I remember reading that some humans can see in the ultra violet spectrum. Must be nice.
I hope we don't go as far as you say. The day the Penis becomes an un-needed appendache will be a sad day for mankind. Maybe if it goes the way of our tail we won't miss it so much.
Ever wish we still had tails? Though inthinking about it they would probably be scarey rat looking hair less things. I imaging they would be a heavily assosorized (2am can't spell) body part
Ok this is for color. What is the status of Digital Black and White? Is there much done here? I would asume it would be at a far higher resolution than Color digital. Spy cameras use black and white since you can achive much higher detail with black and white. As in read the headline of a newspaper being read by a guy on a park bench with a camera taking the picture from space. I know NASA had some good digital imaging of the saltlake games, they I belive were colorized digital but I can't remember. Insane Hi Res B&W would be very usefull for telescope work looking for earth smashers.
problem is how are you going to see this image? I guess you could scroll side to side up and down for a long time. But still your become severly limited by your veiwing device. IE your monitor, or Eyes
But yeah it would be cool, see scratches, read serial numbers, see what else is in the persons house by looking in the reflections.
I've wondered this. Is an interesting thought to think the world could be crisper than what we think as 20/20 (I know there are those who have better than 20/20, people get laser surgry to do this, like Pro atheletes)
Wonder what the highest resolution is for visual anything. Like what resolution would be the highest needed to see the universe at its finest level ( I don't know how to phrase that question, anyone understand what I'm getting at?) like do you take the smallest known/theroized partical/bit of energy and and take it's size and then use that with the most dense you can make the substance and that would be the highest resolution needed to properly view the universe without lose. It wouldn't be possable to achive it but makes you think about how blury are we seeing the world/universe
I appologize if this made no sence. I hate having a question that I can't even form.
Canon Can be flaky with designs but Minolta is right there with Nikon. I use 35yr old lenses on mine and my camera is only a few years old. They haven't changed their base in forever, they introduced AF bases but still make cameras with the manual base MD (i think, haven't touched it in a bit) actully the auto and manual lenses can be interchanged. You can put a 35 yr old manual lens on your new auto focus, but of course you have to manualy focus. You can't kill a good minolta, thats why so many pros use them. If I remember correct most National Geographic photophers run Minoltas. Nikons are very good. But they have got to a point where they sell at a higher price on their name. Not to say they are bad or anything. But Nikon and Minolta are dead even. I own cameras from both and like them equaly.
dang, I get like 3 post from the end and someone beat me to this.
Yes Forest Gump invented the smiley face. Everyone knows this. They based a whole movie on it. Though most of the film was fluff I guess it had to be done to get the real story of the smiley face out to the public.
Well there was the Colosus at Rhodes, that didn't turn out so well, maybe people fear history repeating.
But in truth I think it's and issue of zoning. You relize how much people would bitch about a 200 foot Statue of some guy. Though brook burke might cause rezoning.
The IC engine is not that Horriable, a gasoline engine is about half as efficent as a fuel cell, a diesel is within 66 percent of a fuel cell.
Battery technology didn't just die, it died because there is a limit to batteries, WYSIWYG in battery tech today, its a simple matter of chemistry.
GM did not just kill the EV1 it was a huge flop, The only could lease them in three states since it was impractical in most states. In the time the program was run they only leased around 300 units. This was not keaping the program afloat which cost insane amounts of money. Also when it was found there was a design flaw in the charging port they had to recall the cars which lead to the final demise. For electric cars to work there has to be a large enough market, and the simple matter is there is no market. Also electric cars are impractical, they are not beificial to the Earth, in the big picture G.R.E.E.T. model things like a diesel car are better for the earth.
Also electric cars are still very complex, they have a small percentage less of parts. Yes the service aspect of cars is important to companies, especialy GM who designs cars to be hard to work on. But EV's still have service issues like Battery packs. Also having extremely reliable cars helps improve sales. You can't expect Auto companies to ditch current designs and go for things like EV's which the puplic does not want. Not everyone lives in the inner city driving a few miles a day. To make a normal car economicaly viable a car company needs to sell in the neighbor hood of 20,000 units a year. There is not the market for EV's to maintain this. The production EV's out there survive by being options from current models. Want an EV , buy a Electric Ford Ranger, Chevy S10, toyota Rav4, honda "something i saw in LA, don't know model" and others they are factory option packages. But are cost effective by reusing parts.
Also the fed does give universities money for such research, guess what the non-industry universities concluded EV's are not the way to go ether, hybrids are example www.futuretruck.org
if you want a EV's to happen, develope a energy storage devise that I can pull enough electrical energy out to power a 4 passenger car with nice features, and acceptable performance/safety for 500 miles and have this device be less than 2 cubic feet (IE box 2'x1'x1') In other words have then energy storage of a conventional cars liquid fuel tank.
Rover is now owned by ford, BMW may even be bought in the future by ford.
Kia i belive was bought by GM after ford decided not to buy,
Suburu is now owned by GM
GM is in a partner ship with toyota and i belive owns some of them (ala why we have toyota matrix and pontiac vibe, toyota badged as chevys in Europe)
Ford sells the bodies to minivans to Nissan
Ford also has a share in Think
Mercedes owns Smart
Lotus may also still be in the hands of Ford
There are many car companies in the world, but in the end they can all be linked to one or another. I once saw a thing connecting all the current car companies of the world together through the AMC Pacer.
also you could go into dead companies,
Dailmer-Benz over the years also includes, Eagle, AMC, Nash, Willy, Desoto, Plymouth...
This is getting old
Also Fiat is owned now by Italy, and Fiat last I looked was owned of Ferrari
42 volt is a standard for auto industry when they need more than 12 volts. Many mild hybrids have looked into 42 volt systems for intergral flywheel/starter/altenator setups. Also 42 volt is pretty standard for some components of EV's like power stearing. Part suppliers and the like work around this set voltage so they can work for differant companies and applications with out having to have massive amounts of DC-DC converters in the car.
Electric Vehicals and Real Hybrids (IE not honda insight) (But like toyota prius, ford escape HEV (fall 03)) use battery packs in the range of 144 volts to 300 volts to power systems such as the traction motors. Trying to power a 100kw motor at 12volts would cause problems in that the Amps would be far to large. As it is the power lines for these motors is 4/0 cable which adds weight in a car real fast.
also yes there is an efficency loss in burning fuel, but the loss in spinning the generator is very small. Also fuel cells do not have extreme high efficencies, they tend to be around 60% efficent, but this varries a great amount with the type of fuel cell O2-H2, direct methonol , etc Gasoline engine peak around 30% diesels around 40%
Just looked at Sharp's webpage, they list it for 400 bucks. Probably one of the better deals you will find since your buying it straight from them. Cicuit city of course is going to cost a bit more than directly from sharp.
No it was a zaurus, I just looked at it again at cicuit city, though they don't have it on their webpage(like many things). It was something like 450 bucks. It's the most expensive PDA they have in the store.
I have tried a Zaurus though i belive a differant model. I thought the UI was ok, I did find it amusing that the UI on the Linux PDA's looked more like MS Windows than the Windows CE based models looked like MS windows.
But no matter how the UI looks or works a glaring problem was apparent. It's slow as hell! The CE PDA's on similar hardware were fast, very fast. There was nearly no delay opening any app. The linux based PDA's were very slow opening programs even small ones. The overall feel of the device was very slow. This sealed it for me that I would not go with a PDA running linux. That and the only models I found running it were very expensive.
I know people with WinCE models and love them, and I found it to be very nice, though the price wasn't there, though much cheaper than the linux models. Also those I know with CE models have yet to have any problems. But it comes down to what people are paying for some of these handhelds with big OS's on them their approaching having a laptop, I think a lower end Sony Clie is more what most people are looking for and don't cost an arm and a leg.
hehe, funny you mention that, but last nite, i also installed linux (slackware) over the psu network.....maybe thats why it was so slow?;)
altho i do have to say, the network running much better has nothing to do whatsoever with napster. PSU's ISP was falling apart at the seams, and have been in the middle of a MUCH needed upgrade. as they get more of their systems up, the network keeps getting better and better.
Hybrid electric vehicals, that is vehicals that use a drive train consisting of electric and conventional drive or pure electri with on board power source, such are a generator or fuel cell will be the dominate vehical in the upcoming decades. Fuel cells will come into play someday but not for some time, the infustructure is not there yet not is the technology up to par with the current requirements. Electric vehicals are all but dead, unless battery technology suddenly improves but it barly has in 100 years. also electric vehicals are nto zero emission, they have upstream emissions from power plants, and since people have a misguided problem with nuclear those emissions will still be there from the plants emmissions. the most clean vehical that the technolgy is in place for is a Desiel/electric hybrids, desiel has the best emmisions of all engines. and when fuel cells come about where they can fit in vehicals and have enough power they can replace the desiel generator.
and for those of you who think electric drive is week check out this www.futuretruck.org
I have been working with these and they intime kick the ass of a stocker, check georgia tech they had 380 hp I belive.
ok, see that was 4 years ago, in 4 years the price of computers has fell. The labs are damn near never full. When they are full its usualy group projects and people printing notes and such. most the day even in the biggest of labs such as the Pollock lab( i asume you know of this one) there is jsut a few dozen people in there with about 250-300 computers. These computers could be better used building more CAD labs and such. But since the school dozen require students own a computer but does require access they must provide wich cost me money. The school now goes through continually replacing computers. this year they up graded to PIII everywhere. Also they keep infesting the place with the fucking iCraps and some G4's this really agrivates me since nobody uses them. I live in the dorms right now and on my floor of probly 60 students, maybe 5 don't have a computer. Some colleges do require students to have their own computer. One university i was informed requires all new engineering students to buy a PIII 550. and they don't give you any CAD software wich is the only thing that you would need such a thing for. 4 years ago is a long time in computers. Times change. and if you think that some people still can't aford one, look in the classifieds. All you need is a basic computer and a ethernet card. PI (thats right missing a few I's) is just fine. I used one for a while here. You can pick one of those up for the price of a few books. I presantly have a very nice computer and it was under $800. Bottom line. There isn't a reason why anyone shouldn't be able to dig up some sort of a computer these days.
PSU is currently thinking about requiring all students to have computers. This wouldn't be to much of a change since somehting like 95 percent allready do. Have all students have their own would mean much less money would need to be spent on large computer labs for those who do not have them. Nothing says you need to buy the most top of the line machine, you can by yourself a basic Emachine for a few hundered bucks and be fine. So any complants of students not being able to afford one is not very strong. A few hunderd bucks once compared to the total cost of 5 years of school is not a very much. In todays world you have to get familier with computers, having one stairing at you in your room 24-7 is a good start. As for downloading porn , mp3's and playing quake, well hey its practicing skills(take this sentance lightly) For those that hate computers maybe it can change their minds. Others can learn more from freinds and such. And for the porn. Well theres nothing wrong with that. Also we now have class that only exsist online. kind of hard to take that kind of class without a computer. Some may complain bout slowing do to napster but if there was no napster people would just find other things to bog the net down with. Such as more quake with less lag. Far as the calculator thing, we can't use them in math on test and such. Even thought their required for math. (figure that out) well the reason for that is a calculator can be good to help whne your stuck or unsure. We can use them in all other classes though, chem you can't have a grapher so no smugeling of knowledge. this is so we at some point in our life know how to do it without them. But since in the real world very few if had the option would chose the paper method over a calculator. I do think they should maybe use less of them in highschools. Nobody in my school had graphing calculators, my ti36x was the top dog. I learned how to do it the old school way. I come here and kids are going insane without calculators. but once you get the princibles learned there is no reason not to use them. Just with this highschool dependance they don't know the princibles.
If computers gain true intelligence. Does this mean instead of us loading programs and operating systems on them and getting them to do work for us that they may turn the tables. Start putting programs on us to make us do their work. DEAR GOD! what if the put Windows on us! The Human society would be doomed! We would all be crashing. What a nightmare. Course if you were a computer wouldn't you want revenge! That would be a very good start.
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I remember reading that some humans can see in the ultra violet spectrum. Must be nice.
I hope we don't go as far as you say. The day the Penis becomes an un-needed appendache will be a sad day for mankind. Maybe if it goes the way of our tail we won't miss it so much.
Ever wish we still had tails? Though inthinking about it they would probably be scarey rat looking hair less things. I imaging they would be a heavily assosorized (2am can't spell) body part
Ok this is for color. What is the status of Digital Black and White? Is there much done here? I would asume it would be at a far higher resolution than Color digital. Spy cameras use black and white since you can achive much higher detail with black and white. As in read the headline of a newspaper being read by a guy on a park bench with a camera taking the picture from space. I know NASA had some good digital imaging of the saltlake games, they I belive were colorized digital but I can't remember. Insane Hi Res B&W would be very usefull for telescope work looking for earth smashers.
problem is how are you going to see this image? I guess you could scroll side to side up and down for a long time. But still your become severly limited by your veiwing device. IE your monitor, or Eyes
But yeah it would be cool, see scratches, read serial numbers, see what else is in the persons house by looking in the reflections.
I've wondered this. Is an interesting thought to think the world could be crisper than what we think as 20/20 (I know there are those who have better than 20/20, people get laser surgry to do this, like Pro atheletes)
Wonder what the highest resolution is for visual anything. Like what resolution would be the highest needed to see the universe at its finest level ( I don't know how to phrase that question, anyone understand what I'm getting at?) like do you take the smallest known/theroized partical/bit of energy and and take it's size and then use that with the most dense you can make the substance and that would be the highest resolution needed to properly view the universe without lose. It wouldn't be possable to achive it but makes you think about how blury are we seeing the world/universe
I appologize if this made no sence. I hate having a question that I can't even form.
Carefull, your comment looks like you want to make baby porn if you don't read it just right.
Canon Can be flaky with designs but Minolta is right there with Nikon. I use 35yr old lenses on mine and my camera is only a few years old. They haven't changed their base in forever, they introduced AF bases but still make cameras with the manual base MD (i think, haven't touched it in a bit) actully the auto and manual lenses can be interchanged. You can put a 35 yr old manual lens on your new auto focus, but of course you have to manualy focus. You can't kill a good minolta, thats why so many pros use them. If I remember correct most National Geographic photophers run Minoltas. Nikons are very good. But they have got to a point where they sell at a higher price on their name. Not to say they are bad or anything. But Nikon and Minolta are dead even. I own cameras from both and like them equaly.
dang, I get like 3 post from the end and someone beat me to this.
Yes Forest Gump invented the smiley face. Everyone knows this. They based a whole movie on it. Though most of the film was fluff I guess it had to be done to get the real story of the smiley face out to the public.
Well there was the Colosus at Rhodes, that didn't turn out so well, maybe people fear history repeating.
But in truth I think it's and issue of zoning. You relize how much people would bitch about a 200 foot Statue of some guy. Though brook burke might cause rezoning.
also, does anyone find that the conversion works out to 1.664 quadillion and 1 TRL funny?
also the exchange was done at
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi
But I think I would hit up the turkish exchange and convert my 1 Billion USD to 1,664,000,000,000,001.00 TRL
Just to say I'm a Quadillionar (or what ever comes after trillionar)
Then I would probable buy 1/5th of the world a coke
I'll take 2 couches made from 57 Bel Air trunks.
Better go look in the latest Ikea catalog
it only takes about 20kw to cruise at 55mph in most vehicals, 80hp of electric drive is plenty for nice performance.
Just think of cars with electric drive trains are big golfcars that can do burnouts and hall a family through a car crash and survive.
The IC engine is not that Horriable, a gasoline engine is about half as efficent as a fuel cell, a diesel is within 66 percent of a fuel cell.
Battery technology didn't just die, it died because there is a limit to batteries, WYSIWYG in battery tech today, its a simple matter of chemistry.
GM did not just kill the EV1 it was a huge flop, The only could lease them in three states since it was impractical in most states. In the time the program was run they only leased around 300 units. This was not keaping the program afloat which cost insane amounts of money. Also when it was found there was a design flaw in the charging port they had to recall the cars which lead to the final demise. For electric cars to work there has to be a large enough market, and the simple matter is there is no market. Also electric cars are impractical, they are not beificial to the Earth, in the big picture G.R.E.E.T. model things like a diesel car are better for the earth.
Also electric cars are still very complex, they have a small percentage less of parts. Yes the service aspect of cars is important to companies, especialy GM who designs cars to be hard to work on. But EV's still have service issues like Battery packs. Also having extremely reliable cars helps improve sales. You can't expect Auto companies to ditch current designs and go for things like EV's which the puplic does not want. Not everyone lives in the inner city driving a few miles a day. To make a normal car economicaly viable a car company needs to sell in the neighbor hood of 20,000 units a year. There is not the market for EV's to maintain this. The production EV's out there survive by being options from current models. Want an EV , buy a Electric Ford Ranger, Chevy S10, toyota Rav4, honda "something i saw in LA, don't know model" and others they are factory option packages. But are cost effective by reusing parts.
Also the fed does give universities money for such research, guess what the non-industry universities concluded EV's are not the way to go ether, hybrids are example www.futuretruck.org
if you want a EV's to happen, develope a energy storage devise that I can pull enough electrical energy out to power a 4 passenger car with nice features, and acceptable performance/safety for 500 miles and have this device be less than 2 cubic feet (IE box 2'x1'x1') In other words have then energy storage of a conventional cars liquid fuel tank.
Rover is now owned by ford, BMW may even be bought in the future by ford.
Kia i belive was bought by GM after ford decided not to buy,
Suburu is now owned by GM
GM is in a partner ship with toyota and i belive owns some of them (ala why we have toyota matrix and pontiac vibe, toyota badged as chevys in Europe)
Ford sells the bodies to minivans to Nissan
Ford also has a share in Think
Mercedes owns Smart
Lotus may also still be in the hands of Ford
There are many car companies in the world, but in the end they can all be linked to one or another. I once saw a thing connecting all the current car companies of the world together through the AMC Pacer.
also you could go into dead companies,
Dailmer-Benz over the years also includes, Eagle, AMC, Nash, Willy, Desoto, Plymouth...
This is getting old
Also Fiat is owned now by Italy, and Fiat last I looked was owned of Ferrari
42 volt is a standard for auto industry when they need more than 12 volts. Many mild hybrids have looked into 42 volt systems for intergral flywheel/starter/altenator setups. Also 42 volt is pretty standard for some components of EV's like power stearing. Part suppliers and the like work around this set voltage so they can work for differant companies and applications with out having to have massive amounts of DC-DC converters in the car.
Electric Vehicals and Real Hybrids (IE not honda insight) (But like toyota prius, ford escape HEV (fall 03)) use battery packs in the range of 144 volts to 300 volts to power systems such as the traction motors. Trying to power a 100kw motor at 12volts would cause problems in that the Amps would be far to large. As it is the power lines for these motors is 4/0 cable which adds weight in a car real fast.
also yes there is an efficency loss in burning fuel, but the loss in spinning the generator is very small. Also fuel cells do not have extreme high efficencies, they tend to be around 60% efficent, but this varries a great amount with the type of fuel cell O2-H2, direct methonol , etc Gasoline engine peak around 30% diesels around 40%
Just looked at Sharp's webpage, they list it for 400 bucks. Probably one of the better deals you will find since your buying it straight from them. Cicuit city of course is going to cost a bit more than directly from sharp.
No it was a zaurus, I just looked at it again at cicuit city, though they don't have it on their webpage(like many things). It was something like 450 bucks. It's the most expensive PDA they have in the store.
It is slow! It is Expensive!
in the end a sony clie now sits on my desk
I have tried a Zaurus though i belive a differant model. I thought the UI was ok, I did find it amusing that the UI on the Linux PDA's looked more like MS Windows than the Windows CE based models looked like MS windows.
But no matter how the UI looks or works a glaring problem was apparent. It's slow as hell! The CE PDA's on similar hardware were fast, very fast. There was nearly no delay opening any app. The linux based PDA's were very slow opening programs even small ones. The overall feel of the device was very slow. This sealed it for me that I would not go with a PDA running linux. That and the only models I found running it were very expensive.
I know people with WinCE models and love them, and I found it to be very nice, though the price wasn't there, though much cheaper than the linux models. Also those I know with CE models have yet to have any problems. But it comes down to what people are paying for some of these handhelds with big OS's on them their approaching having a laptop, I think a lower end Sony Clie is more what most people are looking for and don't cost an arm and a leg.
ok guess i should have relized /. could mail it to me, wonder why is didn't do this like years ago? probaly related to lazyness.
hehe, funny you mention that, but last nite, i also installed linux (slackware) over the psu network.....maybe thats why it was so slow? ;)
altho i do have to say, the network running much better has nothing to do whatsoever with napster. PSU's ISP was falling apart at the seams, and have been in the middle of a MUCH needed upgrade. as they get more of their systems up, the network keeps getting better and better.
Hybrid electric vehicals, that is vehicals that use a drive train consisting of electric and conventional drive or pure electri with on board power source, such are a generator or fuel cell will be the dominate vehical in the upcoming decades. Fuel cells will come into play someday but not for some time, the infustructure is not there yet not is the technology up to par with the current requirements. Electric vehicals are all but dead, unless battery technology suddenly improves but it barly has in 100 years. also electric vehicals are nto zero emission, they have upstream emissions from power plants, and since people have a misguided problem with nuclear those emissions will still be there from the plants emmissions. the most clean vehical that the technolgy is in place for is a Desiel/electric hybrids, desiel has the best emmisions of all engines. and when fuel cells come about where they can fit in vehicals and have enough power they can replace the desiel generator. and for those of you who think electric drive is week check out this www.futuretruck.org I have been working with these and they intime kick the ass of a stocker, check georgia tech they had 380 hp I belive.
ok, see that was 4 years ago, in 4 years the price of computers has fell. The labs are damn near never full. When they are full its usualy group projects and people printing notes and such. most the day even in the biggest of labs such as the Pollock lab( i asume you know of this one) there is jsut a few dozen people in there with about 250-300 computers. These computers could be better used building more CAD labs and such. But since the school dozen require students own a computer but does require access they must provide wich cost me money. The school now goes through continually replacing computers. this year they up graded to PIII everywhere. Also they keep infesting the place with the fucking iCraps and some G4's this really agrivates me since nobody uses them. I live in the dorms right now and on my floor of probly 60 students, maybe 5 don't have a computer. Some colleges do require students to have their own computer. One university i was informed requires all new engineering students to buy a PIII 550. and they don't give you any CAD software wich is the only thing that you would need such a thing for. 4 years ago is a long time in computers. Times change. and if you think that some people still can't aford one, look in the classifieds. All you need is a basic computer and a ethernet card. PI (thats right missing a few I's) is just fine. I used one for a while here. You can pick one of those up for the price of a few books. I presantly have a very nice computer and it was under $800. Bottom line. There isn't a reason why anyone shouldn't be able to dig up some sort of a computer these days.
PSU is currently thinking about requiring all students to have computers. This wouldn't be to much of a change since somehting like 95 percent allready do. Have all students have their own would mean much less money would need to be spent on large computer labs for those who do not have them. Nothing says you need to buy the most top of the line machine, you can by yourself a basic Emachine for a few hundered bucks and be fine. So any complants of students not being able to afford one is not very strong. A few hunderd bucks once compared to the total cost of 5 years of school is not a very much. In todays world you have to get familier with computers, having one stairing at you in your room 24-7 is a good start. As for downloading porn , mp3's and playing quake, well hey its practicing skills(take this sentance lightly) For those that hate computers maybe it can change their minds. Others can learn more from freinds and such. And for the porn. Well theres nothing wrong with that. Also we now have class that only exsist online. kind of hard to take that kind of class without a computer. Some may complain bout slowing do to napster but if there was no napster people would just find other things to bog the net down with. Such as more quake with less lag. Far as the calculator thing, we can't use them in math on test and such. Even thought their required for math. (figure that out) well the reason for that is a calculator can be good to help whne your stuck or unsure. We can use them in all other classes though, chem you can't have a grapher so no smugeling of knowledge. this is so we at some point in our life know how to do it without them. But since in the real world very few if had the option would chose the paper method over a calculator. I do think they should maybe use less of them in highschools. Nobody in my school had graphing calculators, my ti36x was the top dog. I learned how to do it the old school way. I come here and kids are going insane without calculators. but once you get the princibles learned there is no reason not to use them. Just with this highschool dependance they don't know the princibles.
Ah Doughnuts, What can't they do!
If computers gain true intelligence. Does this mean instead of us loading programs and operating systems on them and getting them to do work for us that they may turn the tables. Start putting programs on us to make us do their work. DEAR GOD! what if the put Windows on us! The Human society would be doomed! We would all be crashing. What a nightmare. Course if you were a computer wouldn't you want revenge! That would be a very good start.