Actually 140F 60C in a parked car in Phoenix, AZ would be a low happening within the first 20-30 minutes. A car around 3:30pm just after the hottest part of the day will be hot enough to burn you beyond the ability to touch metal parts. The hottest day I've witnessed was June 22nd 1990 at 122. It doesn't even have to be that hot. It will still melt plastic and Destroy electronics. I am surprised how most anything can survive in the heat out here. I do know that there has been years of improvements. When I was a kid in the 70s I don't think there was a car in existence that didn't have cracked and warped dash boards from the heat. Now my 13 year old pickup only shows some major fading.
You must have missed the part about this being a "Plug in Hybrid" and not an electric car. This means it goes 8 miles before the gas motor kicks in and helps out for the next how ever far you want to drive. Because most people end up driving short distances quite often this will be very helpful. For a 300 mile road trip you will be merely getting 2-3 times better gas mileage than an average non hybrid electric car with similar HP and performance.
While it's been much nicer the past few days at only about 105F last week it was hitting 115F several days in a row. It sucks just walking from the front door to the car where you're getting into 140F+.
Different people have different talents and understanding levels. I build all kinds of things that require large amounts of math to calculate chemical reactions and fiber reinforcements although I have no real training. People always ask me how I do it and all I can say is "I don't really know. I just do." I can look at certain things and just see the process used to make it.
Of course for a completed real world working device on something this scale I wouldn't want to build it by the seat of my pants the way I do my hobby wood, fiberglass, steel and/or resin constructs. I do believe that there are people that could look at the problem and approach it in a very complex way far beyond what a fully educated person may do. Education and experience tend to narrow the thought process to things that are guaranteed to work rather than things that are perhaps possible or even only mildly probable.
I think one way to do this would be to use a beam but instead of one giant solar collecting satellite dumping a huge laser beam to a spceific spot and hope it doesn't miss, why not have several smaller satellites each generating only enough power to maybe give you or something a bad sunburn. Then focus all of them to a single boiler or collector of some kind.
This would help to solve the scare of a huge beam missing and the worry of maintaining equipment that focuses excessive amounts of power through one part in space.
What I did was intentional to see who, and more importantly how people would respond to it. What the poster in question did was miss typed by adding an ' in a word where it shouldn't be. It is a typo because the single apostrophe becomes far to easy to hit. I doubt the original poster would have written the apostrophe by hand or intentionally meant to put it in at all. Therefore it is a typo. "They're", "their" and "there" or "two" "too" and "to" is typically either a careless mistake and therefore a typo or an admission of ignorance. It is quite simple in posting to an internet forum to pronounce "They're" and type "there" in your head. This would mean it was a typo. If someone doesn't know which form to use and/or why then they are ignorant to the point of possibly being call stupid. Of course being that we are on the internet it is also very possible that the person is in early grade school or legitimately mentally handicapped.
No mater the reason there are three things you can do about it. Ignore it and move on. Politely correct the person and educate them of the error of their ways. Or you can be a dick.
Nope, it's called a typo. Intelligent people can read context and figure that out pretty easy. Good grammar correctors will politely point it out along with quiting the rule that was broken.
Trolls will use sarcasm and condescending posts to point out the error.
Let me help you out and parse it with bullet points:... you only lose: *the OLED screen (do you need a screen on your TiVo?) *the glowing remote (which you can pick up for $50 anyway) *THX certification (worthless) *90GB of storage
little imagination is really all you need. Replace water with virus and membrane with computer chassis and you have exactly what the sarcasm was hinting at.
So are you saying that most people aren't Windows users they are actually Explorer.exe users? I guess I'm not a Linux user either because I only use bash and X. What would make me a "Linux user" then. Perhaps if I turn my self into a piece of hardware, then I could be a Linux user.
"More like anarchism. Capitalism has corporate bosses, communism has party bosses."
This isn't quite right. This behavior is more pure communism as originally designed. The ants are pre-programed with what they are to do and then just do it as needed. The party bosses that you describe are part of the step towards communism where they are trying to do the programming. What is eventually suppose to happen is that the bosses go away as they are no longer needed. Of course humans aren't quite programmable in that way, the bosses end up never going away and the people become extremely repressed and lose any programming that may have been initiated. Capitalism may be imperfect, but so are people. Capitalism is the perfect fit for the competition driven human race.
Not only that, but it was a business deciding not to do business with someone due to a complaint against that person. I do not wish to live in a time or place where you are not free to decided these kinds of things on your own. ADA and Affermitive action are bad enough for many businesses as it is and have put many out of business.
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Actually 140F 60C in a parked car in Phoenix, AZ would be a low happening within the first 20-30 minutes. A car around 3:30pm just after the hottest part of the day will be hot enough to burn you beyond the ability to touch metal parts. The hottest day I've witnessed was June 22nd 1990 at 122. It doesn't even have to be that hot. It will still melt plastic and Destroy electronics. I am surprised how most anything can survive in the heat out here. I do know that there has been years of improvements. When I was a kid in the 70s I don't think there was a car in existence that didn't have cracked and warped dash boards from the heat. Now my 13 year old pickup only shows some major fading.
You must have missed the part about this being a "Plug in Hybrid" and not an electric car. This means it goes 8 miles before the gas motor kicks in and helps out for the next how ever far you want to drive. Because most people end up driving short distances quite often this will be very helpful. For a 300 mile road trip you will be merely getting 2-3 times better gas mileage than an average non hybrid electric car with similar HP and performance.
While it's been much nicer the past few days at only about 105F last week it was hitting 115F several days in a row. It sucks just walking from the front door to the car where you're getting into 140F+.
Different people have different talents and understanding levels. I build all kinds of things that require large amounts of math to calculate chemical reactions and fiber reinforcements although I have no real training. People always ask me how I do it and all I can say is "I don't really know. I just do." I can look at certain things and just see the process used to make it.
Of course for a completed real world working device on something this scale I wouldn't want to build it by the seat of my pants the way I do my hobby wood, fiberglass, steel and/or resin constructs. I do believe that there are people that could look at the problem and approach it in a very complex way far beyond what a fully educated person may do. Education and experience tend to narrow the thought process to things that are guaranteed to work rather than things that are perhaps possible or even only mildly probable.
I think one way to do this would be to use a beam but instead of one giant solar collecting satellite dumping a huge laser beam to a spceific spot and hope it doesn't miss, why not have several smaller satellites each generating only enough power to maybe give you or something a bad sunburn. Then focus all of them to a single boiler or collector of some kind.
This would help to solve the scare of a huge beam missing and the worry of maintaining equipment that focuses excessive amounts of power through one part in space.
What I did was intentional to see who, and more importantly how people would respond to it. What the poster in question did was miss typed by adding an ' in a word where it shouldn't be. It is a typo because the single apostrophe becomes far to easy to hit. I doubt the original poster would have written the apostrophe by hand or intentionally meant to put it in at all. Therefore it is a typo. "They're", "their" and "there" or "two" "too" and "to" is typically either a careless mistake and therefore a typo or an admission of ignorance. It is quite simple in posting to an internet forum to pronounce "They're" and type "there" in your head. This would mean it was a typo. If someone doesn't know which form to use and/or why then they are ignorant to the point of possibly being call stupid. Of course being that we are on the internet it is also very possible that the person is in early grade school or legitimately mentally handicapped.
No mater the reason there are three things you can do about it. Ignore it and move on. Politely correct the person and educate them of the error of their ways. Or you can be a dick.
"but the fact is at the time of the invasion the stated reason was WMD, a fact that gets ignored every time a Bushie defends starting the war."
Actually in the presidential speech on the matter of "why" there was a list of 11 things. WMDs I believe is #7.
Nope, it's called a typo. Intelligent people can read context and figure that out pretty easy. Good grammar correctors will politely point it out along with quiting the rule that was broken.
Trolls will use sarcasm and condescending posts to point out the error.
Like they always say, "Those who don't learn Windows are doomed to repeat it."
I think that's how that goes right?
I didn't read the article or anything but from what I gather this will work while a parachute wont.
I'm a source too, and the first 5 are free:
45
7
183
33
23
send me $100 for each addition random number.
ok bonus day
44
Well, at least that's what the public was led to believe.
Let me help you out and parse it with bullet points: ... you only lose:
*the OLED screen (do you need a screen on your TiVo?)
*the glowing remote (which you can pick up for $50 anyway)
*THX certification (worthless)
*90GB of storage
Now, why didn't 'you' parse the submission right?
Yes our technology is adequate we shouldn't try anything new. Pew pew on them for trying.
That's it, they need to make an extended or expert or extreme version and call it OS Xe
"Ohh, sexy!"
little imagination is really all you need. Replace water with virus and membrane with computer chassis and you have exactly what the sarcasm was hinting at.
Fine... We'll try again tomorrow.
So are you saying that most people aren't Windows users they are actually Explorer.exe users? I guess I'm not a Linux user either because I only use bash and X. What would make me a "Linux user" then. Perhaps if I turn my self into a piece of hardware, then I could be a Linux user.
That is one metric. Not terribly scientific, but indicative of something.
That my page hit pumper script is working?
Because pure Democracy is nothing more than Mob rule. The majority is not "Always Right"(tm)
The wrongs are not righted only pushed aside while focus is redirect to the newest wrong. The old wrongs continue to be wrong.
Look at the monkey.
My sig is inappropriate for this post.
No, that was a pilot message. When they saw that someone was here that's when the opened the spam gates and sent thousands more.
"More like anarchism. Capitalism has corporate bosses, communism has party bosses."
This isn't quite right. This behavior is more pure communism as originally designed. The ants are pre-programed with what they are to do and then just do it as needed. The party bosses that you describe are part of the step towards communism where they are trying to do the programming. What is eventually suppose to happen is that the bosses go away as they are no longer needed. Of course humans aren't quite programmable in that way, the bosses end up never going away and the people become extremely repressed and lose any programming that may have been initiated. Capitalism may be imperfect, but so are people. Capitalism is the perfect fit for the competition driven human race.
Not only that, but it was a business deciding not to do business with someone due to a complaint against that person. I do not wish to live in a time or place where you are not free to decided these kinds of things on your own. ADA and Affermitive action are bad enough for many businesses as it is and have put many out of business.
of course, substituting moore's law (is there a similar for hard drives?) to hard drives, they'll be 128 times faster in a decade anyway.