1.) It's a dog. She sniffs shit. I raw feed and she can and has been fed spoiled meat that would kill a human being.
Yes. Most dogs can do that. Kids can eat chocolate, grapes, macadamia nuts, and avocados. Dogs can't. People used to give chicken bones to infants when they were teething. Again, not a smart move for a dog. Different species, different digestive tracts.
2.) My dog isn't from a puppy mill; she's from a reputable breeder
You previously stated your dog had worms. If this is the case, then it's not a reputable breeder. Or perhaps you have found a crappy vet. It can't hurt to go to another for a second opinion. At least you'll know.
3.) Lots of other pets and livestock don't get the same levels of medical care and do quite fine
Yes, and lots die early and in misery from lack of medical care. Do you have a point?
Why would anyone want to go back to steam engines? You still rely on combustion to heat the steam, but it's external combustion instead internal, which means most of the energy is wasted.
I'd guess it would depend on the design. There are a lot of frictional losses and more moving parts in an ICE engine by comparison.Getting 1000 ft/ lbs. of torque out of a steam engine that was in a car using 1920s tech is incredible. Just look at how complicated that is to do today with an ICE. Other than very large displacement blocks, you will need a turbo charger or blower to boost the pressure going through the intake. Nisan is touting their new 400 HP engine for La Mans. Granted, it's really light, but it's only 280 ft/lbs of torque.
They also burn fuel more cleanly as it's burned at a high temperature/low pressure. The engines ran at 900 RPM at 75 mph and were very quiet and did not require a transmission. Since the rear axle was incorporated into the engine, there was not drive shaft either. Again, less moving parts to break, and no clutch or torque converter of lose power to.
It was a 5500 lb car. Which is about what a GMC Yukon Denali weighs. The Yukon gets 16 MPG city.. Since there were no real highways like there are now, I don't think highway mileage is comparable. The Doble got up to 40 mph in 12.5 seconds (at 900 rpm) and had a top speed of 100 mph. A Model T of that area had a top speed of half that and took at least twice as long to reach 40mph. Chrysler put out it's first car in 1924 and it had a top speed of 70 mph. This was such a big deal that they named it the B-70 due to its top speed. The land speed record was set at just under 146 mph in July 1924. I'd say those are pretty respectable numbers for the time.
I'm not sure it would be practical to make a steam powered car today, and it's obvious the public wouldn't go for it either. I'm just fascinated with what they were able to do with it back then. And I'm sure using today's tech it may be feasible to compete with ICE and electric cars. Those Doble cars also had a lot less moving and wear parts in comparison. No gaskets either, so even less crap to wear out and deteriorate. The article mentioned that there is one that has half a million miles on it.
BS. I have had at least 2/3 of my newer seagates fail. From 500 gigs to 2TB drives. At LEAST 10 in the last 3 years. In the same time I have had 1 of 6 hitachi and 2 of 18 western digital. I will NEVER buy another seagate drive. Just lost my external 1.5TB USB3 drives go last week with 0 warning and TON of my data. I hate seagate with a passion that I feel for no other.
Hard drive manufacturers are extremely cyclical in quality. I've said it on/. many times, but back in the day they all went from the bottom of the reliability and performance list to the top on a yearly basis. Now that we have fewer drive manufacturers to choose from it's probably closer to every 3-5 years. I have a 500 MB Seagate external that just died that's at 7+ years old. Actually the HDD is fine, the electronics for the USB controller died. I also have a 12GB Maxtor that was in a BSD box that I just retired. It was on that box for 14 or 15 years. I actually had 12 years of up time on that system at one point. I've had plenty WD drives fail from Velociraptors to the consumer grade drives. Seagate seems about on par with all the rest. Most SCSI drives I've had seem to last forever though. If you care about reliable, get some 15K RPM drives. Their fast as hell and usually last forever, or until they get too small for your needs.
No, of course not. This is/. It must be that a major hard drive manufacturer that was around 20+ years prior, and is still around 14 years later made nothing but bricks and packaged them as hard drives. That's how they survived when so many of their competitors went bankrupt. Bricks are so much cheaper to produce, so the profit margin is considerably higher.;-)
Except that the Motorola acquisition also included ~$5B in cash and tax incentives, plus the other parts that Google already sold, plus the other parts of Motorola they're still keeping.
I'm on the shitty mobile site, so sorry I can't be more specific. But check the other threads; some are estimating the patents cost as little as $1.5B.
Thank you. I couldn't remember how much cash Motorola had. I thought it was between $3-5 billion. Plus didn't Google sell the cable box group for a couple billion almost right away too? The entire deal was to pad their patent war-chest to defend Android anyhow
I have no idea what the actual value is, but they picked up 15,000+ patents in the deal. Which is pretty damn convenient. Especially since the Apple/Samsung patent shitfest started.
First they overpay for Motorola Mobility. Now they're overpaying for Nest. Is Eric Schmidt still available to provide "adult supervision"?
At least this will even out their recent cash flow: $3.2B out for Nest, $2.9B in for Motorola. Well, almost - they're still down by a mere $300M.
Which is a bargain for all of the patents they will keep from the Motorola acquisition. Even if you factor in the additional $10 billion they paid for Motorola, minus the cash Motorola had on hand at the time.
You'll need accelerometers mounted in various places, and some moveable counterweights along the spokes to adjust for changes in weight balance , preventing wobble.
Or we can just recruit astronauts from areas close to active fault lines. They don't seem to mind a little bit of wobbling.
Except she didn't remember him and/or none of it really happened. And from his perspective she was shot and killed and then he was crushed by a jet engine that fell from the plane his mother was on.
I suppose, " 'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all."
I live in San Diego. They should have crashed it into my bed so I can go back in time through a baby universe and converse with a big ugly rabbit named Frank.
I don't think that worked out so well for Donnie in the end.
Actually 0K would make it easier to get superconductive chargers. But your hand would snap off and shatter on the ground when you plug it in. It's probably not a good trade off.;-)
That's all well and good for writing it. But not so much for recording it.
Huh?! You serious? Logic/ProTools is like the default setup for recording, mixing, composing, and editing.
We're not talking about avant-gardists, mind you, so no PD, Max, Audiosculpt (and other IRCAM stuff), etc.
I was referring to the pain an suffering part. Not the use of ProTools. There have been many songs (as well as works of art and literature) that were created due to the composers pain and suffering. Adding pain and suffering to the recording engineers job, usually does not benefit the final product.
For serious music production use MacOS, its the right tool for the job. Get Logic Pro or Pro Tools for audio/midi recording, and Sibelius or Finale for score editing. If you want pain & suffering welcome to use open source alternatives.
You say that like pain and suffering in the creation of music is a bad thing.
That's all well and good for writing it. But not so much for recording it.
Come on, there is no way the Japanese could have developed video games without leaching from the great Americans who invented everything from the world wide web to the wheel.
I'm not sure how this would be confusing a trademark. Does British Sky Broadcasting offer a remote storage solution? This seems almost as silly as if Anderson Windows went after Microsoft for calling their OS "Windows" I know that I always get pissed when I'm stupid enough to order glass panes when I meant to get an OS. I've been to the UK and know many people there. I'm pretty confident that they are smart enough that they won't order online storage when they meant to watch television.
Oldsmobile had a 900 and 1000 HP version of the Quad-4 2 liter engine for the Oldsmobile Aerotech expermental cars in 1987.
Rod Millen won the Pikes Peak Hill Climb in his Toyota Celica. He was getting 600HP out of a 4 cylinder in 1994. It was up to 900 in 1996. and he had it up to 1000HP the next year. While it's not an endurance race like Le Mans. It's still a hell of a lot more realistic than 1/4 mile engines.
What I'd like to know, besides the price tag, is how realistic is that weight? Is that with fluids? Front end accessories? Does it include the weight of the turbo? Regardless, it's pretty damn cool. I want two of them to put in my Vette.
That's not a feral cat. It's merely a sphynx meowing (first pic), and play-biting something (second pic).
Great. So what your are saying is that those are domesticated animals. That makes me feel so much better about having a wild ass cat flying at me. Thanks. I think.
You'll be probably dead in 30 years and I'll be probably alive in 50 years. Maybe it's just that you don't need to freak out anyway, and not freaking out is a more healthy lifestyle no matter what.
BTW a really huge coronal mass ejection would do quite a mess, there was one such in 1859 only the only stuff it could knock down was telegraph lines. The horses and contemporary steam engines were safe.
Well, thanks for planning my funeral, but I'm not freaking out. That was kind of my point. AWG is the current bogyman that you must go ballistic about. If you don't, you are some kind of planet killing Luddite. Or so the adamant proponents of AWG seem to keep telling us.
Yes, I've read about the CME in 1859. Operators were shocked, some telegraph stations stayed functional despite being disconnected from their intended power sources. Lines were throwing sparks and others even melted. The industrialized countries would be in deep shit if we had an event like that today.
This is the entire issue. Everyone on both sides of this "discussion" seem to dial it up to 11 and do nothing but shout each other down.
And your contribution addressed this how?
Balance.;-)
In all honesty, I agree, we do need to change how we produce energy, and use it. But I also understand that these changes have consequences and not necessarily economical. I've seen proposals for adding reflective aerosols to the atmosphere to decrease the amount of energy reaching the Earths surface. That's a nice band-aid, but unless something else is done, it's a stop gap at best. But the climate is a very complicated system. Even the experts don't really know what unexpected results could come of trying to re-engineer our climate in this way. As I posted earlier, we can't even find a good solution for defining the kilogram, I don't think climate change is easier to figure out than that.
Additionally, it's kind of hard to take people seriously regarding doomsday predictions. Especially when so many have made wild ass claims in the past that never came to fruition. Even when these people are not even related to the serious scientists, or have the best of intentions, it is hard to get all panicky about anything.
Here's a partial list of some of the crap that we were told we need to fear, or have in the past:
nuclear war/winter (Duck and Cover)
The Neutron bomb
depleted oil reserves
WMD's in Iraq
Communism
Terrorism
Killer bees
super volcanoes
planet killing asteroids/comets
End of days
AIDS
plague like influenza outbreaks
Reversal of the magnetic poles
Mega tsunamis
coronal mass ejections
Cosmic radiation from a local supernova
Disease outbreak form GMO foods
CERN creates a planet devouring black hole
Skynet
Global ice age
Global warming
ET ends up having a death ray instead of a magic healing finger
The end of the Myan calendar
We're all living in the Matrix
Keanu Reeves is actually Neo and the only hope for mankind
Getting trampled by one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Obama care, and it doesn't cover getting trampled by horses
Yes, many of those were intended as a joke, but it's far from a complete list of scary shit I've had to hear about. Nuclear war scared the shit out of me as a kid. We were told all about those crazy Soviets and how trigger happy they were with thousands more nukes than us. And how the blast from a modern nuke was thousands of times more powerful than the ones dropped in Japan. But "duck and cover" would save you. Part of me likes to play devils advocate as after you spend a lifetime of politicians and the news media trying to scare the shit out of you, you do become somewhat jaded. It's more of a defense mechanism I suppose. So please forgive me for not freaking out, even though I actually do agree with you.
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1.) It's a dog. She sniffs shit. I raw feed and she can and has been fed spoiled meat that would kill a human being.
Yes. Most dogs can do that. Kids can eat chocolate, grapes, macadamia nuts, and avocados. Dogs can't. People used to give chicken bones to infants when they were teething. Again, not a smart move for a dog. Different species, different digestive tracts.
2.) My dog isn't from a puppy mill; she's from a reputable breeder
You previously stated your dog had worms. If this is the case, then it's not a reputable breeder. Or perhaps you have found a crappy vet. It can't hurt to go to another for a second opinion. At least you'll know.
3.) Lots of other pets and livestock don't get the same levels of medical care and do quite fine
Yes, and lots die early and in misery from lack of medical care. Do you have a point?
Why would anyone want to go back to steam engines? You still rely on combustion to heat the steam, but it's external combustion instead internal, which means most of the energy is wasted.
I'd guess it would depend on the design. There are a lot of frictional losses and more moving parts in an ICE engine by comparison.Getting 1000 ft/ lbs. of torque out of a steam engine that was in a car using 1920s tech is incredible. Just look at how complicated that is to do today with an ICE. Other than very large displacement blocks, you will need a turbo charger or blower to boost the pressure going through the intake. Nisan is touting their new 400 HP engine for La Mans. Granted, it's really light, but it's only 280 ft/lbs of torque.
Let me put it another way. Here's a list of the 100 cars with the highest torque . Notice anything? Only three have more than 1000 ft/lbs. of torque.
They also burn fuel more cleanly as it's burned at a high temperature/low pressure. The engines ran at 900 RPM at 75 mph and were very quiet and did not require a transmission. Since the rear axle was incorporated into the engine, there was not drive shaft either. Again, less moving parts to break, and no clutch or torque converter of lose power to.
It was a 5500 lb car. Which is about what a GMC Yukon Denali weighs. The Yukon gets 16 MPG city.. Since there were no real highways like there are now, I don't think highway mileage is comparable. The Doble got up to 40 mph in 12.5 seconds (at 900 rpm) and had a top speed of 100 mph. A Model T of that area had a top speed of half that and took at least twice as long to reach 40mph. Chrysler put out it's first car in 1924 and it had a top speed of 70 mph. This was such a big deal that they named it the B-70 due to its top speed. The land speed record was set at just under 146 mph in July 1924. I'd say those are pretty respectable numbers for the time.
I'm not sure it would be practical to make a steam powered car today, and it's obvious the public wouldn't go for it either. I'm just fascinated with what they were able to do with it back then. And I'm sure using today's tech it may be feasible to compete with ICE and electric cars. Those Doble cars also had a lot less moving and wear parts in comparison. No gaskets either, so even less crap to wear out and deteriorate. The article mentioned that there is one that has half a million miles on it.
Funny. That's what people seem to have thought about electric vehicles for the last 100 years or so.
They built a car that got 15 miles / gallon of kerosene and could pass today's California emissions testing. In 1924.
It's a shame that Abner Doble couldn't have continued with his steam powered cars. Considering what he was able to do with them using 1920-1930's tech, it would be amazing to see what could be done today.
BS. I have had at least 2/3 of my newer seagates fail. From 500 gigs to 2TB drives. At LEAST 10 in the last 3 years. In the same time I have had 1 of 6 hitachi and 2 of 18 western digital. I will NEVER buy another seagate drive. Just lost my external 1.5TB USB3 drives go last week with 0 warning and TON of my data. I hate seagate with a passion that I feel for no other.
Hard drive manufacturers are extremely cyclical in quality. I've said it on /. many times, but back in the day they all went from the bottom of the reliability and performance list to the top on a yearly basis. Now that we have fewer drive manufacturers to choose from it's probably closer to every 3-5 years. I have a 500 MB Seagate external that just died that's at 7+ years old. Actually the HDD is fine, the electronics for the USB controller died. I also have a 12GB Maxtor that was in a BSD box that I just retired. It was on that box for 14 or 15 years. I actually had 12 years of up time on that system at one point. I've had plenty WD drives fail from Velociraptors to the consumer grade drives. Seagate seems about on par with all the rest. Most SCSI drives I've had seem to last forever though. If you care about reliable, get some 15K RPM drives. Their fast as hell and usually last forever, or until they get too small for your needs.
Or a bad batch?
No, of course not. This is /. It must be that a major hard drive manufacturer that was around 20+ years prior, and is still around 14 years later made nothing but bricks and packaged them as hard drives. That's how they survived when so many of their competitors went bankrupt. Bricks are so much cheaper to produce, so the profit margin is considerably higher. ;-)
Except that the Motorola acquisition also included ~$5B in cash and tax incentives, plus the other parts that Google already sold, plus the other parts of Motorola they're still keeping.
I'm on the shitty mobile site, so sorry I can't be more specific. But check the other threads; some are estimating the patents cost as little as $1.5B.
Thank you. I couldn't remember how much cash Motorola had. I thought it was between $3-5 billion. Plus didn't Google sell the cable box group for a couple billion almost right away too? The entire deal was to pad their patent war-chest to defend Android anyhow
I have no idea what the actual value is, but they picked up 15,000+ patents in the deal. Which is pretty damn convenient. Especially since the Apple/Samsung patent shitfest started.
Fitting article for SuperBowl week.
WTF! I thought it was Super Bowel "weekend", or Sunday. It's now been extended into the entire week?
First they overpay for Motorola Mobility. Now they're overpaying for Nest. Is Eric Schmidt still available to provide "adult supervision"?
At least this will even out their recent cash flow: $3.2B out for Nest, $2.9B in for Motorola. Well, almost - they're still down by a mere $300M.
Which is a bargain for all of the patents they will keep from the Motorola acquisition. Even if you factor in the additional $10 billion they paid for Motorola, minus the cash Motorola had on hand at the time.
Not really, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Really? My broken digital clock seems to think it's 88:88 PM all the time. At what two times is that right?
You'll need accelerometers mounted in various places, and some moveable counterweights along the spokes to adjust for changes in weight balance , preventing wobble.
Or we can just recruit astronauts from areas close to active fault lines. They don't seem to mind a little bit of wobbling.
It's write-once only if you don't consider "destroy" a write-operation.
I'd say it's more of a delete-operation.
Except she didn't remember him and/or none of it really happened. And from his perspective she was shot and killed and then he was crushed by a jet engine that fell from the plane his mother was on.
I suppose, " 'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all."
I live in San Diego. They should have crashed it into my bed so I can go back in time through a baby universe and converse with a big ugly rabbit named Frank.
I don't think that worked out so well for Donnie in the end.
Anyone else read that as "of 1,361 kilos of cocaine, weapons or other payload"?
FTFY
They'd do even worse at 0K!
Actually 0K would make it easier to get superconductive chargers. But your hand would snap off and shatter on the ground when you plug it in. It's probably not a good trade off. ;-)
That's all well and good for writing it. But not so much for recording it.
Huh?! You serious? Logic/ProTools is like the default setup for recording, mixing, composing, and editing. We're not talking about avant-gardists, mind you, so no PD, Max, Audiosculpt (and other IRCAM stuff), etc.
I was referring to the pain an suffering part. Not the use of ProTools. There have been many songs (as well as works of art and literature) that were created due to the composers pain and suffering. Adding pain and suffering to the recording engineers job, usually does not benefit the final product.
For serious music production use MacOS, its the right tool for the job. Get Logic Pro or Pro Tools for audio/midi recording, and Sibelius or Finale for score editing. If you want pain & suffering welcome to use open source alternatives.
You say that like pain and suffering in the creation of music is a bad thing.
That's all well and good for writing it. But not so much for recording it.
Come on, there is no way the Japanese could have developed video games without leaching from the great Americans who invented everything from the world wide web to the wheel.
And queue the Al Gore jokes in 3,2,1...
I'm not sure how this would be confusing a trademark. Does British Sky Broadcasting offer a remote storage solution? This seems almost as silly as if Anderson Windows went after Microsoft for calling their OS "Windows" I know that I always get pissed when I'm stupid enough to order glass panes when I meant to get an OS. I've been to the UK and know many people there. I'm pretty confident that they are smart enough that they won't order online storage when they meant to watch television.
Oldsmobile had a 900 and 1000 HP version of the Quad-4 2 liter engine for the Oldsmobile Aerotech expermental cars in 1987.
Rod Millen won the Pikes Peak Hill Climb in his Toyota Celica. He was getting 600HP out of a 4 cylinder in 1994. It was up to 900 in 1996. and he had it up to 1000HP the next year. While it's not an endurance race like Le Mans. It's still a hell of a lot more realistic than 1/4 mile engines.
What I'd like to know, besides the price tag, is how realistic is that weight? Is that with fluids? Front end accessories? Does it include the weight of the turbo? Regardless, it's pretty damn cool. I want two of them to put in my Vette.
That's not a feral cat. It's merely a sphynx meowing (first pic), and play-biting something (second pic).
Great. So what your are saying is that those are domesticated animals. That makes me feel so much better about having a wild ass cat flying at me. Thanks. I think.
You'll be probably dead in 30 years and I'll be probably alive in 50 years. Maybe it's just that you don't need to freak out anyway, and not freaking out is a more healthy lifestyle no matter what. BTW a really huge coronal mass ejection would do quite a mess, there was one such in 1859 only the only stuff it could knock down was telegraph lines. The horses and contemporary steam engines were safe.
Well, thanks for planning my funeral, but I'm not freaking out. That was kind of my point. AWG is the current bogyman that you must go ballistic about. If you don't, you are some kind of planet killing Luddite. Or so the adamant proponents of AWG seem to keep telling us.
Yes, I've read about the CME in 1859. Operators were shocked, some telegraph stations stayed functional despite being disconnected from their intended power sources. Lines were throwing sparks and others even melted. The industrialized countries would be in deep shit if we had an event like that today.
This is the entire issue. Everyone on both sides of this "discussion" seem to dial it up to 11 and do nothing but shout each other down.
And your contribution addressed this how?
Balance. ;-)
In all honesty, I agree, we do need to change how we produce energy, and use it. But I also understand that these changes have consequences and not necessarily economical. I've seen proposals for adding reflective aerosols to the atmosphere to decrease the amount of energy reaching the Earths surface. That's a nice band-aid, but unless something else is done, it's a stop gap at best. But the climate is a very complicated system. Even the experts don't really know what unexpected results could come of trying to re-engineer our climate in this way. As I posted earlier, we can't even find a good solution for defining the kilogram, I don't think climate change is easier to figure out than that.
Additionally, it's kind of hard to take people seriously regarding doomsday predictions. Especially when so many have made wild ass claims in the past that never came to fruition. Even when these people are not even related to the serious scientists, or have the best of intentions, it is hard to get all panicky about anything.
Here's a partial list of some of the crap that we were told we need to fear, or have in the past:
Yes, many of those were intended as a joke, but it's far from a complete list of scary shit I've had to hear about. Nuclear war scared the shit out of me as a kid. We were told all about those crazy Soviets and how trigger happy they were with thousands more nukes than us. And how the blast from a modern nuke was thousands of times more powerful than the ones dropped in Japan. But "duck and cover" would save you. Part of me likes to play devils advocate as after you spend a lifetime of politicians and the news media trying to scare the shit out of you, you do become somewhat jaded. It's more of a defense mechanism I suppose. So please forgive me for not freaking out, even though I actually do agree with you.