He's probably confusing it with "coffin nails", which *is* documented back to the late 1800s. Cassell's claims it's only based on a resemblance, but I don't think so. While the linking of tobacco and cancer only goes back to the 1950s and 60s, there's always been a widespread perception that it's only common sense that breathing burning smoke on a regular basis *can't* be good for your lungs. Autopsies of smoker's lungs blackened by tobacco smoke go back that far.
Here in Virginia you also pay property tax on your car; I believe that's also the case in some other states. But, yeah, even here you don't pay taxes on personal property in general, just real property and cars.
Soooo, you want your TV shows to be totally and 100% factually accurate?
No, I just want people to acknowledge that they are not accurate and therefore you can't draw real-life conclusions from them or claim you are "learning" something when you watch them.
You go back far enough, and you realize they also ate themselves. Remember when Electronic Arts meant Pinball Construction Set? Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Sim? M.U.L.E.? Archon? The creativity in Electronic Arts was once nothing short of amazing.
Will they write better drivers than the current commercial drivers for Windows? In terms of sheer performance, probably not. In terms of reliability, maybe. Will they write better drivers than the current Linux open-source drivers? Damn skippy. And as I use the open-source nv driver myself, that's a very good thing as far as I'm concerned.
I should point out, I don't know how much pressure the in-car tank would need to hold to draw 20hp for 300 miles at 60 mph. I think that's the real crux of the matter here.
Exactly. That was my point. The problem wasn't whether your little 8hp compressor could move enough air, the question is whether it could achieve the required pressures. I haven't even done a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it's pretty obvious it can't. Even the hybrid solution the original article talks about requires 4000 psi for a complete charge, well beyond what any home air pump can achieve (the home charging mentioned in the article only gives about a third of a full charge).
Call me uneducated, but cars running on air sound much less like marketing hype to me than electric cars.
OK, you're uneducated.
The problem is energy density. How much energy per kilogram of storage do you get? How much energy per cubic meter? The answers dictate whether or not you can go more than 20 miles between refuelings. Gas is pretty much much the champ here--other fuel technologies still hold as an unattained goal being able to go 300 miles on a tank, something gasoline does with little effort. In order to get any range at all out of compressed air, you'd have to compress the air *very* hard. Which means a) no, you can't refuel it at home, b) no, it's not easy to outfit a gas station to do it, c) instead of an expensive, heavy battery, you get to have a heavy, expensive containment vessel and d) if it's damaged enough to breach the containment, the extreme pressure *will* make it explode. And I don't believe that even so that you'd get much range out of it.
On reading the article, I see that they aren't really using compressed air as their store of energy. What they're really running off is the "auxiliary" gasoline engine to compress and/or heat the air.
You don't *have* to maximize your browser window, you know. Letting the text flow to the window is the right solution. Text lines too long for you? Resize your window!
I think you are confusing "RC1" (Release Candidate 1, i.e., the first trial release of Vista, which happened 17 months ago) with "SP1" (Service Pack 1, i.e., the first major overhaul of Vista after its release (which Microsoft is still trying to get out the door, with mixed results).
If I modded stuff, I'd mod the parent up. I agree with Scott McCloud's definition of art: Art is human activity that does not have a reasonably direct relation to survival or procreation.
The fact that a given piece of art is bad, or shallow, or crude doesn't make it not art. It just makes it bad, shallow, or crude art.
It got killed by the gamepad and the death of the flight/space sim. The gamepad was a superior replacement for anything other than the aforementioned flight/space sims, and when those went away, so did the joystick.
I will admit, on a Windows box, it is hard to get the blessed thing to tell you the size of your physical disks. It'll tell you the model number though, and you can Google that to tell you how big it is.
And there is no way - I mean, mathematically no way - to tell if a hidden volume is actually there.
I don't know if Customs would be smart enough to catch it, but personally, I'd wonder if your hardware indicated you had a 40 Gig disk but all the partitions I could see added up to only 10 Gig.
Proof of my point. The Social Security card is not required and is not an ID--the *Primary* documents are the IDs, and the Social Security card is not one of them. It is merely a corroborating piece of evidence. Even a Primary document and a SS card isn't enough, you have to have something else as well. SS cards are ranked with bank statements and tax statements, which aren't IDs either.
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He's probably confusing it with "coffin nails", which *is* documented back to the late 1800s. Cassell's claims it's only based on a resemblance, but I don't think so. While the linking of tobacco and cancer only goes back to the 1950s and 60s, there's always been a widespread perception that it's only common sense that breathing burning smoke on a regular basis *can't* be good for your lungs. Autopsies of smoker's lungs blackened by tobacco smoke go back that far.
Here in Virginia you also pay property tax on your car; I believe that's also the case in some other states. But, yeah, even here you don't pay taxes on personal property in general, just real property and cars.
I'm confused. What reality TV did they *not* put all idiots on an island, except for the ones where they stuck them all in a house?
No, I just want people to acknowledge that they are not accurate and therefore you can't draw real-life conclusions from them or claim you are "learning" something when you watch them.
Google is working on number 3, is rapidly getting the necessary position to do number 2, and regards number 1 as irrelevant.
You go back far enough, and you realize they also ate themselves. Remember when Electronic Arts meant Pinball Construction Set? Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Sim? M.U.L.E.? Archon? The creativity in Electronic Arts was once nothing short of amazing.
Will they write better drivers than the current commercial drivers for Windows? In terms of sheer performance, probably not. In terms of reliability, maybe. Will they write better drivers than the current Linux open-source drivers? Damn skippy. And as I use the open-source nv driver myself, that's a very good thing as far as I'm concerned.
They can call it whatever they want; it'll still always be MVS to me...
Exactly. That was my point. The problem wasn't whether your little 8hp compressor could move enough air, the question is whether it could achieve the required pressures. I haven't even done a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it's pretty obvious it can't. Even the hybrid solution the original article talks about requires 4000 psi for a complete charge, well beyond what any home air pump can achieve (the home charging mentioned in the article only gives about a third of a full charge).
In response, a government minister said, "What a great idea! We'll need to get going on that, too!"
OK, you're uneducated.
The problem is energy density. How much energy per kilogram of storage do you get? How much energy per cubic meter? The answers dictate whether or not you can go more than 20 miles between refuelings. Gas is pretty much much the champ here--other fuel technologies still hold as an unattained goal being able to go 300 miles on a tank, something gasoline does with little effort. In order to get any range at all out of compressed air, you'd have to compress the air *very* hard. Which means a) no, you can't refuel it at home, b) no, it's not easy to outfit a gas station to do it, c) instead of an expensive, heavy battery, you get to have a heavy, expensive containment vessel and d) if it's damaged enough to breach the containment, the extreme pressure *will* make it explode. And I don't believe that even so that you'd get much range out of it.
On reading the article, I see that they aren't really using compressed air as their store of energy. What they're really running off is the "auxiliary" gasoline engine to compress and/or heat the air.
"Disparagement of the almighty Gates detected! Implementing protective 'typo' procedures!"
You don't *have* to maximize your browser window, you know. Letting the text flow to the window is the right solution. Text lines too long for you? Resize your window!
I think you are confusing "RC1" (Release Candidate 1, i.e., the first trial release of Vista, which happened 17 months ago) with "SP1" (Service Pack 1, i.e., the first major overhaul of Vista after its release (which Microsoft is still trying to get out the door, with mixed results).
Slashdotted as well.
If I modded stuff, I'd mod the parent up. I agree with Scott McCloud's definition of art: Art is human activity that does not have a reasonably direct relation to survival or procreation.
The fact that a given piece of art is bad, or shallow, or crude doesn't make it not art. It just makes it bad, shallow, or crude art.
Like it or not, he called it.
Really? And how many guns does the IOC have? 'Cause the Chinese government has *lots*.
It got killed by the gamepad and the death of the flight/space sim. The gamepad was a superior replacement for anything other than the aforementioned flight/space sims, and when those went away, so did the joystick.
Of course they are. A screw-up this big is a Red Alert, All Hands to Your Astroturfing Stations.
Good thing that almost all NICs can be configured to be any MAC you want if necessary.
I will admit, on a Windows box, it is hard to get the blessed thing to tell you the size of your physical disks. It'll tell you the model number though, and you can Google that to tell you how big it is.
I don't know if Customs would be smart enough to catch it, but personally, I'd wonder if your hardware indicated you had a 40 Gig disk but all the partitions I could see added up to only 10 Gig.
Wrong analogy. Having two single engine airplanes cuts your chances that all your airplanes will be grounded by engine problems almost in half.
Proof of my point. The Social Security card is not required and is not an ID--the *Primary* documents are the IDs, and the Social Security card is not one of them. It is merely a corroborating piece of evidence. Even a Primary document and a SS card isn't enough, you have to have something else as well. SS cards are ranked with bank statements and tax statements, which aren't IDs either.