The now very old Citroen BX had adjustable ride-height. It could be low and sporty (and more economical because of decreased air drag), or it could be high to clear stuff. Very fun to be in a car that sort of gets up on its feet and feel it go up.
OMG The solar output has quadrupled! OMG OMG OMG We're all going to die, repent repent repent.
Oh wait. I see the so called "author" of that graph (and article) conveniently forgot to put a scale on the Y axis. If we go to somewhere not blatantly ignorant of science, like Wikipedia, we can see that a sunspot cycle variation (all the green spikes), depict a 0,1% change in solar output. So in 400 years the total solar output increased by about 0,05%. That's not a "dramatic" increase.
Also, the article claims that sunspot activity has spiked the last 400 years, evident by the very small graph near the 1700's. If we take graphs that go back further than that (which our so called "author", who thinks it's all a religion, didn't bother to do) we can see that the 1700's were just a minimum and sunspot activity was higher before that too, working on what appears to be a larger cycle.
I got more than that out of TF2 which was in the Orange Box. Maybe I'm just pissed at Valve for ripping EU people off, because the game is a lot cheaper in the USA and in the UK. In the UK it costs 30 euros. At that price I'd buy it but 45 is too much. Would you have paid US$60 for it? It's 50% more expensive for no reason. Fuck that.
44,99 euros. That's what it costs in Europe. I'm sorry, I'm not going to pay 45 euros for 5 hours of content.
It used to be cheaper, but Valve have recently denied european customers to pay in dollars. I bought my Orange Box of Steam in Dollars and it was very good value for money. This isn't. I can get the retail thing in the box with the manual for less delivered on my doorstep. Why should I pay more for less?
This is just a Discovery Channel unit. How much is 7.2MW? About enough to power 9000 homes. How heavy is the space shuttle? About 400 Volkswagen Beetles. It's only done to give someone without a feel for how much a Watt is (there's loads of those people) an example of how much power this will generate.
I bet 800W is the average power draw of a Scottish home. I bet it's also about the average power draw of a Dutch home. I think they also use natural gas for heating and (mostly?) for cooking, like we do. Your microwave might use 1100 Watts, but you're not running it 24/7. Your fridge only uses a lot of power when it runs its compressor. You're not running your washing machine constantly.
The trick with these calculations is is that they're on average. Yes, during the day the plant will probably not be able to supply them all. But you should look at it this way: The plant generates x terajoules per year, and 9000 homes use x terajoules per year. In reality, sometimes the plant will only feed 1000 homes, sometimes it'll feed 18000 homes.
Oh YES, I would very much like to see that case. I wonder what Justitie's (or maybe Brein's?) defense to that will be. "The tax does not give you the right to download stuff". Then what's it for exactly? And why do I pay the tax if I store my personal photos on those CD's?
Yes, the same CO2 will still enter the atmosphere. But now it has heated some homes. Which in turn do not need to burn natural gas or heating oil for their heat, so that CO2 production is saved.
Oh, shut up. Really. Land area is not a valid argument. Hell, my dad drives his Opel Zafira more than that and he gets 40 miles per gallon. And that's a 5/7 seat mpv.
I work for the mail service, as a driver. Our cars see a lot more than 15,000 miles a year. For example, they bought a Volkswagen Transporter last June and it has 20,000 km on it now. Just over half a year old, 20k km. And it's all in the city driving. And even that thing gets a lot better than 30 mpg.
Not all 4-strokes are equal. Cars are made to go 100K miles, or whatever. A small consumer generator isn't expecting to be running that long or that often, and might fail in interesting ways if you do run it long.
Of course you don't. Good drivers look ahead and anticipate (and I'm certainly not saying you're a bad driver, I don't know how you drive; you might be the safest person on the road).
The point is that fatigue, medicine and other stuff might slow your perception, reaction time and degrade your judgment of what's safe. That's OK when it's not too big of an impairment and you are aware of the reduction in skills and drive appropriately. The problem appears when you don't know about the impairment (and thus behave like you were in fit condition).
A lot of things can slow you down. Onset of flu, sudden urge sneeze because you have a cold, headache you thought you had under control with paracetamol, fatigue, sudden speck of dirt in your eyes, wasp in the car, phone ringing. The list goes on, with things you can know ahead of time and things you just can not anticipate for, except by taking more distance to the car in front of you.
Last paragraph: Consider this. Would you want a person (any person, including a 85-year old granny or a I-just-got-my-license-2-hours-ago kid) following you at one second? If not, why not? Now apply the same logic to the person in the car in front of you. That is all, thank you.
Yes, you're not average. There was a study conducted in the Netherlands. When asked, 85% of drivers said they were better drivers than the average on the road. The problem is that people tend to keep their behavior, even when it is not appropriate. Say you're actually a very good driver, above the 90th percentile. You can safely follow a car at about a second's distance. You're having a bad day, didn't sleep so well. You still follow that one second, but your reaction time has slowed to 1,5 seconds. The very rare unexpected stop happens and you ram into something.
That's, in my opinion, the problem with following less than 2 seconds. And, is it really going to make a difference big enough worth risking your and other road users life for?
Even if you got a clean PSU, the motherboard will spit so much RF noise that you'll end up with it anyway. If you want as little as possible hum or hiss, go buy an external sound card, because the inside of a PC is going to be noisy.
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Why, it's even smaller?
The now very old Citroen BX had adjustable ride-height. It could be low and sporty (and more economical because of decreased air drag), or it could be high to clear stuff. Very fun to be in a car that sort of gets up on its feet and feel it go up.
OMG The solar output has quadrupled! OMG OMG OMG We're all going to die, repent repent repent.
Oh wait. I see the so called "author" of that graph (and article) conveniently forgot to put a scale on the Y axis. If we go to somewhere not blatantly ignorant of science, like Wikipedia, we can see that a sunspot cycle variation (all the green spikes), depict a 0,1% change in solar output. So in 400 years the total solar output increased by about 0,05%. That's not a "dramatic" increase.
Also, the article claims that sunspot activity has spiked the last 400 years, evident by the very small graph near the 1700's. If we take graphs that go back further than that (which our so called "author", who thinks it's all a religion, didn't bother to do) we can see that the 1700's were just a minimum and sunspot activity was higher before that too, working on what appears to be a larger cycle.
Whoosh? I mean seriously.
I got more than that out of TF2 which was in the Orange Box. Maybe I'm just pissed at Valve for ripping EU people off, because the game is a lot cheaper in the USA and in the UK. In the UK it costs 30 euros. At that price I'd buy it but 45 is too much. Would you have paid US$60 for it? It's 50% more expensive for no reason. Fuck that.
44,99 euros. That's what it costs in Europe. I'm sorry, I'm not going to pay 45 euros for 5 hours of content.
It used to be cheaper, but Valve have recently denied european customers to pay in dollars. I bought my Orange Box of Steam in Dollars and it was very good value for money. This isn't. I can get the retail thing in the box with the manual for less delivered on my doorstep. Why should I pay more for less?
Don't worry, they have that covered.
This is just a Discovery Channel unit. How much is 7.2MW? About enough to power 9000 homes. How heavy is the space shuttle? About 400 Volkswagen Beetles. It's only done to give someone without a feel for how much a Watt is (there's loads of those people) an example of how much power this will generate.
I bet 800W is the average power draw of a Scottish home. I bet it's also about the average power draw of a Dutch home. I think they also use natural gas for heating and (mostly?) for cooking, like we do. Your microwave might use 1100 Watts, but you're not running it 24/7. Your fridge only uses a lot of power when it runs its compressor. You're not running your washing machine constantly.
The trick with these calculations is is that they're on average. Yes, during the day the plant will probably not be able to supply them all. But you should look at it this way: The plant generates x terajoules per year, and 9000 homes use x terajoules per year. In reality, sometimes the plant will only feed 1000 homes, sometimes it'll feed 18000 homes.
Oh YES, I would very much like to see that case. I wonder what Justitie's (or maybe Brein's?) defense to that will be. "The tax does not give you the right to download stuff". Then what's it for exactly? And why do I pay the tax if I store my personal photos on those CD's?
Then allow hard drive installs of the USB install media.
And then we're back at where we are now with CD's and DVD's.
but no one ever says "Go down the road 1.2 deca kilometers".
That's because you already applied a scalar modifier (kilo) to the unit (meter).
Seriously? You have to ask this?
Yes, the same CO2 will still enter the atmosphere. But now it has heated some homes. Which in turn do not need to burn natural gas or heating oil for their heat, so that CO2 production is saved.
Residue? That's too long. I have an idea why not call it "ash"?
Oh, shut up. Really. Land area is not a valid argument. Hell, my dad drives his Opel Zafira more than that and he gets 40 miles per gallon. And that's a 5/7 seat mpv.
I work for the mail service, as a driver. Our cars see a lot more than 15,000 miles a year. For example, they bought a Volkswagen Transporter last June and it has 20,000 km on it now. Just over half a year old, 20k km. And it's all in the city driving. And even that thing gets a lot better than 30 mpg.
Mine does it perfectly, every time. Everything comes back properly. It's an MSI 271 on XP Pro.
Not all 4-strokes are equal. Cars are made to go 100K miles, or whatever. A small consumer generator isn't expecting to be running that long or that often, and might fail in interesting ways if you do run it long.
If it's cold enough outside that you need to worry about your plumbing freezing I'd say you can stop worrying about your refrigerator...
If you ever do something like that again, duct tape over the remaining sockets in the powerboard and attach a note saying those are not to be used.
Or even better, just don't do it. There are powerboards which switch on all the sockets as soon as socket one draws power.
Your cellphone will probably not work. The towers need power, and I'm not sure how long their generator/UPS will hold out.
Of course you don't. Good drivers look ahead and anticipate (and I'm certainly not saying you're a bad driver, I don't know how you drive; you might be the safest person on the road).
The point is that fatigue, medicine and other stuff might slow your perception, reaction time and degrade your judgment of what's safe. That's OK when it's not too big of an impairment and you are aware of the reduction in skills and drive appropriately. The problem appears when you don't know about the impairment (and thus behave like you were in fit condition).
A lot of things can slow you down. Onset of flu, sudden urge sneeze because you have a cold, headache you thought you had under control with paracetamol, fatigue, sudden speck of dirt in your eyes, wasp in the car, phone ringing. The list goes on, with things you can know ahead of time and things you just can not anticipate for, except by taking more distance to the car in front of you.
Last paragraph: Consider this. Would you want a person (any person, including a 85-year old granny or a I-just-got-my-license-2-hours-ago kid) following you at one second? If not, why not? Now apply the same logic to the person in the car in front of you. That is all, thank you.
Yes, you're not average. There was a study conducted in the Netherlands. When asked, 85% of drivers said they were better drivers than the average on the road. The problem is that people tend to keep their behavior, even when it is not appropriate. Say you're actually a very good driver, above the 90th percentile. You can safely follow a car at about a second's distance. You're having a bad day, didn't sleep so well. You still follow that one second, but your reaction time has slowed to 1,5 seconds. The very rare unexpected stop happens and you ram into something.
That's, in my opinion, the problem with following less than 2 seconds. And, is it really going to make a difference big enough worth risking your and other road users life for?
I hate to break it like this, but Duke Nukem 3D was released in 1996.
He was obviously talking about Duke Nukem Forever.
What, someone just happens to be browsing through their records of billions of phone calls and notices this pattern?
Have you heard of a new invention called a computer? It can browse through records and notice stuff like this like nobodies business.
Even if you got a clean PSU, the motherboard will spit so much RF noise that you'll end up with it anyway. If you want as little as possible hum or hiss, go buy an external sound card, because the inside of a PC is going to be noisy.
For PSU's yes. But antec does make some good stuff too. I'm very pleased with the cases I bought from them.