Just because your boyfriend ditched you, there's no need to get bitchy about Americans.
Or are you having your period?
And I bet when Slashdot runs one of it's "Geeks can't find girls" topics you'll be right up there, complaining about why you can't get a girlfriend.
Here's a clue, most geekgirls can pick up on your misogynistic attitude, and they run away.
Whereas, I love the ladies, and they can tell. I help them geek girls out with their esoteric vi commands, and they pay me back in spades. Cuz I love them.
So why don't you work on changing your attitude, and maybe some geek girl will come along and change your oil.
directly injecting cooled compressed air into your engine will give your engine greater horsepower, at a cost of a net energy loss due to the compressing of the gas, spent in compression heat and frictional heat of the compressor.
To see more about the Carnot cycle, you can start here.
Maximum theoretical efficiency is
1 - T2/T1, where T2 is the ambient temp, and T1 is the combustion temp.
You can't influence T2, unless you move to Canada, T2 is the temp of the air the engine works in, which is why early helicopters had trouble lifting themselves in hot climates, the ambient aur temp was high enough to reduce their efficency.
Artificially cooling the ambient air won't work either, you'd be battle entropy and thermodynamics.
So, you have to increase T1, the combustion temperature. But most IC engines have low melting points, because they're made of steel and aluminum alloys.
If you changed alloys to a nickel tungsten titanium alloys (Inconel maybe) you could increase T1.
If you could use a ceramic engine block and piston, you could really increase T1.
But the Carnot cycle states that the efficiency is increased when the combustion temperature is increased.
For the average IC engine made of materials that you can afford, the maximum theoretical efficiency is 40%.
If you double the difference (in Kelvin) of the combustion temperature and the ambient temperature, you would get 80%. But this would melt an engine composed of normal alloys.
So, it's more efficient to have the electrical powerplant do the combustion, they can afford a turbine that burns at 2,000 degrees and is made out of tungsten-nickel alloys.
Ultimately, ceramic engines will yeild a huge increase in efficiency, but they are a aways away.
Too small, Americans need an air powered SUV
on
Air-Powered Cars
·
· Score: 1
This looks like a great idea, god knows internal combustion engines are very inefficient (I believe the Carnot cycle will show that a maximum theoretical effiency is 40%, unless you build your block and pistons out of ceramics) but I don't think it will sell in the US.
Small cars like this, though fun to drive (I still miss my urban commando Plymouth Colt, tiny and sporty, perfect for living in the city) sell poorly in the US, because most American's like big ass SUV's to haul their flabby bodies from the office park to the suburbs and back, even though their unsafe, gas guzzling top heavy behemoths. I think the size and mass of the SUV's appeal to Americans, for reasons of low self esteeem, or perhaps marketing brainwashing.
So, until the French designer jacks up the wheels, puts a plastic off road grill on it and make it look like a truck, don't even bother selling it in the US.
DO you still attract chicks with OSX
on
X On OSX Now Free
·
· Score: 2
I know that Macs (like me) are a chick magnet, and if a chick says she's into computers and a computer geek, the odds are she's really into a Mac (right Rob), and wouldn't know a command line from a hole in the ground, so I keep a Mac around for the chicks who drop by.
Anyhow, once these Macs are running OSX, are the chicks still gonna be interested in them? I'm trying to keep my bachelor pad up to date and keep the chick tractor beam still functioning.
Considering earlier reports that fungus is growing wild on Mir, including the outside surfaces, do we really want this thing dropped back into the ecosphere?
Radiation = mutation = every science fiction horror movie you ever saw.
Sure, burn will wipe out most of it, but what about the fungus growing inside? Anyone willing to bet it isn't like that Ringworld version that eats room-temp superconductor for lunch?
So, how can I protect my room temperature superconductors? Would sealing them in a ziplock help?
I like most other people (I would think most other people) were taught that you cannot create or destroy matter.
Geez, there are lots of ways to create or destroy matter. Perhaps you've heard of a little equation
e = mc^2?
Also, Hawking radiation is in vogue now, pairs of particles and anti-particles are forming out of nothing all the time, though sometimes a particle of anti-particle gets sucked into a black hole, creating a net change in the energy of the universe.
to truths learned centuries ago in eastern religions.
We're not a separate part of the universe, we're inherently tied in with the universe, and the way we concieve of the universe affects the way the universe appears to us.
We really are all one being, living in greater harmony with the universe which is just one being, but most people aren't spiritually advanced to pierce that veil of Maya.
To summarize, the universe is amazingly able to support life, because if it couldn't support life, we wouldn't be able to think that it supports life.
Damn, I never needed a PhD to know that, just some clean blotter picked up in the parking lot of a Grateful Dead show.
Okay, Harry Browne is a male, that fits the controlling patriarch bit.
I'm sure he's white, with that selfish Libertarian philosophy.
But was he matriculated in the Ivy League, like Bush, Gore and Nader, and like most of our previous presidents (though Clinton went to Oxford in England, which is roughly comparable to a lesser Ivy League school like Columbia or Cornell, but Bush pere was a Yale man, but Reagan went to Eureka which is not an Ivy League school)?
My ancestor's fought a bloody revolution to free us from England's perfidious grasp and allow us to elect our own representatives, instead of having a queen bestowed upon us by reason of high birth.
It's the least any decent American can do to go out and vote for the patriarchal, northern European descended Ivy League education candidate of your choice, Gore, Bush or Nader.
While I liked Lem's Solaris, and consider him a master in the field (particularly liking memoirs found in a bathtub, and those robot stories), I like his prequel to Solaris much better. Look for ir, it's call Sunos.
b) do you think they're going to prosecute you for running an FTP client anyway?
Well, in some cases, yes, I think you might get prosecuted for running an ftp client.
If your a normal, boring person, you watch TV, buy an SUV, encourage sprawl by moving to the suburbs, vote for one of the two acceptable candidates, use ftp all you want, the government isn't worried, it considers you a sheeple.
On the other hand, if you have any kind of subversive tendencies, this is just one more thing for the government to get you on, the government likes a stockpile of easy to break rules to keep you in line.
"Do you have a manufacturer's receipt for the 30 round magazine for your semi-automatic assault rifle, proving it was made pre-ban, and not post-ban by terrorists?"
No, well, if you're lucky prison, if not, an FBI sniper will kill you and your family.
I feel for the Europeans though, at least we Americans have the constitutional right to revolt.
As John Adams said 225 years ago, the tree of Liberty needs to watered in the blood of patriots every 20 years.
Slashdot Mirror
Is just about what my daughter's Furby would say to this,
if the batteries hadn't worn down.
Too bad AA batteries are so hard to find, otherwise we could power up that annoying piece of electronic garbage.
I don't pay her, she just come's by when she wants a little no pressure social interaction.
Just because your boyfriend ditched you, there's no need to get bitchy about Americans.
Or are you having your period?
And I bet when Slashdot runs one of it's "Geeks can't find girls" topics you'll be right up there, complaining about why you can't get a girlfriend.
Here's a clue, most geekgirls can pick up on your misogynistic attitude, and they run away.
Whereas, I love the ladies, and they can tell. I help them geek girls out with their esoteric vi commands, and they pay me back in spades. Cuz I love them.
So why don't you work on changing your attitude, and maybe some geek girl will come along and change your oil.
Oh yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
directly injecting cooled compressed air into your engine will give your engine greater horsepower, at a cost of a net energy loss due to the compressing of the gas, spent in compression heat and frictional heat of the compressor.
You just can't beat entropy in a closed system.
That they're making cracking illegal.
They made drugs illegal a few years back, and it's really helped! You never see drugs, or hear about drugs anymore.
If you could inject compressed (cooled, right?) air directly into the combustion chamber, wouldn't this then lower T2 without moving to canada?
It would help, but are you going to cool the incoming air?
to make a point.
To see more about the Carnot cycle, you can start here.
Maximum theoretical efficiency is
1 - T2/T1, where T2 is the ambient temp, and T1 is the combustion temp.
You can't influence T2, unless you move to Canada, T2 is the temp of the air the engine works in, which is why early helicopters had trouble lifting themselves in hot climates, the ambient aur temp was high enough to reduce their efficency.
Artificially cooling the ambient air won't work either, you'd be battle entropy and thermodynamics.
So, you have to increase T1, the combustion temperature. But most IC engines have low melting points, because they're made of steel and aluminum alloys.
If you changed alloys to a nickel tungsten titanium alloys (Inconel maybe) you could increase T1.
If you could use a ceramic engine block and piston, you could really increase T1.
Hope this helps.
But the Carnot cycle states that the efficiency is increased when the combustion temperature is increased.
For the average IC engine made of materials that you can afford, the maximum theoretical efficiency is 40%.
If you double the difference (in Kelvin) of the combustion temperature and the ambient temperature, you would get 80%. But this would melt an engine composed of normal alloys.
So, it's more efficient to have the electrical powerplant do the combustion, they can afford a turbine that burns at 2,000 degrees and is made out of tungsten-nickel alloys.
Ultimately, ceramic engines will yeild a huge increase in efficiency, but they are a aways away.
This looks like a great idea, god knows internal combustion engines are very inefficient (I believe the Carnot cycle will show that a maximum theoretical effiency is 40%, unless you build your block and pistons out of ceramics) but I don't think it will sell in the US.
Small cars like this, though fun to drive (I still miss my urban commando Plymouth Colt, tiny and sporty, perfect for living in the city) sell poorly in the US, because most American's like big ass SUV's to haul their flabby bodies from the office park to the suburbs and back, even though their unsafe, gas guzzling top heavy behemoths. I think the size and mass of the SUV's appeal to Americans, for reasons of low self esteeem, or perhaps marketing brainwashing.
So, until the French designer jacks up the wheels, puts a plastic off road grill on it and make it look like a truck, don't even bother selling it in the US.
I know that Macs (like me) are a chick magnet, and if a chick says she's into computers and a computer geek, the odds are she's really into a Mac (right Rob), and wouldn't know a command line from a hole in the ground, so I keep a Mac around for the chicks who drop by.
Anyhow, once these Macs are running OSX, are the chicks still gonna be interested in them? I'm trying to keep my bachelor pad up to date and keep the chick tractor beam still functioning.
Thanks,
No, EAC a CD in a few hours, particularly if you have a badly burned CD.
Then I burn it on my 2x2x6x Phillips.
Just how many CDs have you duped and burned in the last month?
I figure I've EAC'ed about 20, and burned about 100.
Remind me to never, ever trade with you, unless you're talking standalone burner, but I don't think you are.
When I dupe a CD, I read it in with EAC, and it may take a few hours.
Then I dump it the HD (or via network) to my burner.
I rarely get underrungs or diginoise this way.
Considering earlier reports that fungus is growing wild on Mir, including the outside surfaces, do we really want this thing dropped back into the ecosphere?
Radiation = mutation = every science fiction horror movie you ever saw.
Sure, burn will wipe out most of it, but what about the fungus growing inside? Anyone willing to bet it isn't like that Ringworld version that eats room-temp superconductor for lunch?
So, how can I protect my room temperature superconductors? Would sealing them in a ziplock help?
Thanks,
What kind of precautions has the USAF taken to ensure that 'l337 haxors don't hack the flight computers on Mir and target Redmond with it.
No matter what you think of Microsoft, you shouldn't try to kill the people there, but good luck getting that message out to fervent Linuxtriods.
I hope the USAF is on standby with those F15's with ASAT's on, cuz the Russian computer security is probably easily hacked.
They didn't mention any names of games compelling enough to make 20 somethings play.
I hope it's better than Gnobots or XTris.
I like most other people (I would think most other people) were taught that you cannot create or destroy matter.
Geez, there are lots of ways to create or destroy matter. Perhaps you've heard of a little equation
e = mc^2?
Also, Hawking radiation is in vogue now, pairs of particles and anti-particles are forming out of nothing all the time, though sometimes a particle of anti-particle gets sucked into a black hole, creating a net change in the energy of the universe.
to truths learned centuries ago in eastern religions.
We're not a separate part of the universe, we're inherently tied in with the universe, and the way we concieve of the universe affects the way the universe appears to us.
We really are all one being, living in greater harmony with the universe which is just one being, but most people aren't spiritually advanced to pierce that veil of Maya.
To summarize, the universe is amazingly able to support life, because if it couldn't support life, we wouldn't be able to think that it supports life.
Damn, I never needed a PhD to know that, just some clean blotter picked up in the parking lot of a Grateful Dead show.
Okay, Harry Browne is a male, that fits the controlling patriarch bit.
I'm sure he's white, with that selfish Libertarian philosophy.
But was he matriculated in the Ivy League, like Bush, Gore and Nader, and like most of our previous presidents (though Clinton went to Oxford in England, which is roughly comparable to a lesser Ivy League school like Columbia or Cornell, but Bush pere was a Yale man, but Reagan went to Eureka which is not an Ivy League school)?
You see my point?
My ancestor's fought a bloody revolution to free us from England's perfidious grasp and allow us to elect our own representatives, instead of having a queen bestowed upon us by reason of high birth.
It's the least any decent American can do to go out and vote for the patriarchal, northern European descended Ivy League education candidate of your choice, Gore, Bush or Nader.
From reading this blurb, capcom will allow users of PS2,Playstation and PC's to all play the same online games.
Hmm, so to me it sounds like progamming the games in Java, and allowing the Java Virtual Machine on each of the platforms to interpret it.
This might have been amazing 3 years ago.
While I liked Lem's Solaris, and consider him a master in the field (particularly liking memoirs found in a bathtub, and those robot stories), I like his prequel to Solaris much better. Look for ir, it's call Sunos.
Thanks
I whored my self to 26 kharma points in a week!
and not a hack writer for making up the word grok.
We need more upright, upstanding American's like Heinlein to counteract the perverted filth that's being written today.
That darling book of the Slashdot crowd, the Cryptonomicon, is just full of adultery that Henlein would have been embarassed to write.
Or maybe I could get a photo of you and make some pornographic fakes up and post them around the net?
Could you do that for me, maybe increase the length and width of my dong in GIMP?
I'm not getting enough geekgirls, and I fell bad depriving them of my gift.
Thanks,
b) do you think they're going to prosecute you for running an FTP client anyway?
Well, in some cases, yes, I think you might get prosecuted for running an ftp client.
If your a normal, boring person, you watch TV, buy an SUV, encourage sprawl by moving to the suburbs, vote for one of the two acceptable candidates, use ftp all you want, the government isn't worried, it considers you a sheeple.
On the other hand, if you have any kind of subversive tendencies, this is just one more thing for the government to get you on, the government likes a stockpile of easy to break rules to keep you in line.
"Do you have a manufacturer's receipt for the 30 round magazine for your semi-automatic assault rifle, proving it was made pre-ban, and not post-ban by terrorists?"
No, well, if you're lucky prison, if not, an FBI sniper will kill you and your family.
I feel for the Europeans though, at least we Americans have the constitutional right to revolt.
As John Adams said 225 years ago, the tree of Liberty needs to watered in the blood of patriots every 20 years.