If diesel cars get approximately twice the mileage of petrol cars, and hybrids are about twice as efficient as conventional cars, makes you wonder what kind of fuel efficiency you'd get out of a diesel/electric hybrid, doesn't it?
This is basically what the those giant Haulpak dumptrucks that are used for mining do. I'm talking about the trucks that have the ten feet tall wheels. They use a combination of diesel and electricity from braking and going downhill to generate power.
U-571 is an absolute joke: American sailor's boarding a German U-boat to capture a Enigma cypher machine is how Hollywood tells the story. History, on the other hand, tells us that the first Enigma was captured by the British before the US even entered the war!
And if you weren't so gung ho on the British cheering section you'd know that the first working Enigma machine in possession of the Allies were machines built off designs bought off of a disgruntled German by French intelligence agents. Maybe we should be cheering the French now? Pfffft.
That Ben Affleck's character has just returned from Europe having fought in the Battle of Britain and incarceration in a prisoner of war camp is completely laughable, just as the idea that Ralph Fiennes injured character in The English Patient would be transported back home to Britain via war-torn Italy.
Its easy for us to watch movies and laugh at what seems to us to be obviously contrived situations but in reality, crazy things happen every day, especially in warfare. If you didn't know their names and somebody told you the stories of guys like Greg "Pappy" Boyington, Eugene Bullard, or Chuck Yeager and tried to pass it off as fiction, you'd laugh at the unbelievableness of it. But fact of the matter is crazy screwed up things do happen and precisely because of that, similiar stories make for good entertainment.
SInce Mulder won't be back next year, I think everyone is dreading the samething I am, another season along the lines of Fall '00 episodes wher we have Scully as the believer (aka Mulder standin) and T2-guy as the skeptic (aka early Scully standin), minus all the sexual tension between Scully and Mulder.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the female "believer" agent that has been a semi regular for the past few episodes is being set up as a Scully replacement and as a flip flop of the Mulder/Scully role.
Aircraft pilots have regularly pulled more Gs that what will be required out of this one. Shuttle astronauts experience more straight Gs than the acceleration from this.
No, that is the speed of sound at sea level, not at the altitudes at which supersonic planes fly. Knock off about 80 mph off of that figure and you have the speed of sound at which supersonics fly.
I know that nvidia has the geforce2go mobile chip. Ati will probably come out with a new laptop chip as well. Those two are probably your best bet.
Tom's Hardware ran a preview of the ATi Radeon Mobility and the GeForce2 Go chips a few weeks ago. Though he doesn't have actual numbers, he did simulate them use them using the GeForce MX and Radeon LE cards.
Basically, what's Be like inside? It is a BSD-like (or any *nix-like) thing? Are there forks, execs, and SysV-IPCs? Is it a VMS-like thing? Is it a (pre-OS X) Mac-like thing? Or is it just totally a different paradigm? If so, what's the paradigm?
That's the beauty of BeOS. Its not based on some old, cruft ridden architecture or paradigm. BeOS was specifically built from the ground up to avoid all that stuff.
the current PlayStation 2 and the upcoming GameCube and Xbox consoles now have computing power that just about equals what dedicated arcade machines can do
No, Playstation 2s have now exceeded what modern arcade machines can do. You only have to look at Tekken Tag to be able to tell.
I would say that home console machines technologically passed the average arcade machine with the introduction of the Dreamcast.
The last machine that I have seen that I could plug a new processor in was a 486 25/SX. Maybe there were a few that poped up later, but most modern machines cannot have many of their core componnents swapped.
Except for the later Celerons (500+ MHz) and the LV versions of the PII and PIII, all of the Intel mobile chips have been swapable. The IMM-1, IMM-2 and IMM/100 MHz come on a board thats relatively easy to pop in and out.
The last machine that I have seen that I could plug a new processor in was a 486 25/SX. Maybe there were a few that poped up later, but most modern machines cannot have many of their core componnents swapped.
Except for the later Celerons (500+ MHz) and the LV versions of the PII and PIII, all of the Intel mobile chips have been swapable. The IMM-1, IMM-2 and IMM/100 MHz come on a board thats relatively easy to pop in and out.
What? She's not that good looking and her her old played out American style of martial arts action looks really bad on screen. Even if she did have mad fighting skills (which she doesn't) it doesn't even come close to the Peking opera style that Michelle Yeoh can pull off with a hell of a lot more grace and fluidity.
No, I believe there were several stretches of time when Mir was unmanned during the early 90's dur to budget problems that Russia was having after the fall of the "Iron Curtain." US contribution to the Russian space agency saved the Mir.
Actually, it turns out that in mice, caloric restriction enhances the immune system as well as lengthening life. Mice normally have a maximum lifespan of 39 months but by selectively restricting the diet, lifespan has been increased to up to 56 months.
I thought I remembered reading an article in SciAm or Discover about this but can't seem to find it. Here's some other links, though.
But it's implicit, or at least it ought to be. Programming is an exercise in language use, and language skills correlate with social skills. If he's a crappy people person, then he probably writes crappy code too.
Oh right. That's why progammers are the most socially adept people you know, right?
I have to give it to that PVC guy and the luggable guy deserves his props, but this guy is on a level all his own. He's got an end table looking deal with a sliding drawer for his components. Real slick.
This is a case that wouldn't look too out of place at my mother's house. Maybe not not the coolest case, but definitly one of the classier custom cases.
The German higher education system is in shambles mostly due to underfunding. Libraries are pathetic, classes are huge, not enough research takes place.
On the other hand, German universities are free. Can't really beat free.:)
I guess I feel the way I do about research is because I myself went to a university here in the US where the undergraduate division was actually much smaller than the graduate and research divisions. Got to do lots of cools stuff and I think a lot of people who go to degree mills and/or small schools miss out.
But I guess you're closer to the German education problem than I am because I only went through German schooling for a few years, having spent the rest of my time in Germany in American schools.
To be honest, I'm mostly irked by their sometimes luddite behaviour more than anything else.
Aw, come on, don't get down on your ex-countrymen so much. They still build the best cars, guns, and beers! Okay, that last one's got nothing to do with technology but hey, what else do geeks really need in life, eh?
As an environmental engineering type, I think the Germans are ahead of the curve on certain energy usage issues so I guess that's why my thoughts towards German technology are sort of biased towards thinking of them that way.
As for the rudeness thing, I think that the people themselves are nice, but the service industry needs a kick in the pants.
Mineral Oil, in a styrofoam cooler, with an A/C condenser coil submerged in the oil and the mobo at the bottom of the cooler...
Anyone with that kind of time needs to get a job, so they could afford a faster CPU that they don't have to OC, IMHO.:)
You're missing the point of overclocking, my friend. These guys blew $1000+ bucks on the immersion fluid itself. They could have bought a fast processor, but then where would the challenge be?
Germans are very conservative overall--politically, socially, economically, financially, technologically. True, lots of tech came out of Germany this century, but those were different times, when Germans were still adventurous.
I disagree with the Germans being conservative - a lot of that would have to do with what your definition of conservative would be. Because the US is still the land o' plenty Americans don't have to be as conservative with say, environmental or energy issues as much as continental Europeans. And in general, I think Germans are generally more accepting of different lifestyles.
I think as a whole, Germans are a little bit more accepting of different lifestyles as well. OTOH, a lot of that has to do with the area of Germany, too. I kind of grew up in Bayern, near Nurnberg so people were socially and culturally more conservative but laid back at the same time.
Germans can be incredibly rude, especially in the service industries.
Amen to that. Though if you want really good service regardless of the industry, you should be looking towards Asia and not so much Europe. Service people in Asia will fall all over themselves trying to help you out. Compared with Europe, anyways.
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This is basically what the those giant Haulpak dumptrucks that are used for mining do. I'm talking about the trucks that have the ten feet tall wheels. They use a combination of diesel and electricity from braking and going downhill to generate power.
And if you weren't so gung ho on the British cheering section you'd know that the first working Enigma machine in possession of the Allies were machines built off designs bought off of a disgruntled German by French intelligence agents. Maybe we should be cheering the French now? Pfffft.
That Ben Affleck's character has just returned from Europe having fought in the Battle of Britain and incarceration in a prisoner of war camp is completely laughable, just as the idea that Ralph Fiennes injured character in The English Patient would be transported back home to Britain via war-torn Italy.
Its easy for us to watch movies and laugh at what seems to us to be obviously contrived situations but in reality, crazy things happen every day, especially in warfare. If you didn't know their names and somebody told you the stories of guys like Greg "Pappy" Boyington, Eugene Bullard, or Chuck Yeager and tried to pass it off as fiction, you'd laugh at the unbelievableness of it. But fact of the matter is crazy screwed up things do happen and precisely because of that, similiar stories make for good entertainment.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the female "believer" agent that has been a semi regular for the past few episodes is being set up as a Scully replacement and as a flip flop of the Mulder/Scully role.
"Hey, its KB, honest....."
Aircraft pilots have regularly pulled more Gs that what will be required out of this one. Shuttle astronauts experience more straight Gs than the acceleration from this.
No, that is the speed of sound at sea level, not at the altitudes at which supersonic planes fly. Knock off about 80 mph off of that figure and you have the speed of sound at which supersonics fly.
Originally, it was to be designated the RS-71.
Tom's Hardware ran a preview of the ATi Radeon Mobility and the GeForce2 Go chips a few weeks ago. Though he doesn't have actual numbers, he did simulate them use them using the GeForce MX and Radeon LE cards.
That's the beauty of BeOS. Its not based on some old, cruft ridden architecture or paradigm. BeOS was specifically built from the ground up to avoid all that stuff.
No, Playstation 2s have now exceeded what modern arcade machines can do. You only have to look at Tekken Tag to be able to tell. I would say that home console machines technologically passed the average arcade machine with the introduction of the Dreamcast.
Yeah, maybe under "Other Qualifications" people should start listing their slashdot user number.
Relatively sure, yes. Why?
Except for the later Celerons (500+ MHz) and the LV versions of the PII and PIII, all of the Intel mobile chips have been swapable. The IMM-1, IMM-2 and IMM/100 MHz come on a board thats relatively easy to pop in and out.
Except for the later Celerons (500+ MHz) and the LV versions of the PII and PIII, all of the Intel mobile chips have been swapable. The IMM-1, IMM-2 and IMM/100 MHz come on a board thats relatively easy to pop in and out.
Are all Caltechies that stupid? Half below the median, maybe.
What? She's not that good looking and her her old played out American style of martial arts action looks really bad on screen. Even if she did have mad fighting skills (which she doesn't) it doesn't even come close to the Peking opera style that Michelle Yeoh can pull off with a hell of a lot more grace and fluidity.
No, I believe there were several stretches of time when Mir was unmanned during the early 90's dur to budget problems that Russia was having after the fall of the "Iron Curtain." US contribution to the Russian space agency saved the Mir.
I thought I remembered reading an article in SciAm or Discover about this but can't seem to find it. Here's some other links, though.
A part of the PBS documentery on the subject
UCLA news article
Oh right. That's why progammers are the most socially adept people you know, right?
This is a case that wouldn't look too out of place at my mother's house. Maybe not not the coolest case, but definitly one of the classier custom cases.
On the other hand, German universities are free. Can't really beat free. :)
I guess I feel the way I do about research is because I myself went to a university here in the US where the undergraduate division was actually much smaller than the graduate and research divisions. Got to do lots of cools stuff and I think a lot of people who go to degree mills and/or small schools miss out.
But I guess you're closer to the German education problem than I am because I only went through German schooling for a few years, having spent the rest of my time in Germany in American schools.
Aw, come on, don't get down on your ex-countrymen so much. They still build the best cars, guns, and beers! Okay, that last one's got nothing to do with technology but hey, what else do geeks really need in life, eh?
As an environmental engineering type, I think the Germans are ahead of the curve on certain energy usage issues so I guess that's why my thoughts towards German technology are sort of biased towards thinking of them that way.
As for the rudeness thing, I think that the people themselves are nice, but the service industry needs a kick in the pants.
Anyone with that kind of time needs to get a job, so they could afford a faster CPU that they don't have to OC, IMHO. :)
You're missing the point of overclocking, my friend. These guys blew $1000+ bucks on the immersion fluid itself. They could have bought a fast processor, but then where would the challenge be?
Other than standing in line at Fry's...
I disagree with the Germans being conservative - a lot of that would have to do with what your definition of conservative would be. Because the US is still the land o' plenty Americans don't have to be as conservative with say, environmental or energy issues as much as continental Europeans. And in general, I think Germans are generally more accepting of different lifestyles.
I think as a whole, Germans are a little bit more accepting of different lifestyles as well. OTOH, a lot of that has to do with the area of Germany, too. I kind of grew up in Bayern, near Nurnberg so people were socially and culturally more conservative but laid back at the same time.
Germans can be incredibly rude, especially in the service industries.
Amen to that. Though if you want really good service regardless of the industry, you should be looking towards Asia and not so much Europe. Service people in Asia will fall all over themselves trying to help you out. Compared with Europe, anyways.