If they want it to go at speed then they can get more output for less weight than with a gas motor.
Only at very high revs, with low torque. If you want to haul around a big heavy vehicle (which this is, and *then* some) you want a diesel.
My Mercedes can suffer complete electrical system failure and still retain all the important features but forced kickdown, and it's got a four speed automatic transmission. Even the vehicles with automatically leveling rear suspension retain this feature, since it's hydraulically driven.
I've done this with one of my old Citroen CXes - I picked it up from the guy I got it from with a blown alternator and no battery. All I needed to do was remove the brass slug in the injector pump for the stop solenoid, and push-start the car, and all was just fine thanks. Well, mostly. After the first 15 seconds or so... You see, as you point out, the self-levelling suspension is hydraulically driven by a pump on the engine. On old Citroens like that, it's a pump about the size of a coffee mug - about the same size as the hydraulic pump on a smallish tipper truck or farm tractor. This pump also provides the hydraulic power for the steering and braking system. Now, once the engine is running, there's a reservoir that keeps the brakes up for an hour or so, but for the first few seconds after starting one that hasn't been run for a week or so, there's no pressure at all. No brakes, steering locked straight ahead (no pressure means no way to release the steering ram) and no ground clearance...
What the article actually says is that a spokesman for the Free Church of Scotland - a fundamentalist group with beliefs roughly aligned with Wahhabi Islam or Haredi Judaism. He is using the example of having Jedi wedding ceremonies as Appeal To Ridicule.
The government has not "made Jedi marriage legal", except in a very indirect sense.
Yes, you can; you say "here you go, here is the truth" and then you win.
In Simon Singh's much-publicised case, about the only way he could have lost is if he stood in the courtroom making chimpanzee noises and throwing excrement at the judge.
Uhm, no, you've got that backwards. In the UK, the truth is *always* a valid defence. If you were telling the truth, you will always win a libel suit - there is no way for you to lose.
The reason the UK has a "bad reputation when it comes to libel laws" is because lawyers think it should be like the American system, where it doesn't matter what the truth is as long as you can pay more money than the other guy.
My job is split about 50/50 between sitting in front of a computer designing complicated radio systems, and the manual labour involved in hauling all the kit up to the roofs of very tall buildings and putting it together. It's still only about 30 hours a week.
In the USA and in England, it's normal for mobile phone calls to disconnect in the middle of the conversation. Each instance of this is a "dropped call".
I go to England quite a lot. I've never had one of these "dropped calls". I don't know about the USA though, I hear their phone system pretty much sucks.
No, a fairly remote part of Scotland. I got rid of the landline because frankly it was crap and I wouldn't want to have to rely on it in an emergency. I still have the copper pair for ADSL, but that's crap too - and in fact failed while I was composing this post so the router has switched to 3G.
It's raining and a bit windy, so the line has probably failed somewhere.
I keep hearing people talk about "dropped calls" - is that when the landline develops a fault and the audio keeps dropping out? I don't know if they still do that, because I haven't had a landline phone for about ten years - and their inherent unreliability is one of the reasons I got rid of it.
Britain nearly *was* speaking German, thanks to the funding, oil and machinery the US was supplying to Germany. Fortunately we managed to take out enough American ships to hold things down until the Russians got started, and then the rest was easy.
Once the Americans got hit by the Japanese a couple of times, they changed their tune and decided that maybe they weren't on the best team after all. So, we sorted out the Far East for you, without which all the Americans would be speaking Japanese.
I think it's the one where the majority of candidates agree with Todd Akin's comments about rape being legitimate. How can you possibly justify saying that it's okay to rape?
"They said it is also meant to show South Korea and Japan that the United States is willing to commit resources to deterring the North and, at the same time, warn Beijing that it must restrain its ally or face an expanding American military focus on Asia."
Because America has such a great track record with getting into wars in the Far East. Better get Britain ready to save them *again*...
CFLs? Every Slashdotter needs to walk into a room and instantly have 6500K light or people... will... die !
I find the five minutes or so they take to "warm up" a bit annoying, but what I can't live with is the poor colour rendering and unbelievable amounts of RF noise they put out. The fact that they draw slightly more power than comparable incandescents (as measured by the fuel flow meter on the generator) just puts the icing on the cake, for me.
Solar panels? Take more energy to make than they'll ever produce, and it lowers property values to have free electricity.
I'd prefer an RTG, but no-one seriously cares that they take more energy to produce than they make. What they do is they make it possible to produce energy quietly a long way from existing energy sources. In any case, the "more energy to make than they produce" thing hasn't really been true for a couple of decades.
IGPs? Sure, I only play cheesy online Flash solitaire, but I NEED A quad 7990 and an external 3KW PSU just to feed it.
Some people do need fairly hefty machines that run all the time. I suspect that most of the properly geeky people on here have a couple of machines at home that run 24/7 and are always doing *something* - rendering, compiling, encoding video or audio or even just running Folding@Home.
Electric cars? They "had to" push it home on that show with the car guys. And Elon Musk eats Christian babies.
I'm coming round to the idea of electric cars. They still need to charge more quickly, and once we work out some way of breaking the laws of physics that will come. I actually *do* use 600 miles tank range quite often, and I can easily get through a couple of tanks of diesel in a week. If I'm driving a long distance I stop every couple of hours for a break, so if I could get roughly 200 miles at normal motorway speeds out of about 20 minutes of charging (time for a cup of tea, a bit of food and a pish) then that would work pretty well for me.
LED bulbs rock, but they have the same poor colour rendering problem as CFLs. If they could get flatter spectrum phosphors they would be excellent. As it is, I keep incandescents around for working on electronic stuff because it's very hard to read the markings on tiny surface-mount components by CFL or LED.
I can certainly understand that. I live in Scotland, where we used to have people coming from all over the world to see the outstandingly beautiful scenery. Now that the untouched landscape has been despoiled by greedy windfarm companies, tourism is dying off. These inefficient monstrosities only make money for a very small number of people, and the external effects destroy livelihoods.
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If they want it to go at speed then they can get more output for less weight than with a gas motor.
Only at very high revs, with low torque. If you want to haul around a big heavy vehicle (which this is, and *then* some) you want a diesel.
My Mercedes can suffer complete electrical system failure and still retain all the important features but forced kickdown, and it's got a four speed automatic transmission. Even the vehicles with automatically leveling rear suspension retain this feature, since it's hydraulically driven.
I've done this with one of my old Citroen CXes - I picked it up from the guy I got it from with a blown alternator and no battery. All I needed to do was remove the brass slug in the injector pump for the stop solenoid, and push-start the car, and all was just fine thanks. Well, mostly. After the first 15 seconds or so...
You see, as you point out, the self-levelling suspension is hydraulically driven by a pump on the engine. On old Citroens like that, it's a pump about the size of a coffee mug - about the same size as the hydraulic pump on a smallish tipper truck or farm tractor. This pump also provides the hydraulic power for the steering and braking system. Now, once the engine is running, there's a reservoir that keeps the brakes up for an hour or so, but for the first few seconds after starting one that hasn't been run for a week or so, there's no pressure at all. No brakes, steering locked straight ahead (no pressure means no way to release the steering ram) and no ground clearance...
... did you actually RTFA? No? Thought not...
What the article actually says is that a spokesman for the Free Church of Scotland - a fundamentalist group with beliefs roughly aligned with Wahhabi Islam or Haredi Judaism. He is using the example of having Jedi wedding ceremonies as Appeal To Ridicule.
The government has not "made Jedi marriage legal", except in a very indirect sense.
Smash the art smash the art!!!
They did, by cancelling the gig in which they smash the art. By doing so they can deconstruct the event of smashing the purpose-built sculpture.
It's pretty clever stuff.
I don't know where you are, but over here everyone runs their heavy electrical loads in the home at night...
So at night, when all the really heavy electrical loads (heating, washing machines) are on? Yeah, that'll work just fine...
Because if you have them in everyone's driveway, you have to upgrade your electricity distribution pretty drastically.
That electricity doesn't just magically appear...
Yes, you can; you say "here you go, here is the truth" and then you win.
In Simon Singh's much-publicised case, about the only way he could have lost is if he stood in the courtroom making chimpanzee noises and throwing excrement at the judge.
Uhm, no, you've got that backwards. In the UK, the truth is *always* a valid defence. If you were telling the truth, you will always win a libel suit - there is no way for you to lose.
The reason the UK has a "bad reputation when it comes to libel laws" is because lawyers think it should be like the American system, where it doesn't matter what the truth is as long as you can pay more money than the other guy.
So, you work your life away for a few pennies? That's pretty sad, really. Have you ever done anything worthwhile?
My job is split about 50/50 between sitting in front of a computer designing complicated radio systems, and the manual labour involved in hauling all the kit up to the roofs of very tall buildings and putting it together. It's still only about 30 hours a week.
Who the hell works more than 30 hours per week anyway?
In the USA and in England, it's normal for mobile phone calls to disconnect in the middle of the conversation. Each instance of this is a "dropped call".
I go to England quite a lot. I've never had one of these "dropped calls". I don't know about the USA though, I hear their phone system pretty much sucks.
No, a fairly remote part of Scotland. I got rid of the landline because frankly it was crap and I wouldn't want to have to rely on it in an emergency. I still have the copper pair for ADSL, but that's crap too - and in fact failed while I was composing this post so the router has switched to 3G.
It's raining and a bit windy, so the line has probably failed somewhere.
The real problem is that mobile phone calls disconnect all the time, and for a number of reasons.
What, when you press the disconnect button? Are there any other reasons?
I keep hearing people talk about "dropped calls" - is that when the landline develops a fault and the audio keeps dropping out? I don't know if they still do that, because I haven't had a landline phone for about ten years - and their inherent unreliability is one of the reasons I got rid of it.
Britain nearly *was* speaking German, thanks to the funding, oil and machinery the US was supplying to Germany. Fortunately we managed to take out enough American ships to hold things down until the Russians got started, and then the rest was easy.
Once the Americans got hit by the Japanese a couple of times, they changed their tune and decided that maybe they weren't on the best team after all. So, we sorted out the Far East for you, without which all the Americans would be speaking Japanese.
I think it's the one where the majority of candidates agree with Todd Akin's comments about rape being legitimate. How can you possibly justify saying that it's okay to rape?
Given how many Republican ideas he uses I wonder what's the role of the present Republican party these days. Comic relief?
The role of the Rapeublican party is to devise new ways of justifying sexual violence.
"They said it is also meant to show South Korea and Japan that the United States is willing to commit resources to deterring the North and, at the same time, warn Beijing that it must restrain its ally or face an expanding American military focus on Asia."
Because America has such a great track record with getting into wars in the Far East. Better get Britain ready to save them *again*...
Everyone post "nasty" comments - rude and abrupt, whether you're arguing for or against the premise of the article.
Then tomorrow when it gets posted as a dupe, everyone post constructive comments, and we'll see what happens.
That's not the experience of people actually running hotels, guest houses and tourist attractions.
CFLs? Every Slashdotter needs to walk into a room and instantly have 6500K light or people... will... die !
I find the five minutes or so they take to "warm up" a bit annoying, but what I can't live with is the poor colour rendering and unbelievable amounts of RF noise they put out. The fact that they draw slightly more power than comparable incandescents (as measured by the fuel flow meter on the generator) just puts the icing on the cake, for me.
Solar panels? Take more energy to make than they'll ever produce, and it lowers property values to have free electricity.
I'd prefer an RTG, but no-one seriously cares that they take more energy to produce than they make. What they do is they make it possible to produce energy quietly a long way from existing energy sources. In any case, the "more energy to make than they produce" thing hasn't really been true for a couple of decades.
IGPs? Sure, I only play cheesy online Flash solitaire, but I NEED A quad 7990 and an external 3KW PSU just to feed it.
Some people do need fairly hefty machines that run all the time. I suspect that most of the properly geeky people on here have a couple of machines at home that run 24/7 and are always doing *something* - rendering, compiling, encoding video or audio or even just running Folding@Home.
Electric cars? They "had to" push it home on that show with the car guys. And Elon Musk eats Christian babies.
I'm coming round to the idea of electric cars. They still need to charge more quickly, and once we work out some way of breaking the laws of physics that will come. I actually *do* use 600 miles tank range quite often, and I can easily get through a couple of tanks of diesel in a week. If I'm driving a long distance I stop every couple of hours for a break, so if I could get roughly 200 miles at normal motorway speeds out of about 20 minutes of charging (time for a cup of tea, a bit of food and a pish) then that would work pretty well for me.
LED bulbs rock, but they have the same poor colour rendering problem as CFLs. If they could get flatter spectrum phosphors they would be excellent. As it is, I keep incandescents around for working on electronic stuff because it's very hard to read the markings on tiny surface-mount components by CFL or LED.
hatred of seeing windmills on the horizon
I can certainly understand that. I live in Scotland, where we used to have people coming from all over the world to see the outstandingly beautiful scenery. Now that the untouched landscape has been despoiled by greedy windfarm companies, tourism is dying off. These inefficient monstrosities only make money for a very small number of people, and the external effects destroy livelihoods.
... I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
No, the hatred of Semites - both the Arabs and the Jews.