It was time for my dad to get a new car (the MX-6/V6 was getting too crusty for him). First I suggested a Corvette, but after looking at the Chevy dealer it was clear he was completely unwilling to spend that much. I ended up building him a hotrod (2nd Gen RX-7 frame, Ford 347 stroker V8, GT-40 aluminum heads, Worldclass T-5 tranny, 3.08 rear end, etc.) for just over $10,000. Until Chevy can compete with reasonable specs at a low price, the common driver (or maybe just my dad) will be driving home made hotrods.
To people who are not computer geeks, what you said sounds to them just like what I said sounds like to people who are not mechanics.
IBM supplies embedded microprocessors from the 4xx, 6xx, 7xx and 9xx PPC line to many, many vendors as well as supplying the "Gekko" chip used in Nintendo Gamecubes (to the tune of 15 million units), the STB0xxxx set-top box processors and their own PowerX line of high end server/workstation processors. They also fab chips designed by others such as AMD and have recently entered an alliance with Sony and Toshiba to provide chips for their home electronics products and possibly the Playstation 3.
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Apple supports it too. Many high end printer makers ship preconfigured Powermacs (and PCs for that matter) - with software and hardware added - as controllers. Hell, Macwarehouse will add memory, hard drives, etc. to your machine for you and no one cares.
Mercedes will NOT, however, let you create a competing product using their engines. Tuners buy cars already made and make them better... and more expensive. This costs Mercedes nothing as they've already sold the car.
Note that the cars sold with Ford engines under a different name with a custom frame and body (Panoz for instance) do not compete with any car Ford itself makes. A $90,000 Panoz Esperante just isn't going to siphon sales away from $25k Mustang GTs. You can build a car that costs $25,000, uses a Ford engine, and beats the shit out of a Mustang. You can even sell it. But try making 1000 of them to sell and Ford will land on you like a ton of bricks.
No. Horsepower is the surest indicator. Horsepower is a function of RPM and torque. That's why a Ferrari Tipo 50 has 835 HP @ 19k RPM and a BMW P80 has 850 HP at the same RPM while a Mercedes FO 110K "only" has 825HP at 19.5k RPM. The BMW lump has more torque. (these are the 2001 engines, not enough info on the newer ones yet)
Then again, the Ferrari is a more durable engine. Performance ain't everything.
Not neccesarilly. A jackal and a wolf are different species that can produce viable offspring. In fact all members of genus Canus can interbreed. Some big cats, notably lions and tigers, can interbreed succesfully (ligers - male lion mated with female tiger - are the largest cats on earth, growing up to 12 feet long). Different species of ducks have been known to succesfully mate as well.
A decrepit old 900 MHz G3 will eat a state of the art 867 MHz Crusoe for lunch and still have time to pick very long instruction words out of its teeth. And what feature does the Lifebook beat the simalarly priced iBook with? A 3.5" smaller screen? A quarter the video memory? And on a Rage card rather than a Radeon? Half the HDD space? 256 MB less maximum RAM?
It is lighter and has a competitive battery life, but what do you expect with half the LCD and half the proccesor?
Since Mazda moved the injection ports to the side of the rotor housings (with the 13B-SPI lump) in 1985, reliability of non-turbo rotaries has been fairly good. 200,000 miles before a rebuild is not unheard of, although 120k is more normal. The new Renesis engine with both injection and exhaust ports mounted on the side of the housing should be even more reliable while having as much power as the 13B-REW twin-turbo in a package weighing only 60% as much.
The first question that comes to mind is; Given the power requirements, will this thing be more effective than using that same power to throw a slug via a railgun or some such?
Secondly, how easy is it to defend against? I doubt many mirrors would last long attempting to reflect this much power, but what of ablative materials?
And forward recoil? If the recoil is produced by the energy creation scheme, could the same scheme be used to power a railgun and have the forward recoil counter the kinetic recoil?
This thing is interesting, but I don't see the kinetic penetrator going away any time soon.
IIRC, a binary planet system requires the common point of gravity around which the two objects orbit (each other, not the Sun) be outside either object. I think Pluto-Charon qualify if Charon is considered a planet.
Seems like a simple set of rules can be made to me. If it is large enough to accreate into a sphere, it's a planet if it orbits the sun, or a moon if it orbits a planet. If it is too small to be spherical (less than 700 km diam. or so) then it is an asteroid if it has a solar orbit, or a moonlet if it orbits a planet or asteroid.
So a few KBOs, Charon and Ceres become planets and a few moons - most noteably Phobos and Deimos - become moonlets. Science marches on...
Welcome to Xpress Lifts, descent to floor sixteen. You will be going down two thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven floors and, for a small extra charge, you can enjoy the in-lift movie "Gone With the Wind." If you look to your right and to your left, you will notice there are no exits. In the highly unlikely event of the lift having to make a crash-landing, death is certain. Under your seats you will find a cassette for recording your last-minute testament, and from above your head a bag will drop containing sedatives and cyanide capsules. To take the cyanide capsule, simply break open, like so, and place under the tongue.
Hellenic automata are quite well known in history and archeaology, and despite what that article says, many of the descriptions in ancient texts imply quite sophisticated machinery.
As for the Russian spirals, please provide a scholarly link regarding the subject. No, neither the UFO Folklore Center nor FATE magazine count. You gotta wonder when the author refers to the golden mean - found throughout structures in nature from sunflowers to galaxies - as an invention of the ancients. Fact is, one would expect to find naturaly occuring spirals to follow the golden mean.
What either of these has to do with the awakening of culture in Mesopotamia is beyond me.
Still not really correct. The begginings of civilization - and the invention of the wheel and writing - in the area were initiated by the Sumerians, a linguistically unique group. By 2000 BCE the area had been overun by Semitic peoples from the south and west - such as the Babylonians and Akkadians - and by 1200 BCE by Indo-European peoples from the north - including the ancestors of the Persians and Parthians. These later civilizations were a mishmash of Sumerian, Indo-Aryan, Semitic, and - after Alexander - Hellenic culures.
These artifacts seem to date from well into the Hellenistic period.
Bad analogy. The road system is analogous to the electrical and/or communications systems which any modern computer can use. The fact is, you can not use - for instance - a throttle body from a 550 Maranello Ferrari on your Honda Accord's four banger.
Sure the Honda has a plethora of go fast aftermarket parts. More so than the Ferrari does, but the Ferrari a) doesn't need them, and b) has one perfectly engineered hi-po part for every hundred shitilly designed aftermarket Honda parts.
And even in similar markets, that same throttle body from a 5.5 liter Scuderia V12 is not going to work on a 5.5 liter BMW V12 without some serious modifications.
Oh come now, Microsoft may well be evil but they are highly competent. Unlike the evil incompetents running the US's foreign policy, MS would never so blithely place their love spuds into such a vice.
I work for an ad agency with about 100 employees at three locations. We have - well, our boss has - a Learjet. Using it for traveling between our offices and our client's offices (all in the US BTW) is apparently worth it. The thing costs a couple of grand per hour to use. We can easily lose millions in that amount of time (we do monstrous amounts of printing for several Fortune 500 companies).
Let me tell you, that last time the server went tits up in Chicago and they flew my ass up there to fix it in the Lear has ruined commercial flying for me forever. An hour and ten minutes - street to street - from Atlanta to Chicago by yourself in the plush environs of a Learjet is the ONLY way to fly. Granted we usually only get to use it if the boss is heading to the same place, but in emergencies it can be a huge money saver.
"I'm amazed and encouraged with what we can do with our copper network," said William L. Smith, chief technology officer of BellSouth Corp...
Really? I'm amazed that in 6 months of complaining Bellsouth could never get my DSL connection stable enough to play online games. And I could throw a rock from my backdoor and hit the local switch.
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It was time for my dad to get a new car (the MX-6/V6 was getting too crusty for him). First I suggested a Corvette, but after looking at the Chevy dealer it was clear he was completely unwilling to spend that much. I ended up building him a hotrod (2nd Gen RX-7 frame, Ford 347 stroker V8, GT-40 aluminum heads, Worldclass T-5 tranny, 3.08 rear end, etc.) for just over $10,000. Until Chevy can compete with reasonable specs at a low price, the common driver (or maybe just my dad) will be driving home made hotrods.
To people who are not computer geeks, what you said sounds to them just like what I said sounds like to people who are not mechanics.
Three more payments on my Quicksilver... the G5s should be shipping by then!
Mercedes will NOT, however, let you create a competing product using their engines. Tuners buy cars already made and make them better... and more expensive. This costs Mercedes nothing as they've already sold the car.
Note that the cars sold with Ford engines under a different name with a custom frame and body (Panoz for instance) do not compete with any car Ford itself makes. A $90,000 Panoz Esperante just isn't going to siphon sales away from $25k Mustang GTs. You can build a car that costs $25,000, uses a Ford engine, and beats the shit out of a Mustang. You can even sell it. But try making 1000 of them to sell and Ford will land on you like a ton of bricks.
Hey, if you can choke half to death on a pretzel you too could be president some day.
Then again, the Ferrari is a more durable engine. Performance ain't everything.
Not neccesarilly. A jackal and a wolf are different species that can produce viable offspring. In fact all members of genus Canus can interbreed. Some big cats, notably lions and tigers, can interbreed succesfully (ligers - male lion mated with female tiger - are the largest cats on earth, growing up to 12 feet long). Different species of ducks have been known to succesfully mate as well.
A decrepit old 900 MHz G3 will eat a state of the art 867 MHz Crusoe for lunch and still have time to pick very long instruction words out of its teeth. And what feature does the Lifebook beat the simalarly priced iBook with? A 3.5" smaller screen? A quarter the video memory? And on a Rage card rather than a Radeon? Half the HDD space? 256 MB less maximum RAM?
It is lighter and has a competitive battery life, but what do you expect with half the LCD and half the proccesor?
Since Mazda moved the injection ports to the side of the rotor housings (with the 13B-SPI lump) in 1985, reliability of non-turbo rotaries has been fairly good. 200,000 miles before a rebuild is not unheard of, although 120k is more normal. The new Renesis engine with both injection and exhaust ports mounted on the side of the housing should be even more reliable while having as much power as the 13B-REW twin-turbo in a package weighing only 60% as much.
Secondly, how easy is it to defend against? I doubt many mirrors would last long attempting to reflect this much power, but what of ablative materials?
And forward recoil? If the recoil is produced by the energy creation scheme, could the same scheme be used to power a railgun and have the forward recoil counter the kinetic recoil?
This thing is interesting, but I don't see the kinetic penetrator going away any time soon.
... is Trinity.
AKA Lo Chiamavano Trinita.
Blood of Heroes is my favorite underapreciated (ie, not Blade Runner) Rutger Hauer flick.
Screw price, what's the ROI?
A one hour photoshoot could garner me $1000 easily. An hour playing Gameboy profits me not at all.
G3 wins.
Seems like a simple set of rules can be made to me. If it is large enough to accreate into a sphere, it's a planet if it orbits the sun, or a moon if it orbits a planet. If it is too small to be spherical (less than 700 km diam. or so) then it is an asteroid if it has a solar orbit, or a moonlet if it orbits a planet or asteroid.
So a few KBOs, Charon and Ceres become planets and a few moons - most noteably Phobos and Deimos - become moonlets. Science marches on...
C-64: 1982
Red Dwarf, Series II, Episode 4: Stasis Leak
I don't know if they meant for that to be funny though.
Indian Chief: But that is our holy mountain.
White Devil: That's OK, that's out holy radio tower!
Hellenic automata are quite well known in history and archeaology, and despite what that article says, many of the descriptions in ancient texts imply quite sophisticated machinery.
As for the Russian spirals, please provide a scholarly link regarding the subject. No, neither the UFO Folklore Center nor FATE magazine count. You gotta wonder when the author refers to the golden mean - found throughout structures in nature from sunflowers to galaxies - as an invention of the ancients. Fact is, one would expect to find naturaly occuring spirals to follow the golden mean.
What either of these has to do with the awakening of culture in Mesopotamia is beyond me.
These artifacts seem to date from well into the Hellenistic period.
"It's a Max. No, not the Yikes or Sawtooth, the Quicksilver. Yeah, well a Windtunnel then."
And let's not kid ourselves, car people do it too.
"It's a Corvette. No, not the 60s style one, but a 70s model. The coke bottle shaped one."
"It's a Corvette. No, not a Stingray, but a Mako."
Bad analogy. The road system is analogous to the electrical and/or communications systems which any modern computer can use. The fact is, you can not use - for instance - a throttle body from a 550 Maranello Ferrari on your Honda Accord's four banger.
Sure the Honda has a plethora of go fast aftermarket parts. More so than the Ferrari does, but the Ferrari a) doesn't need them, and b) has one perfectly engineered hi-po part for every hundred shitilly designed aftermarket Honda parts.
And even in similar markets, that same throttle body from a 5.5 liter Scuderia V12 is not going to work on a 5.5 liter BMW V12 without some serious modifications.
Oh come now, Microsoft may well be evil but they are highly competent. Unlike the evil incompetents running the US's foreign policy, MS would never so blithely place their love spuds into such a vice.
Let me tell you, that last time the server went tits up in Chicago and they flew my ass up there to fix it in the Lear has ruined commercial flying for me forever. An hour and ten minutes - street to street - from Atlanta to Chicago by yourself in the plush environs of a Learjet is the ONLY way to fly. Granted we usually only get to use it if the boss is heading to the same place, but in emergencies it can be a huge money saver.
Really? I'm amazed that in 6 months of complaining Bellsouth could never get my DSL connection stable enough to play online games. And I could throw a rock from my backdoor and hit the local switch.
My Comcast Cable modem, OTOH....