Most engines have knock sensors on them which are able to detect knocks and pings (often even just mild ones which may not be noticible to the driver). Many somewhat-modern engine controllers will continuously tweak the ignition timing until it reaches the point just prior to detonation. Any trace of pings or knocks, and it backs off a bit. Depending on how well the ECU manages the engine, using higher-grade fuel will often free up a few horsepower because the timing can be advanced more.
Also, your theory of premium fuels running richer is askew. Most O2 sensors in cars operate in a very narrow range; i.e., it can only tell if the engine is running rich or lean, but isn't very good at exactly how rich or lean the engine is. The ECU watches for transitions from lean-to-rich and rich-to-lean and adjusts the fuel requirements accordingly. In fact, a properly-working 02 sensor will show many such transitions per second. The ECU will systematically play with different fuel mixtures until it is operating ideally, regardless of fuel grade.
Lastly, higher-grade fuel is just that- higher grade. The Octane rating is higher, but also the quality of the fuel itself is higher. Higher-grade fuel also contains many additive packages which can somewhat reduce the presence of fuel deposits (Shell V-Power's claim to fame).
And Premium fuel should help out those riced-out Neons and Civics as they tend to use small, high-compression engines. Not only are they naturally more susceptable to knocks and pings, the problem is magnified by the fact that the engines are often run hard (think hotter), which furthers the chance of pre-detonation. Honda's ECUs are pretty good adapting to fuel grades, and I'm sure the Neon's are as well.
Not to be too picky, but the phrase "LCD display" is redundant. As we are all aware of, the 'D' in LCD already means display, so there is no need to specify that it is a display. This is something which has bothered my for years, but I digress.
My Sharp Zaurus SL-C860 features a 3.7" VGA display. The text is amazingly sharp- though it might be hard to read because everything is so small (I believe the pixel density is around 216 pixel/inch). This new screen is nearly one-third the area of the Zaurus', yet features the same resolution. Just a few years back, we were all drooling over this IBM Roentgen display, with its 200ppi (in this article). Can't wait to see one in my next cell phone, complete with a fresnel lens so I can read the text!
I found out about this last week. My roomate didn't believe me, and I was able to open (on my first try, nonetheless) it in under 20 seconds. The next day I told someone at school (who had a really expensive downhill bike) while he was unlocking his bike. He happened to have a Bic pen in his ear at the time (how coincidental). Not believing me (people seem to get pissed when you tell them thier $50 lock is able to be defeated by a 10 cent pen), he tried it himself, only to open the lock up in about 15 seconds.
The biggest problem, is the fact that any properly (wrongly?) sized lock is vulnerable. At work, I was able to open the Pepsi machine we own with a thin highlighter (the Bic was too small, but the highlighter fit perfectly). My manager even let me have a free soda while it was open;)
Just be responsible with this information; even just opening a lock for fun is illegal in most states.
My Motorola V120 would beep uncomfortably loud when the batery got low. In fact, it would often cause ringing in my ear and I ended up shelling out money for a new phone because of this (not to mention that the battery would only last about a day on a charge).
I appreciate your "notable" analogy, but the truth is, "no va" and "nova" are pronounced fairly similarly. On the other hand, "Notable" and "No Table" are pronounced quite differently.
Mercedes has had IR reflecting glass in thier S-Class for a few years now. It reflects about 55% of all IR, which can reduce cabin temperatures up to 40 degrees F on a hot day. So that way, you know, your super-duper leather seats won't get so hot that you have to turn on the seat coolers.
But I think the reason this glass is so great is that in the winter (i.e., cooler temperatures), IR energy is allowed through to provide the heating effects of the sunlight. In the summer, it is blocked, keeping cooling bills down. If only they can lower the threshold a bit and get rid of the yellow, it will be a great alternative to those stupid static-cling things.
It's a good thing for those who like good looks inside their PC, but I don't know if it will last. Those connectors cost money, reduce reliability (i.e. they break or fall out) and reduce efficiency due to increased resistance.
If a connector on this breaks, you can always replace it. If you break a cable or connector on a non-modular PSU, either you fix it with some solder and electric tape, or live without the connector. Spending a few bucks for a new connector pales in comparison of paying up to $100+ because you broke the motherboard connector beyond repair on a non-modular PSU. Also, I doubt that the modular cables are significantly less efficient. They claim an approximately 70% efficiency, which is on par with most high-end supplies. Also, the voltage readings under load are as good or better than the NeoPower 480 (well within the margin of error for the test equiptment, I'm sure). Plus, if would be so great to reduce all that clutter!
Was it just me, or was there a continuity error involving MJ's nipples? In the scene near the end where spidey holds up the wall to prevent it from falling on her, I thought I saw MJ nippin' pretty bad just before the wall fell. Then, as spidey is standing over her holding the wall, her nipples are no longer showing through.
Of course, I may have just have been wishing her hardcore nippage from earlier in the movie was still there. Anyone else notice this?
RTFA. At the bottom of the article, it clearly states:
The US space agency Nasa is studying options to refurbish the Hubble telescope using unmanned spacecraft following a decision earlier this year that, in the wake of the Columbia disaster, it was too dangerous to send astronauts to it on the space Shuttle.
Hopefully the upgrades will be good enough to complement the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to launch in 2011. I can't wait to see if they redo "deep field" picture with this, it would be truely stunning.
The thing is, "gold metals" and "gold medals" are both perfectly legitimate search queries in thier own right. Since many people have mistakenly wrote "gold metals" when refering to "medals," searching for "olympic gold metals" returns many valid results (in fact, over 22k).
Also, when I did search for olympic gold metals not only were the 22,500 or so results returned, Google did in fact suggest "medals" as an alternate spelling (which returns about 228k results).
Of course, a Google engineer probably just added the alternate spelling suggestion after reading this thread...
I think you are forgetting something- most casual computer users are either too stupid or too lazy to learn proper search technique. Therefore, you should get accurate results even with slight grammatical errors/mispellings (Google suggests the proper spellings for you) and using words such as "the," "is," etc.
Why is it that nowadays that when people submit stories to Slashdot, instead of properly summarizing a story, the submitter rather copies and pastes the story's content and maybe adds a few links. I find this similar to how some student write (er rather, plagerize) reports in college.
Anyways, the study basically reveals what any musician would know, namely, that notes within a musical key are more likely to appear in a work than the notes that fall outside a key. Songs tend to modulate through different keys but fall back to the main key, explaining why those notes are more likely to show up. I don't find this suprising one bit.
Even worse, this seems like a paraphrase of the story I submitted two days ago (rejected, of course).
Regardless, Mr. Bemer was a true pioneer and champion of the early computer age. He may not have been as famous as some of the bigger guys, but his contributions were significant and still relevant even today.
In other news, another great computer pioneer, Herman Heine Goldstine, also died. Goldstine helped influence the goverment to fund development of ENIAC.
Remember, the pigs are already being raised for other purposes (bacon... mmm... bacon). So essentially, this waste is 'free.' Planting more plant will use up more space and resources than letting the pigs do thier thing and get fat and treating thier waste. Sure, it will probably work on plants directly, but in this way, the only extra work required is to transport the waste to the processing facility.
the emulated processor is about 40 times slower than the host processor.
Great, if you were to do this with a 2GHz Pentium, you would get the performance equivalent of around 50MHz. There is no way in hell that OSX would run decently at that speed, what with all the transparancy and animation of the UI. But hey, at least it works.
The reason I chose the Io over scanning is that is that scanning is a pain in the ass - you have to lay the sheets down (assuming you can get them flat enough to scan), scan each page (which can take upwards of a minute, depending on the scanner and resolution), and repeat. When finished, you still have to organize all the pages, then run the OCR client if needed. It ends up being very tedious and quite a bit of work.
With the Io, on the other hand, everything is done automatically. Just put it in the cradle, and the wizard syncs everything right up, organizing automatically from the information you put in. Even if you wanted to OCR each page, it would take no more than a minute a page. As for capacity - 40 pages is enough for me, but I can see how it may not be enough for a long trip. Capacity is variable depending on your writing style and how much of a page you use.
How about the Logitech Io. I bought one when it was originally released, and I am quite pleased. Basically, it captures notes that you write with the pen, which can later be synched up with the computer. The new software also has a demo of a handwriting-to-text program that works quite well. The only drawback is the price- $140-$200 for the pen depending on where you look, and about $20 for 3 notebooks. Also, you can get the FranklinCovey iScribe package, which includes planner pages and syncs with outlook. Also, no linux support.
I've been using it for the last year and a half in college, and it is great to be able to take notes all in one notebook. When the data is uploaded, the computer automagically sorts the pages (as the notebook has a subject box on each page). I can then easily email them to my friends who missed class, and print them out 4 on a page. Its really quite neat, and unfortunate that not too many people take advantage of it.
True, but no PDAs in the lower price range can even come close to the screens on the Zauruses. The screen on my SL-C860 is so incredibly bright, crisp, and legible that in my opinion, no other PDA can match. The 860's (and 750 and 760, for that matter) screen is native 640x480, and is truely remarkable to look at. If he doesn't want to drop $850 on the SL-C860, the 760 is almost identical and a few hundred cheaper. Even the 750's screen is a wonder. The SL-6000 mentioned earlier today looks promising, but I'd pay the extra for the clamshell 860 over it any day. The new Toshibas with the 640x480 screens look promising, however, since I have not used one, I cannot make a fair judgement. Also, since the Zaurus runs Linux, free software abounds. The PDF reader is quite nice, but don't go porting all of your protected ebooks over, we all know what happens when you mess with ebook protection!
Hrm. I dropped about $850 on my SL-C860. And is sure isn't because I have the money (as I am currently paying my way through school with a part time job and many many loans). The functionality of this device approaches that of a laptop, but its form factor is what most strongly influenced my purchase. Not to mention laptops are still too expensive for ones that don't fall apart after a month's use.
With the Zaurus, I can easily carry it in my pocket, use the campus' WiFi, and take notes in class (granted, a full keyboard would be optimal, but I can easily sketch notes on this thing). With a laptop you have to lug around a big bag that screams "steal me." Laptops also do not fit on univerity "desks." The battery life of a laptop would not last me through a day of class without recharging. I can go on, but I think my point is clear: laptops are bulky, especially if you are always on the move.
Not to mention that I can easily pull it out of my pocket and play a few minutes of Final Fantasy III on the bus ride back to my apartment.
How is using a human to convert fuel to energy significantly different than using a boiler to convert coal or oil to heat? Neither process violates the Second Law; both simply convert a fuel to usable energy. I concede the fact that coal and oil have the benefit of having thier energy stored in them for a long time (i.e., we don't "make" oil or coal, so the energy is essentially "free" in a sense). As long as the humans are sustained by a source of fuel that provides more recoverable energy than used in its recovery or processing, the Second Law is conserved.
Just as oil will not provide us with power forever, humans can not supply the matrix with power forever. But as oil and coal work for us now, humans can work for the time being.
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Somewhat untrue.
Most engines have knock sensors on them which are able to detect knocks and pings (often even just mild ones which may not be noticible to the driver). Many somewhat-modern engine controllers will continuously tweak the ignition timing until it reaches the point just prior to detonation. Any trace of pings or knocks, and it backs off a bit. Depending on how well the ECU manages the engine, using higher-grade fuel will often free up a few horsepower because the timing can be advanced more.
Also, your theory of premium fuels running richer is askew. Most O2 sensors in cars operate in a very narrow range; i.e., it can only tell if the engine is running rich or lean, but isn't very good at exactly how rich or lean the engine is. The ECU watches for transitions from lean-to-rich and rich-to-lean and adjusts the fuel requirements accordingly. In fact, a properly-working 02 sensor will show many such transitions per second. The ECU will systematically play with different fuel mixtures until it is operating ideally, regardless of fuel grade.
Lastly, higher-grade fuel is just that- higher grade. The Octane rating is higher, but also the quality of the fuel itself is higher. Higher-grade fuel also contains many additive packages which can somewhat reduce the presence of fuel deposits (Shell V-Power's claim to fame).
And Premium fuel should help out those riced-out Neons and Civics as they tend to use small, high-compression engines. Not only are they naturally more susceptable to knocks and pings, the problem is magnified by the fact that the engines are often run hard (think hotter), which furthers the chance of pre-detonation. Honda's ECUs are pretty good adapting to fuel grades, and I'm sure the Neon's are as well.
Not to be too picky, but the phrase "LCD display" is redundant. As we are all aware of, the 'D' in LCD already means display, so there is no need to specify that it is a display. This is something which has bothered my for years, but I digress.
My Sharp Zaurus SL-C860 features a 3.7" VGA display. The text is amazingly sharp- though it might be hard to read because everything is so small (I believe the pixel density is around 216 pixel/inch). This new screen is nearly one-third the area of the Zaurus', yet features the same resolution. Just a few years back, we were all drooling over this IBM Roentgen display, with its 200ppi (in this article). Can't wait to see one in my next cell phone, complete with a fresnel lens so I can read the text!
I found out about this last week. My roomate didn't believe me, and I was able to open (on my first try, nonetheless) it in under 20 seconds. The next day I told someone at school (who had a really expensive downhill bike) while he was unlocking his bike. He happened to have a Bic pen in his ear at the time (how coincidental). Not believing me (people seem to get pissed when you tell them thier $50 lock is able to be defeated by a 10 cent pen), he tried it himself, only to open the lock up in about 15 seconds.
;)
The biggest problem, is the fact that any properly (wrongly?) sized lock is vulnerable. At work, I was able to open the Pepsi machine we own with a thin highlighter (the Bic was too small, but the highlighter fit perfectly). My manager even let me have a free soda while it was open
Just be responsible with this information; even just opening a lock for fun is illegal in most states.
My Motorola V120 would beep uncomfortably loud when the batery got low. In fact, it would often cause ringing in my ear and I ended up shelling out money for a new phone because of this (not to mention that the battery would only last about a day on a charge).
I appreciate your "notable" analogy, but the truth is, "no va" and "nova" are pronounced fairly similarly. On the other hand, "Notable" and "No Table" are pronounced quite differently.
Mercedes has had IR reflecting glass in thier S-Class for a few years now. It reflects about 55% of all IR, which can reduce cabin temperatures up to 40 degrees F on a hot day. So that way, you know, your super-duper leather seats won't get so hot that you have to turn on the seat coolers.
But I think the reason this glass is so great is that in the winter (i.e., cooler temperatures), IR energy is allowed through to provide the heating effects of the sunlight. In the summer, it is blocked, keeping cooling bills down. If only they can lower the threshold a bit and get rid of the yellow, it will be a great alternative to those stupid static-cling things.
If a connector on this breaks, you can always replace it. If you break a cable or connector on a non-modular PSU, either you fix it with some solder and electric tape, or live without the connector. Spending a few bucks for a new connector pales in comparison of paying up to $100+ because you broke the motherboard connector beyond repair on a non-modular PSU. Also, I doubt that the modular cables are significantly less efficient. They claim an approximately 70% efficiency, which is on par with most high-end supplies. Also, the voltage readings under load are as good or better than the NeoPower 480 (well within the margin of error for the test equiptment, I'm sure). Plus, if would be so great to reduce all that clutter!
Too bad it's $150USD...
The most ironic thing about this, is that it is at least partially true. Former Xerox CEO David T. Kearns was diagnosed with sinus cancer in 1992.
For those that don't know, Kearns was they guy in charge in the 80s during Xerox's turnaround.
Was it just me, or was there a continuity error involving MJ's nipples? In the scene near the end where spidey holds up the wall to prevent it from falling on her, I thought I saw MJ nippin' pretty bad just before the wall fell. Then, as spidey is standing over her holding the wall, her nipples are no longer showing through.
Of course, I may have just have been wishing her hardcore nippage from earlier in the movie was still there. Anyone else notice this?
Hopefully the upgrades will be good enough to complement the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to launch in 2011. I can't wait to see if they redo "deep field" picture with this, it would be truely stunning.
The thing is, "gold metals" and "gold medals" are both perfectly legitimate search queries in thier own right. Since many people have mistakenly wrote "gold metals" when refering to "medals," searching for "olympic gold metals" returns many valid results (in fact, over 22k).
Also, when I did search for olympic gold metals not only were the 22,500 or so results returned, Google did in fact suggest "medals" as an alternate spelling (which returns about 228k results).
Of course, a Google engineer probably just added the alternate spelling suggestion after reading this thread...
I think you are forgetting something- most casual computer users are either too stupid or too lazy to learn proper search technique. Therefore, you should get accurate results even with slight grammatical errors/mispellings (Google suggests the proper spellings for you) and using words such as "the," "is," etc.
I commented on this on Friday, in the also-late story of Bob Bemer's passing. It seems like /. is taking more and more time to get the stories posted.
Regardless, Goldstine was a great pioneer and his influence on early computing should always be remembered.
Why is it that nowadays that when people submit stories to Slashdot, instead of properly summarizing a story, the submitter rather copies and pastes the story's content and maybe adds a few links. I find this similar to how some student write (er rather, plagerize) reports in college.
Anyways, the study basically reveals what any musician would know, namely, that notes within a musical key are more likely to appear in a work than the notes that fall outside a key. Songs tend to modulate through different keys but fall back to the main key, explaining why those notes are more likely to show up. I don't find this suprising one bit.
Even worse, this seems like a paraphrase of the story I submitted two days ago (rejected, of course).
Regardless, Mr. Bemer was a true pioneer and champion of the early computer age. He may not have been as famous as some of the bigger guys, but his contributions were significant and still relevant even today.
In other news, another great computer pioneer, Herman Heine Goldstine, also died. Goldstine helped influence the goverment to fund development of ENIAC.
Remember, the pigs are already being raised for other purposes (bacon... mmm... bacon). So essentially, this waste is 'free.' Planting more plant will use up more space and resources than letting the pigs do thier thing and get fat and treating thier waste. Sure, it will probably work on plants directly, but in this way, the only extra work required is to transport the waste to the processing facility.
hrm... RTFA.
The method he uses implement 'hymn,' the sucessor to PlayFair.
RTFA:
the emulated processor is about 40 times slower than the host processor.
No, not even close.
the emulated processor is about 40 times slower than the host processor.
Great, if you were to do this with a 2GHz Pentium, you would get the performance equivalent of around 50MHz. There is no way in hell that OSX would run decently at that speed, what with all the transparancy and animation of the UI. But hey, at least it works.
The reason I chose the Io over scanning is that is that scanning is a pain in the ass - you have to lay the sheets down (assuming you can get them flat enough to scan), scan each page (which can take upwards of a minute, depending on the scanner and resolution), and repeat. When finished, you still have to organize all the pages, then run the OCR client if needed. It ends up being very tedious and quite a bit of work.
With the Io, on the other hand, everything is done automatically. Just put it in the cradle, and the wizard syncs everything right up, organizing automatically from the information you put in. Even if you wanted to OCR each page, it would take no more than a minute a page. As for capacity - 40 pages is enough for me, but I can see how it may not be enough for a long trip. Capacity is variable depending on your writing style and how much of a page you use.
How about the Logitech Io. I bought one when it was originally released, and I am quite pleased. Basically, it captures notes that you write with the pen, which can later be synched up with the computer. The new software also has a demo of a handwriting-to-text program that works quite well. The only drawback is the price- $140-$200 for the pen depending on where you look, and about $20 for 3 notebooks. Also, you can get the FranklinCovey iScribe package, which includes planner pages and syncs with outlook. Also, no linux support.
I've been using it for the last year and a half in college, and it is great to be able to take notes all in one notebook. When the data is uploaded, the computer automagically sorts the pages (as the notebook has a subject box on each page). I can then easily email them to my friends who missed class, and print them out 4 on a page. Its really quite neat, and unfortunate that not too many people take advantage of it.
Oh yeah, you can buy it here on ThinkGeek.
True, but no PDAs in the lower price range can even come close to the screens on the Zauruses. The screen on my SL-C860 is so incredibly bright, crisp, and legible that in my opinion, no other PDA can match.
The 860's (and 750 and 760, for that matter) screen is native 640x480, and is truely remarkable to look at. If he doesn't want to drop $850 on the SL-C860, the 760 is almost identical and a few hundred cheaper. Even the 750's screen is a wonder. The SL-6000 mentioned earlier today looks promising, but I'd pay the extra for the clamshell 860 over it any day.
The new Toshibas with the 640x480 screens look promising, however, since I have not used one, I cannot make a fair judgement. Also, since the Zaurus runs Linux, free software abounds. The PDF reader is quite nice, but don't go porting all of your protected ebooks over, we all know what happens when you mess with ebook protection!
Hrm. I dropped about $850 on my SL-C860. And is sure isn't because I have the money (as I am currently paying my way through school with a part time job and many many loans). The functionality of this device approaches that of a laptop, but its form factor is what most strongly influenced my purchase. Not to mention laptops are still too expensive for ones that don't fall apart after a month's use.
With the Zaurus, I can easily carry it in my pocket, use the campus' WiFi, and take notes in class (granted, a full keyboard would be optimal, but I can easily sketch notes on this thing). With a laptop you have to lug around a big bag that screams "steal me." Laptops also do not fit on univerity "desks." The battery life of a laptop would not last me through a day of class without recharging. I can go on, but I think my point is clear: laptops are bulky, especially if you are always on the move.
Not to mention that I can easily pull it out of my pocket and play a few minutes of Final Fantasy III on the bus ride back to my apartment.
Who said they are making food? As long as there is some pre-existing source, there is no fundamental difference than using coal, oil, nuke, etc.
How is using a human to convert fuel to energy significantly different than using a boiler to convert coal or oil to heat? Neither process violates the Second Law; both simply convert a fuel to usable energy. I concede the fact that coal and oil have the benefit of having thier energy stored in them for a long time (i.e., we don't "make" oil or coal, so the energy is essentially "free" in a sense). As long as the humans are sustained by a source of fuel that provides more recoverable energy than used in its recovery or processing, the Second Law is conserved.
Just as oil will not provide us with power forever, humans can not supply the matrix with power forever. But as oil and coal work for us now, humans can work for the time being.