Bikes with drailleurs have the most efficient transmission possible. Because a chain, unlike gears, has no inherent inefficiency caused by the gear teeth engaging and disengaging themselves. With a pair of gears, the distance of point of contact between teeth and the axis varies as each gear teerh engage and disengages the opposing gear teeth.
The result: non-constant velocity at the output of the geartrain. This induces vibration and is a source of drag.
On a chain, the distance of the point of contact of the chain link with the teeth remains constant WHERE THE POWER IS APPLIED TO THE CHAIN. Of course, the distance varies when the link engages the teeth, but as it happens for a very small percentage of the time the links are around the wheel, the gear teeth can be cut in a shape that does not allow any teeth to contact the chain until it is firmly seated against the gear.
A chain transmission will therefore offer the most efficient power transmission possible.
This is why race bicycles have chain drives. They cannot afford to lose the slightest erg of effort!!! This is why many motorcycles have chain drives, too. And the drailleur offers the best solution: variable diameter sprocket gears! The number of intermediate points between the cyclist leg and the pavement is kept to a minimum. How many inner gears and clutches does that 14-speed planetary gearcase have???
And a planetary gear change is not the most efficient design around. Ford-Ts had planetary gear transmissions. Cars have evolved a little bit since then, in case you haven't noticed.
The earliest I can remember using the internet was about age eleven or twelve, and it was obvious that my parents were totally oppressive from day one. ...
We did, and still do, have America Online, ...
Being the computer enthusiast that I was, the experience was terribly agonizing. I was trapped in a world of toy software, not being to use software and services that normal, functional geeks used on a daily basis.
As soon as I started getting into linux it became obvious how badly I was being cheated. Despite my complaining my father never let up, and the most I ever got was a good yelling at.
Kill the fuckers. Kill the goddammed assholes sonovabitches. Go get that.303 your father keeps in his closet (assholes like that always have guns) and shoot him in the groin first, and let him bleed to death like a hog. Of course, if he makes motions to get away, just shoot his feet, legs and arms one by one. If the wait is too long, pull-out your shlong and piss in his face.
But you have to kill those fucking assholes bastards, as a service to Humanity. Assholes like that are the kind who vote for Bush, and the less people there are that vote for Bush, the better Humanity has a chance to survive.
Good point, everyone claims "Well trying to shelter the kids is pointless, they will find out about it sooner or later and then all you have done it make it more desirable by forbidding it."
Dern right!
When I was a kid, I had all the access I would want to my father's pr0n (pretty lame by today's standards).
On the other hand, my mother strictly forbade me to take the subway.
Yep. My house. My network. My rules. Period.
I control the router. I read the logs.
Lemme guess. You have a bowel movement only 2-3 times a week, right?
Your upbringing methods will raise some of those tightassed terminally stupid managers everyone likes to hate because of their fundamentally brainless decisions.
Doubters have to be able to scrutinize the way the system works. So, in order to be trusted by as many people as possible, the system should be understandable by as many people as possible.
As soon as you have any kind of black box whose functionning cannot either be seen, or plainly understood by people, there is room for doubt.
This is why a hand-counted, paper-based ballot system is the most trustable one possible: it doesn't take a computer scientist to understand how it works and how it could be rigged.
'Usefully hacked' ? How is this a good thing ? Ritz put together a business that relies on revenues that it will no longer have. Congratulations to those hackers/crackers who have likely now put those individuals out of work.
Buggy-whip manufacturers have been put out of existence a long time ago by Ford et al. Though fucking shit.
Deadly plagues and other research requiring isolation could be done easily on our moon with minimal fear of contaminating the earth should their projects go awry. Telescopes on the far side of the moon would give us a new view of the universe uninterrupted by light (and for SETI et. al not so many electronic signals interfereing).
This is only science. Science is not as interesting as Britney Spears and is much more expensive!
Amazed, the manager says, "How can you possibly charge us $250 for pushing a button and pulling a lever?
I know the feeling. I once worked in a plant, where a $375,000 machine was controlled by the junkiest computer in the place, and operated by a $75/hour guy.
One evening, the computer blew-up, hours before an important job was due. So I bring my ***OWN*** computer from home (it was the quickest thing that would work), install it, and tell the $75/hour to please not smoke besides my ***OWN*** computer. I went out for the evening, and before going home, I drop by to check how the machine's doing.
It's doing fine, the job is running, and the operator has put the fucking overflowing ashtray on top of my machine.
- I told you not to smoke near my own machine, I told him.
- So what? he answered.
I pulled the plug, and brought back the computer home.
Of course, next morning, first time in the morning, all hell broke loose; the production manager yelled at me all day long. I said nothing except that I asked the guy not to smoke as it was my own personal computer. My boss, the president, was very busy, and during the day, everyone was looking at me funny.
Finally, at five, my boss calls me in the board room.
- I don't know how to say that... he said, looking like a beaten-up dog.
...
- Wanna fire me??? I ask. It deflated him completely.
- Oh, heck, go home and come back tomorrow morning...
From then on, when I said something, everyone listened carefully. And they bought a new computer to control the machine.
On its Web site, the firm said the software could beam 135,000 pop-up ads at consumers every hour, and claimed to have a database of over two billion Internet addresses, according to the FTC
If any wants, I can sell them a copy of that database for just $25,000. A brief sample to show I have the goods:
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
Oxdung! Those are NOT internet addresses. They're INTRANET addresses!!!!
I mostly support you on this, but not quite completely. I am the owner of two small businesses, and a small business finds it very hard to get the word out about its existence. If you don't know it's out there, you won't go looking for it.
This is **YOUR** problem. Don't make it our problem. You're a scumbag the moment you step into my very private life against my will.
Furthermore, you could automate the process by writing a script to do things like randomising white space, replacing variable names, and even rewriting simple flow control constructs.
Now, I'd like to know by which compiling process randomized white space, and "different" variable names will show up in object code...
These units cause the lights in all four directions to change to orange and then to red. The emergency vehicle drives on the wrong side of the road if necessary.
No where in any charter of rights is the "right to drive a car" enumerated. You have the freedom of movement, right, but it doesn't have to be in a car! It can be by foot, horseback, bicycle, dogsled, airplane, greyhound, submarine or oxcart.
If you choose to live in the boondocks where none of those means of transportation are available, it's YOUR CHOICE, and if being FORCED to drive a car doesn't suits you, you can always move to a civilized outpost where they are available; you have freedom of movement, after all.
And yes, indeed, driving is a privilege, because, like any privilege, it can be lifted anytime you abuse it. And if you don't believe me, ask the most rabid lawyer about it.
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Comeon. Let's be serious.
Bikes with drailleurs have the most efficient transmission possible. Because a chain, unlike gears, has no inherent inefficiency caused by the gear teeth engaging and disengaging themselves. With a pair of gears, the distance of point of contact between teeth and the axis varies as each gear teerh engage and disengages the opposing gear teeth.
The result: non-constant velocity at the output of the geartrain. This induces vibration and is a source of drag.
On a chain, the distance of the point of contact of the chain link with the teeth remains constant WHERE THE POWER IS APPLIED TO THE CHAIN. Of course, the distance varies when the link engages the teeth, but as it happens for a very small percentage of the time the links are around the wheel, the gear teeth can be cut in a shape that does not allow any teeth to contact the chain until it is firmly seated against the gear.
A chain transmission will therefore offer the most efficient power transmission possible.
This is why race bicycles have chain drives. They cannot afford to lose the slightest erg of effort!!! This is why many motorcycles have chain drives, too. And the drailleur offers the best solution: variable diameter sprocket gears! The number of intermediate points between the cyclist leg and the pavement is kept to a minimum. How many inner gears and clutches does that 14-speed planetary gearcase have???
And a planetary gear change is not the most efficient design around. Ford-Ts had planetary gear transmissions. Cars have evolved a little bit since then, in case you haven't noticed.
Sorry.
But you have to kill those fucking assholes bastards, as a service to Humanity. Assholes like that are the kind who vote for Bush, and the less people there are that vote for Bush, the better Humanity has a chance to survive.
When I was a kid, I had all the access I would want to my father's pr0n (pretty lame by today's standards).
On the other hand, my mother strictly forbade me to take the subway.Guess what? I'm a subway freak nowadays. I travel to faraway & exotic places just to have a look at their wierd subways.
Your upbringing methods will raise some of those tightassed terminally stupid managers everyone likes to hate because of their fundamentally brainless decisions.
Doubters have to be able to scrutinize the way the system works. So, in order to be trusted by as many people as possible, the system should be understandable by as many people as possible.
As soon as you have any kind of black box whose functionning cannot either be seen, or plainly understood by people, there is room for doubt.
This is why a hand-counted, paper-based ballot system is the most trustable one possible: it doesn't take a computer scientist to understand how it works and how it could be rigged.
If Lamone is attacking the messenger, rather than the message, she is surely guilty of some flaw...
Until this one, that is...
Religion, on the other hand, cannot be proven by mathematics at all...
Don't like it?
Chew harder.
One evening, the computer blew-up, hours before an important job was due. So I bring my ***OWN*** computer from home (it was the quickest thing that would work), install it, and tell the $75/hour to please not smoke besides my ***OWN*** computer. I went out for the evening, and before going home, I drop by to check how the machine's doing.
It's doing fine, the job is running, and the operator has put the fucking overflowing ashtray on top of my machine.
- I told you not to smoke near my own machine, I told him.
- So what? he answered.
I pulled the plug, and brought back the computer home.
Of course, next morning, first time in the morning, all hell broke loose; the production manager yelled at me all day long. I said nothing except that I asked the guy not to smoke as it was my own personal computer. My boss, the president, was very busy, and during the day, everyone was looking at me funny.
Finally, at five, my boss calls me in the board room.
- I don't know how to say that... he said, looking like a beaten-up dog.
- Wanna fire me??? I ask. It deflated him completely.
- Oh, heck, go home and come back tomorrow morning...
From then on, when I said something, everyone listened carefully. And they bought a new computer to control the machine.
I wonder how many time this was done to the Windows NT kernel...
$250K going from one pocket to the other. Microsoft **IS** the prime virus writer.
Me too!!!
Here is my mirror, safely beyond the reach of the DMCA:
No where in any charter of rights is the "right to drive a car" enumerated. You have the freedom of movement, right, but it doesn't have to be in a car! It can be by foot, horseback, bicycle, dogsled, airplane, greyhound, submarine or oxcart.
If you choose to live in the boondocks where none of those means of transportation are available, it's YOUR CHOICE, and if being FORCED to drive a car doesn't suits you, you can always move to a civilized outpost where they are available; you have freedom of movement, after all.
And yes, indeed, driving is a privilege, because, like any privilege, it can be lifted anytime you abuse it. And if you don't believe me, ask the most rabid lawyer about it.