Of course, the government is looking at ways to fix this. About 20 years since it was pointed out to them, they are finally about to change the requirements on diesel fuel such that the quieter, faster, less smelly, and cheaper diesels sold elsewhere can be sold in the US.
I'll agree with everything except "quieter". Your fuel won't make any difference in the loudness of your engine; it's all in the injection pump.
I have a diesel truck (Dodge, with a Cummins) and the injection pump puts out 25,000 psi (not a typo) every time the engine fires (2,000 RPM at 75). Standing in front of my truck is loud, standing behind it is quiet.
However, the new generation of diesel engines that use "common rail" injection are very, very quiet. Not quite as quiet as a gas engine, but close.
Burritos are not a mexican food. They are purely an american invention. Same stuff they just dont roll it up the same way. I live in LA, and eat lunch out frequently (I work in construction) and happen to like Mexican food. Nobody thinks I'm a native Spanish speaker (based on skin tone, eye & hair color), however when I eat lunch, most taco stand employees speak Spanish to me, simply because of the neighborhood I'm eating in.
In short, I eat at restaurants (stands) run by and patronized by Mexicans that don't cater to gringos at all.
Every one of them serves burritos.
I won't debate whether a burrito is a Mexican or American invention (I simply don't know), but I will say that they are served by authentic Mexican restaurants (in Mexico as well).
Also, Mexican food is just as regional as American food was before the McDonaldization of the American tastebud.
The old extensions need to be updated to fit the new extensions theme manager. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246043 for details on the "bug". Essentially, the extension builders need to update the extension or it won't appear in the theme manager, even though it may install.
I downloaded new extensions when the old ones didn't appear. I only downloaded extensions that said that they were.9 compatable.
I didn't install any beta versions or RCs because I didn't want to fuck around with broken crap (this is the machine I run my business on, and it needs to be reliable, and has to be Windows). Oh well, I guess.9 would be considered beta.
The one flaw I've noticed so far, though, is that the extensions options frame is a little buggy.
Yes, i's "a little buggy". Most of my extensions no longer work. At all. The upgrade moved my bookmarks, cookies, etc, but failed to deal with my extensions. So I went and reinstalled all of them.
Googlebar, bugmenot & mousegestures don't work. This seems not quite ready for primetime.
It's also got a preview setup for digital cameras, which means you could use it again as a laptop lite to dump your memory cards to and check quality in the field on a bigger screen than on the camera.
Cool - I could see using it on vacation for storing music, and dumping your camera's memory cards into.
I'm not sure about watching a movie on a tiny screen, but some people surf on a cell phone.
I assume they'll come out with a higher capacity drive soon. 20 doesn't seem like enough for movies, music and digital photos.
About a year ago, I built my own system that was quite comperable for one of the high end Alienware computers of the time, and my cost was about 2000$ less than what Alienware was charging at the time, I don't see why one would pay 5000 for a system they can get for significantly less if they find someone who can put togeather parts for them.
Well, some people want factory support and a warranty. It isn't going to be a gaming PC, but my mom is in the market for a new machine. If she lived in the same town I do, I'd build her one. However, she lives 800 miles away, and there's no way in hell I'm going to help her put one together over the phone. She's going to buy a Dell (or whatever) so she doesn't have to work on it.
Iy's the same reason she drives a newer car, rather than fixing up an older one - she has skills in other areas.
Don't forget that there are plenty of people out there who will pay for convenience. And plenty who will build our own to save bucks and have exactly what we want.
This could be the beginning of the next Space Age.
This is such a huge step forward. I'm reminded of the old pictures of Lindburg (sp?) and other aviation pioneers.
And I feel lucky to live a few hours away, and have a bunch of friends who are wanting to go there with me and camp out in the Mojave Airport, er... Spaceport.
Do you know why it is that gasoline and diesel do not fluctuate at the same rate?
My theory: Gas prices rise and fall with auto travel (goes up when people drive more, like summer). Diesel prices rise and fall with temperature; it's the same thing as heating oil, jet fuel and kerosene (more or less).
Trivia: When you spill diesel, the smell doesn't go away like gas does. Gas evaporates at room temperature, and since diesel is an oil, it doesn't. It's slippery and won't burn if you drop a match in it.
1. Diesel powered cars get better gas mileage than their gasoline powered equals
2. Diesel doesn't fluctuate as much as gasoline, and right now (in Mpls, MN at least) is about 20 cents cheaper per gallon.
I agree on the first point, but I don't on the second. Diesel fuel is the same thing as heating oil - so when there's a big cold spell in the east or midwest, it costs me more to fill up.
And for *some* damn reason, I was paying almost $2.40 (two dollars and forty cents) for Diesel last week in Los Angeles. It came back down a bit over the weekend.
So, you will get more miles on a gallon of diesel, all other things being equal.
And the kicker in the whole deal...
A gas engine must have the same air:fuel ratio *at all times*. A diesel engine doesn't need that ration - so it only uses the fuel it needs.
For example, when I'm at idle in my truck, the air:fuel ratio could be as high as 200:1, but when I'm deep into the throttle (towing 8,000 pounds up the grapevine) I'm using much, much more fuel.
It's why big rigs could afford to idle their trucks all night just to run the AC. They don't do that as much any more.
Additionally, after a couple of years when the car makers release a new model they refuse to offer any of the older models for lease and instead recall them and refuse to make these models available for any purpose.
The truth is stranger than fiction.
GM made an electric car called the EV-1. It was available for lease only. After 4 or 5 years, they refused to renew any of the leases and refused to sell any of the cars.
You had to return it to GM. If you didn't, it was theft. Even celebrities who owned them and made a big stink in public didn't get to keep their cars. All the outrage that chatrooms, chain letters and BBS could muster couldn't change GM's mind.
Well, if you look at the number of posts for all of the articles, it looks like a pretty dead site. One other thing to remember is that slashdot is not a quaint little nerd site, it's part of a very large corporation (OSDN)...which leads us into OSDN's investments in Linux and why you have to many pro-linux, anti-ms stories, etc etc. It's just a big ad.
Bwaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaa ! Damn, you're funny.
I've been reading slashdot for a long time, and it hasn't changed that much over the years. Sure, it's grown larger, but it was "a big ad for Linux" long before it was part of OSDN.
I don't know about you, but I was rather disappointed with the third one (us old-timers still refer to the order when they came out and not this "New Hope" or prequel nonsense). The Ewoks really killed it for me. They served no purpose in the movie other than commercial tie-ins. I found them as annoying as Jar Jar. It also really bothered me that Darth Vader, the guy who blew up a billion people, was absolved of his sins and was able to enter the glowing Valhalla-state with Obi Wan and Yoda at the very end of the movie. That was way too cheesy for me
I was going to write something, but it's far easier to copy/paste what you wrote - because it's exactly what I was thinking.
Well, since the speed of sound is 740 mph, and airliners are subsonic, maybe you mean 600 yo 800 kph? Lol.
The speed of sound changes with altitude. 800 is subsonic, but not at sea level. Airliners fly at speeds of over 600 mph on a daily basis.
As for the rest... I'm not saying that a 747 water bomber is the only way to go. I grew up in the forest, with a huge fire season every summer. I've seen helecopters, water bombers, chemical bombers, trucks full of guys with shovels, smoke jumpers, buldozers and just about every fire fighting technique there is - all within a few miles of my house.
If a 747 can save the house I grew up in, I'm all for it. I also think that it'll be (or could be) one more tool - not the only tool - to fight fires. The summer of 2002 was a fucking nightmare, and the smoke could be seen hundreds of miles away. A fleet of 747's dumping water all day coul have made a difference.
It requires a big airport to land and get loaded up with water. Big airport == busy airport. And probably not that close to the fire.
Your point is valid, but not always the case. There's a map on the Evergreen site that shows coverage of the country based on airports. In Oregon, there are at least 3 (Medford, Portland & Eugene) commercial airports that can handle a 747. However, on the Evergreen map, they list Klamath Falls - and I'm sure it's never busy. It's also close to where the fires would be - and a 747 flies at 600 to 800 mph.
No it isn't, because we can't see past the murdering factory farm complex.
If it's just factory farming & feedlots that bother you, would yo eat a "traditional" farm raised animal?
We raised chickens, sheep and beef (when I was younger) as well as hunting for deer and other woodland edibles (nothing endangered or scarce). We ate everything we killed (no trophy hunting) and ate all the "good" parts (no brains, guts, hooves, etc...)
Would you eat meat in those conditions? Just vurious and not trying to stir up the shit.
Many current weapons systems are fast becoming out-of-date, from aging attack helicopter fleets to the early-'60s-designed rifles troops carry on the ground.
He can only be talking about he M16. It's interesting that it's "out of date" but you can't buy them. You can't get the civilian (semi-auto) version in many states. Gotta love the uninformed media.
Twin turbos are typically single-stage devices feeding separate cylinder banks (for shorter lengths of pipe and lower turbo lag). Two-stage radial compressors? 100 PSI boost pressure on a Diesel truck engine?
I'm going to suggest that you have a lot of research to do.
First off, many, many twin turbo setups are in serial, not parallel. Every Cummins I'm aware of (under the hood of a Dodge truck, which is what I was talking about in my first post) with twins has serial turbos.
100 psi? Yes. Not stock, and not in too many trucks, but they are out there. The guys ruinning that much boost tend to a) lower the compression ration from 17.5:1 to 17:1 with a different head gasket thickness b) use really trick (strong) head studs c) use copper head gaskets or an O-ring d) blow head gaskets at regular intervals
Try it with a (International) PowerStroke or (Izuzu) GM DuraMax and you'll blow it up long before you hit 100psi.
The Cummins comes from the factory with a 20psi wastegate - far, far higher than any other pickup Diesel engine. It's built for real world applications (tugboats, big trucks, generators, etc), not just to slide (er, wedge) under the hood of a small truck.
My truck puts 375hp and 800 ft/lbs of torque to the ground (not at the crank, at the rear wheels) at a "mere" 35 psi of boost.
Continue your education here: http://www.turbodieselregiste.com http://w ww.dieseltruckresource.com http://www.dieseltrans .com http://www.piersdiesel.com http://www.piers diesel.com/images/smokeshow_lg.jpg That's tire smoke, from a 7,200 pound truck - and it'll blow the doors off just about any sport/muscle car (untill you get to a corner, but you can't haul plywood and concrete in a Porche)
http://www.scheiddiesel.com/trkpull.htm Look part way down the page for the "head stud kit". They sell two kits - one for "up to 80psi" and one for "over 80psi". The guys doing drags and tractor pulls are *crazy*.
I apologize for the insult, but those specs seem strange.
Thanks for the apology. However, I'm not pulling numbers out of my ass.
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Of course, the government is looking at ways to fix this. About 20 years since it was pointed out to them, they are finally about to change the requirements on diesel fuel such that the quieter, faster, less smelly, and cheaper diesels sold elsewhere can be sold in the US.
I'll agree with everything except "quieter". Your fuel won't make any difference in the loudness of your engine; it's all in the injection pump.
I have a diesel truck (Dodge, with a Cummins) and the injection pump puts out 25,000 psi (not a typo) every time the engine fires (2,000 RPM at 75). Standing in front of my truck is loud, standing behind it is quiet.
However, the new generation of diesel engines that use "common rail" injection are very, very quiet. Not quite as quiet as a gas engine, but close.
Burritos are not a mexican food. They are purely an american invention. Same stuff they just dont roll it up the same way.
I live in LA, and eat lunch out frequently (I work in construction) and happen to like Mexican food. Nobody thinks I'm a native Spanish speaker (based on skin tone, eye & hair color), however when I eat lunch, most taco stand employees speak Spanish to me, simply because of the neighborhood I'm eating in.
In short, I eat at restaurants (stands) run by and patronized by Mexicans that don't cater to gringos at all.
Every one of them serves burritos.
I won't debate whether a burrito is a Mexican or American invention (I simply don't know), but I will say that they are served by authentic Mexican restaurants (in Mexico as well).
Also, Mexican food is just as regional as American food was before the McDonaldization of the American tastebud.
The old extensions need to be updated to fit the new extensions theme manager. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246043 for details on the "bug". Essentially, the extension builders need to update the extension or it won't appear in the theme manager, even though it may install.
.9 compatable.
.9 would be considered beta.
I downloaded new extensions when the old ones didn't appear. I only downloaded extensions that said that they were
I didn't install any beta versions or RCs because I didn't want to fuck around with broken crap (this is the machine I run my business on, and it needs to be reliable, and has to be Windows).
Oh well, I guess
The one flaw I've noticed so far, though, is that the extensions options frame is a little buggy.
Yes, i's "a little buggy". Most of my extensions no longer work. At all.
The upgrade moved my bookmarks, cookies, etc, but failed to deal with my extensions. So I went and reinstalled all of them.
Googlebar, bugmenot & mousegestures don't work. This seems not quite ready for primetime.
I'm on Win2k
It's also got a preview setup for digital cameras, which means you could use it again as a laptop lite to dump your memory cards to and check quality in the field on a bigger screen than on the camera.
Cool - I could see using it on vacation for storing music, and dumping your camera's memory cards into.
I'm not sure about watching a movie on a tiny screen, but some people surf on a cell phone.
I assume they'll come out with a higher capacity drive soon. 20 doesn't seem like enough for movies, music and digital photos.
Just curious, as I have absolutely no need for a unit like this. I can't seem to wrap my head around it.
Who's going to buy them?
Really. I tune into NPR for news, and other than that, I just listen to MP3 CD's in my truck.
I live in LA, where most of the music is made, and we have *no* good stations. It's all the same shit, day after day.
I don't bother to set the presets on my CD player any more.
Fuck them all - inluding TicketMaster, Clear Channel and the RIAA.
About a year ago, I built my own system that was quite comperable for one of the high end Alienware computers of the time, and my cost was about 2000$ less than what Alienware was charging at the time, I don't see why one would pay 5000 for a system they can get for significantly less if they find someone who can put togeather parts for them.
Well, some people want factory support and a warranty.
It isn't going to be a gaming PC, but my mom is in the market for a new machine. If she lived in the same town I do, I'd build her one. However, she lives 800 miles away, and there's no way in hell I'm going to help her put one together over the phone. She's going to buy a Dell (or whatever) so she doesn't have to work on it.
Iy's the same reason she drives a newer car, rather than fixing up an older one - she has skills in other areas.
Don't forget that there are plenty of people out there who will pay for convenience. And plenty who will build our own to save bucks and have exactly what we want.
I can;t even fill my 30Gb Nomad. What the hell are you going to do with 60Gb?
I'm assuming that prices of smaller models will drop. Have a small music collection (like you)? Get a cheaper iPod.
Me? I'm waiting for a 120.
Good luck, SpaceShip One; and Godspeed.
This could be the beginning of the next Space Age.
This is such a huge step forward. I'm reminded of the old pictures of Lindburg (sp?) and other aviation pioneers.
And I feel lucky to live a few hours away, and have a bunch of friends who are wanting to go there with me and camp out in the Mojave Airport, er... Spaceport.
So damn lucky. I get to be there.
-sniff
Do you know why it is that gasoline and diesel do not fluctuate at the same rate?
My theory:
Gas prices rise and fall with auto travel (goes up when people drive more, like summer).
Diesel prices rise and fall with temperature; it's the same thing as heating oil, jet fuel and kerosene (more or less).
Trivia:
When you spill diesel, the smell doesn't go away like gas does. Gas evaporates at room temperature, and since diesel is an oil, it doesn't. It's slippery and won't burn if you drop a match in it.
Biodiesel is only $0.41/gallon if your time is worth nothing.
And the article says he makes 12 liter batches. I wonder if it's a typo and should be 120 liter batches.
3 gallons seems like a big waste of time.
I'd say check your taxes. I'd bet my 2 cents that there is a CA state tax on Diesel that is intended as a hidden tax on the trucking industry.
In California, on the side of every pump there's a list of state & federal taxes per gallon. They are similar, but not the same.
1. Diesel powered cars get better gas mileage than their gasoline powered equals
2. Diesel doesn't fluctuate as much as gasoline, and right now (in Mpls, MN at least) is about 20 cents cheaper per gallon.
I agree on the first point, but I don't on the second. Diesel fuel is the same thing as heating oil - so when there's a big cold spell in the east or midwest, it costs me more to fill up.
And for *some* damn reason, I was paying almost $2.40 (two dollars and forty cents) for Diesel last week in Los Angeles. It came back down a bit over the weekend.
So, you will get more miles on a gallon of diesel, all other things being equal.
And the kicker in the whole deal...
A gas engine must have the same air:fuel ratio *at all times*. A diesel engine doesn't need that ration - so it only uses the fuel it needs.
For example, when I'm at idle in my truck, the air:fuel ratio could be as high as 200:1, but when I'm deep into the throttle (towing 8,000 pounds up the grapevine) I'm using much, much more fuel.
It's why big rigs could afford to idle their trucks all night just to run the AC. They don't do that as much any more.
He mentions how he knows Linux can be exceedingly good, but this particular implementation is crap.
He mentions the Tivo 100 imes, and each time says how wonderful it is, and frequently mentions it also run on Linux.
I think it was a fair review, and wasn't Linux bashing.
Besides, he ended it with Haiku. That was pretty damn funny.
Additionally, after a couple of years when the car makers release a new model they refuse to offer any of the older models for lease and instead recall them and refuse to make these models available for any purpose.
The truth is stranger than fiction.
GM made an electric car called the EV-1. It was available for lease only. After 4 or 5 years, they refused to renew any of the leases and refused to sell any of the cars.
You had to return it to GM. If you didn't, it was theft. Even celebrities who owned them and made a big stink in public didn't get to keep their cars. All the outrage that chatrooms, chain letters and BBS could muster couldn't change GM's mind.
I hate the RIAA too.
Well, if you look at the number of posts for all of the articles, it looks like a pretty dead site. One other thing to remember is that slashdot is not a quaint little nerd site, it's part of a very large corporation (OSDN)...which leads us into OSDN's investments in Linux and why you have to many pro-linux, anti-ms stories, etc etc. It's just a big ad.
Bwaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaa !
Damn, you're funny.
I've been reading slashdot for a long time, and it hasn't changed that much over the years. Sure, it's grown larger, but it was "a big ad for Linux" long before it was part of OSDN.
I don't know about you, but I was rather disappointed with the third one (us old-timers still refer to the order when they came out and not this "New Hope" or prequel nonsense). The Ewoks really killed it for me. They served no purpose in the movie other than commercial tie-ins. I found them as annoying as Jar Jar. It also really bothered me that Darth Vader, the guy who blew up a billion people, was absolved of his sins and was able to enter the glowing Valhalla-state with Obi Wan and Yoda at the very end of the movie. That was way too cheesy for me
I was going to write something, but it's far easier to copy/paste what you wrote - because it's exactly what I was thinking.
Well, since the speed of sound is 740 mph, and airliners are subsonic, maybe you mean 600 yo 800 kph? Lol.
The speed of sound changes with altitude. 800 is subsonic, but not at sea level. Airliners fly at speeds of over 600 mph on a daily basis.
As for the rest... I'm not saying that a 747 water bomber is the only way to go. I grew up in the forest, with a huge fire season every summer. I've seen helecopters, water bombers, chemical bombers, trucks full of guys with shovels, smoke jumpers, buldozers and just about every fire fighting technique there is - all within a few miles of my house.
If a 747 can save the house I grew up in, I'm all for it. I also think that it'll be (or could be) one more tool - not the only tool - to fight fires. The summer of 2002 was a fucking nightmare, and the smoke could be seen hundreds of miles away. A fleet of 747's dumping water all day coul have made a difference.
It requires a big airport to land and get loaded up with water. Big airport == busy airport. And probably not that close to the fire.
Your point is valid, but not always the case. There's a map on the Evergreen site that shows coverage of the country based on airports. In Oregon, there are at least 3 (Medford, Portland & Eugene) commercial airports that can handle a 747. However, on the Evergreen map, they list Klamath Falls - and I'm sure it's never busy. It's also close to where the fires would be - and a 747 flies at 600 to 800 mph.
The next few fire seasons will be interesting.
If it's so out of date, they can send a me a pallet of them. OK?
No it isn't, because we can't see past the murdering factory farm complex.
If it's just factory farming & feedlots that bother you, would yo eat a "traditional" farm raised animal?
We raised chickens, sheep and beef (when I was younger) as well as hunting for deer and other woodland edibles (nothing endangered or scarce). We ate everything we killed (no trophy hunting) and ate all the "good" parts (no brains, guts, hooves, etc...)
Would you eat meat in those conditions? Just vurious and not trying to stir up the shit.
Many current weapons systems are fast becoming out-of-date, from aging attack helicopter fleets to the early-'60s-designed rifles troops carry on the ground.
He can only be talking about he M16. It's interesting that it's "out of date" but you can't buy them. You can't get the civilian (semi-auto) version in many states. Gotta love the uninformed media.
Twin turbos are typically single-stage devices feeding separate cylinder banks (for shorter lengths of pipe and lower turbo lag). Two-stage radial compressors? 100 PSI boost pressure on a Diesel truck engine?
w ww.dieseltruckresource.coms .coms diesel.com/images/smokeshow_lg.jpg
I'm going to suggest that you have a lot of research to do.
First off, many, many twin turbo setups are in serial, not parallel. Every Cummins I'm aware of (under the hood of a Dodge truck, which is what I was talking about in my first post) with twins has serial turbos.
100 psi? Yes. Not stock, and not in too many trucks, but they are out there. The guys ruinning that much boost tend to
a) lower the compression ration from 17.5:1 to 17:1 with a different head gasket thickness
b) use really trick (strong) head studs
c) use copper head gaskets or an O-ring
d) blow head gaskets at regular intervals
Try it with a (International) PowerStroke or (Izuzu) GM DuraMax and you'll blow it up long before you hit 100psi.
The Cummins comes from the factory with a 20psi wastegate - far, far higher than any other pickup Diesel engine. It's built for real world applications (tugboats, big trucks, generators, etc), not just to slide (er, wedge) under the hood of a small truck.
My truck puts 375hp and 800 ft/lbs of torque to the ground (not at the crank, at the rear wheels) at a "mere" 35 psi of boost.
Continue your education here:
http://www.turbodieselregiste.com
http://
http://www.dieseltran
http://www.piersdiesel.com
http://www.pier
That's tire smoke, from a 7,200 pound truck - and it'll blow the doors off just about any sport/muscle car (untill you get to a corner, but you can't haul plywood and concrete in a Porche)
http://www.scheiddiesel.com/trkpull.htm
Look part way down the page for the "head stud kit". They sell two kits - one for "up to 80psi" and one for "over 80psi". The guys doing drags and tractor pulls are *crazy*.
I apologize for the insult, but those specs seem strange.
Thanks for the apology. However, I'm not pulling numbers out of my ass.