The thing uses 15 Amps, about the same as the headlight, a car alternator can put out 50 - 100 amps, a semi-truck tractor is probaly closer to 150- 300 amps in 24 volt systems so they are a long ways from peak.
The device doesn't effect the air-fuel mixture, the website says
Hydrogen Fuel Injection System (HFI), is an onboard generator of hydrogen and oxygen gases for internal combustion engines The HFI introduces gases to the air intake manifold of the truck, weighs approximately 90lbs and measures 12x12x24 inches. The gases generated , once introduced to the intake manifold, are mixed with the incoming air. The gases are produced only while the engine is running. The gases generated , once introduced to the intake manifold, are mixed with the incoming air. The gases are produced only while the engine is running. Hydrogen is not stored under significant pressure at anytime eliminating any safety concerns. The introduction of these gases results in a more efficient and complete burn of existing fuel.
Note the word gases, plural stong implication that both H2 and O2 are inputed to the manifold of the engine. My industry sometimes uses H2 O2 gases for welding, the gases are generated elctrolyticaly and delivered to the torch handle combined, frequantly the gasses are passed thru ethanol to cool the flame down from it's normal 5000 K temperature
I doubt it, I'm sure that you would learn the slashdot book of style in no time at all.You don't think all of those "mistakes" are accidental, they give the site a consistant theme and mood!
The parent was talking about discounted windows licensing and access to the source code in Windows for large scale clusters/super-computers. My understanding is, the windows access to source code is on a "look but don't touch and don't talk" basis. Also I understand that Microsoft is putting conciderable effort into straightening out their code and bring it up to professional standards, de-spaghettizing it in other words.
I've got a couple of pieces of hardware, such as my DVD drive, that when in their original windows box won't work. Dell is spending a lot of money on warrentee parts that are hopelessly broken in Windows, that just work in Linux; often they tell customer to just chuck, rather than pay for returns.
The best thing they could do for the super-computer market is develope chips with more MIPS per Kcal and more MIPS per watt. It's at the point now where a big super-computer facility or data-center has to call the power company to warn them when they are going to power-up one of those machines. Data centers are pushing 3.8 Kw per square foot now. Its getting hard to get the power cables to the racks physicaly.
The FCC seems to think we have the right to use whatever software and services we like over the internet, I remember seeing it in an FCC doc linked in a/. story, it was a one good sentence in a page of bad kind of thing; I can't find it now of course. The ISPs have to be careful not to compromise their common-carrier status irregardless of what's in their TOS.
Kontiki Grid Delivery employs a secure grid of PCs and servers, which deliver content with a high level of network efficiency and centralized control. In grid delivery, content is delivered to a user not only from the server where it originates, but also from any number of network-connected computers that also have copies of the requested content. The Kontiki Delivery Grid dynamically optimizes delivery from many PCs and media servers by caching content at the very edge of the network. This creates network efficiency gains of 10 to 25 times over traditional approaches.
Would be interesting to get their patent-pending technology and see just how much of it is a BitTorrent rip-off,
System Requirements: (These are the minimum system requirements. Better performance will be seen on more powerful systems.)
Pentium II 400Mhz (or faster recommended for optimal video playback)
64MB of RAM
2GB hard drive with 500MB of free space
Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, or XP
Internet Explorer 5.01 SP2 (or later), Netscape 4.7 or AOL 6.0 (or later)
Windows Media Player 7, RealPlayer and Quicktime are recommended for the best experience
A 56Kbps (or faster) Internet connection Additional Requirements for using Secure Media and Document Control Features:
Windows Media Player 7 or later for accessing files encrypted using Windows Media Rights Manager
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later for accessing secure PDF documents
kontiki's specs seem to imply its using other people's DRM for the heavy lifting.
it whittles away at the filesharing == evil stigma
Kontiki 5.0 Leading the Evolution in Digital Media Delivery Content protection
Content cannot be copied or shared illegally from one device to another
A centrally managed publishing process allowing only authorized parties publish content to the system Rapid content delivery
Creates a compelling internet based offering for the consumer with a superior end user experience through DVD quality video delivery
Can deliver content from one client behind a firewall to another
Sorry I just don't see how a commercial rip-off of bittorrent style technology, with some DRM shoe-horned in (probably very lame weak, encryption) is going to make file-sharing anymore respectable.
Users on Macintosh and Unix workstations can retrieve Kontiki-powered content using standard http download via their browser. Some security features may not be available to these users.
I read that as if your on a Mac, Linux or solaris machine your just shit- outa-luck, and if you think your going to download a program from you desktop to your laptop to watch later, your SOL also!
John Titor; I would like to patent for a period of 17 years, 157 different patents on devices that will be impossible for the next 2 centuries Patent clerk; Sure buddy, anything you say, got the filing fees with you? John Titor; Sure, look here a nice tall stack of $100.00 federal reserve notes! Patent clerk; Those bills arn't even the right size for money, and what's a federal reserve anyways?
The funny part is this patent started the 17 year clock running about 50 years before even a prototype could be built to test the theory in real-world scale! Even if the device actualy works, the patent will have expired long before the first ship could be tested.
What does the ownership of housing have to do with anything? When people do not and especialy can not own their homes, they feel alienated in the society; even having a job helps people feel associated with society. When people feel alienated in society, it's much easier to engage in anti-social behavours. Rioting is pretty anti-social.
I'm not sure I'd go as far as saying "A French elite mentality that Africans are sub-human", but the French social system is horrendously expensive with subsidised housing and medical, 35 hour work week and month vacations, generous retirements and it's almost impossible to fire a worker, or pay him a entry wage in France. The net result is French productivity has to be the highest in Europe just to pay, for everthing and no Employer wants to take a chance on hiring somebody who might not be productive enough. The unemployment is running 30% for under 25 year-old with French sounding names to over 50% for African sounding names. A job application with a French name is 5 times more likely to get an interview in France than an African sounding name for the same data. the WSJ has been running articles about it since the riots started.
What's going on over there is basicly a systemic institutional racism and ageism; of course some might argue that the French elite treat anyone who isn't French as sub-humans. The French would be wise to study the american civil-rights movement's history to see what they are in store for, because that's what is going to happen. These riots aren't even a dress rehearsal yet.
WP isn't an effective antiarmor weapon, to armor its just smoke, it's use is primarily as a smoke or obscurent and secondarily as an incendiary device. Shooting HE WP at an armor/infantry column, is going to strip off the infantry and blind the armor, but your still going to have to deal with the armor. It's been a while but the last word I got was WP is being phased out in favor of Red Phosphorus as RP smoke obscure IR and thermal much better than WP, and is much easier to store and use. WP actualy melts in enviromental temperatures, so if its stored off-vertical, you'll get a out of ballance round that could go anywhere but where you want. Sounds like the existing stocks lasted quite a while.
Even with non-persistant nerve gases like tabun, soman and sarin it is difficult to maintain an ID50 (incapacitating Dose for 50%) concentration in the open air LD50 is almost impossible; the relative lack of fatalites in the Tokyo subways show that even in ideal conditions chemical weapons are ineffective except as a psycological weapon. Persistant Agents like mustard, nitrogen mustard and VX are arguably good for terrain denial, but considering that your makeing your country an international pariah, the cost of other equaly effective terrain denial devices, chemical weapons still aren't really appropriate. The initial use of chemical weapons is generaly for genocidial purposes, rather than military. Recently, initial use has a tendency to get you and your country placed on the short-list, just ask Saddam about it.
Actualy one of my friends got hit while in a helicopter over Viet Nam by a 12.5mm. it went through the floor of the chopper, through his leg, through his machine gun, through his arm, through the ceiling all with nice neat 1/2 inch holes. 5.56mm is going to penetrate about 3/8 th steel so a fender isn't going to stop it. 7.62 I've seen them go through 12 inches of hichory tree, so I'm pretty sure we're talking about 1.5 inches of steel, that would be an engine block on a aluminum front wheel drive car..50 cal doesn't stop for much, that's the problem; you have to consider that every shot is going to continue until the bullet buries itself in the dirt. With a M2 there is no clear safe shot, put one into a cast iron V8 its going to penetrate into the engine block a ways
I'm sure the Idea is to put up a sign the says "Slow, military check point ahead" then a 100 m or so put up some speed bumps, then 50m or so place a chicane, then another 50m another chicane; that way anybody trying to blow through is definately up to something, so zap them with a litttle stand-off range. Usualy your more interested in the vehicles that try to evade the checkpoint all to gether.
The United Nations, as one example, has no such limitation on how it can excercise that CONTROL. Actualy if the United States told the UN that they were not getting that check from us if they did such-and-such and might even have to start looking for a new home I suspect that the UN wouldn't do it. The US does a lot of heavy lifting around the world and there are few who could step-up if we decided to take a break and only do our share.
I suspect that if OPEC told Venezuela, how much oil they can pump, they would like that about as much we like being told we can't control the gTLDs through ICANN. The problem is the Europeans and the American have a very different concept of a little thing called sovereignty, in America its a bottom up thing, in Europe its a top down thing.
The fact that people complain means that it's broken no I'd say it means that they are afraid of the Bush boogieman. Nobody has ever explained why they want to rest the control of the gTLD names and numbers from ICANN and the US other than its the US. Bush is going to be gone in a couple years, America is going into a period of isolation, we do that after every war. Instead of worrying about who is controlling the internet, worry about what's going to happen when the EU gets its turn to be the lightning rod for a while.
if a company truely has a global scope and a physical presence in multiple countries a.com is approprate so why not just http://us.example.com/http://uk.example.com/http://fr.example.com/ ect? I think its pathetic that "Ginnies home made mulled cider" finds it easier to register a.com than a.ca.
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The thing uses 15 Amps, about the same as the headlight, a car alternator can put out 50 - 100 amps, a semi-truck tractor is probaly closer to 150- 300 amps in 24 volt systems so they are a long ways from peak.
4 L of HOH per 10Km pretty much tells you the effect is more like catalytic, than fuel
I doubt it, I'm sure that you would learn the slashdot book of style in no time at all.You don't think all of those "mistakes" are accidental, they give the site a consistant theme and mood!
The parent was talking about discounted windows licensing and access to the source code in Windows for large scale clusters/super-computers. My understanding is, the windows access to source code is on a "look but don't touch and don't talk" basis. Also I understand that Microsoft is putting conciderable effort into straightening out their code and bring it up to professional standards, de-spaghettizing it in other words.
Does source code access include fix, recompile and install? Can a mere mortal even read that mangled mess of spaghetti?
I've got a couple of pieces of hardware, such as my DVD drive, that when in their original windows box won't work. Dell is spending a lot of money on warrentee parts that are hopelessly broken in Windows, that just work in Linux; often they tell customer to just chuck, rather than pay for returns.
Sorry, I was trying for sarcastic. I didn't even know that windows media pretended to run on OS X, I'm pretty Linux-centric.
The best thing they could do for the super-computer market is develope chips with more MIPS per Kcal and more MIPS per watt. It's at the point now where a big super-computer facility or data-center has to call the power company to warn them when they are going to power-up one of those machines. Data centers are pushing 3.8 Kw per square foot now. Its getting hard to get the power cables to the racks physicaly.
The FCC seems to think we have the right to use whatever software and services we like over the internet, I remember seeing it in an FCC doc linked in a /. story, it was a one good sentence in a page of bad kind of thing; I can't find it now of course. The ISPs have to be careful not to compromise their common-carrier status irregardless of what's in their TOS.
you can do a http download in linux/Mac/non-IE browser, them open it with windows media viewer 7.0, which handles the DRM, that runs in linux right?
The server software runs in windows/Linux/Solaris, but not the viewer.
Would be interesting to get their patent-pending technology and see just how much of it is a BitTorrent rip-off,
kontiki's specs seem to imply its using other people's DRM for the heavy lifting.
Sorry I just don't see how a commercial rip-off of bittorrent style technology, with some DRM shoe-horned in (probably very lame weak, encryption) is going to make file-sharing anymore respectable.
I read that as if your on a Mac, Linux or solaris machine your just shit- outa-luck, and if you think your going to download a program from you desktop to your laptop to watch later, your SOL also!
John Titor; I would like to patent for a period of 17 years, 157 different patents on devices that will be impossible for the next 2 centuries
Patent clerk; Sure buddy, anything you say, got the filing fees with you?
John Titor; Sure, look here a nice tall stack of $100.00 federal reserve notes!
Patent clerk; Those bills arn't even the right size for money, and what's a federal reserve anyways?
The funny part is this patent started the 17 year clock running about 50 years before even a prototype could be built to test the theory in real-world scale! Even if the device actualy works, the patent will have expired long before the first ship could be tested.
What does the ownership of housing have to do with anything?
When people do not and especialy can not own their homes, they feel alienated in the society; even having a job helps people feel associated with society. When people feel alienated in society, it's much easier to engage in anti-social behavours. Rioting is pretty anti-social.
I'm not sure I'd go as far as saying "A French elite mentality that Africans are sub-human", but the French social system is horrendously expensive with subsidised housing and medical, 35 hour work week and month vacations, generous retirements and it's almost impossible to fire a worker, or pay him a entry wage in France. The net result is French productivity has to be the highest in Europe just to pay, for everthing and no Employer wants to take a chance on hiring somebody who might not be productive enough. The unemployment is running 30% for under 25 year-old with French sounding names to over 50% for African sounding names. A job application with a French name is 5 times more likely to get an interview in France than an African sounding name for the same data. the WSJ has been running articles about it since the riots started.
What's going on over there is basicly a systemic institutional racism and ageism; of course some might argue that the French elite treat anyone who isn't French as sub-humans. The French would be wise to study the american civil-rights movement's history to see what they are in store for, because that's what is going to happen. These riots aren't even a dress rehearsal yet.
WP isn't an effective antiarmor weapon, to armor its just smoke, it's use is primarily as a smoke or obscurent and secondarily as an incendiary device. Shooting HE WP at an armor/infantry column, is going to strip off the infantry and blind the armor, but your still going to have to deal with the armor. It's been a while but the last word I got was WP is being phased out in favor of Red Phosphorus as RP smoke obscure IR and thermal much better than WP, and is much easier to store and use. WP actualy melts in enviromental temperatures, so if its stored off-vertical, you'll get a out of ballance round that could go anywhere but where you want. Sounds like the existing stocks lasted quite a while.
Even with non-persistant nerve gases like tabun, soman and sarin it is difficult to maintain an ID50 (incapacitating Dose for 50%) concentration in the open air LD50 is almost impossible; the relative lack of fatalites in the Tokyo subways show that even in ideal conditions chemical weapons are ineffective except as a psycological weapon. Persistant Agents like mustard, nitrogen mustard and VX are arguably good for terrain denial, but considering that your makeing your country an international pariah, the cost of other equaly effective terrain denial devices, chemical weapons still aren't really appropriate. The initial use of chemical weapons is generaly for genocidial purposes, rather than military. Recently, initial use has a tendency to get you and your country placed on the short-list, just ask Saddam about it.
Actualy one of my friends got hit while in a helicopter over Viet Nam by a 12.5mm. it went through the floor of the chopper, through his leg, through his machine gun, through his arm, through the ceiling all with nice neat 1/2 inch holes. .50 cal doesn't stop for much, that's the problem; you have to consider that every shot is going to continue until the bullet buries itself in the dirt. With a M2 there is no clear safe shot, put one into a cast iron V8 its going to penetrate into the engine block a ways
5.56mm is going to penetrate about 3/8 th steel so a fender isn't going to stop it.
7.62 I've seen them go through 12 inches of hichory tree, so I'm pretty sure we're talking about 1.5 inches of steel, that would be an engine block on a aluminum front wheel drive car.
I'm sure the Idea is to put up a sign the says "Slow, military check point ahead" then a 100 m or so put up some speed bumps, then 50m or so place a chicane, then another 50m another chicane; that way anybody trying to blow through is definately up to something, so zap them with a litttle stand-off range. Usualy your more interested in the vehicles that try to evade the checkpoint all to gether.
The United Nations, as one example, has no such limitation on how it can excercise that CONTROL .
Actualy if the United States told the UN that they were not getting that check from us if they did such-and-such and might even have to start looking for a new home I suspect that the UN wouldn't do it. The US does a lot of heavy lifting around the world and there are few who could step-up if we decided to take a break and only do our share.
I suspect that if OPEC told Venezuela, how much oil they can pump, they would like that about as much we like being told we can't control the gTLDs through ICANN. The problem is the Europeans and the American have a very different concept of a little thing called sovereignty, in America its a bottom up thing, in Europe its a top down thing.
The fact that people complain means that it's broken no I'd say it means that they are afraid of the Bush boogieman. Nobody has ever explained why they want to rest the control of the gTLD names and numbers from ICANN and the US other than its the US. Bush is going to be gone in a couple years, America is going into a period of isolation, we do that after every war. Instead of worrying about who is controlling the internet, worry about what's going to happen when the EU gets its turn to be the lightning rod for a while.
if a company truely has a global scope and a physical presence in multiple countries a .com is approprate so why not just .com than a .ca.
http://us.example.com/ http://uk.example.com/ http://fr.example.com/ ect? I think its pathetic that "Ginnies home made mulled cider" finds it easier to register a