Disgruntled soon-to-be-ex-wife sells husband's car or other stuff for pennies on the dollar.
Yeah, that's actually not legal either... disposing of (or receiving) property that is likely to be subject to a "property agreement" not yet finalized by a divorce. That's a theft.
Hogwash! You can see in 3D. You can perceive depth and dimension with your one good eye. You just can't preceive stereopsis - the part of visual perception that ViewMasters and other stero imaging relies upon.
Steropsis is just one of about a dozen ways the human brain preceives depth. In fact, it's one of the least reliable and least useful, since it only works for objects at middle range with contrasting depths in the same scene, and only when things are relatively still.
Much more useful are the other cues, things like parallax, relative size, relative motion, color intensity (things far away are hazier), etc. You use those methods of depth perception far more often than stereopsis. Stereopsis can't help you catch a baseball. Stereopsis can't help you determine how far away a mountain range is. You aren't missing much.
Contrary to the opinion in the posting, I think the article is very poorly written. It is extremely stilted, and could have easily been boiled down to less than half the original word count without losing any of the meaning. The lost meaning, by the way, was neither original, nor interesting. I'm not saying it was wrong, it just wasn't anything new.
All of which begs the next question: Do violent video games cause stilted, self-important, rambling, repetetive diatribe? If even a tertiary connection can be proved, then it's time we take that crap off the shelves.
An excellent point, one that I am sorry I missed when I read the article. Thanks for pointing this out. I should like to hear the article's author's rebuttal!
Interesting... I'm doing the math. I have a Toyota ECHO that gets 48 mpg on my 100 mile round trip daily commute when the weather is nice enough not to use the A/C, and I'm not in a hurry. I get 43 MPG when I have a lead foot, or when it's suffocatingly hot here in the midwest.
Let's call that a yearly average of 45 mpg. 100 miles per day times 250 commuting days per year gets me a yearly fuel consumption of 556 gallons. Multiplied by local gas prices, that's right at $1000 worth of gas per year.
The additional 5 miles per gallon a TDI would net me would come out to a yearly savings of about $110.
I paid about $12000 for my ECHO brand new. I could earn back the $5000 price difference between it and a Beetle TDI in just a little over 45 years.
I initally chose satellite over cable just out of sheer spite. I hate my cable company, and won't ever give them another penny. I won't go into details, but it was a matter of service quality being awful and their billing system causing deep repeated inconveniences for me.
However, although my satellite decision was based on spite, it turns out that I get a better picture, virtually no interruptions, pleasant service, more channels, and all at a lower price.
Caffeinated beverages are an appetite suppressant and a metabolism stimulant. I would have to believe that men drinking 6 cups of coffee per day are likely not overweight, and thus not very susceptable to type II diabetes.
However, high caffeine intake has other problems: impotence being one of them.
So there's this Slashdot user named "Anonymous Coward" that posts several thousand times PER DAY! Very little of what he or she writes is useful. I'm having a hard time believing that one person can generate this much garbage.
So a computer with the processing capacity of a human brain is to be put to work by the government? Does the US government have any actual experience in managing something as powerful as a human brain? How long before the computer realizes it could do much better in the private sector?
I've gone exactly the other direction lately with my bikes. I traded the CBR1100XX in for a SV650. The SV is far easier to hustle around Gateway Int'l Raceway on track days, all of my old luggage fits on it, and it doesn't eat rear tires like the blackbird did.
I also picked up a Husqvarna supermotard, and started racing in a local series. It is the most fun motorcycle I have ever owned. 45hp+300lbs+17inch rims makes for a seriously exciting ride. Check out some photos
Actually, aerodynamic drag is a function of the velocity, the coefficient of drag (cd), the density of air, and the frontal area of the vehicle. You are correct in understanding that the coefficient of drag expresses how the entire shape moves through the medium, but the cd must be multiplied by the frontal area, the density of the medium, and one half the square of the velocity to determine thae actual drag on the object.
Motorcycles have high drag coefficients because only the front is usually streamlined. But, they have very small frontal areas, so they generate similar drag forces to much more aerodynamic automobiles.
Hate to drag this OT thread on and on... but, since I love to talk bikes, and you seem to like bikes too...
Peak horesepower does not translate directly into top speed. There's a delicate balance of gearing and tuning that goes into increasing top speed. Peaky (read modified) motors can become almost useless because of their power curve. One tooth to small on the rear sprocket, and the off-peak motor may not be able to overcome the gearing to reach its theoretical top speed. One tooth to large on the rear, and the peak power is used before the theoretical top speed is reached. As a result, the fastest motorcycles are not necessarily the most powerful. Rather, it is sometimes necessary to detune a motor to work with available gearing choices so that the highest top speed can be reached. Add to that the huge importance of aerodynamics, and you can see that "bolting on" an additional 40 peak horsepower may not translate to the kind of speeds superbikes and GP bikes are capable of.
The superbikes and GP bikes are actually detuned to peak at around 200 hp. If the tuners wanted a peak of 350hp, it could be had, but a peaky, heavily stressed motor won't get around the track nearly as fast. The racebikes make significantly more hp accross the rev range than even a 250hp 'Busa, so they are not as sensitive to gearing issues.
Sport Rider, this summer had an in depth article on mounting a Hahn Racecraft turbo system on a Hayabusa. It netted them over thirty horsepower, and took the bike to a top speed of (drumroll please) 197 mph. The turbo was not easy to install, and it wasn't cheap.
NOX injection does remarkable things for drag racers, but there's just not enough juice in the bottle to provide sustained horesepower for top speed runs.
I owned a CBR1100XX Blackbird for several years, one of the original carbureted 97 models. I took it up to an indicated 165mph once. I say indicated because the speedometer error on virtually all motorcycles is somewhere near 10%, so I may have been travelling as slow as 150mph. Slug-like, to be sure. At any rate, while it was still accelerating impressively at 150mph, it was no where near the thrust from 90 to 130. All that air just piles up in front of you when you start going that fast. Something about the cube of the speed...
I would still bet that the frontal area of the Landshark is between 4 and 6 times that of a CBR1100XX. These fast bikes have a remakably small frontal profile.
several motorcycles available today are capable (with minor mods) of going that fast.
That, sir, is a load of bunk. Take the fastest production motorcycle in the world: The Suzuki GSX1300R. It's not the most powerful production motorcycle, but darn close. It has an aerodynamic advantage over other more powerful bikes that give it its high top speed.
It turns out that you have to spend double the original price of the bike just to get it to travel in the mid 190 mph range. The modifications require major alteration of the motor.
You have to spend cubic money to get that last 15 mph.
By the way, cd isn't the only factor in calculating drag. Motorcycles have high cd compared to cars, but they also have tiny frontal area. A three wheeled car with a better cd and five times as much frontal area loses all its advantage.
First, if NASA has previously spent time and energy answering doubters individually, then putting together a set of material to address the issue may represent a good savings. Now they'll have a resource and a procedure for disposing of inquiries quickly.
Second, how humiliating is it to get your clock cleaned in public by a 72 year old man? That's fantastic! Reminds me of when a rookie Robin Ventura rushed the mound on Nolan Ryan, and Nolan, twice the rookie's age, beat him like a cheap rug. Let's hear it for old guys who still crack heads! Hooray for Buzz Aldrin!
Have you found any differences between the contestants in different iterations of the show? Speaking as an American who spent part of his youth in England, I find the British contestants much more entertaining, insightful and engaging. Was it easier to work with any particular group? Were there any contestants that made the show difficult?
Motorcycle vacation, 2 weeks on the road, camping every night. Took my palm and an alkaline battery powered mobile phone to check e-mail, and to telnet into my employers boxen when needed. Used much less space than a laptop, never required me to have access to AC. Sometimes disposable is better than rechargeable.
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Disgruntled soon-to-be-ex-wife sells husband's car or other stuff for pennies on the dollar.
Yeah, that's actually not legal either... disposing of (or receiving) property that is likely to be subject to a "property agreement" not yet finalized by a divorce. That's a theft.
Hogwash! You can see in 3D. You can perceive depth and dimension with your one good eye. You just can't preceive stereopsis - the part of visual perception that ViewMasters and other stero imaging relies upon.
Steropsis is just one of about a dozen ways the human brain preceives depth. In fact, it's one of the least reliable and least useful, since it only works for objects at middle range with contrasting depths in the same scene, and only when things are relatively still.
Much more useful are the other cues, things like parallax, relative size, relative motion, color intensity (things far away are hazier), etc. You use those methods of depth perception far more often than stereopsis. Stereopsis can't help you catch a baseball. Stereopsis can't help you determine how far away a mountain range is. You aren't missing much.
Except ViewMasters... man those things are cool.
That's exactly what I thought when I RTFA.
Contrary to the opinion in the posting, I think the article is very poorly written. It is extremely stilted, and could have easily been boiled down to less than half the original word count without losing any of the meaning. The lost meaning, by the way, was neither original, nor interesting. I'm not saying it was wrong, it just wasn't anything new.
All of which begs the next question: Do violent video games cause stilted, self-important, rambling, repetetive diatribe? If even a tertiary connection can be proved, then it's time we take that crap off the shelves.
it could mean that the new shrink wrap license agreement has changed so you no longer own the files you manage with Longhorn...
Microsoft is simply acknowledging that any files you save to your system will probably be in the hands of crackers by noon tomorrow.
An excellent point, one that I am sorry I missed when I read the article. Thanks for pointing this out. I should like to hear the article's author's rebuttal!
Slashdot admins suffer from the same condition: This is why my Karma is listed as "Excellent" instead of being represented as a number.
Interesting... I'm doing the math. I have a Toyota ECHO that gets 48 mpg on my 100 mile round trip daily commute when the weather is nice enough not to use the A/C, and I'm not in a hurry. I get 43 MPG when I have a lead foot, or when it's suffocatingly hot here in the midwest.
Let's call that a yearly average of 45 mpg. 100 miles per day times 250 commuting days per year gets me a yearly fuel consumption of 556 gallons. Multiplied by local gas prices, that's right at $1000 worth of gas per year.
The additional 5 miles per gallon a TDI would net me would come out to a yearly savings of about $110.
I paid about $12000 for my ECHO brand new. I could earn back the $5000 price difference between it and a Beetle TDI in just a little over 45 years.
Your numbers check out.
I agree.
I initally chose satellite over cable just out of sheer spite. I hate my cable company, and won't ever give them another penny. I won't go into details, but it was a matter of service quality being awful and their billing system causing deep repeated inconveniences for me.
However, although my satellite decision was based on spite, it turns out that I get a better picture, virtually no interruptions, pleasant service, more channels, and all at a lower price.
The Yugo I drove in college worked on the same principle: The harder I pushed, the faster I could make it go.
...what I want to know is:
Why does the Spirit rover have an Atari game console joystick installed on it?
Caffeinated beverages are an appetite suppressant and a metabolism stimulant. I would have to believe that men drinking 6 cups of coffee per day are likely not overweight, and thus not very susceptable to type II diabetes.
However, high caffeine intake has other problems: impotence being one of them.
Is she willing to relocate? That would be awesome.
only outlaws will have potatoes
So there's this Slashdot user named "Anonymous Coward" that posts several thousand times PER DAY! Very little of what he or she writes is useful. I'm having a hard time believing that one person can generate this much garbage.
Are we men, or are we mice?!
Um, hold on, still thinking about that one.
So a computer with the processing capacity of a human brain is to be put to work by the government? Does the US government have any actual experience in managing something as powerful as a human brain? How long before the computer realizes it could do much better in the private sector?
I also picked up a Husqvarna supermotard, and started racing in a local series. It is the most fun motorcycle I have ever owned. 45hp+300lbs+17inch rims makes for a seriously exciting ride. Check out some photos
Motorcycles have high drag coefficients because only the front is usually streamlined. But, they have very small frontal areas, so they generate similar drag forces to much more aerodynamic automobiles.
Peak horesepower does not translate directly into top speed. There's a delicate balance of gearing and tuning that goes into increasing top speed. Peaky (read modified) motors can become almost useless because of their power curve. One tooth to small on the rear sprocket, and the off-peak motor may not be able to overcome the gearing to reach its theoretical top speed. One tooth to large on the rear, and the peak power is used before the theoretical top speed is reached. As a result, the fastest motorcycles are not necessarily the most powerful. Rather, it is sometimes necessary to detune a motor to work with available gearing choices so that the highest top speed can be reached. Add to that the huge importance of aerodynamics, and you can see that "bolting on" an additional 40 peak horsepower may not translate to the kind of speeds superbikes and GP bikes are capable of.
The superbikes and GP bikes are actually detuned to peak at around 200 hp. If the tuners wanted a peak of 350hp, it could be had, but a peaky, heavily stressed motor won't get around the track nearly as fast. The racebikes make significantly more hp accross the rev range than even a 250hp 'Busa, so they are not as sensitive to gearing issues.
NOX injection does remarkable things for drag racers, but there's just not enough juice in the bottle to provide sustained horesepower for top speed runs.
I owned a CBR1100XX Blackbird for several years, one of the original carbureted 97 models. I took it up to an indicated 165mph once. I say indicated because the speedometer error on virtually all motorcycles is somewhere near 10%, so I may have been travelling as slow as 150mph. Slug-like, to be sure. At any rate, while it was still accelerating impressively at 150mph, it was no where near the thrust from 90 to 130. All that air just piles up in front of you when you start going that fast. Something about the cube of the speed...
I would still bet that the frontal area of the Landshark is between 4 and 6 times that of a CBR1100XX. These fast bikes have a remakably small frontal profile.
That, sir, is a load of bunk. Take the fastest production motorcycle in the world: The Suzuki GSX1300R. It's not the most powerful production motorcycle, but darn close. It has an aerodynamic advantage over other more powerful bikes that give it its high top speed.
It turns out that you have to spend double the original price of the bike just to get it to travel in the mid 190 mph range. The modifications require major alteration of the motor.
You have to spend cubic money to get that last 15 mph.
By the way, cd isn't the only factor in calculating drag. Motorcycles have high cd compared to cars, but they also have tiny frontal area. A three wheeled car with a better cd and five times as much frontal area loses all its advantage.
The 200 mph figure is quite outrageous.
First, if NASA has previously spent time and energy answering doubters individually, then putting together a set of material to address the issue may represent a good savings. Now they'll have a resource and a procedure for disposing of inquiries quickly.
Second, how humiliating is it to get your clock cleaned in public by a 72 year old man? That's fantastic! Reminds me of when a rookie Robin Ventura rushed the mound on Nolan Ryan, and Nolan, twice the rookie's age, beat him like a cheap rug. Let's hear it for old guys who still crack heads! Hooray for Buzz Aldrin!
Have you found any differences between the contestants in different iterations of the show? Speaking as an American who spent part of his youth in England, I find the British contestants much more entertaining, insightful and engaging. Was it easier to work with any particular group? Were there any contestants that made the show difficult?
Motorcycle vacation, 2 weeks on the road, camping every night. Took my palm and an alkaline battery powered mobile phone to check e-mail, and to telnet into my employers boxen when needed. Used much less space than a laptop, never required me to have access to AC.
Sometimes disposable is better than rechargeable.