Take GTA, stick it in the south west, turn the clock back 30 years, and glue the radio to funk.
Then add cannons.... lots and lots of cannons.
I'd love to see all of the south west render before my eyes, filled with auto villains. Then, network with my auto vigilante friends to take them all out...in style!
System Shock was too far ahead of it's time. The interface was inventive, but not in a good way. The creatures were scary, but had no AI to speak of. The graphics were cutting edge...in the 90's. And they game play has inspired the industry in so many ways, what would happen if the industry returned that inspiration?
In EU models of the Mini Cooper, especially the Cooper D, you get many of the features of the Hybrid with out the battery:
1. Regenerative breaking (using the alternator to charge the battery) 2. Stop/Start engine (stop the engine at intersections, then, using the energy recovered from breaking, start it back up on demand) 3. Awesome milage
Of course, the USA model doesn't have these features. I'll leave you to speculate why.
So, lemme get this straight. You have to pay for an editor for the world's first "Massively Single Player Game" that mines it's install base for interesting content?
They should be paying us as developers!
No offense, Spore is the ONLY game I am looking forward to, but I just think this is pushing the definition of "demo"... Even if they gave it away, it wouldn't be freeee....
Here's what I did for a client. I installed the distributed.net client on all their machines with a different ID per. If one went missing, I just waited until it started posting again.
One was recovered. I don't know out of how many thefts, but it worked.
I see a lot of people complaining about PHP and extolling the virtues of python. I agree, python is my language of choice (well, next to BASH, but that's because I'm lazy.)
The trouble is, using python to put the P in LAMP is as well documented as, say, making a vegan, green salad out of gopher guts. I had to be dedicated to the cause and spend two days of administration and research just to make a simple f'n photo gallery (which I am proud to say, is nicer code in python than PHP.)
LAMPython is exciting, but for the ease of the language and the power it posses, no one has taken making it easy seriously. No one has documented it clearly. Hell, the documentation I was using was TERRIBLY out of date. There needs to be a LAMPython tutorial project, and, like, yesterday.
Right, but the problem is the lift become uneven so while the blade is most efficient at these points in the rotation
|\ | | \|/ |/|\ |
What happens is, depending on the rotation, the retreating blade (or in the case of a blade going super sonic, the advancing blade) doesn't produce enough lift and the craft dips to one side.
This is why the Kavmov Hokum has counter rotating blades, to keep balanced, and this is why it is the fastest military helio in production anywhere. Not because of power or elegance of design, but because of counter rotating blades.
Counter rotating blades have the added advantage of an additive power output while countering torque as opposed to tail rotors, which can consume 30% of the power of the craft while not adding any performance.
The disadvantage of Counter rotating blades is complexity. Whether looking at a Chinook or a hokum (both examples of counter rotating blades, though the Chinook just isn't coaxial) transfering power between two big rotors isn't easy, and keeping them from hitting can be harder. The Chinook avoids this by having the fore and aft rotors mesh like an egg beater, and keeps them on separate planes. Coaxial craft can't mesh the blades like an egg beater, and instead just have to keep as much space between the rotors as possible.
Which is what interests me. Is it known if a craft with counter rotating blades could achive the Mu-1 ideal? I mean, there is more power to the blades, meaning they don't require as much rotational speed, meaning that one can avoid super sonic blades longer than a conventional tail rotor design.
It seams like it would beat "cheating" (not that I consider it cheating) by using fixed wings.
I was hoping the engineer would respond but no such luck.
I ask because it seams as if the only problem is losing lift on one side of the craft. If you have counter rotating blades, where one blade stalls, the other generates lift. In this way one could maintain lift while still keeping the forward moving blades subsonic.
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Take GTA, stick it in the south west, turn the clock back 30 years, and glue the radio to funk.
Then add cannons.... lots and lots of cannons.
I'd love to see all of the south west render before my eyes, filled with auto villains. Then, network with my auto vigilante friends to take them all out...in style!
System Shock was too far ahead of it's time. The interface was inventive, but not in a good way. The creatures were scary, but had no AI to speak of. The graphics were cutting edge...in the 90's. And they game play has inspired the industry in so many ways, what would happen if the industry returned that inspiration?
In EU models of the Mini Cooper, especially the Cooper D, you get many of the features of the Hybrid with out the battery:
1. Regenerative breaking (using the alternator to charge the battery)
2. Stop/Start engine (stop the engine at intersections, then, using the energy recovered from breaking, start it back up on demand)
3. Awesome milage
Of course, the USA model doesn't have these features. I'll leave you to speculate why.
So, lemme get this straight. You have to pay for an editor for the world's first "Massively Single Player Game" that mines it's install base for interesting content?
They should be paying us as developers!
No offense, Spore is the ONLY game I am looking forward to, but I just think this is pushing the definition of "demo"... Even if they gave it away, it wouldn't be freeee....
Anyone know if this will behave like a Bluetooth modem? Or a USB modem, I don't care, just so long as I can use it to surf on a real computer, too.
$1200, 42", 1920x1080 computer monitor with perfect color and high speed refresh. What were you saying?
Come on, too easy.
Here's what I did for a client. I installed the distributed.net client on all their machines with a different ID per. If one went missing, I just waited until it started posting again.
p hp?project_id=5&st=coreyfro
One was recovered. I don't know out of how many thefts, but it worked.
http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psearch.
Some are still posting to this day.
216264(-1) K6231862@coreyfro.com 13-Feb-2001 08-Feb-2002 361 791
218871(-1) K3342513@coreyfro.com 31-Jan-2001 20-Jun-2002 506 729
219222(-1) K4151626@coreyfro.com 29-Jan-2001 18-Jul-2001 171 721
223856(-2) K5557748@coreyfro.com 08-Feb-2001 02-Jul-2002 510 622
223908(-2) K2863155@coreyfro.com 29-Jan-2001 21-Oct-2001 266 621
224051(-2) K3456175@coreyfro.com 20-Jan-2001 31-Dec-2001 346 618
224360(-2) K4553312@coreyfro.com 22-Jan-2001 10-Jun-2002 505 612
225611(-3) K6211864@coreyfro.com 27-Mar-2001 09-Aug-2001 136 588
227645(-5) K8631173@coreyfro.com 17-Aug-2001 30-Jun-2002 318 549
I see a lot of people complaining about PHP and extolling the virtues of python. I agree, python is my language of choice (well, next to BASH, but that's because I'm lazy.)
The trouble is, using python to put the P in LAMP is as well documented as, say, making a vegan, green salad out of gopher guts. I had to be dedicated to the cause and spend two days of administration and research just to make a simple f'n photo gallery (which I am proud to say, is nicer code in python than PHP.)
LAMPython is exciting, but for the ease of the language and the power it posses, no one has taken making it easy seriously. No one has documented it clearly. Hell, the documentation I was using was TERRIBLY out of date. There needs to be a LAMPython tutorial project, and, like, yesterday.
"1986 a modified Westland Lynx ZB500 set the world rotorcraft speed record of 249.10 mph."
Production being the keyword.
From wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Lynx
Maximum speed 256 km/h
While the "Do no exceed speed" of the production KA-52 is 350KM/H, with the cruise speed being 310KM/H
http://www.razorworks.com/enemyengaged/hokum/
Enjoy!
Right, but the problem is the lift become uneven so while the blade is most efficient at these points in the rotation
/|\
|\
|
| \|/
|
|
What happens is, depending on the rotation, the retreating blade (or in the case of a blade going super sonic, the advancing blade) doesn't produce enough lift and the craft dips to one side.
This is why the Kavmov Hokum has counter rotating blades, to keep balanced, and this is why it is the fastest military helio in production anywhere. Not because of power or elegance of design, but because of counter rotating blades.
Counter rotating blades have the added advantage of an additive power output while countering torque as opposed to tail rotors, which can consume 30% of the power of the craft while not adding any performance.
The disadvantage of Counter rotating blades is complexity. Whether looking at a Chinook or a hokum (both examples of counter rotating blades, though the Chinook just isn't coaxial) transfering power between two big rotors isn't easy, and keeping them from hitting can be harder. The Chinook avoids this by having the fore and aft rotors mesh like an egg beater, and keeps them on separate planes. Coaxial craft can't mesh the blades like an egg beater, and instead just have to keep as much space between the rotors as possible.
Which is what interests me. Is it known if a craft with counter rotating blades could achive the Mu-1 ideal? I mean, there is more power to the blades, meaning they don't require as much rotational speed, meaning that one can avoid super sonic blades longer than a conventional tail rotor design.
It seams like it would beat "cheating" (not that I consider it cheating) by using fixed wings.
I was hoping the engineer would respond but no such luck.
I ask because it seams as if the only problem is losing lift on one side of the craft. If you have counter rotating blades, where one blade stalls, the other generates lift. In this way one could maintain lift while still keeping the forward moving blades subsonic.
Could the same not be done with counter rotating blades?