the magic of math: Tb / 8 = TB and so (300Tb)/8 = 37.5TB
/GASP
Aikon-
Not me*, I only listen to the highest quality Gothic Industrial.
*Actually, I do.. I'm 21 and I've known about Chris de Burgh for quite some time now. Among my favourites are Lady in Red, High on Emotion, The Spanish Train, and in fact most of his older stuff. I also listen to metal, jazz, [math|post|indie|punk|etc.] rock, classical, a bit of hip-hop, R&B, and an assortment of other stuff.
Except country.. definitely except country....
Aikon-
If I had mod-points, you would get +1 Insightful, sir.
Aikon-
So what, you normally use around 20.2GB?
Aikon-
Thank you so very much for pointing this out, as the rest of us "Slashies" are far too stupid to have figured out what he meant by the context. Would you like a hero cookie?
Aikon-
"And the large majority of people already favoured the one-button mouse from apple very strongle, so much in fact, that apple never was asked for mice with more buttons, and most pc-users today buy and use one-button mouses."
I'm sorry, what? I've never even seen a PC mouse with only one button O_o
Aikon-
I think your analogy is flawed.. While it is true that any AC generator could be called an alternator, this term is usually reserved for devices used in the automotive industry, specifically with internal combustion engines. A turbofan engine has much more in common with a gas-turbine engine, the output shaft of which is then connected to an electrical generator. Even still, this analogy is weak, as the primary use of a gas-turbine engine is to generate rotary power at the output shaft, while in a turbofan engine this power is put directly into increasing the airflow through the intake fan.
Your point however remains: the power requirements of a jetliner a large when compared to the power required to charge the passengers' iPods, and the vast majority of this power is reserved for thrust. Conventional turbofan engines are built with quite broad safety margins. I don't have a reference handy, but I'm sure the additional power requirements of charging these iPods would be negligible in most of the requirements calculations.
Aikon-
[...] below the *feather* [...]
/sigh =/
You forgot the 3 micron clump of moon-dust located directly below (with respect to the moon's center of gravity), ergo the feather hits first. Spatial bodies are not, in general, perfect spheres.
Aikon-
Forgive me, but I call shenanigans. At a resolution of 1920x1080, an HDTV (in full 1080i/p) has only slightly more pixels than my desktop computer at 1600x1200. I can very clearly see individual pixels on my 19" monitor. Watching HDTV from cable or hooking up my computer through DVI-HDMI, I can clearly see pixelation on my 42" plasma HDTV, as well as on my sister's 42" LCD HDTV, as well as my house-mates 50" rear-projection HDTV (no, they're not all in the same house, they're in three different cities).
No matter how good the composited graphics look, there is no making up for a lack of resolution at the specification/hardware level. I don't doubt the view was gorgeous, and the colours intense and vibrant, but HDTV is still a grid of pixels and you just can't get any better than that.
Aikon-
In Soviet Russia, spam junks YOU!!
Aikon-
I would have the invention, yes, but that doesn't mean that I would be making vg consoles =P
Aikon-
If MY company had every invention, I certainly wouldn't be making video game consoles!
Aikon-
I haven't been keeping up with this, so please don't bite.. I gather that this has bene passed in the U.S., but are any other nations planning on following suit? I have to say I agree with many of the posters above in that the whole concept of DST is silly.. I don't need the sun to rise at precisely 6:47am for my day to be right.. In fact, I'm already off-kilter since I'm much more comfortable with a 25 or 26 hour day (left to my own devices, I go to bed a few hours later than the previous night, and thus wake up a few hours later as well).
Ideally I'd like a move to a global standard time, such as GMT, but I'd even be happy with time-zones.. Just don't change the hour halfway through the year!
Aikon-
VM: "You have selected: Democrat!"
You: "No, I didn't!!"
"I'm almost positive, you did!"
Aikon-
Someone set up them the bomb.
-Aikon
At 800,000 PS3 units, 150-200 million controllers comes out to 187.5-250 controllers per unit.. maths is fun!
Aikon-
Perhaps SGI caught wind of AMD/ATI's new "Fusion" CPU/GPU combination?
Aikon-
It occurs to me now (after the fact, of course) that said blind person would have far less fun in said ladies' washroom...
So, are you saying that if you gave such a cloak to a blind person, they would suddenly lose all their other senses? I see nothing here that would prevent transmission of aromatics, sound waves and temperature gradients through the shield.
To a blind person, they would perceive nothing different, except the lack of high-pitched squeals when they went tramping through the ladies' washroom.
-Aikon