From my experience, military people are more likely to be SciFi fans in general. I'm ex USAF myself and was raised in a military family (although my father was more into reading and watching tons of western novels and shows). I think the same could be said about reading books. Military people tend to drag books around, because you know you will have to "hurry up and wait" or just have downtime, often in places with nothing else to do. Or perhaps SciFi is just a nice escape from an otherwise stressful job. I'm sure the military aspects of the show help as well, as you point out.
If you read a million lines of C with lots of good comments, you'd figure out the syntax before you finished.
And if you read a millions lines of Perl, you would come to the conclusion that it has no syntax, then you would scratch your eyes out with a ball point pen.;)
While I understand your logic, I disagree with your conclusion. To play some games, you must have Windows at this time. I would rather than people who must have a copy, find a way to get it free. This way they are not financially tied into MS, and they are not any more inclined to invest any money into MS.
Also, since Vista comes with 90% of all computers sold in the US, the fact that they don't have it already means they are building their own boxes instead of buying Dells. Guys that build their own don't pirate OS's because it is cheaper, they do it because it is there to be done. Like running apache on an Xbox...it has no practical value, but fun to try anyway, and play a little with it.
Considering that the time period under discussion is several decades long, that would depend entirely upon a company maintaining those keys, not losing those keys and still being available to release those keys after all those years.
True, but...
Moore's Law takes care of that. By the time a song that is DRM/Copyrighted today is released into the Public Domain (75 years from now), the typicial cell phone could crack the encryption in a matter of minutes. Or seconds.
As a someone who has played guitar for over 35 years, and has both transistor guitar amps and tube (and prefers tube) the distortion is not always the 'desirable' effect. Tubes are warmer sounding, sounding richer, and fuller. A very good tube amp can be set to JUST AT distortion so you play soft/medium and it is clean sounding, then crunching a few chords breaks it into just distorting, giving character and emotion to the sound.
Transistors are cleaner, but they fail in producing the more "emotional" sounds because they are too perfect, which makes them perfect for PA and most other applications. The same can be said of rectifiers: A tube amp with solid state rectifier doesn't have the same "boom" or natural compression that an analog (tube) rectifier does.
For many musicians, it doesn't matter. It is about the distortion and effects, which is fine for them. For those of us that play blues, jazz, rock-a-billy or other genres that are a bit more soulfull than Metalica or Britney Spears, it matters greatly. The low level 60hz hum and higher overall harmonic distortion are the price we pay for the richer, fuller, expressive tone with infinite adjustability.
My Mitzi box truck redlined at just over 3k. Others I have had redlined at 2.8k to 3.5k. Diesel generators are designed for something like 1600RPM, but the trucks/vehicles _I_ have owned wound up higher. A heavily hot rodded diesel can wind up in the 5k+ range, but not without seriously heavy internals.
I can't speak for a little Voltwagen engine (never owned one) but the bigger passenger diesels here in the USA do wind up much higher than 1900RPM.
The numbers given were what was published, not my own. Typical Peak Torque vs. Peak Horsepower is different for gas engines (~1/1) vs. diesel engines (~2/1) and this isn't exactly news, and bore, stroke, injection timing, valve lift, etc. obviously changes this differently for different fuels.
Torque and HP are equal at 5252RPM, but diesel engines don't generally wind up that high (unless severely tweaked). If you have any questions about what current hot rodded diesels are doing, google for "Gale Banks", or pickup a copy of Hot Rod.
If you are talking diesel, one big engine, from my limited experience. This is due to the engine working at very low RPMS and in a ship, you are producing a steady load, not "start and stop" like driving a car in the city. Diesels also power down nicely and use fuel according to the load, so running at half of potential power uses much less fuel.
I also note the article does NOT say 7780 HP, it says 108,920 horsepower at 102 rpm and more importantly, 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm. I knew that 7780 HP was wrong because you can tweak the fire out of a 6 litre chevy diesel and get 1000 HP and 1500 to 2000 lb/ft torque.
Most diesels have a 3/2 to 2/1 ratio of torque over HP, but then most peak in the 2400-3800RPM area, not 102. That is an absurd amount of torque, which is what is needed to twist a prop, after all. At 1,556,002 cubic inches, this is 3.6 lb/ft of torque for every cubic inch, which is similar to the above example of a 6.0L engine (364 cu. in.) getting 1310.4 lb/ft. (stock would be closer to 650-850 lb/ft).
Although it isn't a popular statement, I don't trust Ubuntu. At any time they can do exactly what RH has done, and I fully expect they will sell out as soon as it will create the greatest financial return.
I was preparing for a migration to SuSE and had already installed it on my personal boxen, and then Novell starting signing deals with MS that are questionable at best.
The problem is, there are many choices if you want to run linux, but there isn't any distro company out there I feel comfortable with, and I am tired of changing distros every 6 months.
As much as MS pisses me off, I will be able to get about 8 or 9 years out of the same platform, and frankly, I am more concerned about running apps, not the underlying OS. I don't think they are shaking in their boots quite yet with all the cluster fuck that is the Linux OS distro scene.
Actually, since RedHat cut support for RH9, even for those of us that JUST PAID FOR IT a few years ago, I think I finally have the final reason to FINALLY quit RH all together.
I tried to buy the box sets of RedHat, they took my money then changed their way of doing business. I tried to pay them for support, they took the money and ran away without giving the support. I installed FC knowing I would have legacy support, and now I don't. I tried to pay them about $350 a year just to download updates for a few simple servers, and they didn't want my money.
RedHat's policy is simple: "Hey, If you can't afford several hundred dollars per year per machine, then fuck you." No thanks, even MS looks good compared to the AssHats at RedHat. Debian, here we come...
Reading all this makes me SOO happy I am vegetarian. And I`m going to eat a lot more organic/ecologic/biodynamic food. It tastes better and do the body better.
The rest of you are setting yourselves up for a big mess, but what can we say. You`re ridiculing what you don`t understand and using technology just because you can, like a little child with a big gun.
But the rest of us don't care if you eat meat or not, it just leaves more tasty critters for us. We just get tired of the preaching.
We can only conclude that beef deficiency leads to self-righteousness and smugness. And possibly the desire to drive a hybrid or electric car.
More importantly, 95% of the people just don't care how much better HD-DVD is better than DVD. DVD is plenty good enough on any TV for most people. Not everyone "desires" the coolest/biggest/fastest/bestest. Look, it was only this year that DVD players finally outnumber VCR players in the US.
DVD doesn't have snow, degrade, etc. On the newest, bestest TV's, DVD still looks great. I am not going to go out and buy all new copies of my old favorite movies again just for HD-DVD/Blueray/etc. and most people will not either. Think about it: Regular audio CD's have "much better" sound than MP3s, yet most people are plenty happy with MP3s.
Someone asked me the other day, "which format will win, HD-DVD or BluRay. I said "Neither. The format is irrelevent, it is the delivery system that matters now" which is why everyone is using bittorrent or pay per view.
Overheated cows in California? Try visiting San Francisco or northern California in the "heat" of the summer some time. I'm pretty sure they aren't raising dairy cattle out in Death Valley.
I used to live in Kansas and North Dakota. If I were a cow, I am pretty sure I would prefer cool, sunny northern California over waist-high snow.
He didn't do it for Nixon, he did it for us. It isn't like Nixon was going to run for any other office, and if you are old enough to remember, with Vietnam, JFK, Bobby Kennedy, MLK, Kent State, and everything else that had happened over the last decade, we really didn't need another investigation to tell us what we already knew.
Everyone knew Nixon was guilty, and because he was ex-pres, he wasn't going to go to "pound you in the ass federal prison" regardless of the outcome. We did not need 5 years of court hearings at that time.
Copyright is not supposed to protect "your ability to generate ad revenue".
Um, that is EXACTLY what copyright is. Copyright gives you the exclusive right to decide how your "information" is used, whether it is a book, a painting or a website. In exchange for protection, you have to give it to the public domain after a fixed number of years, currently 75.
If I write a book/website/etc, I have every expectation that you will not go sell photocopied versions of it without my permission. I wrote it, I get to decide how it is distributed and profit from it.
I was also quoted $7200 for a concrete pad that I ended up paying $3200 from someone else. Someone could also quote you $100,000, but that isn't the going rate.
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From my experience, military people are more likely to be SciFi fans in general. I'm ex USAF myself and was raised in a military family (although my father was more into reading and watching tons of western novels and shows). I think the same could be said about reading books. Military people tend to drag books around, because you know you will have to "hurry up and wait" or just have downtime, often in places with nothing else to do. Or perhaps SciFi is just a nice escape from an otherwise stressful job. I'm sure the military aspects of the show help as well, as you point out.
If you read a million lines of C with lots of good comments, you'd figure out the syntax before you finished.
;)
And if you read a millions lines of Perl, you would come to the conclusion that it has no syntax, then you would scratch your eyes out with a ball point pen.
While I understand your logic, I disagree with your conclusion. To play some games, you must have Windows at this time. I would rather than people who must have a copy, find a way to get it free. This way they are not financially tied into MS, and they are not any more inclined to invest any money into MS.
Also, since Vista comes with 90% of all computers sold in the US, the fact that they don't have it already means they are building their own boxes instead of buying Dells. Guys that build their own don't pirate OS's because it is cheaper, they do it because it is there to be done. Like running apache on an Xbox...it has no practical value, but fun to try anyway, and play a little with it.
Remaining on Earth is the same as becoming extinct, the sun won't last forever. The choices should be: colonize or die, and never quit colonizing.
Because that is where the gorilla starts throwing barrels at you.
True, but...
Moore's Law takes care of that. By the time a song that is DRM/Copyrighted today is released into the Public Domain (75 years from now), the typicial cell phone could crack the encryption in a matter of minutes. Or seconds.
As a someone who has played guitar for over 35 years, and has both transistor guitar amps and tube (and prefers tube) the distortion is not always the 'desirable' effect. Tubes are warmer sounding, sounding richer, and fuller. A very good tube amp can be set to JUST AT distortion so you play soft/medium and it is clean sounding, then crunching a few chords breaks it into just distorting, giving character and emotion to the sound.
Transistors are cleaner, but they fail in producing the more "emotional" sounds because they are too perfect, which makes them perfect for PA and most other applications. The same can be said of rectifiers: A tube amp with solid state rectifier doesn't have the same "boom" or natural compression that an analog (tube) rectifier does.
For many musicians, it doesn't matter. It is about the distortion and effects, which is fine for them. For those of us that play blues, jazz, rock-a-billy or other genres that are a bit more soulfull than Metalica or Britney Spears, it matters greatly. The low level 60hz hum and higher overall harmonic distortion are the price we pay for the richer, fuller, expressive tone with infinite adjustability.
One of the biggest advantages of working for Slashdot is you don't have to know how to spell Google.
(I hate spelling nazis, but crap, we are talking about EDITORS here...)
Or maybe Apple switched to X86 and simply chose Intel as their sole provider? It's not like porting FreeBSD from Intel to AMD chips is that hard...
Most Diesels do NOT peak at 2400-3800 rpm
My Mitzi box truck redlined at just over 3k. Others I have had redlined at 2.8k to 3.5k. Diesel generators are designed for something like 1600RPM, but the trucks/vehicles _I_ have owned wound up higher. A heavily hot rodded diesel can wind up in the 5k+ range, but not without seriously heavy internals.
I can't speak for a little Voltwagen engine (never owned one) but the bigger passenger diesels here in the USA do wind up much higher than 1900RPM.
HP = TORQUE x RPM ÷ 5252
The numbers given were what was published, not my own. Typical Peak Torque vs. Peak Horsepower is different for gas engines (~1/1) vs. diesel engines (~2/1) and this isn't exactly news, and bore, stroke, injection timing, valve lift, etc. obviously changes this differently for different fuels.
Torque and HP are equal at 5252RPM, but diesel engines don't generally wind up that high (unless severely tweaked). If you have any questions about what current hot rodded diesels are doing, google for "Gale Banks", or pickup a copy of Hot Rod.
If you are talking diesel, one big engine, from my limited experience. This is due to the engine working at very low RPMS and in a ship, you are producing a steady load, not "start and stop" like driving a car in the city. Diesels also power down nicely and use fuel according to the load, so running at half of potential power uses much less fuel.
I also note the article does NOT say 7780 HP, it says 108,920 horsepower at 102 rpm and more importantly, 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm. I knew that 7780 HP was wrong because you can tweak the fire out of a 6 litre chevy diesel and get 1000 HP and 1500 to 2000 lb/ft torque.
Most diesels have a 3/2 to 2/1 ratio of torque over HP, but then most peak in the 2400-3800RPM area, not 102. That is an absurd amount of torque, which is what is needed to twist a prop, after all. At 1,556,002 cubic inches, this is 3.6 lb/ft of torque for every cubic inch, which is similar to the above example of a 6.0L engine (364 cu. in.) getting 1310.4 lb/ft. (stock would be closer to 650-850 lb/ft).
In otherwords, a pretty efficient engine.
Although it isn't a popular statement, I don't trust Ubuntu. At any time they can do exactly what RH has done, and I fully expect they will sell out as soon as it will create the greatest financial return.
I was preparing for a migration to SuSE and had already installed it on my personal boxen, and then Novell starting signing deals with MS that are questionable at best.
The problem is, there are many choices if you want to run linux, but there isn't any distro company out there I feel comfortable with, and I am tired of changing distros every 6 months.
As much as MS pisses me off, I will be able to get about 8 or 9 years out of the same platform, and frankly, I am more concerned about running apps, not the underlying OS. I don't think they are shaking in their boots quite yet with all the cluster fuck that is the Linux OS distro scene.
Actually, since RedHat cut support for RH9, even for those of us that JUST PAID FOR IT a few years ago, I think I finally have the final reason to FINALLY quit RH all together.
I tried to buy the box sets of RedHat, they took my money then changed their way of doing business. I tried to pay them for support, they took the money and ran away without giving the support. I installed FC knowing I would have legacy support, and now I don't. I tried to pay them about $350 a year just to download updates for a few simple servers, and they didn't want my money.
RedHat's policy is simple: "Hey, If you can't afford several hundred dollars per year per machine, then fuck you." No thanks, even MS looks good compared to the AssHats at RedHat. Debian, here we come...
But the rest of us don't care if you eat meat or not, it just leaves more tasty critters for us. We just get tired of the preaching.
We can only conclude that beef deficiency leads to self-righteousness and smugness. And possibly the desire to drive a hybrid or electric car.
But you failed to mention that your "cure" can cause lead poisoning, a serious and sometimes fatal condition.
More importantly, 95% of the people just don't care how much better HD-DVD is better than DVD. DVD is plenty good enough on any TV for most people. Not everyone "desires" the coolest/biggest/fastest/bestest. Look, it was only this year that DVD players finally outnumber VCR players in the US.
DVD doesn't have snow, degrade, etc. On the newest, bestest TV's, DVD still looks great. I am not going to go out and buy all new copies of my old favorite movies again just for HD-DVD/Blueray/etc. and most people will not either. Think about it: Regular audio CD's have "much better" sound than MP3s, yet most people are plenty happy with MP3s.
Someone asked me the other day, "which format will win, HD-DVD or BluRay. I said "Neither. The format is irrelevent, it is the delivery system that matters now" which is why everyone is using bittorrent or pay per view.
Overheated cows in California? Try visiting San Francisco or northern California in the "heat" of the summer some time. I'm pretty sure they aren't raising dairy cattle out in Death Valley.
I used to live in Kansas and North Dakota. If I were a cow, I am pretty sure I would prefer cool, sunny northern California over waist-high snow.
He should never have pardoned Nixon.
He didn't do it for Nixon, he did it for us. It isn't like Nixon was going to run for any other office, and if you are old enough to remember, with Vietnam, JFK, Bobby Kennedy, MLK, Kent State, and everything else that had happened over the last decade, we really didn't need another investigation to tell us what we already knew.
Everyone knew Nixon was guilty, and because he was ex-pres, he wasn't going to go to "pound you in the ass federal prison" regardless of the outcome. We did not need 5 years of court hearings at that time.
At least it isn't what happened to poor Clark Griswold, getting a "Jelly of the Month" certificate for a Christmas bonus.
Copyright is not supposed to protect "your ability to generate ad revenue".
Um, that is EXACTLY what copyright is. Copyright gives you the exclusive right to decide how your "information" is used, whether it is a book, a painting or a website. In exchange for protection, you have to give it to the public domain after a fixed number of years, currently 75.
If I write a book/website/etc, I have every expectation that you will not go sell photocopied versions of it without my permission. I wrote it, I get to decide how it is distributed and profit from it.
If not, then wtf do you think copyright is FOR?
Push-up bras are most definitely false advertising :)
No, just misleading. Now a GUY in drag that actually looks good, THAT'S false advertising.
99 or 100 cents on the dollar is still "pennies on the dollar", it's just a lot of them.
Kinda like girls with push up bras: it's misleading, but it's not false advertising.
Also be sure to go to Yahoo.com and MSN.com and do the same, since they use their system that charges seperately.
I was also quoted $7200 for a concrete pad that I ended up paying $3200 from someone else. Someone could also quote you $100,000, but that isn't the going rate.