Okay, your formula is true -- however, the reality is, you don't want to be running a Honda 2.0L 16 Valve engine at 9000RPM, on boost no less, to get 1200hp continuously. The laws of physics still apply, and that motor ain't stayin' together long:)
I also consider the media making the decision about what states are won and not before the election closes, to also be a travesty. The press has a responsibility to report _accurately_. It was obviously in no way clear that before the polls closed, who won the state, but the press had already decided --- Gore. And many folks stayed away from the polls because they thought business has already been taken care of.
So I still do not consider Bush illegitimately elected. Also, remember, the statewide recount said "probably", and this recount was done by same press who skewed the results in the first place by incorrectly announcing the winner prematurely. Like we can trust them.
Well, since you insisted bringing this up in a public forum, ie, a audio equipment pissing contest:)
5240 is a consumer grade receiver, not the pro stuff sold at Yamaha outlets, and commonly available on the net (Yamaha doesn't sell the good stuff online, with a warranty -- something about dealer loyalty). Never been impressed with Sony speakers (yucky yuck), not much better than Pioneers, CV, Yamaha, Infinity, JBL, and at least 4 other best buy style brands (heh, my favorite one to rag on -- BOSE - Bunch Of Shifty Electronics).
Your media reading, recording, and receiving components seem solid enough though for consumer line equipment.
I pretty much rely on consumer grade equipment all the way too, except for the speakers, whose name I will not blaspheme here on/., but suffice it to say they aren't available in a consumer outlet, and you can typically listen to Jurassic park in a dealer's store (the soundtrack) and not have the Jurrasic Park movie playing in the HT studio next door ruin your interview experience:) (unlike the terrible enviro at best buy).
I know folks who have tried the nail trick, and while it is more than 4 days, it can disolve nails.
Additionally, Pepsi is used by antique tractor collector to unlock siezed pistons in the cyldiner bore of tractors motors that have been sitting. This has also been shown to work. It will even work in places where oil supposedly won't...
First, is 50 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheight? I can tell you are scientifically advanced ("obvious" doesn't count, if you are discussing science - because "obvious" would degF).
Secondly, where is the mathematical proof that the average temp is 50 degF (I hope that is what you meant)? Weathermen can't even predict the weather and yet we believe we can make economic and environmental policy based on the ramblings of the same people that impending dooom is upon us.
What environmentalist should push for is more realistic goals:
1)Clean up the local air 2)Clean up the local water 3)Recycling
I grow tired of End Of The World prophecies by environmentalists.
The American legal system combined with the almighty dollar will correct localized environmental situations.
Environmentalist tend to ignore it, but the American Court system combined with liability claims have been one of the largest factors in cleaning up the environment.
Take someones comment, put a sarcastic "indeed" on the front, then put a link in with all the negatives that have been compiled throughout history for going to war.
Be more original. Go be a human shield or something. Not that I am endorsing that, but geez, what you are doing now is mere flatualance.
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I think I'd pick DDOS over fiber than having every last transistor in my studio turned back into sand...
Overscanning on a TV protects you from seeing the jitter inherent to the format's signal. You will need a 1000 dollar Digital Time Base Corrector to correct the sync jitter on the left side and tops and bottoms of the screen, especially if playing analog video tape, on a VTR with no built in DTBC.
Maybe DTBCs have gotten cheaper in the last year, but even so, it's alot cheaper to run a TV like it was meant --- overscanned.
Hmm... auto engineers have known for a long time that revving an engine ever higher can result in more horsepower. The problem becomes, can it do the motor turn that power level repeatedly, day after day, until say --- 100,000 miles are up? Most of the leaders in this area, crotch rocket power plants, have to have early rebuilds (40Kmiles, I am told) if you plan on excercising the motor daily at the manufacturer peak hp RPM ratings.
I would rather have something bigger, turns slower, and loses less power to friction that the high winders waste by traveling to insane RPM levels. It makes for a more tractable power plant and much more easily available power. All in all, a much more fun car to drive on average. Most of the multivalve plants have to be driven abusively to get the hp ratings out of them --- and it usually comes in a grand onslaught right at the edge, not a nice smooth curve upwards like in a larger displacement power plant.
Even more unsettling, multivalve plants don't get very good gas mileage in general.
Somehow, this got posted under Path of Least Resistance -- BLAH! Well, here is the repost in th correct comment thread...
Why is that everytime someone mentions an American lack of innovation, multivalve comes up? GM LS1 and GM 3.8L V6 win awards every year for smoother and more reliable power delivery with push valves.
The Ilmore Mercedes Turbo V6 dominated the Indy 500 several years ago. What did it use? Pushrods. Multivalve's only real purpose is to extend rev range, something you don't need if you have displacement and/or turbos/superchargers. Multivalve V8 engines, while available in several import luxo liners, just really isn't needed if you do your design right. None of these buyers wants to hear a engine run close to its breaking point just to pass a slow moving single car on a two lane road.
Enjoy your OHC valve train maintenance, while we enjoy *torque* and reliability. If I want something to scream like a banshee, I'll show a 8 year old a horror movie.
Not to mention that the GM examples above get better gas mileage than most 4 cylinder "sport" imports, and develop alot more horsepower and torque at way lower RPMs. The only competitive "screamer" out of Japan/Europe right now is the Honda S2000, and I would guess that if I kept it operating at it's 9000RPM hp point for regular intervals over several months, it would need new rings in no time. It's common knowledge that crotch rockets, if run hard and close to their maximum output, require rebuilds at less than 40,000 miles. I would expect a car engine, if treated similarly, that tachs 9KRPM, would last even less (much greater stress).
Hmmh... mind pulling your Boxter S up beside a '03 Corvette with a pushrod motor, so that Corvette can take the paint right off your Boxter's fenders? Pushrod engines are not "inherently" limited by choice of pushrods. GM has proven that pushrod technology, while being cheaper to manufacture and simpler to work on, is still not inferior to Over Head Valve designs.
Also, if memory serves, there was a Mercedes factory driver in Indy who dominated a entire field of the highest-tech motors of all time, with a pushrod turbo Mercedes V6.
Life is "Fast & the Furious" only for those who can't get beyond 2Liters of displacement. Frankly, cars that have to tack 9 grand before shiftpoints are reached, just to hit 60mph in ~6.5s, are not impressive. What fun is to have to tear the car up to get a little zip? You have to drive 4 banger "performance" cars like you hate them.
GM pushrod/supercharged 3.8L and Gen IV 350cid V8s are getting *better* gas mileage than many import performance motors, and have very good low RPM torque and manageability. Not to mention there is about only 1 Japanese 4 cylinder import that can take a Gen IV V8 powered "big car" like a Camaro, and that's the Honda S2000, another car you have to drive like you hate, to get the performance out of it. But a Honda S2000 will not take a LS6 powered Corvette:) Happy valve adjustments on those multivalve engines! I prefer a quiet, efficient, low RPM rumble, snarl or growl, not high RPM screaming banshee 4 bangers.
Why is there so much misinformation about the resonant frequency of water? I guess its because everyone assumes that's how microwave ovens works.
Microwave ovens do not depend on the resonance of water. They depend on absorption of EM energy coming out of the magnetron (water absorbs well at certain frequencies, but DOES NOT resonate). They also depend on that absorption to be "relatively" low so that the mwaves travel through the core of the food object. This does not require resonance (and even rejects resonance as being a candidate for use in cooking). Industrial microwaves can operate in the range of 900MHz as well.
Funny, JD Power & Associates doesn't seem to agree with your portrayal of Mercedes.
I've got a 2002 Chevy Z28 for less than a third of the cost of a Mercedes V8 luxo liner. It's small block 350 will be going long after your mercedes V8 has been rebuilt twice. Same with GM 3.8L v6 powered cars. I know many examples that are over the 200kilomile mark, and run like tops. I think German engineering under the marques BMW and Mercedes is just mass produced crap that sales high because at one time, they were really good. But just like Sony, Mercedes and BMW realized they could make more money buy selling at the same price point with all the accompanying hallmarks of their brand, minus manufacturing quality.
Porsche is the only German manufacturer of reasonably good quality, but then it should be for 140,000 dollar per car.
My biggest dissappointment in American cars? The interior. If GM, Ford, or Chrysler could put together a competent interior in the majority of its cars --- they'd still selling the most cars, but based purely on merit.
1.5kg (without the benefit of a conversion table) is what I would guess about 3lbs or there'bouts. Why not make the entire chassis into the power supply? They're making parts of engine blocks out of ceramic, why not a laptop chassis? (Note: GM 2.5L "IronDuke")
Just a thought -- I hope the idea gets off the ground. I wouldn't mind toting a seperate brick, if they let me take it on the plane, that would charge/run my laptop during 6 hour flights. (RDU to SJC) Unlike the not so reliable 12V jacks under some seats...
Yeah, but you are probably basing (emphasize probably) your power requirements on the adapter size of a generic laptop. That's kinda skewed. The adapters are sized such as both run the laptop and charge the battery. Battery charging wastes a tremendous amount of raw power as heat, and probably ends up about 50% of the power consumed by the laptop while charging. You could build your atomic pile about 50% that size because now it _is_ the battery and doesn't need to be electrochemically charged.
Of course, you may have a DELL with 2.8GHz processor, now that may require a 120 Watt adapter:)
Diesels don't run forever -- I define forever in terms of gas turbines, and to those, a diesel doesn't compare. Most gasoline car engines can last as long or longer than diesel car engines nowdays, save spark plugs. It's all about the software and the reduction of the mechanics down to the bare minimum to push valves and reciprocate pistons. Gasoline doesn't work as well in large trucks because gasoline engines can't grunt as long as a diesel (cylinder heating, spark knock, premature engine failure, that order). Diesels just aren't that useful in cars though, besides, they are slow and boring.
Gas turbines probably have the biggest and most important jobs in our world, because they can develop peak hp continuously, 24x7, ie. look at a nice 747 or 737. Turbines! And before turbines, they used gasoline for airplane motors.
Each motor has its place -- diesels in grunt work, gasoline in small, quick & zippy cars, and jet turbines, when you just have to have a 4000hp in a relatively small place with 100% availability (also, very small turbines are not very efficient).
The generator you see there in the pics was engineered to literally run indefinitely. Even the "good stuff" outside of the walls of many a data center now is cheap crap compared to the way heavy equipment used to be built.
Even the best Generacs can't compete without hefty service contracts and routine maintenance, mainly because almost all standby generators are diesels now (piston engines wear much much much faster than gas turbines).
Are you kidding? NSX sux r0x0r5. A mere Lexus 430 luxury sedan could shut that thing down in any given acceleration contest, except for "loudest and most annoying".
"Now save it as a png, reducing the color depth enough to get as close to 90k as you possibly can."
YOU not PNG reduced the color depth (or whatever code your image program was using to estimate PNG output file size). The dither would occur to the image before the compression to the PNG format. PNG stores the final dithered image of what you want (this transform is probably done in the bowels and *appears* to be PNG, but its not).
The previous poster was very clear in the fact that there would be a huge difference in file size, a fact you overlooked in order to consecrate him a fool.
The PNG compressor compresses what it gets. Target size is not a passed option to a lossless image compressor. Just because you had to reduce color depth doesn't mean all that intelligence is encapsulated in the PNG compression stage.
I'd imagine the code would look like (this is not perfect code, but conveys the meaning):
I can ask you similarly, did I ever say Windows XP was useless to me? No. I just think that Macintosh is cleaning up and becoming a nice platform to develop for, and I can see no advantage that XP holds to MacOSX any longer. Remember, Mac has office, too. I still run XP on 2 Sony VAIOs here in the home machine room. They run much quieter than my 2x1ghz g4. But XP isn't Unix... and its still more exciting to develop for Unix than Windows (to me). I would prefer to run a Unix on the Sony boxen, but XP does too good a job to turn it away. Number one thing I'd give up to go to any Unix at all on the VAIOs would be the peace and quiet they lend a room with their sw managed cooling fans.
In addition, Apple has basically in one stroke, fixed the DLL issue that still occasionally plagues me with XP. A package can ship with the libraries it was qual'd on and get those DLLs even if the system has something else installed. I have no fear of trying shareware on the Mac because of this. People are beginning to discover this, and as they do, MS will be forced to trully fix this problem. And MS will continue to be a platform I can "deal with" and find "usable".
I was talking with a friend recently who was praising Linux and Windows. He insulted OSX because..."well because, because its so proprietary". I just laughed at him.
Mac kernel is open source. The Apple portion of the hw is in the driver source, and the hardware conforms to standards like FW, USB, PCI, and AGP. The OS is a branded UNIX. You can take a OSX drive from one Mac and drop it in another and it "just works". No PNP reconfig warning, new hw detected, etc. It JUST WORKS. Heck, I can even boot the entire OS from a FW drive and move it between machines! (I am a Mac developer).
He honestly couldn't tell me why his platforms were so much better. If anything Linux is still stuck in pre-PNP era, and Windows is becoming more tightly coupled to the hw through reg keys and licensing, though Windows will not suffer as badly from 3rd party driver issues as Linux.
Linux could be user viable if it had a standard driver interface layer that could be relied upon to work with old drivers, even in a new kernel. It is true that drivers usually need revving between Windows releases, but there is only one windows release to update for, and the changes aren't that deep. For Linux, there are literally dozens of distributions, leaving the kernel people to have to solve the "boxed driver" compatibility issue, even worse, *in every kernel release*, to guarantee that distributions work correctly with 3rd party drivers.
Until a user can buy a brand new, just introduced to market, with new fangled tech widget at CompUSA and bring it home and plug it to his firewire port, have any various Linux dist he is running pop up a box and request the driver CD, and not complain about some arcane kernel version difference for his driver, Linux will never succeed on the desktop of the average home user (it may be OK for corporate desks). No amount of "but I just did that and the driver was already in my kernel" hand waving will get you guys through this. Never ever. Listening to the Linux advocate camp talk about this is hilarious. Get over it, write the driver compatiblity layers, make a real integrated desktop that works correctly (sorry, KDE/GNOME don't qual here), and then take over the world.
Until then, I've got my abestos suit ready, so you can make your inane "but I just... and my kernel had support for...already built in" comments to your thrower runs out of fuel. Also, drop the "KDE is the best thing since..." and "Gnome makes me... because of its greatness" comments. They both suck and they have numerous horrendous usability issues -- they are eye candy not serious software.
So I am going to wipe out your signal then and no one will stop me, if there is no regulation. I can pick the very same technology you have and run it through a 50KW linear. Your radio's front end will be so wiped out from mine, it will never hear that which it was suppose too.
Now personally, I have no interest in doing this to someone. However, there are many teenage minded adults who just love to inflict such interference on others.
Where is you libertarian approach now? What's the point of the public owning something completely useless?
Heh, youz guyz speak for yourself. I gots all three of the original on LD widescreen (pre-THX rehacking) & a dual gig MacG4 with all the DVD burning goodies:) Sorry, it will be a close friends only release...
A chunk of culture because of a bit of pre-sight? Nah, I was just a loser who spent all my money on AV equipment in college!
Now I write drivers and get mad equipment to do it on!
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Okay, your formula is true -- however, the reality is, you don't want to be running a Honda 2.0L 16 Valve engine at 9000RPM, on boost no less, to get 1200hp continuously. The laws of physics still apply, and that motor ain't stayin' together long :)
TurboD
I also consider the media making the decision about what states are won and not before the election closes, to also be a travesty. The press has a responsibility to report _accurately_. It was obviously in no way clear that before the polls closed, who won the state, but the press had already decided --- Gore. And many folks stayed away from the polls because they thought business has already been taken care of.
So I still do not consider Bush illegitimately elected. Also, remember, the statewide recount said "probably", and this recount was done by same press who skewed the results in the first place by incorrectly announcing the winner prematurely. Like we can trust them.
TurboD
Well, since you insisted bringing this up in a public forum, ie, a audio equipment pissing contest :)
/., but suffice it to say they aren't available in a consumer outlet, and you can typically listen to Jurassic park in a dealer's store (the soundtrack) and not have the Jurrasic Park movie playing in the HT studio next door ruin your interview experience :) (unlike the terrible enviro at best buy).
5240 is a consumer grade receiver, not the pro stuff sold at Yamaha outlets, and commonly available on the net (Yamaha doesn't sell the good stuff online, with a warranty -- something about dealer loyalty). Never been impressed with Sony speakers (yucky yuck), not much better than Pioneers, CV, Yamaha, Infinity, JBL, and at least 4 other best buy style brands (heh, my favorite one to rag on -- BOSE - Bunch Of Shifty Electronics).
Your media reading, recording, and receiving components seem solid enough though for consumer line equipment.
I pretty much rely on consumer grade equipment all the way too, except for the speakers, whose name I will not blaspheme here on
TurboD
Hmm, snopes refutes, but has snopes tried?
I know folks who have tried the nail trick, and while it is more than 4 days, it can disolve nails.
Additionally, Pepsi is used by antique tractor collector to unlock siezed pistons in the cyldiner bore of tractors motors that have been sitting. This has also been shown to work. It will even work in places where oil supposedly won't...
TurboD
First, is 50 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheight? I can tell you are scientifically advanced ("obvious" doesn't count, if you are discussing science - because "obvious" would degF).
Secondly, where is the mathematical proof that the average temp is 50 degF (I hope that is what you meant)? Weathermen can't even predict the weather and yet we believe we can make economic and environmental policy based on the ramblings of the same people that impending dooom is upon us.
What environmentalist should push for is more realistic goals:
1)Clean up the local air
2)Clean up the local water
3)Recycling
I grow tired of End Of The World prophecies by environmentalists.
TurboD
The American legal system combined with the almighty dollar will correct localized environmental situations.
Environmentalist tend to ignore it, but the American Court system combined with liability claims have been one of the largest factors in cleaning up the environment.
TurboD
This is funny, if I took your approach, then I'd be doing the same thing, just the otherside of the coin.
TurboD
Typical anti-war rhetoric.
Take someones comment, put a sarcastic "indeed" on the front, then put a link in with all the negatives that have been compiled throughout history for going to war.
Be more original. Go be a human shield or something. Not that I am endorsing that, but geez, what you are doing now is mere flatualance.
I think I'd pick DDOS over fiber than having every last transistor in my studio turned back into sand...
Overscanning on a TV protects you from seeing the jitter inherent to the format's signal. You will need a 1000 dollar Digital Time Base Corrector to correct the sync jitter on the left side and tops and bottoms of the screen, especially if playing analog video tape, on a VTR with no built in DTBC.
Maybe DTBCs have gotten cheaper in the last year, but even so, it's alot cheaper to run a TV like it was meant --- overscanned.
Hmm... auto engineers have known for a long time that revving an engine ever higher can result in more horsepower. The problem becomes, can it do the motor turn that power level repeatedly, day after day, until say --- 100,000 miles are up? Most of the leaders in this area, crotch rocket power plants, have to have early rebuilds (40Kmiles, I am told) if you plan on excercising the motor daily at the manufacturer peak hp RPM ratings.
I would rather have something bigger, turns slower, and loses less power to friction that the high winders waste by traveling to insane RPM levels. It makes for a more tractable power plant and much more easily available power. All in all, a much more fun car to drive on average. Most of the multivalve plants have to be driven abusively to get the hp ratings out of them --- and it usually comes in a grand onslaught right at the edge, not a nice smooth curve upwards like in a larger displacement power plant.
Even more unsettling, multivalve plants don't get very good gas mileage in general.
Somehow, this got posted under Path of Least Resistance -- BLAH! Well, here is the repost in th correct comment thread...
Why is that everytime someone mentions an American lack of innovation, multivalve comes up? GM LS1 and GM 3.8L V6 win awards every year for smoother and more reliable power delivery with push valves.
The Ilmore Mercedes Turbo V6 dominated the Indy 500 several years ago. What did it use? Pushrods. Multivalve's only real purpose is to extend rev range, something you don't need if you have displacement and/or turbos/superchargers. Multivalve V8 engines, while available in several import luxo liners, just really isn't needed if you do your design right. None of these buyers wants to hear a engine run close to its breaking point just to pass a slow moving single car on a two lane road.
Enjoy your OHC valve train maintenance, while we enjoy *torque* and reliability. If I want something to scream like a banshee, I'll show a 8 year old a horror movie.
Not to mention that the GM examples above get better gas mileage than most 4 cylinder "sport" imports, and develop alot more horsepower and torque at way lower RPMs. The only competitive "screamer" out of Japan/Europe right now is the Honda S2000, and I would guess that if I kept it operating at it's 9000RPM hp point for regular intervals over several months, it would need new rings in no time. It's common knowledge that crotch rockets, if run hard and close to their maximum output, require rebuilds at less than 40,000 miles. I would expect a car engine, if treated similarly, that tachs 9KRPM, would last even less (much greater stress).
Hmmh... mind pulling your Boxter S up beside a '03 Corvette with a pushrod motor, so that Corvette can take the paint right off your Boxter's fenders? Pushrod engines are not "inherently" limited by choice of pushrods. GM has proven that pushrod technology, while being cheaper to manufacture and simpler to work on, is still not inferior to Over Head Valve designs.
:) Happy valve adjustments on those multivalve engines! I prefer a quiet, efficient, low RPM rumble, snarl or growl, not high RPM screaming banshee 4 bangers.
Also, if memory serves, there was a Mercedes factory driver in Indy who dominated a entire field of the highest-tech motors of all time, with a pushrod turbo Mercedes V6.
Life is "Fast & the Furious" only for those who can't get beyond 2Liters of displacement. Frankly, cars that have to tack 9 grand before shiftpoints are reached, just to hit 60mph in ~6.5s, are not impressive. What fun is to have to tear the car up to get a little zip? You have to drive 4 banger "performance" cars like you hate them.
GM pushrod/supercharged 3.8L and Gen IV 350cid V8s are getting *better* gas mileage than many import performance motors, and have very good low RPM torque and manageability. Not to mention there is about only 1 Japanese 4 cylinder import that can take a Gen IV V8 powered "big car" like a Camaro, and that's the Honda S2000, another car you have to drive like you hate, to get the performance out of it. But a Honda S2000 will not take a LS6 powered Corvette
Pushrod != lowtech, deal with it...
TurboD
Why is there so much misinformation about the resonant frequency of water? I guess its because everyone assumes that's how microwave ovens works.
Microwave ovens do not depend on the resonance of water. They depend on absorption of EM energy coming out of the magnetron (water absorbs well at certain frequencies, but DOES NOT resonate). They also depend on that absorption to be "relatively" low so that the mwaves travel through the core of the food object. This does not require resonance (and even rejects resonance as being a candidate for use in cooking). Industrial microwaves can operate in the range of 900MHz as well.
Funny, JD Power & Associates doesn't seem to agree with your portrayal of Mercedes.
I've got a 2002 Chevy Z28 for less than a third of the cost of a Mercedes V8 luxo liner. It's small block 350 will be going long after your mercedes V8 has been rebuilt twice. Same with GM 3.8L v6 powered cars. I know many examples that are over the 200kilomile mark, and run like tops. I think German engineering under the marques BMW and Mercedes is just mass produced crap that sales high because at one time, they were really good. But just like Sony, Mercedes and BMW realized they could make more money buy selling at the same price point with all the accompanying hallmarks of their brand, minus manufacturing quality.
Porsche is the only German manufacturer of reasonably good quality, but then it should be for 140,000 dollar per car.
My biggest dissappointment in American cars? The interior. If GM, Ford, or Chrysler could put together a competent interior in the majority of its cars --- they'd still selling the most cars, but based purely on merit.
1.5kg (without the benefit of a conversion table) is what I would guess about 3lbs or there'bouts. Why not make the entire chassis into the power supply? They're making parts of engine blocks out of ceramic, why not a laptop chassis? (Note: GM 2.5L "IronDuke")
Just a thought -- I hope the idea gets off the ground. I wouldn't mind toting a seperate brick, if they let me take it on the plane, that would charge/run my laptop during 6 hour flights. (RDU to SJC) Unlike the not so reliable 12V jacks under some seats...
Yeah, but you are probably basing (emphasize probably) your power requirements on the adapter size of a generic laptop. That's kinda skewed. The adapters are sized such as both run the laptop and charge the battery. Battery charging wastes a tremendous amount of raw power as heat, and probably ends up about 50% of the power consumed by the laptop while charging. You could build your atomic pile about 50% that size because now it _is_ the battery and doesn't need to be electrochemically charged.
:)
Of course, you may have a DELL with 2.8GHz processor, now that may require a 120 Watt adapter
TurboD
Diesels don't run forever -- I define forever in terms of gas turbines, and to those, a diesel doesn't compare. Most gasoline car engines can last as long or longer than diesel car engines nowdays, save spark plugs. It's all about the software and the reduction of the mechanics down to the bare minimum to push valves and reciprocate pistons. Gasoline doesn't work as well in large trucks because gasoline engines can't grunt as long as a diesel (cylinder heating, spark knock, premature engine failure, that order). Diesels just aren't that useful in cars though, besides, they are slow and boring.
Gas turbines probably have the biggest and most important jobs in our world, because they can develop peak hp continuously, 24x7, ie. look at a nice 747 or 737. Turbines! And before turbines, they used gasoline for airplane motors.
Each motor has its place -- diesels in grunt work, gasoline in small, quick & zippy cars, and jet turbines, when you just have to have a 4000hp in a relatively small place with 100% availability (also, very small turbines are not very efficient).
David
The generator you see there in the pics was engineered to literally run indefinitely. Even the "good stuff" outside of the walls of many a data center now is cheap crap compared to the way heavy equipment used to be built.
Even the best Generacs can't compete without hefty service contracts and routine maintenance, mainly because almost all standby generators are diesels now (piston engines wear much much much faster than gas turbines).
TurboD
Are you kidding? NSX sux r0x0r5. A mere Lexus 430 luxury sedan could shut that thing down in any given acceleration contest, except for "loudest and most annoying".
Nah, you are the one jumping to conclusions...
(not to defend the previous posters mixup)
"Now save it as a png, reducing the color depth enough to get as close to 90k as you possibly can."
YOU not PNG reduced the color depth (or whatever code your image program was using to estimate PNG output file size). The dither would occur to the image before the compression to the PNG format. PNG stores the final dithered image of what you want (this transform is probably done in the bowels and *appears* to be PNG, but its not).
The previous poster was very clear in the fact that there would be a huge difference in file size, a fact you overlooked in order to consecrate him a fool.
The PNG compressor compresses what it gets. Target size is not a passed option to a lossless image compressor. Just because you had to reduce color depth doesn't mean all that intelligence is encapsulated in the PNG compression stage.
I'd imagine the code would look like (this is not perfect code, but conveys the meaning):
int TransformImageToPng(char * myImageArray, U032 height, U032 width, U032 pitch, U032 bytesPerPixel, char * pngFileArray);
So, please think through your posts next time, and finally, I never call anyone a fool.
David
I can ask you similarly, did I ever say Windows XP was useless to me? No. I just think that Macintosh is cleaning up and becoming a nice platform to develop for, and I can see no advantage that XP holds to MacOSX any longer. Remember, Mac has office, too. I still run XP on 2 Sony VAIOs here in the home machine room. They run much quieter than my 2x1ghz g4. But XP isn't Unix... and its still more exciting to develop for Unix than Windows (to me). I would prefer to run a Unix on the Sony boxen, but XP does too good a job to turn it away. Number one thing I'd give up to go to any Unix at all on the VAIOs would be the peace and quiet they lend a room with their sw managed cooling fans.
In addition, Apple has basically in one stroke, fixed the DLL issue that still occasionally plagues me with XP. A package can ship with the libraries it was qual'd on and get those DLLs even if the system has something else installed. I have no fear of trying shareware on the Mac because of this. People are beginning to discover this, and as they do, MS will be forced to trully fix this problem. And MS will continue to be a platform I can "deal with" and find "usable".
As I post this from my WinXP box,
Have a good night!
TurboD
Troll, but I'll bite...
... because of its greatness" comments. They both suck and they have numerous horrendous usability issues -- they are eye candy not serious software.
I was talking with a friend recently who was praising Linux and Windows. He insulted OSX because..."well because, because its so proprietary". I just laughed at him.
Mac kernel is open source. The Apple portion of the hw is in the driver source, and the hardware conforms to standards like FW, USB, PCI, and AGP. The OS is a branded UNIX. You can take a OSX drive from one Mac and drop it in another and it "just works". No PNP reconfig warning, new hw detected, etc. It JUST WORKS. Heck, I can even boot the entire OS from a FW drive and move it between machines! (I am a Mac developer).
He honestly couldn't tell me why his platforms were so much better. If anything Linux is still stuck in pre-PNP era, and Windows is becoming more tightly coupled to the hw through reg keys and licensing, though Windows will not suffer as badly from 3rd party driver issues as Linux.
Linux could be user viable if it had a standard driver interface layer that could be relied upon to work with old drivers, even in a new kernel. It is true that drivers usually need revving between Windows releases, but there is only one windows release to update for, and the changes aren't that deep. For Linux, there are literally dozens of distributions, leaving the kernel people to have to solve the "boxed driver" compatibility issue, even worse, *in every kernel release*, to guarantee that distributions work correctly with 3rd party drivers.
Until a user can buy a brand new, just introduced to market, with new fangled tech widget at CompUSA and bring it home and plug it to his firewire port, have any various Linux dist he is running pop up a box and request the driver CD, and not complain about some arcane kernel version difference for his driver, Linux will never succeed on the desktop of the average home user (it may be OK for corporate desks). No amount of "but I just did that and the driver was already in my kernel" hand waving will get you guys through this. Never ever. Listening to the Linux advocate camp talk about this is hilarious. Get over it, write the driver compatiblity layers, make a real integrated desktop that works correctly (sorry, KDE/GNOME don't qual here), and then take over the world.
Until then, I've got my abestos suit ready, so you can make your inane "but I just... and my kernel had support for...already built in" comments to your thrower runs out of fuel. Also, drop the "KDE is the best thing since..." and "Gnome makes me
TurboD
Really?
So I am going to wipe out your signal then and no one will stop me, if there is no regulation. I can pick the very same technology you have and run it through a 50KW linear. Your radio's front end will be so wiped out from mine, it will never hear that which it was suppose too.
Now personally, I have no interest in doing this to someone. However, there are many teenage minded adults who just love to inflict such interference on others.
Where is you libertarian approach now? What's the point of the public owning something completely useless?
Heh, youz guyz speak for yourself. I gots all three of the original on LD widescreen (pre-THX rehacking) & a dual gig MacG4 with all the DVD burning goodies :) Sorry, it will be a close friends only release...
A chunk of culture because of a bit of pre-sight? Nah, I was just a loser who spent all my money on AV equipment in college!
Now I write drivers and get mad equipment to do it on!
TurboD