I guess that is the fact and when you think 'diesel engine' includes a jet engine that runs on diesel, the engine people blow a gasket... For consistency, do they object to calling 'diesel fuel' plain 'diesel' too?
"Those aren't Diesel engines. Those are engines that burn diesel fuel. Diesel fuel is named after the engine, not the other way around."
You are right if by "diesel engine" you mean "Diesel's engine" instead of "an engine that runs on diesel fuel" and I guess many people do so and feel the trucks engine should be called something like 'diesel jet engine'... that explains some of the reactions I've been getting;-)
What I don't get is the anymosity towards using the combined meaning of the word 'diesel' to mean diesel fuel and then 'diesel engine' to mean an engine that uses diesel fuel... It seems to be stronger than using the word 'hacker' to mean a 'cracker'.
But Diesel's engine ran on peanut oil (which is not even a nut). If 'diesel fuel' is named after the engine, then why isn't is peanut oil?
If Diesel showed his engine with peanut oil, and diesel fuel is not peanut oil but a crude derivative that works well in Diesel's engine (weakening the grammatic linkage of 'diesel' to Mr Diesel), then why is an engine that used diesel fuel not a diesel engine as it would be under normal english grammar?
Oh, well, I give up, too many people don't like 'diesel engine' to include the jets... I still like the jet engines more though...
Where you get that I say that jet engines have a torque rating is a mystery. The rest, well, I'll just remind you that torque is a measure of 'work', not 'power', hence calling the cylinderblock the most power-full engine based on its torque rating is nonsense, and if you can grasp that then maybe you are the 'dumbass'.
The cylinder block yields less than 8K horsepower per cylinder, these jets 12K per turbine. Then mount 14 of them in a block and call it an engine, the jets will weight less and have more power.
Saying that the Jet turbine in the truck is useless is quite ignorant. Sure, this guy uses it to push a custom rig down the track with added auditory and visual effects for entertainment purposes only. However, doing things for entertainment purposes only is hardly useless (it draws many crowds that very much appreciate the show). If you wish to disagree with that, then fine: Try, for example, building anything that flies with that heavy box of elevators diesel engine. In the truck, the engines are actually pushing down to prevent the rig from becoming airborne. I think a 36K horsepower set of turbines running on Diesel of all fuels if pretty cool, much cooler than a supersized cylinder block.
While this engine may be the highest torque engine, that is not what the article says. This is supposedly the most 'powerful' diesel engine. Saying torque and power are the same thing is nonsense.
"Hey pal, if you had read the story you linked to, you would have known that the engines in this truck are JET engines, with diesel injected at the exhaust outlet to generate flames and smoke for visual effect."
Right 'pal', it has jet engines all right, but contrary to what you think they run completely on Diesel. I think that's pretty cool, it beats elevator sized cylinders if you ask me. The added Diesel for the flames is just to improve the mile-gaseage...
I'll grant it to the first replier that says the engine in the article is 7780 horses per cylinder times 14 cylinders, but who's to say you can't mount 10 of these jets onto a frame and call it even bigger? Judging by the pictures the Jet engine is more compact per horsepower than the elevator box.
Think of it as a "zipper" that closes at the end of the lane.
Well, if you pay close attention to a zipper, you will see that the nodules at either side of the zipper don't pass. In fact, if they do, the zipper gets stuck: That means that when people pass others to merge at the last moment, they have already broken the zipper by passing. It's not the merging in the end that is the problem, it's the passing that happens right before that that breaks the zipper.
Actually, driving quality in the sense of this thread is bound in the top ('never caused or took part in an accident'), but the bottom is unbound ('causes an accident every month', 'causes an accident every day', 'causes an accident every second', 'causes 10 accidents by just blinking'), so my guess would be that the mean is below the median in this case, causing the majority of drivers to be above average drivers, not below average... (because of the outliers)...
Multiple? More than half the pins on ICs like such CPUs are usually for power, not just to keep the input power stable, but also to prevent 'ground bounce' where the ground goes up from 0v when the chip draws a peak current.
And, hum, 'just' add a 'power sensor'? You can measure strong currents with a coil around the wire, or smaller currents with a small resistor in-line (and then measuring the voltage over the resistor), but both influence the power flowing from/to the chip in an unwanted way, so that's not likely what you want.
Unless you have one of them 'James Brown' power sensors ('can you feel da powa').
My main question is, is there an open source EVD codec available anywhere? A 'Royalty free codec' with the goal of fast widespread adaptation should be accompanied by such a thing, shouldn't it?
'Your "risk to corporate profit" argument doesn't fly unless you're arguing that the Bush administration has some kind of stake in the least reliable carriers.'
The FCC not willing to release reliability data for risk to the national economy^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsecurity is information in itself.
The current administration has clearly shown the strong belief that healthy big companies are a requirement for a healthy economy. Whether or not you or me agree with that is besides the point, the government (political parties) definitely has (have) a stake in how the country fares and it (they) will do what it thinks (they think) is needed.
Big companies are always afraid of change.
Connect the dots and you'll know which companies are the unreliable ones.
'Once again, confirming the fact that "national security risks" and "risks to corporate profit" are the same thing.'
Which teaches us which carriers are reliable and which are not, because if carrier reliability would be linear with company size, there would be no problem with releasing the data. Obviously, they found that some/all big carriers suck big time and some small carriers rock, so releasing the data would cause big economical shifts in the customerbases of those companies...
Nah, imho the socket itself is not the main reason for the difference. The qx6700 'processor' has two separate dies inside too, basically the same as the fx70 but then inside of the package. Sure, the traces are longer for the fx70 because it doesn't stay inside the package, but imho the main difference in power (besides the well-known difference in what the two manufacturers mean when they say 'tdp'), is the fact that the fx70 is built at 90nm and the qx6700 is built at 65nm.
"Although a 4.5 year payback is not what most businessmen would like to see, the power industry thinks long-term by necessity, and this looks reasonable."
Sorry, but a reliable >20% return is great for many, many investors. Banks get only 6-7% for a mortgage... Even optimistic people think their 401K will yield 'just' 12%...
"If you want a distraction, take a look at hydrogen or ethanol. Anything that takes more energy to PRODUCE the "fuel" than is produced by its consumption is a useless technology."
Only an anonymous coward would post such nonsense.
If you think you ever have _any_ technology for a fuel that does not 'take more energy to PRODUCE than is produced by its consumption', please file it where it belongs: under 'perpetuum mobile', or if it takes the same energy, file it under 'erroneous', because you probably forgot to account for some energy loss somewhere in the process.
Any technology that saves (or helps save) money, time, lives, or sometimes just preserves something (nature, property), is useful for at least some part of society.
The 'Hydrogen economy' is not about replacing our fuels with hydrogen as a new fuel. Don't look at it as another form of 'coal', but look at it as anther form of 'electricity', with some very unique and promising advantages.
'Hydrogen economy' is about using what hydrogen technology makes possible in the energy generation, distribution and storage system.
One of the many possibilities is that it creates the opportunity to replace gasoline for pouring into our cars. Another is that hydrogen storage and a fuell cell will end up being cheaper and more practical/durable than batteries and an inverter.
"It shook my faith in everything from Christian decency to the laws of statistics; apparently we live in Bizarro Lake Woebegon, where much more than half of the population is below average."
'laws' of statistics...
Given that in many statistics, the low-end usually ends at zero, and there is no ceiling the for high-end, causing high-end outliers to often have more influence than low-end outliers... So, statistically in most distributions the average is higher than the median, meaning that more than half is below average... (I guess that's a 'metastatistic'...)
And webkit is open source (www.webkit.org), and derived from khtml from the kde project (www.kde.org).
btw: where can I download that webkit browser for my S60 v2 nokia 6600. It was promised by nokia a couple of months ago, but it looks like they want you yo buy a new phone first (but I kinda like the 6600). I searched, but only found press release-type stuff, and now I just find 'opendarwin shutting down' stuff... Just sdk stuff, and links to other places, circular references, like this http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/in dex.html but nowhere a package that builds to a binary, nor a binary. this place only lists a few phones, and my s60 is not in the list http://www.s60.com/business/productinfo/applicatio nsandtechnologies/webrowser/
Does webkit do anything, or is it just a bunch of websites linking to press releases?
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I guess that is the fact and when you think 'diesel engine' includes a jet engine that runs on diesel, the engine people blow a gasket... For consistency, do they object to calling 'diesel fuel' plain 'diesel' too?
"Those aren't Diesel engines. Those are engines that burn diesel fuel. Diesel fuel is named after the engine, not the other way around."
;-)
You are right if by "diesel engine" you mean "Diesel's engine" instead of "an engine that runs on diesel fuel" and I guess many people do so and feel the trucks engine should be called something like 'diesel jet engine'... that explains some of the reactions I've been getting
What I don't get is the anymosity towards using the combined meaning of the word 'diesel' to mean diesel fuel and then 'diesel engine' to mean an engine that uses diesel fuel... It seems to be stronger than using the word 'hacker' to mean a 'cracker'.
But Diesel's engine ran on peanut oil (which is not even a nut). If 'diesel fuel' is named after the engine, then why isn't is peanut oil?
If Diesel showed his engine with peanut oil, and diesel fuel is not peanut oil but a crude derivative that works well in Diesel's engine (weakening the grammatic linkage of 'diesel' to Mr Diesel), then why is an engine that used diesel fuel not a diesel engine as it would be under normal english grammar?
Oh, well, I give up, too many people don't like 'diesel engine' to include the jets... I still like the jet engines more though...
Where you get that I say that jet engines have a torque rating is a mystery. The rest, well, I'll just remind you that torque is a measure of 'work', not 'power', hence calling the cylinderblock the most power-full engine based on its torque rating is nonsense, and if you can grasp that then maybe you are the 'dumbass'.
c hanics/Energy/Work.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque
http://www.batesville.k12.in.us/physics/PhyNet/Me
"Jesus christ you fucktard. Those are turbojets."
Sure anonymous, mannerless fool and coward, they actually run on Diesel as their only fuel. http://www.shockwavejets.com/shockwave.cfm
The cylinder block yields less than 8K horsepower per cylinder, these jets 12K per turbine. Then mount 14 of them in a block and call it an engine, the jets will weight less and have more power.
Saying that the Jet turbine in the truck is useless is quite ignorant. Sure, this guy uses it to push a custom rig down the track with added auditory and visual effects for entertainment purposes only. However, doing things for entertainment purposes only is hardly useless (it draws many crowds that very much appreciate the show). If you wish to disagree with that, then fine: Try, for example, building anything that flies with that heavy box of elevators diesel engine. In the truck, the engines are actually pushing down to prevent the rig from becoming airborne. I think a 36K horsepower set of turbines running on Diesel of all fuels if pretty cool, much cooler than a supersized cylinder block.
While this engine may be the highest torque engine, that is not what the article says. This is supposedly the most 'powerful' diesel engine. Saying torque and power are the same thing is nonsense.
'torque' only applies for things that are _rotating_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque
You don't need rotation for power.
Power is expressed in Watts and there is a linear relationship between horsepower and watts (746Watt per HP).
"Hey pal, if you had read the story you linked to, you would have known that the engines in this truck are JET engines, with diesel injected at the exhaust outlet to generate flames and smoke for visual effect."
Right 'pal', it has jet engines all right, but contrary to what you think they run completely on Diesel. I think that's pretty cool, it beats elevator sized cylinders if you ask me. The added Diesel for the flames is just to improve the mile-gaseage...
http://www.shockwavejets.com/shockwave.cfm
I'll grant it to the first replier that says the engine in the article is 7780 horses per cylinder times 14 cylinders, but who's to say you can't mount 10 of these jets onto a frame and call it even bigger? Judging by the pictures the Jet engine is more compact per horsepower than the elevator box.
In terms of fuel consumption, and air pollution, is it better to have one huge powerful engine, or two or more less powerful engines?
Or how about three diesel engines that are each more powerful than this supposedly most powerful diesel engine:
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question647.htm
This truck runs on Diesel with three engines that deliver 36000 horses together, so much more than this engine...
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question647.htm
So that makes two reasons why the zipper doesn't work...
Think of it as a "zipper" that closes at the end of the lane.
Well, if you pay close attention to a zipper, you will see that the nodules at either side of the zipper don't pass. In fact, if they do, the zipper gets stuck: That means that when people pass others to merge at the last moment, they have already broken the zipper by passing. It's not the merging in the end that is the problem, it's the passing that happens right before that that breaks the zipper.
That's right. If you (someone) pass me when I'm slowing down for the obstruction, you're merging behind me.
Sometimes big trucks help by shifting over a little to block the other lane, forcing people to merge when its their turn to do so.
Actually, driving quality in the sense of this thread is bound in the top ('never caused or took part in an accident'), but the bottom is unbound ('causes an accident every month', 'causes an accident every day', 'causes an accident every second', 'causes 10 accidents by just blinking'), so my guess would be that the mean is below the median in this case, causing the majority of drivers to be above average drivers, not below average... (because of the outliers)...
Ah, wikipedia, thanks for the tip... found it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAVS
Thanks for the tip. Found it, but it's actually OpenAVS not CoreAVS at sf.net
p _id=168676
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?grou
"(or do they have multiple ground pins?)"
Multiple? More than half the pins on ICs like such CPUs are usually for power, not just to keep the input power stable, but also to prevent 'ground bounce' where the ground goes up from 0v when the chip draws a peak current.
And, hum, 'just' add a 'power sensor'? You can measure strong currents with a coil around the wire, or smaller currents with a small resistor in-line (and then measuring the voltage over the resistor), but both influence the power flowing from/to the chip in an unwanted way, so that's not likely what you want.
Unless you have one of them 'James Brown' power sensors ('can you feel da powa').
something simple like that, yeah...
My main question is, is there an open source EVD codec available anywhere? A 'Royalty free codec' with the goal of fast widespread adaptation should be accompanied by such a thing, shouldn't it?
'Your "risk to corporate profit" argument doesn't fly unless you're arguing that the Bush administration has some kind of stake in the least reliable carriers.'
The FCC not willing to release reliability data for risk to the national economy^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsecurity is information in itself.
The current administration has clearly shown the strong belief that healthy big companies are a requirement for a healthy economy. Whether or not you or me agree with that is besides the point, the government (political parties) definitely has (have) a stake in how the country fares and it (they) will do what it thinks (they think) is needed.
Big companies are always afraid of change.
Connect the dots and you'll know which companies are the unreliable ones.
'Once again, confirming the fact that "national security risks" and "risks to corporate profit" are the same thing.'
Which teaches us which carriers are reliable and which are not, because if carrier reliability would be linear with company size, there would be no problem with releasing the data. Obviously, they found that some/all big carriers suck big time and some small carriers rock, so releasing the data would cause big economical shifts in the customerbases of those companies...
Nah, imho the socket itself is not the main reason for the difference. The qx6700 'processor' has two separate dies inside too, basically the same as the fx70 but then inside of the package. Sure, the traces are longer for the fx70 because it doesn't stay inside the package, but imho the main difference in power (besides the well-known difference in what the two manufacturers mean when they say 'tdp'), is the fact that the fx70 is built at 90nm and the qx6700 is built at 65nm.
Thanks!
"Although a 4.5 year payback is not what most businessmen would like to see, the power industry thinks long-term by necessity, and this looks reasonable."
Sorry, but a reliable >20% return is great for many, many investors. Banks get only 6-7% for a mortgage... Even optimistic people think their 401K will yield 'just' 12%...
"If you want a distraction, take a look at hydrogen or ethanol. Anything that takes more energy to PRODUCE the "fuel" than is produced by its consumption is a useless technology."
Only an anonymous coward would post such nonsense.
If you think you ever have _any_ technology for a fuel that does not 'take more energy to PRODUCE than is produced by its consumption', please file it where it belongs: under 'perpetuum mobile', or if it takes the same energy, file it under 'erroneous', because you probably forgot to account for some energy loss somewhere in the process.
Any technology that saves (or helps save) money, time, lives, or sometimes just preserves something (nature, property), is useful for at least some part of society.
The 'Hydrogen economy' is not about replacing our fuels with hydrogen as a new fuel. Don't look at it as another form of 'coal', but look at it as anther form of 'electricity', with some very unique and promising advantages.
'Hydrogen economy' is about using what hydrogen technology makes possible in the energy generation, distribution and storage system.
One of the many possibilities is that it creates the opportunity to replace gasoline for pouring into our cars. Another is that hydrogen storage and a fuell cell will end up being cheaper and more practical/durable than batteries and an inverter.
"It shook my faith in everything from Christian decency to the laws of statistics; apparently we live in Bizarro Lake Woebegon, where much more than half of the population is below average."
l ems_with_the_mean
'laws' of statistics...
Given that in many statistics, the low-end usually ends at zero, and there is no ceiling the for high-end, causing high-end outliers to often have more influence than low-end outliers... So, statistically in most distributions the average is higher than the median, meaning that more than half is below average... (I guess that's a 'metastatistic'...)
Linky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_mean#Prob
blah.
And webkit is open source (www.webkit.org), and derived from khtml from the kde project (www.kde.org).
n dex.html but nowhere a package that builds to a binary, nor a binary. this place only lists a few phones, and my s60 is not in the list http://www.s60.com/business/productinfo/applicatio nsandtechnologies/webrowser/
btw: where can I download that webkit browser for my S60 v2 nokia 6600. It was promised by nokia a couple of months ago, but it looks like they want you yo buy a new phone first (but I kinda like the 6600). I searched, but only found press release-type stuff, and now I just find 'opendarwin shutting down' stuff... Just sdk stuff, and links to other places, circular references, like this http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/i
Does webkit do anything, or is it just a bunch of websites linking to press releases?
Interestingly, the DieBold ATM machines with touch-screens _never_ have this problem...