implies either a monochrome e-ink display or something with enough backlighting to overcome skylight - which is where your battery life is disappearing to. Even LED lit displays are not going to give you what you want. OLED may one day get there, but is two technical breakthroughs short.
Even at 100% conversion rates - which are not likely to be attainable - I doubt you would get 20+ hours from a 3 cell battery on a 10 inch screen. A very rough calculation shows that you would need about 2W just to light a daylight readable display at 100% conversion. A 3 cell battery is around 22WH. That means that it could run the display alone for only around 11 hours.
After extensive discussion, the Chromium developers decided to build the Linux port with GTK+, the toolkit that is used by the popular GNOME desktop environment
They argue, and I would not say that they are wrong, that GTK+ even so does not give the necessary functionality to allow all the Chrome features.
And did try to understand it. And your point is? During the 1960s Nature was full of stuff on fusion, New Scientist was promoting it, Scientific American was boosting fusion research to the decision makers' staffs who read it and there was a lot of scientific interest. Then we had JET and TOKAMAK and a whole load of other initiatives, all with this "The next step will be power production". We had the "fricking great lasers will compress H2H3 mixtures to the fusion point. None of them worked because they all turned out to be much, much harder than anyone realised. And then we had cold fusion and sonofusion
If we run out of energy, we aren't going to be able to build these prototypes because they are just so huge. We will be too busy trying to grow food.
Fusion power was expected to have replaced nuclear by the year 2000. It's now 2009, and it's still more than 30 years in the future. A slippage of one year per year consistently for the last 40 years does not bode well.
Also when I was in my teens, those of us doing physics and chemistry at our school were encouraged to do the radiation physics and radiation chemistry options because this would career proof us. It was just so obvious that nuclear power would completely replace coal. Unfortunately all those other kids planning to do arts degrees regressed into NIMBYs.
Personally I think we should stop pissing about, build a new generation of standardised U/Pu reactors and put the development effort into thorium reactors. That will buy us time, lots of time, since thorium is plentiful, in which we may be able to have an advanced society while we sort out fusion. Spending billions on a lot of "ifs" looks like engineer willy-waggling, especially when we have other technologies that actually work.
Meanwhile the Russians are talking about 70MW floating conventional reactors based on their icebreaker technology to open up the Arctic. At this rate, they'll be selling power on demand to the world while the West is still trying to get a net energy gain from fusion. Being sexy does not make a technology valid or useful.
I may be wrong on this, writing from memory, but I believe that the most successful King of Israel - Omri - and his descendants were ignored in the Bible because, under his stable prosperous government, Judaism declined.
The "Upper management" of Triumph basically consisted of Ernest Turner. The root cause of Triumph's problems was Turner. He insisted on being involved in, and changing, designs long after he should have handed them over completely to his engineers.
Turner tried to save money consistently by under-engineering. Main bearings and big ends were too small, bosses too thin and narrow, meeting faces too narrow. Frames had unnecessary design compromises to reduce costs. Triumphs were light but too fragile. Thermal management in the cylinder heads was poor, which gave an opportunity to people like Harry Weslake, but when I talked to him about this after his retirement he agreed that the Triumph bottom end was not up to the breathing of the Weslake top end.
The company to which you are referring is BSA, and their main problem was spending far too much on sales and marketing to cover up the product deficiencies. In the case of BSA, it was the change from the solid but slow separate engine/gearbox machines to the unit twins where standards slipped.
Simply putting development engineers in charge was no solution. Look at Norton under Joe Craig. They won races, they looked nice, but the product was crap.
The simple fact is that for a bike business to succeed, all components of the business must run in harmony and do their jobs properly. As with the bike, so with the company.
This reminds me of the VW Beetle owned by the great Bob Pease (still going strong by the way) who used to replace the engine on his Beetle "every 150000 miles whether or not it needed it." - though being driven in California at moderate speeds by a careful driver had a lot to do with that.
However, the child post above is wrong. Entropy is not violated if carbon dioxide is converted to carbon + oxygen. The problem is the temperature at which the process would have to operate. You would need to reach a temperature at which the CO2 -> C + O2 reaction goes at reasonable speed, with a catalyst to initiate the reaction, and you would need some means of removing one of the products so it could not recombine. In order to make it work, you would have to supply a lot of external heat, which needs energy. That's the catch. It's exactly the same reason you cannot use water for a fuel: to separate the hydrogen and oxygen needs more energy than you get back by recombining them.
However, with carbon dioxide there is a way. It requires special organic catalysts and uses a two-stage photon process to provide the energy. It's called photosynthesis, and it's what plants do in sunlight.
If Sun makes an application store that works properly for paid applications - and works something like a package manager - most of the problems disappear overnight. The first time you use it the necessary jre level gets installed. Every time you do an update or a new install appropriate resources get loaded. The.exes and the windows start menu should also get fixed at the same time. Java web start goes away.
On a minor note, if every time you add a component in Swing, Netbeans moves things around, this means that you are not using the layout managers properly.
I couldn't get the third one in. But, and this is not trolling, something is very wrong in the US legal system when an overbearing plaintiff can arbitrarily claim enormous damages and rachet up a case to the point that the defendant cannot afford to contest it. The old French revolutionary slogan meant "equality before the Law".
Here in the UK the majority suddenly seem to have woken up to what their "elected representatives" have done in their name, and unexpected people we know are pretty cross about it. In the US, the RIAA affair is, quite literally, a slide into Fascism - a state in which corporations enjoy special privileges and are part of the Government. Here is a 25 year old lawyer actually saying this on his website, that the behaviour of the RIAA is unConstitutional. Either he's hoping to be bought off after the case (cynical) or he has ambitions for a career in politics (much less cynical).
Including the UK. And yes, this pisses me off because I live in a small town that is too hilly for bicycles, where disabled people are allowed to ride scooters on the pavement (sidewalk) but...no Segways.
You are correct, but both radial and rotary engines are complex beasts. I think too that if you look into aircraft engines you will find that the way they made many air cooled engines light and powerful was basically by wasting fuel - the heat removed from the cylinder head by fuel evaporation was significant, and the specific output was terrible. Liquid cooled engines can use high super- and turbocharge while still being quite thermally efficient. And, as someone has noted above, modern motorcycle engines are normally liquid cooled - even when they have fake fins on the cylinders to look pretty!
Did you ever read John Le Carrés "A Perfect Spy"? In that, the one time key was a copy of Simplicissimus. Lose the book, career over. (I'm paranoid too, I used to use Weingreen's Hebrew Grammar until the day I had to rescue it from the Oxfam pile...)
Actually, you are wrong. Designing an air cooled system is hard. You have to deal with problems of filtration (there will be dust - but where do you want it to build up?), ensuring that the flow goes where you want, turbulence, finding room for the ducting, designing the system so that components do not mask other components, and needing to handle high volumes of air. With properly designed water cooling, you have a few quite simple heat removal blocks and a simple plumbing system which can route pretty much anywhere.
This is why nowadays virtually all internal combustion engines of any power output use liquid cooling despite the apparent reliability benefits of air cooling. To take the transition period, WW2, as an example, you only have to look at the complexity of American rotary aircooled designs versus, say, the liquid cooled Merlin engine, to see the point. It would be astonishing if the same transition did not eventually occur for large computers.
Yes. Epson is simply not my favourite printer manufacturer. To repeat the mantra that I recite over and over to people, never buy a printer without an Ethernet connection. It's a kind of test: if the manufacturer can be arsed to build in networking, it probably has half decent firmware. If they can't, no matter what the fancy features, you are potentially in driver Hell one day.
Epson. The company that gave you the colour printer where you could put black in all 4 drum positions. In this case, Linux is missing from the list of supported Oses, and the Linux driver is stated to be 0.0 bytes.
I take your point, but my solution is just to boycott Epson and, if asked why, I tell people "When you want to pass that printer onto someone else, it may not work, whereas any printer with Ethernet will always provide at least basic printing".
Linux printing is one of the best things about it. With any reasonably modern (Bonjour compliant) printer I expect to have it working under Ubuntu in no time flat, whereas Windows involves downloading what is often a load of bloatware. HP and Samsung in particular have excellent Linux support, and I've had no problems with Oki.
I suspect what you are really saying is that it is hard to get the cut price "designed for Windows" printers to work. Well, surprise! You can't blame a non-Windows OS for not supporting a printer when part of the firmware is embedded in a Windows driver and it is crippled by design. Buy a mainstream office printer from a mainstream manufacturer and you should have no problems.
I don't disagree with your other comments, btw, and I run Windows on my netbook to allow several legacy programs without Wine to run. But GDI printers are an abortion.
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That's a serious question. Perhaps the people who modded this Informative would care to answer it.
implies either a monochrome e-ink display or something with enough backlighting to overcome skylight - which is where your battery life is disappearing to. Even LED lit displays are not going to give you what you want. OLED may one day get there, but is two technical breakthroughs short.
Even at 100% conversion rates - which are not likely to be attainable - I doubt you would get 20+ hours from a 3 cell battery on a 10 inch screen. A very rough calculation shows that you would need about 2W just to light a daylight readable display at 100% conversion. A 3 cell battery is around 22WH. That means that it could run the display alone for only around 11 hours.
Apple introduces special i-sunglasses that go completely opaque when near a beach, in case there are any topless women around (not sold in Europe).
Successor to 300. 5013, in which 5013 fat guys in leather knickers drive Hummers to defeat the Persians. Who unfortunately have M1A1s.
It's only an application, you have plenty of time to object.
They argue, and I would not say that they are wrong, that GTK+ even so does not give the necessary functionality to allow all the Chrome features.
If we run out of energy, we aren't going to be able to build these prototypes because they are just so huge. We will be too busy trying to grow food.
Also when I was in my teens, those of us doing physics and chemistry at our school were encouraged to do the radiation physics and radiation chemistry options because this would career proof us. It was just so obvious that nuclear power would completely replace coal. Unfortunately all those other kids planning to do arts degrees regressed into NIMBYs.
Personally I think we should stop pissing about, build a new generation of standardised U/Pu reactors and put the development effort into thorium reactors. That will buy us time, lots of time, since thorium is plentiful, in which we may be able to have an advanced society while we sort out fusion. Spending billions on a lot of "ifs" looks like engineer willy-waggling, especially when we have other technologies that actually work.
Meanwhile the Russians are talking about 70MW floating conventional reactors based on their icebreaker technology to open up the Arctic. At this rate, they'll be selling power on demand to the world while the West is still trying to get a net energy gain from fusion. Being sexy does not make a technology valid or useful.
Pope still Catholic, bears poo in woods, nothing to see here, move along.
I may be wrong on this, writing from memory, but I believe that the most successful King of Israel - Omri - and his descendants were ignored in the Bible because, under his stable prosperous government, Judaism declined.
The BSA management was in fact just as crap as you describe, and I should have given you more credit.
Turner tried to save money consistently by under-engineering. Main bearings and big ends were too small, bosses too thin and narrow, meeting faces too narrow. Frames had unnecessary design compromises to reduce costs. Triumphs were light but too fragile. Thermal management in the cylinder heads was poor, which gave an opportunity to people like Harry Weslake, but when I talked to him about this after his retirement he agreed that the Triumph bottom end was not up to the breathing of the Weslake top end.
The company to which you are referring is BSA, and their main problem was spending far too much on sales and marketing to cover up the product deficiencies. In the case of BSA, it was the change from the solid but slow separate engine/gearbox machines to the unit twins where standards slipped.
Simply putting development engineers in charge was no solution. Look at Norton under Joe Craig. They won races, they looked nice, but the product was crap.
The simple fact is that for a bike business to succeed, all components of the business must run in harmony and do their jobs properly. As with the bike, so with the company.
This reminds me of the VW Beetle owned by the great Bob Pease (still going strong by the way) who used to replace the engine on his Beetle "every 150000 miles whether or not it needed it." - though being driven in California at moderate speeds by a careful driver had a lot to do with that.
However, with carbon dioxide there is a way. It requires special organic catalysts and uses a two-stage photon process to provide the energy. It's called photosynthesis, and it's what plants do in sunlight.
On a minor note, if every time you add a component in Swing, Netbeans moves things around, this means that you are not using the layout managers properly.
Here in the UK the majority suddenly seem to have woken up to what their "elected representatives" have done in their name, and unexpected people we know are pretty cross about it. In the US, the RIAA affair is, quite literally, a slide into Fascism - a state in which corporations enjoy special privileges and are part of the Government. Here is a 25 year old lawyer actually saying this on his website, that the behaviour of the RIAA is unConstitutional. Either he's hoping to be bought off after the case (cynical) or he has ambitions for a career in politics (much less cynical).
I think you'll find shipping is number 1.
(c) Wolfram Alpha. From now on, I'm going to make sure that I attribute all failures to understand to Mr. Wolfram.
Including the UK. And yes, this pisses me off because I live in a small town that is too hilly for bicycles, where disabled people are allowed to ride scooters on the pavement (sidewalk) but...no Segways.
You are correct, but both radial and rotary engines are complex beasts. I think too that if you look into aircraft engines you will find that the way they made many air cooled engines light and powerful was basically by wasting fuel - the heat removed from the cylinder head by fuel evaporation was significant, and the specific output was terrible. Liquid cooled engines can use high super- and turbocharge while still being quite thermally efficient. And, as someone has noted above, modern motorcycle engines are normally liquid cooled - even when they have fake fins on the cylinders to look pretty!
Did you ever read John Le Carrés "A Perfect Spy"? In that, the one time key was a copy of Simplicissimus. Lose the book, career over. (I'm paranoid too, I used to use Weingreen's Hebrew Grammar until the day I had to rescue it from the Oxfam pile...)
This is why nowadays virtually all internal combustion engines of any power output use liquid cooling despite the apparent reliability benefits of air cooling. To take the transition period, WW2, as an example, you only have to look at the complexity of American rotary aircooled designs versus, say, the liquid cooled Merlin engine, to see the point. It would be astonishing if the same transition did not eventually occur for large computers.
Epson. The company that gave you the colour printer where you could put black in all 4 drum positions. In this case, Linux is missing from the list of supported Oses, and the Linux driver is stated to be 0.0 bytes.
I take your point, but my solution is just to boycott Epson and, if asked why, I tell people "When you want to pass that printer onto someone else, it may not work, whereas any printer with Ethernet will always provide at least basic printing".
I suspect what you are really saying is that it is hard to get the cut price "designed for Windows" printers to work. Well, surprise! You can't blame a non-Windows OS for not supporting a printer when part of the firmware is embedded in a Windows driver and it is crippled by design. Buy a mainstream office printer from a mainstream manufacturer and you should have no problems.
I don't disagree with your other comments, btw, and I run Windows on my netbook to allow several legacy programs without Wine to run. But GDI printers are an abortion.