That the "alien come as big game hunter" plot from Predator is much more likely.
The real questions would be, when such a hunter is caught, what are its rights within the US legal system, and could they put such an entity though our prison system? Maybe an alien zoo is more likely.
As does Will Smith beating the shit out of one of them and dragging the body across 300 miles of desert in an hour.
Not to mention some crazy drunk crop dusting pilot flying an F-18 hornet up the asshole of their big laser beam to destroy the ship just like the death start and the exhaust port.
.. don't get me started on that cross platform skull and crossbones virus written in a day for a foreign computer system. I suppose the aliens will come with microvaxes or macs or something.
Actually, I got an even better deal on my laptop. Considering:
About the same size and weight.
Regular DVD
8 hours battery life under normal use with linux
Same screen
(okay, not wireless networking.. but I don't need it yet.)
800MHz PIII
256 Mb memory
20 Gb HDD
DVD-ROM with DVD video -- under linux 2.4
ATI Rage Mobility M3
(No built in ethernet -- but $35 solved that)
56 K winmodem (yawn -- never need it.)
One USB port
No Firewire.
Considering that, the results are quite similar. I only wanted to run Unix, and I did look into the new powerbook; as well as some small sony's and others. My homegrown was a better choice and my only sacrifice is that this machine is not ultra light or ultra small... but as long as it fits in my back pack, it's fine.
I wasn't bringing up the price issue as FUD, I find it very relevant when you consider how much bang you get for the buck. Keep in mind that you rarely can put together the perfect system.
I take it that you don't work with motors and generators?
Obviously I don't. I figured a 100hp motor could easily fit in the size of a wheel well. Things will take shape soon enough. As for the vehicle itself, it's a 1985 suburban.. only $500 as a ex-emergency vehicle.
I don't stick with 100hp as firm, but the motors you talk about obviously have a lot more torque.
I think a good 6.2L (or so) diesel engine coupled to a generator that's about the size of a 400 transmission would work nicely. I never had in mind one of the big 24 cylinder diesels you find in your everyday six axle locomotive.
In case it wasn't obvious, I'm in the early planning stages of this project. I'm definately going to switch the thing over to a diesel engine, after which I'll build it from front to back. This sort of powerplant has been in use since the 1940s on railroad locomotives.. and I'm sure that I could scale it down to make it work on a truck.
If all else fails, I guess I'll start working on a dual gas turbine setup or some other exotic setup. I don't care if it's better, cheaper, more efficient, uglier or whatever... all I want is to do something different. --
Electric propulsion is great, but storing electric energy is not. An electric motor produced the most tourque at stall speed, which is why a 90hp electric motor can outgun a 300hp IC engine from a standing start.
Now, a serial hybrid, that's the way to go. In a couple months, I'll be putting a diesel engine in my suburban, replacing the transmission with a generator, adding eight batteries, and putting two 100hp traction motors where the axels are now. (and people think I was stupid to dump computer science for mechanical engineering.)
Yes, I did. I found that a stupid solution was being called for. I would not do it willingly, nor would I wish to accept responsibility for when it goes belly up. The best thing to do was to walk out, and let them find someone else willing to do it that way.
(not in the sense of manipulating small particles, but in the sense that the blade has been refined to an extremely small point and will not require repeated sharpening)?"
We present to you, exibit B, that the above prosecuting attorney is actually a troll. The defense rests.
Sheesh.. I was called to do the same thing about a year ago.. and instead of writing to ask slashdot I was sending out my resume.
Word of advice: your boss has his head too far up his ass.. QUIT. I left my company without notice over a very similar situation. Treat what your boss is asking as in insult; drop everything and don't look back.
The problem is that there were always be some monopoly/dictator/evil empire.. what can we do?? Pass laws? Limit freedoms?? No.. people need to be more educated and aware in order to protect society in general from this sort of thing.
Frankly, I'm a little surprised that nobody has developed some sort of "lawn sprinkler" system integrated into the road to automatically recirulate a salt solution.
Here in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) they have done just that, only on a very small (~200m) stretch of freeway. It's most likely too expensive to maintain such a system, when a truck with a plow is cheap. Maybe as fuel prices go up, these systems will look a lot better. Currently, this system is in this one location because it's on a sharp curve, a grade, and a 65mph speed limit.. and with Utah drivers 75mph+ in snow is very common.
Since I was very young, people in school always shortened my last name of Flickinger to "flick".. mainly because I hate to be called Daniel by strangers and disliked being known as "Dan F." all the time. I never really suggested to be called flick, but over the years people call me that anyways. In high school, a girl I knew always called me flikee (and even spelled it as such.) This stuck as an online handle for some reason. flikee usually got shortened to "flikx", so most people wouldn't assume I'm female. (though that doesn't happen often since I don't spend time on irc.)
I'm usually protective of my first name, so most people do not know it and only know me as flick. On another note, I used flikx online quite a while before I came to slashdot, so there is no relation to spiralx.
... there's much more immaturity around here. You obviously have never seen the amazing crapflood at -1.
And MS's DNS is down, whoopty shit. What does this have to do with Windows2000, Linux, or slashdot immaturity???
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lots of people in IRC and Newsgroups talking about having problems with loading modules?
This explains the shortcommings of those who hang out in IRC and Newsgroups.. more specific, those who hang out in IRC and Newsgroups instead of bothering to read up on what versions of libs and modutils they need in order to run 2.4.
less than 50% uptime some weeks, and the worst customer service I've ever seen..
They're the ones that suggested that I "call linux", because the problem was "obviously at my end". Turned out that they made a big mistake with the records for my company. It took three days and climbing up several levels of command to get any action.
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That the "alien come as big game hunter" plot from Predator is much more likely.
The real questions would be, when such a hunter is caught, what are its rights within the US legal system, and could they put such an entity though our prison system? Maybe an alien zoo is more likely.
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As does Will Smith beating the shit out of one of them and dragging the body across 300 miles of desert in an hour.
Not to mention some crazy drunk crop dusting pilot flying an F-18 hornet up the asshole of their big laser beam to destroy the ship just like the death start and the exhaust port.
.. don't get me started on that cross platform skull and crossbones virus written in a day for a foreign computer system. I suppose the aliens will come with microvaxes or macs or something.
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Actually, I got an even better deal on my laptop. Considering:
Considering that, the results are quite similar. I only wanted to run Unix, and I did look into the new powerbook; as well as some small sony's and others. My homegrown was a better choice and my only sacrifice is that this machine is not ultra light or ultra small ... but as long as it fits in my back pack, it's fine.
I wasn't bringing up the price issue as FUD, I find it very relevant when you consider how much bang you get for the buck. Keep in mind that you rarely can put together the perfect system.
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I get a lot more bang for the buck by buying a $2400 PIII system instead of buying a pricier G4 laptop.
If you're lucky, then sky's the limit and you might as well buy two of those new G4 titanium laptops.
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Obviously I don't. I figured a 100hp motor could easily fit in the size of a wheel well. Things will take shape soon enough. As for the vehicle itself, it's a 1985 suburban .. only $500 as a ex-emergency vehicle.
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.. isn't a turbine powered by gas/liquid flow through it? A pump that is similar in setup to a turbine would actually be a compressor..
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I don't stick with 100hp as firm, but the motors you talk about obviously have a lot more torque.
.. and I'm sure that I could scale it down to make it work on a truck.
... all I want is to do something different.
I think a good 6.2L (or so) diesel engine coupled to a generator that's about the size of a 400 transmission would work nicely. I never had in mind one of the big 24 cylinder diesels you find in your everyday six axle locomotive.
In case it wasn't obvious, I'm in the early planning stages of this project. I'm definately going to switch the thing over to a diesel engine, after which I'll build it from front to back. This sort of powerplant has been in use since the 1940s on railroad locomotives
If all else fails, I guess I'll start working on a dual gas turbine setup or some other exotic setup. I don't care if it's better, cheaper, more efficient, uglier or whatever
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Electric propulsion is great, but storing electric energy is not. An electric motor produced the most tourque at stall speed, which is why a 90hp electric motor can outgun a 300hp IC engine from a standing start.
Now, a serial hybrid, that's the way to go. In a couple months, I'll be putting a diesel engine in my suburban, replacing the transmission with a generator, adding eight batteries, and putting two 100hp traction motors where the axels are now. (and people think I was stupid to dump computer science for mechanical engineering.)
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Yes, I did. I found that a stupid solution was being called for. I would not do it willingly, nor would I wish to accept responsibility for when it goes belly up. The best thing to do was to walk out, and let them find someone else willing to do it that way.
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We present to you, exibit B, that the above prosecuting attorney is actually a troll. The defense rests.
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Sheesh.. I was called to do the same thing about a year ago .. and instead of writing to ask slashdot I was sending out my resume.
Word of advice: your boss has his head too far up his ass .. QUIT. I left my company without notice over a very similar situation. Treat what your boss is asking as in insult; drop everything and don't look back.
I can tell you that I feel a lot cleaner now.
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to all of your friends.
Couldn't we do without that?
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I've hotrodded a station wagon before. Most people never expect a 1978 Dodge diplomat wagon to outaccelerate a mustang.. but oh well.
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You got my point.
The problem is that there were always be some monopoly/dictator/evil empire.. what can we do?? Pass laws? Limit freedoms?? No.. people need to be more educated and aware in order to protect society in general from this sort of thing.
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If they get broken up, some other megacorporation will grow to take its place.
More of the same.
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Don't they let you keep your account(s) after graduation??
Maybe you should make friends with a few of the admins around campus, and then get to keep your accounts anyways. :p
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Here in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) they have done just that, only on a very small (~200m) stretch of freeway. It's most likely too expensive to maintain such a system, when a truck with a plow is cheap. Maybe as fuel prices go up, these systems will look a lot better. Currently, this system is in this one location because it's on a sharp curve, a grade, and a 65mph speed limit.. and with Utah drivers 75mph+ in snow is very common.
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I can think of better planets to tour. Why bother to run around this stupid rock??
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Cloning Alan Cox would be a bad idea; though not as bad as cloning RMS .
You know they don't call it GNU/Linux for no reason..
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All other moons are ours for the taking ... except Europa.
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If you see an @ in a link...
Don't click!!
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Since I was very young, people in school always shortened my last name of Flickinger to "flick" .. mainly because I hate to be called Daniel by strangers and disliked being known as "Dan F." all the time. I never really suggested to be called flick, but over the years people call me that anyways. In high school, a girl I knew always called me flikee (and even spelled it as such.) This stuck as an online handle for some reason. flikee usually got shortened to "flikx", so most people wouldn't assume I'm female. (though that doesn't happen often since I don't spend time on irc.)
I'm usually protective of my first name, so most people do not know it and only know me as flick. On another note, I used flikx online quite a while before I came to slashdot, so there is no relation to spiralx.
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... there's much more immaturity around here. You obviously have never seen the amazing crapflood at -1.
And MS's DNS is down, whoopty shit. What does this have to do with Windows2000, Linux, or slashdot immaturity???
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This explains the shortcommings of those who hang out in IRC and Newsgroups .. more specific, those who hang out in IRC and Newsgroups instead of bothering to read up on what versions of libs and modutils they need in order to run 2.4.
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They're the ones that suggested that I "call linux", because the problem was "obviously at my end". Turned out that they made a big mistake with the records for my company. It took three days and climbing up several levels of command to get any action.
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