but "the problem with that is you can't get online" because the Wi-Fi chips in some of them have no Windows 7 driver. If you want, I can go back and get the make and model numbers of each of the display models.
Please do that, so that those manufacturers can be boycotted.
I'm perfectly happy to buy kit if the price is right and I need it - it's going to be vaped and a Linux installed anyway, so apart from the Windows tax, I don't care what it's sold with. But if there are brain dead manufacturers like that, then they need to be bankrupted and their CEO's children sold into slavery in an Apple factory.
And even if the WiFi doesn't work, so what? Use a cable.
Well, most people on Slashdot do live in the US (and assume that everyone else does too).
But concerning engine power... it's not something that I've ever looked at proactively. When I've brought cars second-hand, the #1 consideration has been bodywork, #2 engine tone, #3 size and handling (you need the engine to get up to speed to check the brakes and suspension under load).... then argue the price. The only time that I've been new-car shopping, the decision was in the wife's hands, with me deciding on what options to present to her.
But isn't it an absolute given that a higher-power engine will consume more fuel when it's running at that power than an equivalent lower-power engine. I tend to think in therms of torque-revs curves etc when I'm driving, and within reason I don't mind running the engine to 5000 revs to get a good acceleration kick in traffic, then letting the revs down rapidly by going up through the gears as I approach cruising speed. I.E. exactly as the manual says!
There is a (disputed) report of something like 57degC in Lybia, and generally accepted reports of 55-odd (IIRC) from Death Valley USA. I've worked in 49degC in the Arabian Desert (trying to maintain analytical machinery with oven temperatures that have to stay below 65degC in those conditions, when your AC doesn't work, is not "fun" by anyone's meaning of "fun"), and lower temperatures are just routine.
87degC... I really doubt. It might not be under standard conditions (not that most of the others were measured at properly set up weather stations). It really does seem to be an outlier. But 57, or even 60 degC wouldn't be incredible on the face of it.
You're forgetting about "textbook inertia" and fact that anything in a public school science textbook that remotely involves "evolution" has already been diluted, whitewashed, and minimized to make the book acceptable to the state's evangelical Christian gatekeepers.
Wrong country. Don't confuse the insanity (word chosen carefully) of American public policy with the civilized world.
There are probably kids sitting in middle school classrooms *RIGHT NOW* reading more or less the same content their parents did, more for political and budgetary reasons than anything.
I'll believe your description of your country's problems. I was in the first year of comprehensive intake to a former Technical school (i.e. all the best exam-passers and the second-best exam-passers had been filtered off into better-funded education, and the labourers, painters and decorators -to-be had been sent to this school. Until my cohort.), and it was the first time that the school had ever had the option (or the possibility) of presenting academic subjects. So, they had to build science labs, and smaller classrooms. And buy text books. Most of our texts were published in the previous couple of years as "transfer teaching" material for the intake classes of one of the local universities (50,000+ students/year), who were almost entirely "mature students". Pretty good stuff in general. And yes, evolution was totally un-controversial.
(My Religious Education master marked off one of my exams as "Score 100% ; top of the year! As an atheist, Aidan should be ashamed of himself!" But with 6 different religions in his class, he had to be careful.)
What have you done to undermine your state's religion today?
Elsewhere I made a passing reference to the memoires of a rocket-fuel test engineer (title "Ignition!"), and that is definitely at the amusing end of the mind-bogglingly insane spectrum. Excellent stuff!
Interesting. I'll mentally file that for car-replacement time. In the next 2 to 10 years, depending on various things like if the wife wants to change.
Of the 7 cars that I've owned, all have been less than 65 bhp, and half less than 50bhp.
Then again, not one of them has weighed more than 850kg unladen, and every one has been capable of exceeding the speed limit - and the practical limit for long-distance driving.
These air-hybrid cars are for the European market, where I'm at, so describing them as high-powered is appropriate. If you need a 200bhp engine to get your SUV behemoth up to motorway cruising speed, then that's fine. feel free to bring it over here and have Fiat 500s with 55bhp engines (my "nippiest" car) run rings around it.
"Horses for courses". Elephants for other courses.
I guess you can re-use cylinders from the ICE for compression and expansion, which would save on weight.
The working pressure of the ICE's pistons would be in the order of 10 atmospheres - look at the ratio of headspace to the volume swept by the cylinder's travel ; about 10 to one - which is negligible on the compressed air front. Off the shelf diving equipment can go up to 300 atmospheres, 4500psi. Though you would need to have the cylinder inspected and hydraulically tested every couple of years.
FTFA
PSA intends its Hybrid Air technology for B segment (82 hp gasoline engine) and C segment (110 hp gasoline engine) vehicles,
So, it's actually for quite high-powered cars? A bit annoying that.
But it does make the claimed mileage figures more impressive.
My current (a 2011 VW) has a book mileage of 71mpg@56mph ; but in the real world, with it being the wife's get-to-work car, we average around 45mpg. So, from a book mileage of "81", I'd expect real figures to be around 50-55mpg. Though with it being a hybrid, their "real" and "book" figures may be closer.
I'd have to give this serious consideration when it comes to replacing the VW time.
I've been using the signature line bleow for a while now - maybe a year. Do you agree with it, or disagree with it (and if so, why)?
(I started using it to annoy creationists. Annoying Creationists is the moral equivalent of pulling the wings off flies, but it is ethically much more defensible. And much more fun.)
is consider a career in paleontology. I don't really know how to advise him and not sure of the prospects.
I've never met a palaeontologist who went into the game for the women, fast cars and champagne lifestyle. However I've met lots of geologists (that's my day job), including abundant palaeontologists, who went into the job because they were interested in it. And those who have stuck with it (10-15% of my graduation class, 20% if you count archaeology and art materials history as "geology", which the pigments (mineral) and pottery (clays) justify, IMHO) have generally earned enough to be comfortable, and love their jobs. "Find something that you enjoy doing, and never work another day in your life," is a common joke.
One of my non-geologist graduation classmates (she actually got a better degree than me!) re-trained as an accountant. Earns three times what I do. Hates her job, with a vengance. 'nuff said!
(I apologise to all terrestrial organisms with amniotic eggs and weak internal temperature management for the implied insult. Except for the politicians.)
What's the deal with marrying your student when there was a 46 year age gap between you two?
(1) Who gives a shit? Unless you're allegeing that there was either undue influence, or that the woman in question was under the age of consent, then that's her choice and you, AC, do not have the right to question it.
(2) If you are alleging that there was undue influence or the woman is underage, grow yourself a pair of balls, report your suspicions to the police and have done with it. And be prepared to have your ass sued off if you can't substantiate your allegations.
How do you expect parents to hold you up as a role model
Who gives a shit what the parents think? It's not obligatory to give a shit what parents think, even if it is not politically sensible to say so in public, because a lot of people are parents and get all upset if told that other people don't give a shit about their opinions.
These are generic responses to the nature of your question. I've not made one iota of effort to find out if your allegations are true because I don't give a shit whether or not they're true.
There has been some statistical work done a few (5?) years ago looking at exploration effort, number of people "in the field", and rate of discovery of novel taxa which came up with a conclusion that we'd found something like one tenth to one fifth of the taxa out there.
An interesting side version of this is that there are some fossil sites where the bones (or shells - they're not just vertebrate sites) are preserved as empty spaces in the rock rather than as mineral lumps. (I'm thinking specifically of the fossils of the Elgin area in Scotland, but there are others) Presently they're "prepared" by filling the hole with Plaster of Paris, then chipping away and destroying the fossil itself. But a combination of CAT scanning and 3-d printing has real prospects for preserving these AND examining them.
I'm approaching 50 and I suspect that I'm one of the older people here. When I was in high school we were very excited by Bob Bakker's controversial theories which were hot news then. I remember wasting the best part of one of my geology lessons - for A-level IIRC - discussing and debating it with our teacher. Who considered it a far more interesting way of spending the hour than talking about desert sedimentation.
... of at least one type of cider - and quite a nice one too - which has existed for decades in the UK. That is perfectly valid grounds for copyrighting and protecting the trademark. It's unfortunate for someone who wants to come along and use the term for something different, but, "tough shit". Should have done his research before trying to invent this new use for an existing word.
While it is definitely not impossible for some (non-avian) dinosaurs to have survived the K-T event, there is (at best) very little evidence to support that hypothesis, and that little evidence is weak, has credible alternative interpretations, and is not accepted by the majority of Earth Scientists. However, we remain do open to the possibility.
There is still, after all, continuing debate over whether or not the Chixulub impact occurred exactly at the end of the Cretaceous, or whether it was around 200,000 years before the end of the Cretaceous. Which would suggest that what actually "did in" the various microplankton (and as an almost unimportant side effect, the dinosaurs) at the end of the Cretaceous was a particularly bad week/ month/ year in the Deccan Traps. Gerta Keller (and some others, but principally Gerta) is doing a far better job of argueing that case than Fasset is. And incidentally, she's doing her career no harm what so ever by doing such a good job.
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Please do that, so that those manufacturers can be boycotted.
I'm perfectly happy to buy kit if the price is right and I need it - it's going to be vaped and a Linux installed anyway, so apart from the Windows tax, I don't care what it's sold with. But if there are brain dead manufacturers like that, then they need to be bankrupted and their CEO's children sold into slavery in an Apple factory.
And even if the WiFi doesn't work, so what? Use a cable.
Which is not an argument that works with me, and never has.
But concerning engine power ... it's not something that I've ever looked at proactively. When I've brought cars second-hand, the #1 consideration has been bodywork, #2 engine tone, #3 size and handling (you need the engine to get up to speed to check the brakes and suspension under load) .... then argue the price. The only time that I've been new-car shopping, the decision was in the wife's hands, with me deciding on what options to present to her.
But isn't it an absolute given that a higher-power engine will consume more fuel when it's running at that power than an equivalent lower-power engine. I tend to think in therms of torque-revs curves etc when I'm driving, and within reason I don't mind running the engine to 5000 revs to get a good acceleration kick in traffic, then letting the revs down rapidly by going up through the gears as I approach cruising speed. I.E. exactly as the manual says!
87degC ... I really doubt. It might not be under standard conditions (not that most of the others were measured at properly set up weather stations). It really does seem to be an outlier. But 57, or even 60 degC wouldn't be incredible on the face of it.
Wrong country. Don't confuse the insanity (word chosen carefully) of American public policy with the civilized world.
I'll believe your description of your country's problems. I was in the first year of comprehensive intake to a former Technical school (i.e. all the best exam-passers and the second-best exam-passers had been filtered off into better-funded education, and the labourers, painters and decorators -to-be had been sent to this school. Until my cohort.), and it was the first time that the school had ever had the option (or the possibility) of presenting academic subjects. So, they had to build science labs, and smaller classrooms. And buy text books. Most of our texts were published in the previous couple of years as "transfer teaching" material for the intake classes of one of the local universities (50,000+ students/year), who were almost entirely "mature students". Pretty good stuff in general. And yes, evolution was totally un-controversial.
(My Religious Education master marked off one of my exams as "Score 100% ; top of the year! As an atheist, Aidan should be ashamed of himself!" But with 6 different religions in his class, he had to be careful.)
What have you done to undermine your state's religion today?
Elsewhere I made a passing reference to the memoires of a rocket-fuel test engineer (title "Ignition!"), and that is definitely at the amusing end of the mind-bogglingly insane spectrum. Excellent stuff!
If it is ... here's the shotgun - you shoot things at it while I run like fuck!
Interesting. I'll mentally file that for car-replacement time. In the next 2 to 10 years, depending on various things like if the wife wants to change.
Then again, not one of them has weighed more than 850kg unladen, and every one has been capable of exceeding the speed limit - and the practical limit for long-distance driving.
These air-hybrid cars are for the European market, where I'm at, so describing them as high-powered is appropriate. If you need a 200bhp engine to get your SUV behemoth up to motorway cruising speed, then that's fine. feel free to bring it over here and have Fiat 500s with 55bhp engines (my "nippiest" car) run rings around it.
"Horses for courses". Elephants for other courses.
Time to share one of the most entertaining bits of chemistry writing that I've seen for ages : "It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively."
"Fun" stuff, for suitably small values of "fun".
The working pressure of the ICE's pistons would be in the order of 10 atmospheres - look at the ratio of headspace to the volume swept by the cylinder's travel ; about 10 to one - which is negligible on the compressed air front. Off the shelf diving equipment can go up to 300 atmospheres, 4500psi. Though you would need to have the cylinder inspected and hydraulically tested every couple of years. FTFA
So, it's actually for quite high-powered cars? A bit annoying that.
But it does make the claimed mileage figures more impressive.
I'd have to give this serious consideration when it comes to replacing the VW time.
(I started using it to annoy creationists. Annoying Creationists is the moral equivalent of pulling the wings off flies, but it is ethically much more defensible. And much more fun.)
I've never met a palaeontologist who went into the game for the women, fast cars and champagne lifestyle. However I've met lots of geologists (that's my day job), including abundant palaeontologists, who went into the job because they were interested in it. And those who have stuck with it (10-15% of my graduation class, 20% if you count archaeology and art materials history as "geology", which the pigments (mineral) and pottery (clays) justify, IMHO) have generally earned enough to be comfortable, and love their jobs. "Find something that you enjoy doing, and never work another day in your life," is a common joke.
One of my non-geologist graduation classmates (she actually got a better degree than me!) re-trained as an accountant. Earns three times what I do. Hates her job, with a vengance. 'nuff said!
Try "Politician"?
(I apologise to all terrestrial organisms with amniotic eggs and weak internal temperature management for the implied insult. Except for the politicians.)
There are painfully stupid crackpots and amusingly stupid ones. Which side of the line does this fall?
(1) Who gives a shit? Unless you're allegeing that there was either undue influence, or that the woman in question was under the age of consent, then that's her choice and you, AC, do not have the right to question it.
(2) If you are alleging that there was undue influence or the woman is underage, grow yourself a pair of balls, report your suspicions to the police and have done with it. And be prepared to have your ass sued off if you can't substantiate your allegations.
Who gives a shit what the parents think? It's not obligatory to give a shit what parents think, even if it is not politically sensible to say so in public, because a lot of people are parents and get all upset if told that other people don't give a shit about their opinions.
These are generic responses to the nature of your question. I've not made one iota of effort to find out if your allegations are true because I don't give a shit whether or not they're true.
There has been some statistical work done a few (5?) years ago looking at exploration effort, number of people "in the field", and rate of discovery of novel taxa which came up with a conclusion that we'd found something like one tenth to one fifth of the taxa out there.
An interesting side version of this is that there are some fossil sites where the bones (or shells - they're not just vertebrate sites) are preserved as empty spaces in the rock rather than as mineral lumps. (I'm thinking specifically of the fossils of the Elgin area in Scotland, but there are others) Presently they're "prepared" by filling the hole with Plaster of Paris, then chipping away and destroying the fossil itself. But a combination of CAT scanning and 3-d printing has real prospects for preserving these AND examining them.
I'm approaching 50 and I suspect that I'm one of the older people here. When I was in high school we were very excited by Bob Bakker's controversial theories which were hot news then. I remember wasting the best part of one of my geology lessons - for A-level IIRC - discussing and debating it with our teacher. Who considered it a far more interesting way of spending the hour than talking about desert sedimentation.
Real geologists take YECreationists out to the site to look at the bones, but only the geologist comes back.
It's America, so he'll be up for execution?
Who had the last cup from the coffee pot and didn't put it back to brew? Biggest and most important controversy EVER!
FTFY
There is still, after all, continuing debate over whether or not the Chixulub impact occurred exactly at the end of the Cretaceous, or whether it was around 200,000 years before the end of the Cretaceous. Which would suggest that what actually "did in" the various microplankton (and as an almost unimportant side effect, the dinosaurs) at the end of the Cretaceous was a particularly bad week/ month/ year in the Deccan Traps. Gerta Keller (and some others, but principally Gerta) is doing a far better job of argueing that case than Fasset is. And incidentally, she's doing her career no harm what so ever by doing such a good job.