Why in the world would you say that? You're not one of those people that thinks bigger necessarily equals safer, are you?
No. You'll find in my other posts that I am one of those people that thinks, small, light, uncrushable carbon fiber cars are safer ( with suitable crushables, say light foam, around the carbon fiber).
If you go back and read my post again I think you'll find that I'm one of those people that thinks the designer of the 100 mpg car has already died of old age. Hence the posthumous award.
. ..what exactly would you have to give up? The ability to accelerate quickly?
Unless you give up enough mass. There are limits to that. See the "beer can effect" in reducing bicycle weight by using thinner, larger diameter tubing. And of course mass will always be proportional to size, no matter the materials and construction techniques you use, so yes, size is one of the things you might have to give up to increase milage, which at least as important as reducing mass reduces frontal area.
The ability to decelerate quickly?
Throwing energy away is always comparitively easy. Any modern street car can be braked in excess of its ability to produce tractive force on clean, dry roads. Small, light cars with high tractive force can decelerate from 100 mph to 0 in less than two seconds with off the shelf (albeit expensive) parts.
But I'm not sure what this has to do with gas milage in street cars.
I have an MS in Astrophysics. ..
Astrophysics has always been an interest of mine, but even as an undergrad my research always focused on . ..high efficiency vehicles. Partly because of my love of human power, party because I was an undergrad during the OPEC oil crises in the 70s.
I will say this - when you're accelerating quickly you won't be getting your 100 mpg. But you can have the ability to accelerate quickly (say in an emergency) and still average 100 mpg.
Right, so you'll have to give up accelerating quickly. See my other post where I mention getting 60 mpg out of a box stock Fiesta.
Forgive me for saying so, but it's not rocket science.
I've done some work on rockets. I have a number of friends at NASA and its subcontractors. You're right, automotive engineering isn't rocket science. It's far more complicated.
OK, so maybe you'll have to give up your "8 MPG" license plate (I actually saw one of these), but really, is that asking so much?
My vehicle doesn't need a license plate and I typically run it on rice and lentils; with a few bananas and a handful of trail mix on the side. Oh, and Day Lilies when they're in season. I've "given up" a lot, but I've gained the world.
It can by hybridized to increase peak accelerations, but I'm not usually in that much of a hurry. To get the best milage all you really need to give up is your ridiculous schedule.
Just using today's technology, you could probably get pretty close to 100 mpg with a Prius
I could achieve it with a Chevette using yesterday's technolgy. Hell, I got 60 mpg out of a box stock 1976 Fiesta, in traffic, once upon a time, as a demonstration of how much driving style effects gas milage (the Prius is not immune from this effect. Some of its reported efficiency comes from the fact that its drivers are preselected to focus on economy in their driving). I'll give you 3000 mpg gallon with yesterday's technology; if you're willing to give up enough for it. With real mpg figures, not some conversion of mppc (miles per pound of coal) into mpg.
If we're going allow conversion factors I could also build you a car that gets the equivilent of 3000 mpg, burns a wide variety of bio or synthetic fuels at the same time and costs only a few thousand dollars, but you'd have to give up far too much for most people to bear.
Nowadays, they're often pretty indistinguishable from a file ripped from a brand new DVD, you can download a copy with the a/v quality just as perfect as the original digital Japanese DVD or TV signal.
That's why God invented including unique collectibles with a new purchase.
KFG
Re:It's not the horror games that are scary
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That's a major element a good horror game (or movie). ..
I guess the point I was driving at is that there's damned few of those.
Simply put, they're not scary just because they're 'ghosts'; they're scary because they're unpredictable.
Eh. They eat your brains or suck you into a hellhole. What's more predictable than that?
Is yours one of the "Personal Workstation" series, coming in a mini tower with a door on the front...
Nah, it's a Personal PC 5000, but except for the faceplate the machines are virtually identical; and I dislike doors anyway. The thing's built with the same tank like quality I like to put into machines I assemble myself and I expect it to last longer than I do at this point in my life.
Ah, talk about serendipity (so I will), I spent much of today setting up a Digital that arrived on my doorstep as a consequence of setting up a new network. I love being allowed to help myself to the old shit.
No, not, I'm afraid, a PDP-11 or a VAX (I'd take either one), but a Pentium II Digital PC, their too late jump into the true IBM compatible market. I've got a few driver issues to solve (nothing I've got is happy with the onboard Crystal Audio and only Kubuntu sets up the DEC ethernet card out of the box), but I expect to get years of service out of it as sn Internet machine - with maybe some mp3 serving on the side.
Now if I could only get it to run on 2-AAA batteries.
KFG
Re:It's not the horror games that are scary
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I would say that really, although I love the horror games for their atmosphere, a lot of the most tense and creepy games I have played haven't been horror games at all. Metal Gear Solid always creeped me out, simply because the tension would really build up- especially playing it on the hardest difficulty setting.
There it is. Deep down in my soul, where my subconcious demons lie, I simply don't believe in ghosties and ghoulies. No, what scares the bejeezus out of me is other people; with guns and shit.
And if I've got a gun too even that isn't quite so bad as it could be. If I'm still in some sort of control of the situation, if I can fight, no matter how bleak the situation, I'll settle down and cope. I'm one of those people who only gets the jitters waiting for the shit to hit the fan, but when the shit starts coming, the faster it comes, the colder I get.
If you want to make me jump you have to do it in the waiting part. They call that "suspense." Alien was "scarey." Aliens wasn't.
My wife went through a phase where my basic imperturbability (in part from my nature, in part from my situational awareness. It's really hard to sneak up on me) bothered her and she set out on a campaign to startle me, even if just once.
It took her awhile, but she eventually managed it, not when she jumped out of a closet and yelled "boo" or something. No, the one time she startled me was when I knew it was coming. I was washing dishes in the kitchen and heard her creeping down the stairs toward me and saw her reflection in the window. Rather than blow her game I let her play it out and jumped when she did, because that released the tension of waiting for it.
But if she'd been a ghostie or something I'd probably have just giggled. Ghosts just aren't scarey, but the only thing scarier than a man with a gun is a wife.
Ultimately there is no defense against one of those things.
They don't care about the disaffected, they care about the violent.
Damn that blood thirsty Rev. King. It always scared the bejeezus out of me that he was allowed to run around loose, but at least they kept close tabs on him.
KFG
Re:Following one's own advice
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Realize from the outset that you suck at this game and you're going to die.
Ok, now that you've disposed of his real life problems, how about doing the same for his problems as a gamer?
Sure, the RIAA could dig some plain-old selling-CDs value out of it, but they've gone to that well plenty of times. So this is as much publicity stunt as artistic endeavor, and it's reaffirming exactly what the RIAA does: promote big acts.
Peter Gabriel is British. He has converted a garden shed on his own property into a recording studio where he produces for his own label. He actually runs his own website.
Yes, he's a big act, but since leaving Genesis he's been as much as possible an independent big act publicly at the forefront of not paying too much mind to copyright issues.
When his "people" came to him all upset that people in India were pirating his records his response was (paraphrasing):
"You idiots, book me. If they're not paying for what we're trying to sell they're at least demonstrating a demand for what we can sell that they can't pirate."
He has a long, personal history of being the good anti-Metallica.
I think each track would sound good by itself, but there might be some strange effects produced when they're mixed.
For starters, the end result wouldn't be an mp3, but a wav of an mp3. If you can think of a point to that, you're either a better man than I am, or loopy.
It's my understanding that the first step of compressing a wav to mp3 is to seperate out all the sound tracks.
Your understanding is incorrect. Once mixed, track info is lost. You have a single stereo mix. Seperating out tracks would like trying to reconstruct a banana from a smoothie.
You can, however, run a soothie through a sieve to sort what's left by size. Lossy compression seperates out frequencies into those that can and "cannot" be heard.
As I've already posted I prefer a crayon, myself, but there's always that one jerk who presses too hard.
In a world where there are people who cannot handle the technical sophistication of a crayon we're already pretty much screwed just by holding public elections. Besides, who really wants nobody to blame but themselves?
KFG
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And you can solve this problem by leaving your USB mouse . . . plugged into a hub on your desktop
Cool! Now all I need to do is find a mouse with a 25 mile long cable.
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Why in the world would you say that? You're not one of those people that thinks bigger necessarily equals safer, are you?
.what exactly would you have to give up? The ability to accelerate quickly?
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.high efficiency vehicles. Partly because of my love of human power, party because I was an undergrad during the OPEC oil crises in the 70s.
No. You'll find in my other posts that I am one of those people that thinks, small, light, uncrushable carbon fiber cars are safer ( with suitable crushables, say light foam, around the carbon fiber).
If you go back and read my post again I think you'll find that I'm one of those people that thinks the designer of the 100 mpg car has already died of old age. Hence the posthumous award.
. .
Unless you give up enough mass. There are limits to that. See the "beer can effect" in reducing bicycle weight by using thinner, larger diameter tubing. And of course mass will always be proportional to size, no matter the materials and construction techniques you use, so yes, size is one of the things you might have to give up to increase milage, which at least as important as reducing mass reduces frontal area.
The ability to decelerate quickly?
Throwing energy away is always comparitively easy. Any modern street car can be braked in excess of its ability to produce tractive force on clean, dry roads. Small, light cars with high tractive force can decelerate from 100 mph to 0 in less than two seconds with off the shelf (albeit expensive) parts.
But I'm not sure what this has to do with gas milage in street cars.
I have an MS in Astrophysics. .
Astrophysics has always been an interest of mine, but even as an undergrad my research always focused on . .
I will say this - when you're accelerating quickly you won't be getting your 100 mpg. But you can have the ability to accelerate quickly (say in an emergency) and still average 100 mpg.
Right, so you'll have to give up accelerating quickly. See my other post where I mention getting 60 mpg out of a box stock Fiesta.
Forgive me for saying so, but it's not rocket science.
I've done some work on rockets. I have a number of friends at NASA and its subcontractors. You're right, automotive engineering isn't rocket science. It's far more complicated.
OK, so maybe you'll have to give up your "8 MPG" license plate (I actually saw one of these), but really, is that asking so much?
My vehicle doesn't need a license plate and I typically run it on rice and lentils; with a few bananas and a handful of trail mix on the side. Oh, and Day Lilies when they're in season. I've "given up" a lot, but I've gained the world.
It can by hybridized to increase peak accelerations, but I'm not usually in that much of a hurry. To get the best milage all you really need to give up is your ridiculous schedule.
KFG
Just using today's technology, you could probably get pretty close to 100 mpg with a Prius
I could achieve it with a Chevette using yesterday's technolgy. Hell, I got 60 mpg out of a box stock 1976 Fiesta, in traffic, once upon a time, as a demonstration of how much driving style effects gas milage (the Prius is not immune from this effect. Some of its reported efficiency comes from the fact that its drivers are preselected to focus on economy in their driving). I'll give you 3000 mpg gallon with yesterday's technology; if you're willing to give up enough for it. With real mpg figures, not some conversion of mppc (miles per pound of coal) into mpg.
If we're going allow conversion factors I could also build you a car that gets the equivilent of 3000 mpg, burns a wide variety of bio or synthetic fuels at the same time and costs only a few thousand dollars, but you'd have to give up far too much for most people to bear.
Chiefly their lack of physical fitness.
KFG
$25M for first family car that gets over 100 mpg at $40,000 price
To be awarded posthumously?
It's easy enough to build such a car. Easy enough that it's been done many times over the past century.
All you have to do to achieve it is give up something else. We can strive for efficiency, but we canna change the laws of physics.
KFG
. . . any marginally intelligent person . . . would be able to decifer this amazingly cryptic usage of the word 'target'.
tar.get; n: Something the unskilled succeed in not hitting.
KFG
Nowadays, they're often pretty indistinguishable from a file ripped from a brand new DVD, you can download a copy with the a/v quality just as perfect as the original digital Japanese DVD or TV signal.
That's why God invented including unique collectibles with a new purchase.
KFG
That's a major element a good horror game (or movie). . .
I guess the point I was driving at is that there's damned few of those.
Simply put, they're not scary just because they're 'ghosts'; they're scary because they're unpredictable.
Eh. They eat your brains or suck you into a hellhole. What's more predictable than that?
KFG
Is yours one of the "Personal Workstation" series, coming in a mini tower with a door on the front...
Nah, it's a Personal PC 5000, but except for the faceplate the machines are virtually identical; and I dislike doors anyway. The thing's built with the same tank like quality I like to put into machines I assemble myself and I expect it to last longer than I do at this point in my life.
KFG
Ah, talk about serendipity (so I will), I spent much of today setting up a Digital that arrived on my doorstep as a consequence of setting up a new network. I love being allowed to help myself to the old shit.
No, not, I'm afraid, a PDP-11 or a VAX (I'd take either one), but a Pentium II Digital PC, their too late jump into the true IBM compatible market. I've got a few driver issues to solve (nothing I've got is happy with the onboard Crystal Audio and only Kubuntu sets up the DEC ethernet card out of the box), but I expect to get years of service out of it as sn Internet machine - with maybe some mp3 serving on the side.
Now if I could only get it to run on 2-AAA batteries.
KFG
I would say that really, although I love the horror games for their atmosphere, a lot of the most tense and creepy games I have played haven't been horror games at all. Metal Gear Solid always creeped me out, simply because the tension would really build up- especially playing it on the hardest difficulty setting.
There it is. Deep down in my soul, where my subconcious demons lie, I simply don't believe in ghosties and ghoulies. No, what scares the bejeezus out of me is other people; with guns and shit.
And if I've got a gun too even that isn't quite so bad as it could be. If I'm still in some sort of control of the situation, if I can fight, no matter how bleak the situation, I'll settle down and cope. I'm one of those people who only gets the jitters waiting for the shit to hit the fan, but when the shit starts coming, the faster it comes, the colder I get.
If you want to make me jump you have to do it in the waiting part. They call that "suspense." Alien was "scarey." Aliens wasn't.
My wife went through a phase where my basic imperturbability (in part from my nature, in part from my situational awareness. It's really hard to sneak up on me) bothered her and she set out on a campaign to startle me, even if just once.
It took her awhile, but she eventually managed it, not when she jumped out of a closet and yelled "boo" or something. No, the one time she startled me was when I knew it was coming. I was washing dishes in the kitchen and heard her creeping down the stairs toward me and saw her reflection in the window. Rather than blow her game I let her play it out and jumped when she did, because that released the tension of waiting for it.
But if she'd been a ghostie or something I'd probably have just giggled. Ghosts just aren't scarey, but the only thing scarier than a man with a gun is a wife.
Ultimately there is no defense against one of those things.
KFG
They don't care about the disaffected, they care about the violent.
Damn that blood thirsty Rev. King. It always scared the bejeezus out of me that he was allowed to run around loose, but at least they kept close tabs on him.
KFG
Realize from the outset that you suck at this game and you're going to die.
Ok, now that you've disposed of his real life problems, how about doing the same for his problems as a gamer?
KFG
Red Bull, half the Jolt for twice the price. Why? Because you're stupid.
KFG
So, what you're saying is that Bill's dog ate the patch?
KFG
everybody switch to lynx.
The only safety is vigilence
KFG
"We" wish to protect our freedom to . . .run with the herd.
KFG
So, it's not just Terrorists (TM) anymore, it's the "disaffected" they're after.
And if you're not with us, you're "disaffected."
KFG
Sure, the RIAA could dig some plain-old selling-CDs value out of it, but they've gone to that well plenty of times. So this is as much publicity stunt as artistic endeavor, and it's reaffirming exactly what the RIAA does: promote big acts.
Peter Gabriel is British. He has converted a garden shed on his own property into a recording studio where he produces for his own label. He actually runs his own website.
Yes, he's a big act, but since leaving Genesis he's been as much as possible an independent big act publicly at the forefront of not paying too much mind to copyright issues.
When his "people" came to him all upset that people in India were pirating his records his response was (paraphrasing):
"You idiots, book me. If they're not paying for what we're trying to sell they're at least demonstrating a demand for what we can sell that they can't pirate."
He has a long, personal history of being the good anti-Metallica.
KFG
I think each track would sound good by itself, but there might be some strange effects produced when they're mixed.
For starters, the end result wouldn't be an mp3, but a wav of an mp3. If you can think of a point to that, you're either a better man than I am, or loopy.
KFG
It's my understanding that the first step of compressing a wav to mp3 is to seperate out all the sound tracks.
Your understanding is incorrect. Once mixed, track info is lost. You have a single stereo mix. Seperating out tracks would like trying to reconstruct a banana from a smoothie.
You can, however, run a soothie through a sieve to sort what's left by size. Lossy compression seperates out frequencies into those that can and "cannot" be heard.
KFG
If you wish to be dense it's no nevermind to me.
KFG
As I've already posted I prefer a crayon, myself, but there's always that one jerk who presses too hard.
In a world where there are people who cannot handle the technical sophistication of a crayon we're already pretty much screwed just by holding public elections. Besides, who really wants nobody to blame but themselves?
KFG
And you can solve this problem by leaving your USB mouse . . . plugged into a hub on your desktop
Cool! Now all I need to do is find a mouse with a 25 mile long cable.
KFG
A monitor's a rather pointless one though as it requires a cable for the power.
So that's why my laptop keeps going dark whenever I move more than six feet away from my desk.
KFG
As far as I'm concerned, Yahoo is run by yahoos.
Well D'oh! Have you ever watched the Houyhnhnms try to type in code? It's pitiful.
KFG
... is "de.lic.io.us"?
h.al.va; although to be frank, I'm clueless about what the Vatican has to do with it.
KFG