What I meant is that your gears have to be set so that 10 kmh in ground speed produces more than 10 kmh in air that flows out of the propeller. But I'm not sure now, because even that extra 10 would be enough to push you above the wind speed.
You couldn't move this thing forward faster than the wind with your transparent propeller.
I think this could be a better explanation of how this vehicle works:
If you have an external source of energy, you can have a propeller that creates the airspeed of 30 kmh for example, for a certain rotational speed. Vehicle with this propeller will have the maximum speed of 30 kmh. If there is some wind, lets say 10 kmh, than your maximum speed is 40, but your airspeed is still 30. Of course, you would need an engine for this.
Second part, if you have a sail, and the wind is 10, your maximum speed is 10 in the direction of the wind. At that point, your airspeed is 0. However, if your speed is only 5, you would still have wind force on your sail, and that force could be made to do some useful work.
This force is then, what you use to run the propeller from the first part. The propeller is also your sail. Thus, your maximum possible speed becomes 35 kmh. And, there you go, down the wind, faster than the wind.
It could also be said that the wind does not push your sail/propeller, but the whole air bubble with the local wind of 30 kmh. Basically, a wind warp engine.
In the video on the last link, how do we know it really goes faster than the wind? You can not rely on the flags on the thing itself because the presence of the propeller would change the local air flow, would it not?
And what's the deal with the vehicle on the treadmill? The movement of the treadmill gives energy to the wheels, which turns the propeller. And I guess the electric blower that generates the wind, the speed of that wind is much more than the speed of the vehicle, which is barely going forward. How is this going faster than the wind?
You Americans need to wake up and send those armed bears to visit those censors, because they are obviously running out of control. (the censors, that is, not the bears).
"Don't you know black duck eggs are a delicacy in China?" Winkler said Stan asked. "I can't get black duck eggs in San Francisco, let alone this little piece of crap town in the middle of nowhere." Stan's conclusion was that the Chinese restaurant was a front for a Chinese espionage operation targeting the Fortune 5 business.
"In performance driving (closed track, of course), I'd have to say a human will still be far superior to a computer."
And I'd have to say you are wrong.
"Us humans take all kinds of clues from our environment to make our decisions."
And us robots take even more clues, and faster.
When I went back out, since my tires were now cold, when I hit the first turn (a tight 270), the back end kicked out. I drifted the turn, rather than spinning or sliding off the track,
Of course, computers would measure that temperature precisely and factor that in the model. Puny humans.
"Us humans learn a lot from practice."
Us robots learn even more, and faster, and we never forget.
"I knew immediately what was happening from the way the car responded."
Obviously not, otherwise your end would still be on the road. It was not, you failed.
I think the real question should be how many measurements per second can you do.
This is what standard computes do. To get the next step, you have to measure/read the previous state. So you have just zero or one, because that is the easiest to measure. Then you measure in gigahertz.
How many measurements per second can quantum computers do?
"But I think Lost is a fascinating form. An epic story told over the course of 121 hours (OK, ~90 hours + ad breaks), with an overall structure, a proper beginning, middle and end,"
One question, (I just watched a couple of episodes in the first season), how can it have the end when it is still in a middle of a season? Is this the last season?
It's hard to control all those foot soldiers with access to broadcast tech. So they have to educate them how to lie as well. For example, do not use "snipers" when referring to an american soldier, use "sharpshooter". Sniper sounds too bad. Also, do not use the term "the country we are conquering", use the phrase "hostile territory."
Perhaps US military leaders in Afghanistan are at a point where they have to play the game where they try to present their jobs as so complex that no one could do it except for them, so that they would become irreplaceable?
Or perhaps they become so corrupted by their power that nobody can correct them when they do something wrong or stupid.
"CHARLI is historic. CHARLI is the first untethered, autonomous, full-sized, walking, humanoid robot with four moving limbs and a head, built in the United States."
Come on, this is a ridiculous statement. Given enough qualifications, anything can be said to be historic.
This is just another Asimo, just more ugly. Also, it is not humanoid at all, his head is a fcking lawn lamp.
"The explanation is our servers failed," said Seattle Police spokesman Sgt. Sean Whitcomb. "Data was lost, more than his, and it took some time to recover it."
This was probably a flat-out lie as well. It's not just the cops at the bottom, it is the whole structure that is rotten.
Notice, those are the same people who take your taxes and then distribute them to the "best" use they can find for them, after of course, taking as much as they can for themselves. Have a nice day.
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What I meant is that your gears have to be set so that 10 kmh in ground speed produces more than 10 kmh in air that flows out of the propeller. But I'm not sure now, because even that extra 10 would be enough to push you above the wind speed.
You couldn't move this thing forward faster than the wind with your transparent propeller.
I think this could be a better explanation of how this vehicle works:
If you have an external source of energy, you can have a propeller that creates the airspeed of 30 kmh for example, for a certain rotational speed. Vehicle with this propeller will have the maximum speed of 30 kmh. If there is some wind, lets say 10 kmh, than your maximum speed is 40, but your airspeed is still 30. Of course, you would need an engine for this.
Second part, if you have a sail, and the wind is 10, your maximum speed is 10 in the direction of the wind. At that point, your airspeed is 0. However, if your speed is only 5, you would still have wind force on your sail, and that force could be made to do some useful work.
This force is then, what you use to run the propeller from the first part. The propeller is also your sail. Thus, your maximum possible speed becomes 35 kmh. And, there you go, down the wind, faster than the wind.
It could also be said that the wind does not push your sail/propeller, but the whole air bubble with the local wind of 30 kmh. Basically, a wind warp engine.
The important concept is that the wind force is not what moves the boat, but what accelerates the boat.
That doesn't make sense. If you start from zero, in order to move, you need acceleration. So, whatever causes acceleration, also cases movement.
If wind causes acceleration, wind causes movement.
In the video on the last link, how do we know it really goes faster than the wind? You can not rely on the flags on the thing itself because the presence of the propeller would change the local air flow, would it not?
And what's the deal with the vehicle on the treadmill? The movement of the treadmill gives energy to the wheels, which turns the propeller. And I guess the electric blower that generates the wind, the speed of that wind is much more than the speed of the vehicle, which is barely going forward. How is this going faster than the wind?
Or he has some of the world's best optimized code. You try doing the browser on 400 hertz.
You Americans need to wake up and send those armed bears to visit those censors, because they are obviously running out of control. (the censors, that is, not the bears).
You need a revolution.
"Ink technology is expensive, and you pay for reliability and image quality"
This doesn't even pass the chuckle test! It's pure bullshit. The truth is that you pay the monopolistic prices and that's why the ink is so expensive.
Was he playing faster and faster?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki
One could also say that The French revolution was caused by a volcano.
"Don't you know black duck eggs are a delicacy in China?" Winkler said Stan asked. "I can't get black duck eggs in San Francisco, let alone this little piece of crap town in the middle of nowhere." Stan's conclusion was that the Chinese restaurant was a front for a Chinese espionage operation targeting the Fortune 5 business.
why? why did he conclude that?
"In performance driving (closed track, of course), I'd have to say a human will still be far superior to a computer."
And I'd have to say you are wrong.
"Us humans take all kinds of clues from our environment to make our decisions."
And us robots take even more clues, and faster.
When I went back out, since my tires were now cold, when I hit the first turn (a tight 270), the back end kicked out. I drifted the turn, rather than spinning or sliding off the track,
Of course, computers would measure that temperature precisely and factor that in the model. Puny humans.
"Us humans learn a lot from practice."
Us robots learn even more, and faster, and we never forget.
"I knew immediately what was happening from the way the car responded."
Obviously not, otherwise your end would still be on the road. It was not, you failed.
I think the real question should be how many measurements per second can you do.
This is what standard computes do. To get the next step, you have to measure/read the previous state. So you have just zero or one, because that is the easiest to measure. Then you measure in gigahertz.
How many measurements per second can quantum computers do?
One time pads already are unbreakable.
"But I think Lost is a fascinating form. An epic story told over the course of 121 hours (OK, ~90 hours + ad breaks), with an overall structure, a proper beginning, middle and end,"
One question, (I just watched a couple of episodes in the first season), how can it have the end when it is still in a middle of a season? Is this the last season?
So now we have various parts of the web with different priorities. You can use the open HTML standard, just not with any browser you want.
It's hard to control all those foot soldiers with access to broadcast tech. So they have to educate them how to lie as well. For example, do not use "snipers" when referring to an american soldier, use "sharpshooter". Sniper sounds too bad. Also, do not use the term "the country we are conquering", use the phrase "hostile territory."
Remind me again what is the reason for US forces to be in the Afghanistan? And why is this not shown on this monstrous chart?
Perhaps US military leaders in Afghanistan are at a point where they have to play the game where they try to present their jobs as so complex that no one could do it except for them, so that they would become irreplaceable?
Or perhaps they become so corrupted by their power that nobody can correct them when they do something wrong or stupid.
"CHARLI is historic. CHARLI is the first untethered, autonomous, full-sized, walking, humanoid robot with four moving limbs and a head, built in the United States."
Come on, this is a ridiculous statement. Given enough qualifications, anything can be said to be historic.
This is just another Asimo, just more ugly. Also, it is not humanoid at all, his head is a fcking lawn lamp.
"There's lots more to say on this topic, but I've exhausted this space for now."
Hahahahaha. This guy is a big idiot.
Nice to see the land of the free to get an another check in the checklist of things its free people are free to do.
"most of there "insights" were over active imaginations."
Yet I'm sure they had no problems imagining things to spend money on, the money that they got because of those overestimations.
"The explanation is our servers failed," said Seattle Police spokesman Sgt. Sean Whitcomb. "Data was lost, more than his, and it took some time to recover it."
This was probably a flat-out lie as well. It's not just the cops at the bottom, it is the whole structure that is rotten.
Notice, those are the same people who take your taxes and then distribute them to the "best" use they can find for them, after of course, taking as much as they can for themselves. Have a nice day.
...stress the fpu...
Yes, but only if you search for primes with nonzero decimal part.