"Wouldn't it have been better to start with a slightly more sensible saloon car? One with some basic aerodynamics and weighing under 2 tons "
NO! the whole idea is to take the vehicles who need the improvements the most. Also vehicles like the explorer represent the most popular and practical form of vehicle out there.
When we are modifying them it also is very helpful to have space underneath for components and a frame to mount them to. Hybrid systems add weight and take space. Doing this with a car is very hard. Ford and ANL make us do analysis to ensure the vehicle is safe. Doing this to unibodies and not being the company who made it makes it very hard to do.
"And I absolutely guarantee you that not one of the trucks would meet the 10-year, 150k mile durability requirements of today's vehicles."
As a member of the team would reecived the Built Ford Tough Award I can tell you, you are wrong. Some of the trucks were very solid. Ours was very buildable. We never had a single breakage through the whole event. The truck worked great. It would be very straightfoward to build our design. Nothing about it is exotic or the likes. The urea system on it would be quick to adapt to cars. It went from a Mack truck to an explorer with little work involved.
Other teams had designs that would be able to be implemented without to much trouble as well. Sure fuels like H2 and components like aluminum frames arn't very practical at this time but thats how concept vehicles work.
Numbers you are looking for will be recived by the teams in time and posted someplace as well. Remember PSAT numbers are not the best numbers, no where near as good as the real thing. Also the mileage numbers given for the scores are from a mileage event ran on roads to simulate the world. The dyno numbers come from counting Co2 and are products of the very set model of a road that is the dyno trace and is using generic dyno data for road load for all the vehicles.
"On an engine with sequential multipoint injection (one injector per cylender, near the intake valve), could one modify the ECU so that, when the engine is under minimal load, instead of firing the injector on every intake stroke, it would fire on every other intake stroke - in effect changing a four stroke engine into an eight stroke engine?"
It's been done by ford and other companies for years for limp home modes. It doesn't save you anything on gas, infact it would hurt your mileage. To drive the same as you were you need to produce the same amount of power. So now with your engine, it needs to make twice as much power per firing to make up for the de-activated cylinders. So the same amount of fuel is going to be burned. But since you have cycles going through doing nothing your going to have loss. The pumping work of those cylinders is going to have to be made up with more fuel. Ordinarily the loss isn't as important since it is made up by the piston firing.
Also you're not going to tweak your engine to something better then what it is by controls. Car makers design their engines with 2 goals, high efficency and low emissions for the desired levels of power. Those two goals in general fight each other. In the united states we have very tigh emissions regulations, so american made engines are designed for low emissions more then economy. Thats why they tend to be bigger displacement, slower speed, and not as fuel efficent. In countries with poor emissions laws, and expensive gas engines are tuned for mileage, so they are high reving, small displacement and get better efficency.
Auto makers take these issues and find the best balance. You might be able to tweak and make one issue better, but others will hurt for those gains.
Also the maps and so forth in that computer are very complex. People spend years in engine labs collecting data and others spend years more trying to find ways to implement it at it's best. just the slightest messing with it and it's all screwed up. This is why they don't freely let people mess with them. Also if they did let people do such things then the EPA would be all over their asses and have laws passed were you can't mess with such controls, currently the only thing stopping you is the automaker.
After spending 4 years working on high mileage, low emission vehicles it really blows my mind how many backyard engineers think they can do better.
" Hardly. WA is popular among those 'in the know', but it doesn't have anywhere near the installed base of e.g. RealPlayer."
Find me someone who uses real player! anyone! WA is not a "in the know" thing. Every freaking person who has MP3's knows about it and uses it or WMP . My most non computer knowledged friends won't touch real player.
Hey good their working on the old series, which would show they accept the issues of the 3x series.
I know many people do feel the way I do, talk to most people who have tried 3.0 or even go to their website and see people bitching about it. Winamp is the most used player in windows, second only to WMP, though I wouldn't be surprised if more used. To stop trying to make a decent product and ignore the problems will cause them to loose their marketshare and thus make them worthless, not a very good business model if you want to be around to do other things like protocols.
Also I don't think many people care about this protocol, sure the paranoid types might, but this is very much something most people could care less about.
Also I in no way have said they are obligated to do anything. I was just pointing out how they have gone from something good to complete crap. I don't belive companies own anyone anything unless there was some deal which requires them to.
I doubt it was done in spare time, if it was employees doing something it was during work time, and if there are things that need to be done to your product you don't have "free time" . Free time is when there is nothing you should be doing.
Nullsoft is a company. Time is money for them. Users are money for them. Being a company that gives product away for free, the balance of keaping them is huge. If no one goes to your sight and clicks on ads and so forth they are done.
One last thing, they haven't fixed jake shit. winamp 3 is broken, go to their sight, winamp 3 is what they are advertising. Making updates to an older product is not fixing. To be fixed means they got all the issues sorta out with 3.0 .
" Winamp 2.9 is the latest release of the Winamp 2.x codebase, which takes most of the good ideas that went into Winamp 3 and codes them back to an API free of excessive abstraction. It's been out for weeks, if not months. Check your facts before posting."
How about you read my post again before you tell me what to do. I said "2.81 or whatever the latest 2x version is" . so that's 2.9 I never carved my answer in stone, I made it clear that I was not sure what the latest version was.
Why don't they go and do what they need to do. Fix winamp, it was months into winamp3 release before it even worked. It still barely works. Most people have given up on it and use 2.81 or whatever the latest 2x version is. Also how about fixing the BS versioning. That is, if you release 3.0, and then an updated version it should be 3.1 or 3.0.1 or similar. They made at least 3 versions that i saw that kept the 3.0 version number, from the first one to my current one 3.0 shrank by a.5 - 1 meg (can remember how much off hand for sure).
They are a perfect example of fucking something up good and then seamingly covering it up. I think winamp 3 has been out for many many months, maybe nearing a year, and it still sucks. Stop adding new widgets and make it work, make it stop randomly having no volume for songs, or loosing settings and any of the other bugs.
You can make new random products all you want but if you can't even get your main product working right your screwed. If and when the iTunes for windows comes out winamp is going to be in a world of hurt.
"I thought Bush was supposed to be in bed with the oil companies. That's what everyone kept crying about. But now liberals are bitching about hydrogen."
Where do you think most all the H2 we use today comes from? it's split from natural gas. Most of that gas is from drilling oil wells, it's on top of the oil and until not to long ago was burned off.
In the future it will be split from water, but this needs power, hense the nuclear. H2 is for portable use, it's not for powerplants and such. In the future they will all be nuclear, wind, geothermal and other non coal, gas, oil methods.
Oil companies are energy companies. They will adjust to what ever comes.
I don't really get what you were getting at with the liberal thing. Maybe it's because people like myself hate how Bush went from bashing and making fun of hybrid cars and things like fuel cells, to acting like he is their champion. Also he touts a hyrdrogen economy, this simple isn't the future, there isn't an oil economy ether, it's a product of republicans minds to try and get insane oil policys.
"(Disclaimer: I have a B.S. and an M.Eng. from Penn State, and I think Spanier is a complete buffoon. But I think he's onto something here.)"
I will soon to have the ME degree, and I think Spanier is as you say a baffoon to at many things, but he does surprise from time to time. He stood up well for Cuntfest to, he's a hit and miss good and bad guy.
"Would this service just be for students living in the dorms? I go to Penn State and I live off campus (along with at least half the student body, most Penn State students only live in the dorms their first year or two) and I would be pretty mad if I had to pay for something that I couldn't even use."
I go there to and had the same very thought. I also wonder how this would effect the on campus network situation. I lived there last year when all hell broke loose and the network crawled do to overload, I wonder if this would hurt or help. And if it is for off campus to I wonder how slow it would be. Angel and Webmail suck balls enough as it is from off campus. This might be a cruel joke.
"I went to RIT. A lot of shcools spend more money on upeerclassmen then on the freshman, think about it, the senior year classes SHOULD require more skills/equipment and in the end money then freshman classes. RIT's problem with drop outs has many issues: "
This is why at my school, Penn State, you pay more tuition. Starting in your Juniour year when you have been admitted to your major, as in you were in the college of engineering, now your officialy a Mechanical engineer, you pay more. The price change is adjusted by major. Being a ME I pay more extra then most others. PSU does a pretty good job of balancing everything out like that.
Honestly I just can't belive my school is thinking so smart on something. Something to make me proud of my school.
" It's not a matter of dark ages, it's a matter of infrastructure... while not the largest country in the world (the US is probably third or fourth, I'm not sure), we have by far the most technological infrastructure. It is not feasible to change all that in a short period of time."
Bingo! this is why the US has been working on the process so long. Granted the push hasn't been very great but it's happening. If you're a country of a few million and only are the size of a small new england state, the change is pretty cheap and easy. When your huge, there is a massive infastructure change cost. and trying to re-wire 300 million peoples brains to a new way takes a lot more work.
I think places like Europe were also helped by war. They had to rebuild and start new with so much. So it was a perfect time to start fresh. The US is a pile of legacy ways. And nothing happens to change them.
With that said I wish we would try harder to convert. Get a dual system going now and run it for 20 years. let people adjust. Teach school in 95% SI ( only enough english units stuff so the comprehend them).
" Except machinists. All people working use metric, but when you have to build something you wind up in inches and mills."
while this is still pretty true, many shops are going more metric as the amount of metric jobs increases. More and more machining tools are coming in metric to (largely to the CNC increase which is perfect for making transition). But since the change rate for machines is so slow it's more of the machiniest being behind then being the way it is. No one is expecting a shop to toss all their new 20 years old , bridgeports and and metric ones overnight. But from the designer side I can say it really pisses us off when a machinest goes "wahh?" to a metric design.
"Website content management author Gerry McGovern says that something like 70 per cent of most websites goes unread
And something like 65% of all statistics are made up? To say 70% of most websites is a very broad statement and really needs narrowing of scope. And does he state anywhere how he came up with this figure? Any journal articles, documents outlining his research, etc?"
From what I have heard and Read online and from people who work for ISPs something around 60 percent of the internet traffic is porn. One could probably take a good guess that if that much of the internet is porn, there isn't much reading going on there. Then add some more stuff cause most people care less about other peoples personal sights.
Just think about when you do a search on google for something. You see that 95% of the net is worthless crap. We all have thrown more crap on the pile to. I know I have. How much of the net is Geocities web pages? rigth there is a huge chunk that never gets read. They ether suck, or are crashed or something.
The problem with the net is no one ever goes out and cleans out the crap. It never sees a forest fire or similar to clear the crap away and let new healthy crap grow. It's a big landfill of stuff that will forever grow, and the worthless is growing faster then the good stuff. In time this very post will be a random peice of crap out there. I don't know if it deletes in time, but in 36 hours this post will be totaly worthless to the world, much more so then it is just after it was written.
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I think that would be a Beowulf Hill, or Beowulf cluster hill. And if you really want to spice up the computer, use fire ants
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I remember when i was a kid seeing a endless facet flowing from the sky. Basicly you looked at it and it looked like a giant facet floating in air with water flowing out of it. It was a neat illusion. But all it was, was a clear plastic pipe going up to the facet. A pump someplace pumped the water up it and then it can back down the edge so you couldn't see the pipe. It looked pretty neat. But i managed to figure it out and I was like 5 (no, there was no explanation with it, it was just there in the middle of the mall). So the idea that this thing amazes adults is just sad. I would very much hope anyone with a brain would figure it out fast.
Indeed Buckinham (sp?) Pi therom is great. And simplifies things greatly. But you can't just ditch windtunnls for computers. As my fluids book pointed out. For much of fluid dynamics there is no exact solution. Only approcimations (sp?). Take Reynolds number. There is still no perfect understanding for laminar->turbulent transition. All we have is experimental data. For many computer models everything will be at the mercy of guesses and approximations. For things like this windtunnels are invaluable. Much of fluids is like this. There are so many variables and relys so much on properties of things, generlization of shapes and so forth. Until all the math and physics for fluid dynamics is solved computer models will not be able to replace windtunnels. Tunnels like the ames tunnel could use full size models. So the errors of size caused by models went away.
"made out of material which won't melt or dissolve in the iron
Well...thats easy then"
Well thats very much do able. The biggest thing that i get thinking is CHECK VALVES, they have better have a good check valve at the top of that hole. Something like oil wells use. Cause i can't think making a man made valcono magma shaft is a good idea.
Or I guess hey lets go nuts, lets start drilling in Newark, NJ
" it still seems weird to see IBM (creator of the PC) making chips for Apple."
No it doesn't Apple created the first PC, IBM created the AT or was it the XT later on. Any computer you personaly own wether it be a mac or a computer running windows or linux... is a PC. Furthermore while IBM may be in the computer making business they are a hardware supplier to. They will sell to anyone who wants to buy their stuff. By your logic it's also weird they would buy an OS from microsoft when they have some they wrote to, AIX, OS/2 , that DOS version, and more.
"s well, what % of the Apple line would be switched over to the new chip..whould they have to go back to FAT archives for the lower and upper end Apple machines (if they stuck with G$ for low end and 970 for high)?"
If they went with anything but the PPC970 this would be true, but the PPC970 is a straight upgrade, no recompiles and so forth. Hense it's the chip apple is almost certainly going with.
A freind of mine got this letter and it scared the shit out of her. Glad to see it wasn't what people thought.
I can say this, when it comes to this kind of thing PSU isn't very good at standing up to the RIAA, they have been giving into them for the past few years. I suppose it's the same everywhere.
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"Wouldn't it have been better to start with a slightly more sensible saloon car? One with some basic aerodynamics and weighing under 2 tons "
NO! the whole idea is to take the vehicles who need the improvements the most. Also vehicles like the explorer represent the most popular and practical form of vehicle out there.
When we are modifying them it also is very helpful to have space underneath for components and a frame to mount them to. Hybrid systems add weight and take space. Doing this with a car is very hard. Ford and ANL make us do analysis to ensure the vehicle is safe. Doing this to unibodies and not being the company who made it makes it very hard to do.
It simple makes way more sense to use SUV's.
"And I absolutely guarantee you that not one of the trucks would meet the 10-year, 150k mile durability requirements of today's vehicles."
As a member of the team would reecived the Built Ford Tough Award I can tell you, you are wrong. Some of the trucks were very solid. Ours was very buildable. We never had a single breakage through the whole event. The truck worked great. It would be very straightfoward to build our design. Nothing about it is exotic or the likes. The urea system on it would be quick to adapt to cars. It went from a Mack truck to an explorer with little work involved.
Other teams had designs that would be able to be implemented without to much trouble as well. Sure fuels like H2 and components like aluminum frames arn't very practical at this time but thats how concept vehicles work.
Numbers you are looking for will be recived by the teams in time and posted someplace as well. Remember PSAT numbers are not the best numbers, no where near as good as the real thing. Also the mileage numbers given for the scores are from a mileage event ran on roads to simulate the world. The dyno numbers come from counting Co2 and are products of the very set model of a road that is the dyno trace and is using generic dyno data for road load for all the vehicles.
"On an engine with sequential multipoint injection (one injector per cylender, near the intake valve), could one modify the ECU so that, when the engine is under minimal load, instead of firing the injector on every intake stroke, it would fire on every other intake stroke - in effect changing a four stroke engine into an eight stroke engine?"
It's been done by ford and other companies for years for limp home modes. It doesn't save you anything on gas, infact it would hurt your mileage. To drive the same as you were you need to produce the same amount of power. So now with your engine, it needs to make twice as much power per firing to make up for the de-activated cylinders. So the same amount of fuel is going to be burned. But since you have cycles going through doing nothing your going to have loss. The pumping work of those cylinders is going to have to be made up with more fuel. Ordinarily the loss isn't as important since it is made up by the piston firing.
Also you're not going to tweak your engine to something better then what it is by controls. Car makers design their engines with 2 goals, high efficency and low emissions for the desired levels of power. Those two goals in general fight each other. In the united states we have very tigh emissions regulations, so american made engines are designed for low emissions more then economy. Thats why they tend to be bigger displacement, slower speed, and not as fuel efficent. In countries with poor emissions laws, and expensive gas engines are tuned for mileage, so they are high reving, small displacement and get better efficency.
Auto makers take these issues and find the best balance. You might be able to tweak and make one issue better, but others will hurt for those gains.
Also the maps and so forth in that computer are very complex. People spend years in engine labs collecting data and others spend years more trying to find ways to implement it at it's best. just the slightest messing with it and it's all screwed up. This is why they don't freely let people mess with them. Also if they did let people do such things then the EPA would be all over their asses and have laws passed were you can't mess with such controls, currently the only thing stopping you is the automaker.
After spending 4 years working on high mileage, low emission vehicles it really blows my mind how many backyard engineers think they can do better.
" Hardly. WA is popular among those 'in the know', but it doesn't have anywhere near the installed base of e.g. RealPlayer."
Find me someone who uses real player! anyone! WA is not a "in the know" thing. Every freaking person who has MP3's knows about it and uses it or WMP . My most non computer knowledged friends won't touch real player.
Hey good their working on the old series, which would show they accept the issues of the 3x series.
I know many people do feel the way I do, talk to most people who have tried 3.0 or even go to their website and see people bitching about it. Winamp is the most used player in windows, second only to WMP, though I wouldn't be surprised if more used. To stop trying to make a decent product and ignore the problems will cause them to loose their marketshare and thus make them worthless, not a very good business model if you want to be around to do other things like protocols.
Also I don't think many people care about this protocol, sure the paranoid types might, but this is very much something most people could care less about.
Also I in no way have said they are obligated to do anything. I was just pointing out how they have gone from something good to complete crap. I don't belive companies own anyone anything unless there was some deal which requires them to.
I doubt it was done in spare time, if it was employees doing something it was during work time, and if there are things that need to be done to your product you don't have "free time" . Free time is when there is nothing you should be doing.
Nullsoft is a company. Time is money for them. Users are money for them. Being a company that gives product away for free, the balance of keaping them is huge. If no one goes to your sight and clicks on ads and so forth they are done.
One last thing, they haven't fixed jake shit. winamp 3 is broken, go to their sight, winamp 3 is what they are advertising. Making updates to an older product is not fixing. To be fixed means they got all the issues sorta out with 3.0 .
" Winamp 2.9 is the latest release of the Winamp 2.x codebase, which takes most of the good ideas that went into Winamp 3 and codes them back to an API free of excessive abstraction. It's been out for weeks, if not months. Check your facts before posting."
How about you read my post again before you tell me what to do. I said "2.81 or whatever the latest 2x version is" . so that's 2.9 I never carved my answer in stone, I made it clear that I was not sure what the latest version was.
Why don't they go and do what they need to do. Fix winamp, it was months into winamp3 release before it even worked. It still barely works. Most people have given up on it and use 2.81 or whatever the latest 2x version is. Also how about fixing the BS versioning. That is, if you release 3.0, and then an updated version it should be 3.1 or 3.0.1 or similar. They made at least 3 versions that i saw that kept the 3.0 version number, from the first one to my current one 3.0 shrank by a .5 - 1 meg (can remember how much off hand for sure).
They are a perfect example of fucking something up good and then seamingly covering it up. I think winamp 3 has been out for many many months, maybe nearing a year, and it still sucks. Stop adding new widgets and make it work, make it stop randomly having no volume for songs, or loosing settings and any of the other bugs.
You can make new random products all you want but if you can't even get your main product working right your screwed. If and when the iTunes for windows comes out winamp is going to be in a world of hurt.
"I thought Bush was supposed to be in bed with the oil companies. That's what everyone kept crying about. But now liberals are bitching about hydrogen."
Where do you think most all the H2 we use today comes from? it's split from natural gas. Most of that gas is from drilling oil wells, it's on top of the oil and until not to long ago was burned off.
In the future it will be split from water, but this needs power, hense the nuclear. H2 is for portable use, it's not for powerplants and such. In the future they will all be nuclear, wind, geothermal and other non coal, gas, oil methods.
Oil companies are energy companies. They will adjust to what ever comes.
I don't really get what you were getting at with the liberal thing. Maybe it's because people like myself hate how Bush went from bashing and making fun of hybrid cars and things like fuel cells, to acting like he is their champion. Also he touts a hyrdrogen economy, this simple isn't the future, there isn't an oil economy ether, it's a product of republicans minds to try and get insane oil policys.
Anyone else looking for the classic CNN artist rendition of an astoroid impact that looks like the moon hitting the earth to go with this story?
"(Disclaimer: I have a B.S. and an M.Eng. from Penn State, and I think Spanier is a complete buffoon. But I think he's onto something here.)"
I will soon to have the ME degree, and I think Spanier is as you say a baffoon to at many things, but he does surprise from time to time. He stood up well for Cuntfest to, he's a hit and miss good and bad guy.
"Would this service just be for students living in the dorms? I go to Penn State and I live off campus (along with at least half the student body, most Penn State students only live in the dorms their first year or two) and I would be pretty mad if I had to pay for something that I couldn't even use."
I go there to and had the same very thought. I also wonder how this would effect the on campus network situation. I lived there last year when all hell broke loose and the network crawled do to overload, I wonder if this would hurt or help. And if it is for off campus to I wonder how slow it would be. Angel and Webmail suck balls enough as it is from off campus. This might be a cruel joke.
"Penn State already does this. The have a deal with Pepsi. No Coca-Cola products of ANY kind are sold on campus.
Anyone else miss the Lion's Den? I hear they welded the balconies shut in Beaver Canyon too."
Good news though, pepsi contract ran out and coke got it for next year. Not the best thing but far better then being pepsi world.
Lion's Den is still there,
and one apartment has sealed the balconies some, as in certain ones, and they are not welded shut.
"I went to RIT. A lot of shcools spend more money on upeerclassmen then on the freshman, think about it, the senior year classes SHOULD require more skills/equipment and in the end money then freshman classes. RIT's problem with drop outs has many issues: "
This is why at my school, Penn State, you pay more tuition. Starting in your Juniour year when you have been admitted to your major, as in you were in the college of engineering, now your officialy a Mechanical engineer, you pay more. The price change is adjusted by major. Being a ME I pay more extra then most others. PSU does a pretty good job of balancing everything out like that.
Honestly I just can't belive my school is thinking so smart on something. Something to make me proud of my school.
" It's not a matter of dark ages, it's a matter of infrastructure... while not the largest country in the world (the US is probably third or fourth, I'm not sure), we have by far the most technological infrastructure. It is not feasible to change all that in a short period of time."
Bingo! this is why the US has been working on the process so long. Granted the push hasn't been very great but it's happening. If you're a country of a few million and only are the size of a small new england state, the change is pretty cheap and easy. When your huge, there is a massive infastructure change cost. and trying to re-wire 300 million peoples brains to a new way takes a lot more work.
I think places like Europe were also helped by war. They had to rebuild and start new with so much. So it was a perfect time to start fresh. The US is a pile of legacy ways. And nothing happens to change them.
With that said I wish we would try harder to convert. Get a dual system going now and run it for 20 years. let people adjust. Teach school in 95% SI ( only enough english units stuff so the comprehend them).
" Except machinists. All people working use metric, but when you have to build something you wind up in inches and mills."
while this is still pretty true, many shops are going more metric as the amount of metric jobs increases. More and more machining tools are coming in metric to (largely to the CNC increase which is perfect for making transition). But since the change rate for machines is so slow it's more of the machiniest being behind then being the way it is. No one is expecting a shop to toss all their new 20 years old , bridgeports and and metric ones overnight. But from the designer side I can say it really pisses us off when a machinest goes "wahh?" to a metric design.
"Website content management author Gerry McGovern says that something like 70 per cent of most websites goes unread
And something like 65% of all statistics are made up? To say 70% of most websites is a very broad statement and really needs narrowing of scope. And does he state anywhere how he came up with this figure? Any journal articles, documents outlining his research, etc?"
From what I have heard and Read online and from people who work for ISPs something around 60 percent of the internet traffic is porn.
One could probably take a good guess that if that much of the internet is porn, there isn't much reading going on there. Then add some more stuff cause most people care less about other peoples personal sights.
Just think about when you do a search on google for something. You see that 95% of the net is worthless crap. We all have thrown more crap on the pile to. I know I have. How much of the net is Geocities web pages? rigth there is a huge chunk that never gets read. They ether suck, or are crashed or something.
The problem with the net is no one ever goes out and cleans out the crap. It never sees a forest fire or similar to clear the crap away and let new healthy crap grow. It's a big landfill of stuff that will forever grow, and the worthless is growing faster then the good stuff. In time this very post will be a random peice of crap out there. I don't know if it deletes in time, but in 36 hours this post will be totaly worthless to the world, much more so then it is just after it was written.
" you have to link all the ant farms together with tunnels"
So SSH is going to be involved?
" Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? Talk about a nightmare..."
I think that would be a Beowulf Hill, or Beowulf cluster hill. And if you really want to spice up the computer, use fire ants
no, i just spelled it wrong. I would have said spicket , but i can't spell it either. and i don't think calling it a Tap would be very clear to people.
I remember when i was a kid seeing a endless facet flowing from the sky. Basicly you looked at it and it looked like a giant facet floating in air with water flowing out of it. It was a neat illusion. But all it was, was a clear plastic pipe going up to the facet. A pump someplace pumped the water up it and then it can back down the edge so you couldn't see the pipe. It looked pretty neat. But i managed to figure it out and I was like 5 (no, there was no explanation with it, it was just there in the middle of the mall). So the idea that this thing amazes adults is just sad. I would very much hope anyone with a brain would figure it out fast.
Anyone else look at it and think it was a Lable Maker?
Indeed Buckinham (sp?) Pi therom is great. And simplifies things greatly. But you can't just ditch windtunnls for computers. As my fluids book pointed out. For much of fluid dynamics there is no exact solution. Only approcimations (sp?). Take Reynolds number. There is still no perfect understanding for laminar->turbulent transition. All we have is experimental data. For many computer models everything will be at the mercy of guesses and approximations. For things like this windtunnels are invaluable. Much of fluids is like this. There are so many variables and relys so much on properties of things, generlization of shapes and so forth. Until all the math and physics for fluid dynamics is solved computer models will not be able to replace windtunnels. Tunnels like the ames tunnel could use full size models. So the errors of size caused by models went away.
This is really sad it's getting shut down.
"made out of material which won't melt or dissolve in the iron
Well...thats easy then"
Well thats very much do able. The biggest thing that i get thinking is CHECK VALVES, they have better have a good check valve at the top of that hole. Something like oil wells use. Cause i can't think making a man made valcono magma shaft is a good idea.
Or I guess hey lets go nuts, lets start drilling in Newark, NJ
" it still seems weird to see IBM (creator of the PC) making chips for Apple."
... is a PC. Furthermore while IBM may be in the computer making business they are a hardware supplier to. They will sell to anyone who wants to buy their stuff. By your logic it's also weird they would buy an OS from microsoft when they have some they wrote to, AIX, OS/2 , that DOS version, and more.
No it doesn't Apple created the first PC, IBM created the AT or was it the XT later on. Any computer you personaly own wether it be a mac or a computer running windows or linux
"s well, what % of the Apple line would be switched over to the new chip..whould they have to go back to FAT archives for the lower and upper end Apple machines (if they stuck with G$ for low end and 970 for high)?"
If they went with anything but the PPC970 this would be true, but the PPC970 is a straight upgrade, no recompiles and so forth. Hense it's the chip apple is almost certainly going with.
"Penn acted as spineless morons."
It's Penn State, Penn is a differant school
A freind of mine got this letter and it scared the shit out of her. Glad to see it wasn't what people thought.
I can say this, when it comes to this kind of thing PSU isn't very good at standing up to the RIAA, they have been giving into them for the past few years. I suppose it's the same everywhere.