Actually, it's unlikely that you'll generate enough money to pay for the service charges that everyone gets on their bill unless you go overboard on your powerplant system, so they will still get money. Also, any electricity you do sell to them is not paid for at the same rate, so you lose out compared to bulk providers
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And how will you do that. Spammers get the stupidest of the supid people. Any education attempt will not effect the stupid people thus crap over spam will still be sent.
I suggest we spam these stupid people with messages urging them not to buy things from spam messages, or else someone's gonna hunt them down and kill their pets and/or livestock.
Same thing for the assholes who drive whilst on the phone.
I haven't seen the FCC papers for the iPhone, but I have seen documents outlining other devices, and they generally reveal a ton about the product.
And I totally disagree with the assertion that an Apple phone is a big deal. It's a huge deal...for the company and for it's shareholders. People have been frothing about an iPhone ever since the first iPod was released. Apple isn't often a hype machine, but they love to keep people guessing.
Actually, this design is more akin to a drum scanner, in my opinion. Drum scanners have a single, very sensitive, very low noise photomultiplier tube, and the tube scans across a rotating drum mechanically. This is like a reverse DLP pointing at a PMT.
Why can't we have an array of these, kind of like a Beowulf cluster of 'em? Seems to me that if one is good, a thousand must be better.
True... but child pron types also tend to love to have other kinds of physical materials related to their twisted tastes. Their computers may look similar, but their lives, their habits, their tastes, their personalities, everything else about them will likely tell the truth.
I can attest to this. A few years ago my grandmother's computer got virused up, I'm not really sure of the attack vector, but it was probably worm related. Anyway, it was part of some IRC network and it had a ton of crap that, quite obviously, nobody else using the computer would have a clue about. It was pretty freaky.
If they require big nutricious vegtables (the breeder says he currently feeds them kale) that would otherwise be edible by humans, then they aren't going to help -- they'll be less efficient than the humans eating the vegtables.
Just wanted to point out that this statement might not be strictly true. Rabbits might be more efficient at digesting different plant materials than humans, since that's what they've evolved to do. I'm not saying that you're wrong, mind you. It'd be an interesting thing to look into.
Their attitude is much better than SGI, IRIX cds still cost plenty on ebay
Gah, tell me about it. When I first got my O2 years back, I wanted to hack around with it, and most programs were a simple compile away, if you had GCC and IRIX 6.5, because it included libraries or something, and I obviously didn't want to afford their compiler because I was simply a poor CS student.
So I call up their number and talk to a rep. I ask about the OS, and ask if there are student discounts, etc. After a lot of hullabaloo, she says: $650. *cough* Holy shit. I ended up getting the iso images from some kind person on the net, and I later got the real deal off of eBay, and that went on the other SGI I pulled out of the trash.
I swear, they were/are a company who produced lots of cool stuff, but they are fucking backwards.
Einstein would think you were an arrogant, self-important jerkoff, especially for whiningly asserting that "there is no such thing as 'instantaneously'" during a hypothetical thought-game designed to make someone think in the fourth dimension.
Einstein understood that imagination is the one limit to anything in this universe. It's a shame that our culture seems to make children think imagining is a fruitless activity, no less a childish one, and that many lose this necessary ability as they reach adulthood is an unforgivable offense.
I'm sorry you lost your ability to imagine. It must suck to be in that state, but don't be jealous.
I don't even see how "transmitting light at about 90% the speed of light." is remotely ambitious. From the context of the sentence, it's quite obvious what he's talking about. Maybe he could have squeezed an "of" in between 90% and the, this is otherwise perfectly understandable to most anyone the article could be targeting for readership.
Hey, that's not a bad idea. We could have slashdotland, if we raised enough money. It could be like a floating amusement park, where every ride is somehow related to a shock site. We could have the goatse asshole ride, kind of like the tea cup ride a Disney, and we could use the tubgirl shit canon to ward off any potential de-coupers.
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This is not fraud as the GP asserts, this is true. However, I think this deal closely mirrors an extortion scheme, as do many other patent cases. Here we have an IEEE standard that is supported by entire industries, and the firm holding the universities' patents has decided to wait nearly a decade after devices using "their" technology have proliferated around the world, with shipments in the millions. You don't think they could have brought this little snag up a little sooner? Face it, they were waiting for the phenomenon to snowball, just so they could do precisely what they're trying to do now--trying to rake in the millions, with little to no effort spent on actually developing a product--which is a difficult and risky venture.
The fact this sort of bullying is legal does not make it right. In this field, one would need a fleet of patent lawyers to determine if one's invention is unique and non-obvious, and even then, chances are that your lawyer armada isn't exactly right on everything, because patents are purposefully written to obfuscate their meanings and expand their scope. In this way, the system that was designed to promote development of useful technologies has been hobbled by its own virtues. It *should* be illegal to intimidate people with torpedo tactics like this. They're exploiting the system, and the acceptance of these practices have fucked the system over.
A real conservative would be really happy at the prospect of saving money, because that would mean he pays less taxes. But this is the modern age, where the conservative and liberal misnomers are flung around like tomatoes at a Spanish festival, and without much thought, either. I really wonder where and when, and by whom "conservative" was apparently taken to mean "we like bigger, more powerful governments, and we like to bend over so they can more easily probe our intestines"...
FYI: the NY ban on trans fats is restricted only to artificially produced fats... And you know what? It'll be a hundred times more successful at preserving human life than any of the "homeland" initiatives could ever hope for. Now, go cry over some fetuses.
Huh, that's really curious... I haven't met one of these trucks, but the guess about the butterfly is probably accurate: diesel engine braking without the added complexity of an extra engine brake port, camshaft, etc. An electrical/vacuum actuated butterfly valve in the exhaust stream might be less complicated and more effective, though.
The Jeep Liberty was available in a diesel too as are quite a few trucks.
Doh' forgot about the Liberty diesel (seen one at a dealer, but not once on the street) but I was intentionally ignoring the large trucks, as I don't think a huge 1 ton diesel truck getting 12MPG is really appropriate for commuting, as much as others seem to think so. I mean, I can understand if a person has one vehicle, and needs it to tow, and go to the office, and stuff... But I see so many soccer moms around Denver driving a brand spanking new Ford F-250 Power Stroke Crew Cab, with the kids in the back, yapping away on the cellphone, it makes me looney. I can only think that their professional hubbies realized they can get a vehicle basically for free because of the current tax idiocy, and well, wifey needed a second car anyway... Sorry for the tirade, it just irks me terribly.
Yeah, anyway, I've been enjoying my 2002 TDI since it was new, got a great deal on it too, and the dealer even remained open to 10:00 Saturday to get my paperwork done. I think it's great. It has enough torque that I can basically idle around town at 1100 RPM in fourth and get great mileage (diesels love to be loaded) it has enough guts to surprise some Mustangs, and I can blow smoke at people riding my bumper--if I want to.
I think part of the deal is that VW wants to give European customers a try with the new common rail/piezo system, because they will be more tolerant of problems or deficiencies, or maybe the high sulfur fuels are a problem with the new fuel system/injectors... But you're right, 2008 is going to be a good year for Diesels.
Oh yeah I forgot about Mercedes CDIs... I don't know how many will be coming to the US this year, my guess is around 4-5000 each, pretty inconsequential. My problem is that they *require* the ultra low sulfur fuel, and while I admire the environmental forward thinking, it's going to be a problem finding fuel in more rural areas, most especially in places where it's already difficult to find diesel. Obviously, this isn't a problem in Europe, where they've been doing this a long time, though. Personally, I think diesels should be a little more flexible fuel wise, such that using lesser fuels won't do damage.
I think the difference is that this engine had a butterfly valve in the intake hooked up to the throttle and a vacuum line to the fuel pump for throttle operation and others have the throttle connected straight to the fuel pump with no valve in the manifold to create vacuum. Another nice thing about that engine that given a hill to jump start it you didn't need electric power for it to run.
That's exactly the difference. They wanted to have vacuum boosted brakes, but they didn't want to include an external vacuum source. The problem, is parasitic vacuum is a killer on efficiency, but it does produce a better engine braking effect. Normally, very little of the energy used to compress the air in a diesel engine is lost, as it aids in pushing the pistons down exactly as much as it took to push it up. The only losses are due to friction in the engine.
That's why most diesel tractors need to have jake brakes, which actually let the compressed air out of the cylinder before it can push it back down. That truck had to have been naturally aspirated, right? It was also probably indirectly injected, by the sound of it. As far as diesel engines go, it was likely a very inefficient one.
Drive a VW TDI when you get the chance, there is very little engine braking at low engine RPMs, and it doesn't have a need to maintain manifold vacuum.
Yep I love diesel as much as the next diesel freak, however, VW, the one and only major manufacturer selling diesel cars in the US, is sending only one diesel vehicle to the US for '07: the V10 Touareg TDI, priced at ~$60k... Ostensibly, the reason for this would seem to be that they don't want to deal with our revised emissions standards.
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Actually, it's unlikely that you'll generate enough money to pay for the service charges that everyone gets on their bill unless you go overboard on your powerplant system, so they will still get money. Also, any electricity you do sell to them is not paid for at the same rate, so you lose out compared to bulk providers
And how will you do that. Spammers get the stupidest of the supid people. Any education attempt will not effect the stupid people thus crap over spam will still be sent.
I suggest we spam these stupid people with messages urging them not to buy things from spam messages, or else someone's gonna hunt them down and kill their pets and/or livestock.
Same thing for the assholes who drive whilst on the phone.
I haven't seen the FCC papers for the iPhone, but I have seen documents outlining other devices, and they generally reveal a ton about the product.
And I totally disagree with the assertion that an Apple phone is a big deal. It's a huge deal...for the company and for it's shareholders. People have been frothing about an iPhone ever since the first iPod was released. Apple isn't often a hype machine, but they love to keep people guessing.
Judging from all the rumours about the Zune the future iPods that have been helped along by FCC documents, I think they made the right call.
Exactly. The author of this article is a num-head.
We all know they live longer so they can spend more time gloating and the rest of the oldies just die because they run out if things to do.
Actually, this design is more akin to a drum scanner, in my opinion. Drum scanners have a single, very sensitive, very low noise photomultiplier tube, and the tube scans across a rotating drum mechanically. This is like a reverse DLP pointing at a PMT.
Why can't we have an array of these, kind of like a Beowulf cluster of 'em? Seems to me that if one is good, a thousand must be better.
Worst crime rate in the US, just about? Washington DC. No guns allowed.
And that doesn't even count crimes committed by anyone related to political activities!
Always stick to granny porn; you're flying safe there.
And who's to assume these internet grannies aren't indeed 15 year old girls with strange rapid-aging diseases??!?!?!
True... but child pron types also tend to love to have other kinds of physical materials related to their twisted tastes. Their computers may look similar, but their lives, their habits, their tastes, their personalities, everything else about them will likely tell the truth.
I can attest to this. A few years ago my grandmother's computer got virused up, I'm not really sure of the attack vector, but it was probably worm related. Anyway, it was part of some IRC network and it had a ton of crap that, quite obviously, nobody else using the computer would have a clue about. It was pretty freaky.
If they require big nutricious vegtables (the breeder says he currently feeds them kale) that would otherwise be edible by humans, then they aren't going to help -- they'll be less efficient than the humans eating the vegtables.
Just wanted to point out that this statement might not be strictly true. Rabbits might be more efficient at digesting different plant materials than humans, since that's what they've evolved to do. I'm not saying that you're wrong, mind you. It'd be an interesting thing to look into.
Their attitude is much better than SGI, IRIX cds still cost plenty on ebay
Gah, tell me about it. When I first got my O2 years back, I wanted to hack around with it, and most programs were a simple compile away, if you had GCC and IRIX 6.5, because it included libraries or something, and I obviously didn't want to afford their compiler because I was simply a poor CS student.
So I call up their number and talk to a rep. I ask about the OS, and ask if there are student discounts, etc. After a lot of hullabaloo, she says: $650. *cough* Holy shit. I ended up getting the iso images from some kind person on the net, and I later got the real deal off of eBay, and that went on the other SGI I pulled out of the trash.
I swear, they were/are a company who produced lots of cool stuff, but they are fucking backwards.
It is both perfectly understandable and jarringly imprecise.
That would make a good tagline for a movie.
Einstein would think you were an arrogant, self-important jerkoff, especially for whiningly asserting that "there is no such thing as 'instantaneously'" during a hypothetical thought-game designed to make someone think in the fourth dimension.
Einstein understood that imagination is the one limit to anything in this universe. It's a shame that our culture seems to make children think imagining is a fruitless activity, no less a childish one, and that many lose this necessary ability as they reach adulthood is an unforgivable offense.
I'm sorry you lost your ability to imagine. It must suck to be in that state, but don't be jealous.
There is no such thing as "instantaneously".
Go grow an imagination.
I don't care what else it can do, as long as it can produce a nice pair of silicone tits.
I don't even see how "transmitting light at about 90% the speed of light." is remotely ambitious. From the context of the sentence, it's quite obvious what he's talking about. Maybe he could have squeezed an "of" in between 90% and the, this is otherwise perfectly understandable to most anyone the article could be targeting for readership.
Hey, that's not a bad idea. We could have slashdotland, if we raised enough money. It could be like a floating amusement park, where every ride is somehow related to a shock site. We could have the goatse asshole ride, kind of like the tea cup ride a Disney, and we could use the tubgirl shit canon to ward off any potential de-coupers.
This is not fraud as the GP asserts, this is true. However, I think this deal closely mirrors an extortion scheme, as do many other patent cases. Here we have an IEEE standard that is supported by entire industries, and the firm holding the universities' patents has decided to wait nearly a decade after devices using "their" technology have proliferated around the world, with shipments in the millions. You don't think they could have brought this little snag up a little sooner? Face it, they were waiting for the phenomenon to snowball, just so they could do precisely what they're trying to do now--trying to rake in the millions, with little to no effort spent on actually developing a product--which is a difficult and risky venture.
The fact this sort of bullying is legal does not make it right. In this field, one would need a fleet of patent lawyers to determine if one's invention is unique and non-obvious, and even then, chances are that your lawyer armada isn't exactly right on everything, because patents are purposefully written to obfuscate their meanings and expand their scope. In this way, the system that was designed to promote development of useful technologies has been hobbled by its own virtues. It *should* be illegal to intimidate people with torpedo tactics like this. They're exploiting the system, and the acceptance of these practices have fucked the system over.
A real conservative would be really happy at the prospect of saving money, because that would mean he pays less taxes. But this is the modern age, where the conservative and liberal misnomers are flung around like tomatoes at a Spanish festival, and without much thought, either. I really wonder where and when, and by whom "conservative" was apparently taken to mean "we like bigger, more powerful governments, and we like to bend over so they can more easily probe our intestines"...
FYI: the NY ban on trans fats is restricted only to artificially produced fats... And you know what? It'll be a hundred times more successful at preserving human life than any of the "homeland" initiatives could ever hope for. Now, go cry over some fetuses.
Huh, that's really curious... I haven't met one of these trucks, but the guess about the butterfly is probably accurate: diesel engine braking without the added complexity of an extra engine brake port, camshaft, etc. An electrical/vacuum actuated butterfly valve in the exhaust stream might be less complicated and more effective, though.
The Jeep Liberty was available in a diesel too as are quite a few trucks.
Doh' forgot about the Liberty diesel (seen one at a dealer, but not once on the street) but I was intentionally ignoring the large trucks, as I don't think a huge 1 ton diesel truck getting 12MPG is really appropriate for commuting, as much as others seem to think so. I mean, I can understand if a person has one vehicle, and needs it to tow, and go to the office, and stuff... But I see so many soccer moms around Denver driving a brand spanking new Ford F-250 Power Stroke Crew Cab, with the kids in the back, yapping away on the cellphone, it makes me looney. I can only think that their professional hubbies realized they can get a vehicle basically for free because of the current tax idiocy, and well, wifey needed a second car anyway... Sorry for the tirade, it just irks me terribly.
Yeah, anyway, I've been enjoying my 2002 TDI since it was new, got a great deal on it too, and the dealer even remained open to 10:00 Saturday to get my paperwork done. I think it's great. It has enough torque that I can basically idle around town at 1100 RPM in fourth and get great mileage (diesels love to be loaded) it has enough guts to surprise some Mustangs, and I can blow smoke at people riding my bumper--if I want to.
I think part of the deal is that VW wants to give European customers a try with the new common rail/piezo system, because they will be more tolerant of problems or deficiencies, or maybe the high sulfur fuels are a problem with the new fuel system/injectors... But you're right, 2008 is going to be a good year for Diesels.
Oh yeah I forgot about Mercedes CDIs... I don't know how many will be coming to the US this year, my guess is around 4-5000 each, pretty inconsequential. My problem is that they *require* the ultra low sulfur fuel, and while I admire the environmental forward thinking, it's going to be a problem finding fuel in more rural areas, most especially in places where it's already difficult to find diesel. Obviously, this isn't a problem in Europe, where they've been doing this a long time, though. Personally, I think diesels should be a little more flexible fuel wise, such that using lesser fuels won't do damage.
I think the difference is that this engine had a butterfly valve in the intake hooked up to the throttle and a vacuum line to the fuel pump for throttle operation and others have the throttle connected straight to the fuel pump with no valve in the manifold to create vacuum.
Another nice thing about that engine that given a hill to jump start it you didn't need electric power for it to run.
That's exactly the difference. They wanted to have vacuum boosted brakes, but they didn't want to include an external vacuum source. The problem, is parasitic vacuum is a killer on efficiency, but it does produce a better engine braking effect. Normally, very little of the energy used to compress the air in a diesel engine is lost, as it aids in pushing the pistons down exactly as much as it took to push it up. The only losses are due to friction in the engine.
That's why most diesel tractors need to have jake brakes, which actually let the compressed air out of the cylinder before it can push it back down. That truck had to have been naturally aspirated, right? It was also probably indirectly injected, by the sound of it. As far as diesel engines go, it was likely a very inefficient one.
Drive a VW TDI when you get the chance, there is very little engine braking at low engine RPMs, and it doesn't have a need to maintain manifold vacuum.
Yep I love diesel as much as the next diesel freak, however, VW, the one and only major manufacturer selling diesel cars in the US, is sending only one diesel vehicle to the US for '07: the V10 Touareg TDI, priced at ~$60k... Ostensibly, the reason for this would seem to be that they don't want to deal with our revised emissions standards.