Looked similar to the weighty standard IBM AT keyboards 101 keys or thereabouts. every standard key had a 10x10 dots simple monochrome graphic ( and I think unlit) lcd incorporated under the transparent keycap.
Must have been around 1992/3. Abominably expensive. And sorry, could not find a photo link.
two shuttles plus crew have been lost in the most recent project and that in a long running established project at that. Both due ( asside from the actual technical failure) to sytemic faults.
We had the same problem with people from JPL. Our inferior eurotrash hardware was faulty, sure, everybody knew that. Took about a year of talking to extract someones head from his rear and get him to examine his driver code. Or read a bit in Rutan's Book on building Voyager.
I think it is a US trait to have navelcentric biased views of nonUS peoples abilities.
There are limits to being patriotic and unbiased at the same time.
The USSR was very good at containment. Remember the Cuba Crisis? It started with US missile launchers in Italy and Turkey. 6 month after the Cuba crisis these were dismantled ( silently ).
What lead to the USSRs demontage was German Ostpolitik and thus detente. Via opening of the borders and economic contact isolation and thus keeping the other side as enemy could no longer be maintained.
Another thing was the war in Afghanistan.
Gorbatschev actually did a brilliant thing: In a matching of two giants one giant separated himself into a myriad of agile dwarfs hacking at the legs of the remaining giant. Currently the remaining giant gets dismembered in the same arena the other one retracted from before being destroyed.
Government is the only remaining bullwark between the thugs who run industry and the people they use up as labour resource and then destroy as a product. You are in error. ( at least in respect to the US ) The Government is the sales / public relations department of these entities.
> On the other hand: Cheap medicine for the 3rd world is still stiffled by US patents. And cruise missiles, the purportedly WMD manufacturing site bombed by the Clinton Administration was definitely a plant for manufacturing generic afordable medication.
But the initial higher price is not reclaimable by lower petrol/diesel consumption.
They have been discontinued due to low promotion and customer interest.
Especially the A2 is starting to be a highly sought after item on the used car market.
But it has been shown that a large scale production regular 4wheeled seating 4 car with less than http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niedrigenergiefahrzeu g
ref: 100mpg ~ 2.35liter/100km
873 people in 79 seconds through 50% avail. exits
on
Flying the Airbus A380
·
· Score: 1
873 people in 79 seconds through 50% of available emergency exits. And in near total darkness, just the emergency lighting.
Thats not a bad feat at all.
They did the test for the projected maximum seating arrangement that may be ordered by some asian airlines. With the european voluteers this was a tight fit and you would never have been able to stuff obese americans into that seating arrangement.
Well ~30% of germany gets its hot water supply from electric "on the run" heaters. Most nowadays have "blankdraht" i.e uncoated wire heaters giving short of 100% efficiency and a fantastic lowlatency response.
Mine has 24kW, electronic temp control and heats ~10liters/minute from ~10C to 35C. 3phase 380V AC is a mandatory requirement and the current draw is ~35Amps per phase. Core advantages are no standby losses and low investment. A Microwave heating system would use more energy as the RF generation by Magnetron is 90% efficient.
US AC won't be up to it anyways:-) more blackouts to you.
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Thanks for the link: http://lcd-keys.com/english/history.htm
1984! , even earlier than I remembered.
The first image from the top
http://www.e3-keys.com/images/image012.jpg
is the one I had in mind.
G!
MACC
Looked similar to the weighty standard IBM AT keyboards 101 keys
or thereabouts.
every standard key had a 10x10 dots simple monochrome graphic
( and I think unlit) lcd incorporated under the transparent keycap.
Must have been around 1992/3. Abominably expensive.
And sorry, could not find a photo link.
G!
MACC
15 years ago you could buy keyboards with an lcd display in each and
every keycap.
Now please tell me the difference to that.
This is not old but ancient stuff.
G!
MACC
can't be. Blacks are and were scarce in Europe.
Reiss apparatus worked well enough.
His problem was raising some interest in Europe.
Bell had seen and heard his machine at an exhibition.
G!
Radio Free Europe was and is a US Propaganda Endeavour.
Garri Kasparov's is paid by a US NGO purportedly
spreading democracy but its primary target is
continuing with stealing from the russians.
G!
MACC
trend, look at the trend man!
two shuttles plus crew have been lost in the
most recent project and that in a long running
established project at that.
Both due ( asside from the actual technical failure)
to sytemic faults.
I'd call that degenerate!
G!
MACC
We had the same problem with people from JPL.
Our inferior eurotrash hardware was faulty,
sure, everybody knew that.
Took about a year of talking to extract someones
head from his rear and get him to examine his
driver code.
Or read a bit in Rutan's Book on building
Voyager.
I think it is a US trait to have navelcentric
biased views of nonUS peoples abilities.
There are limits to being patriotic and unbiased
at the same time.
The USSR was very good at containment.
Remember the Cuba Crisis?
It started with US missile launchers in
Italy and Turkey.
6 month after the Cuba crisis these were
dismantled ( silently ).
What lead to the USSRs demontage was
German Ostpolitik and thus detente.
Via opening of the borders and
economic contact isolation and thus
keeping the other side as enemy could
no longer be maintained.
Another thing was the war in Afghanistan.
Gorbatschev actually did a brilliant thing:
In a matching of two giants one giant
separated himself into a myriad of agile
dwarfs hacking at the legs of the remaining
giant.
Currently the remaining giant gets dismembered
in the same arena the other one retracted from
before being destroyed.
G!
MACC
The Government is the sales / public relations department of these entities.
G!
MACC
This is historic developement.
Notice the US having to do their
own shooting in iraq and paying
for it to boot.
compare SCO-Fud to WMD-Fud
compare M$-Patent-Fud to "Al-Qaida is everywhere-Fud".
Yesterday we stood at the abyss.
Today we have made further and significant progress.
> On the other hand: Cheap medicine for the 3rd world is still stiffled by US patents.
c al_factory
And cruise missiles,
the purportedly WMD manufacturing site bombed by
the Clinton Administration was definitely a plant for
manufacturing generic afordable medication.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceuti
The US completely ignored copyright from other countries
up into the 60ties.
Post war japanese companies copied like mad, you could
cross use spares.
Disney themselves stole most of their stuff from other countries
fairytails.
you could buy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo
u g
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_A2
But the initial higher price is not reclaimable
by lower petrol/diesel consumption.
They have been discontinued due to low
promotion and customer interest.
Especially the A2 is starting to be a highly
sought after item on the used car market.
But it has been shown that a large scale production
regular 4wheeled seating 4 car with less
than 3 liters/100km is possible
without much further ado.
Some examples:
( in German the EN page is nearly void of information )
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niedrigenergiefahrze
ref: 100mpg ~ 2.35liter/100km
you could buy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo
u g
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_A2
But the initial higher price is not reclaimable
by lower petrol/diesel consumption.
They have been discontinued due to low
promotion and customer interest.
Especially the A2 is starting to be a highly
sought after item on the used car market.
But it has been shown that a large scale production
regular 4wheeled seating 4 car with less
than http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niedrigenergiefahrze
ref: 100mpg ~ 2.35liter/100km
873 people in 79 seconds through 50% of available emergency exits.
And in near total darkness, just the emergency lighting.
Thats not a bad feat at all.
They did the test for the projected maximum seating arrangement
that may be ordered by some asian airlines.
With the european voluteers this was a tight fit
and you would never have been able to stuff
obese americans into that seating arrangement.
G!
MACC
You are already into trouble:
which gallon?
US Gallon @ 3.8 liters
or the
UK Gallon @ 4.45 liters
Remember: in the UK they went metric for petrol to avoid
the pound counting wheel at the pump.
1 gallon 101 pence
1 liter 23 pence
> Conversion of heat into any other type of energy achieves it's maximum at 33%
;-)
d PropMEEngines.asp?model=K108ME-C6
This is probably only true for american internal combustion engines
For engines built in other regions efficiency goes by the Carnot Rule:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_wirkungsgrad
On the other hand the sulzer engine is rather small you can have
at least another 30.000 HP from MAN ( or better 168g/kWh(Sulzer) efficiency):
http://www.manbw.com/web/engines/TwoStrokeLowSpee
look for 14K108ME-C6
97.000 kW @ 171g/kWh
or same power at better efficiency:
77.000 kW @ 161g/kWh
How many people of the apollo era are still in NASAs employ?
They have not done a succesfull design in 4 decades!
Well not with US-Style advertising but working.
x -en.html
Based on a System used by GEOMAR before 2004.
http://www.ifm-geomar.de/index.php?id=2566&L=1
http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/html/projects/TEWS/inde
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=surveillance§io n=projects&Go.x=0&Go.y=0
They call their lawyers pimps ;-)
which better fits the method
of operation.
Data:
Water : 4.18 kJ / kg * K
assumed:
flow : 12l/min ( ~standard tap) -> 12kg / min
dT : 35^K ( i.e 10C --> 45C )
gives:
P : 24.3kW continous
Doing the same with Microwaves would probalby
require
26-30kW
G!
MACC
Well ~30% of germany gets its hot water supply from
:-) more blackouts to you.
electric "on the run" heaters.
Most nowadays have "blankdraht" i.e uncoated wire
heaters giving short of 100% efficiency and a fantastic
lowlatency response.
Mine has 24kW, electronic temp control and heats
~10liters/minute from ~10C to 35C.
3phase 380V AC is a mandatory requirement and the
current draw is ~35Amps per phase.
Core advantages are no standby losses and low investment.
A Microwave heating system would use more energy
as the RF generation by Magnetron is 90% efficient.
US AC won't be up to it anyways
James Bond: three times it's enemy action!
mach 5 to mach 7 in 10 seconds
660m/s / 10s ~66m/ss ~ 6G
quite good