(Engines work better as engines than generators, and generators work better as generators then engine I'll give you that one, an electric motor might be 85% efficent as a motor vs. 75% as a generator but compare that to a gassoline engine which is 30% efficent as a engine and not able to generate at all (roll it down hill and the gas tank doesn't fill). Try appling voltage to your alternator and see if it spins As is, it will turn a bit and lock into position when fed electricity, take out the diode recitfiers, and feed alternating current to the alternator's rotor windinds and recify the current to the field windings and it'll run like a champ. Change the wiring a little more and you can make one king-kong stepper motor out of a car alternator.
As for belt slippage, the big super-chargers on top-fuel, funny cars and some street rods are capable of transferring in excess of 1500 horse-power. As for Not to mention that the crank is not designed to have power applied in that way, the crankshaft forces to take power out, aren't different from the forces to put power in (see above). The biggest difference between the front and back of the cranksaft is the attachment to the front of the crankshaft has a key and keyway, the key is made from a softer steel than the crankshaft so that it will shear before the crank is dammaged, the rear has a flange that doesn't.
The site was Bandwith exceedes when I tried to look, but a way ago I was interested in the robo-wars thing and did some research on coontrolers and motors so I would say.
During periods of low intake pressure you would want to increase power into the motor to assist the engine; and as intake pressure increased reduce power. Electric motor always generate reverse EMF (Electro-Motive Force) and tend toward an equilibrium where EMFinputed = (reverseEMF + MechanicalOutput)/ motor effiency. When the cars velocity is greater than the motors equilibrium, it automaticaly provides regeneration a four diodes will send the power back into the battery battery.
while depending on the above for passive regeneration is helpful, there are times when a more active system would also be useful, for this an interface to the brake system is needed which could be
a pressure sensor on the brake lines which would either work with the ABS or total FUBAR it
a position sensor on the link between the brake peddle and the master cylinder which would totaly ignore the ABS and reqyire an interlock to disable regeneration durring ABS opperation
while using 288 V system is alot better for reducing IR losses, the 48 V system means there is a lot more off-the-shelf parts available from MOSSFET's to surplus starter motors from 747's
You should try youpper's, people from the upper peninsula of Michigan, an odd cross of French-Canadian english and Flemish. Renting "Moonlight on the Escanaba" will give you a taste of the Youpper colloquialism and culture.
if India builds local INDUSTRY Sorry to burst your bubble but India is simply too big and too poor for these service jobs to have any net effect. Even the Indians spending money to learn english well enough to hold these jobs know that the jobs will not help India and will get transfered to some other place even poorer eventualy. If these companies have no loyalty to their local workers, they're not going to have any for Indians either.
The main problem is getting the required purity, silicon based chips involve a multi-step process process to manufacture the substrate now. Basical they take very pure silica sand (SiO2), and purify it as much as possible chemicaly, Reduce it to remove the oxygen, melt it, then extract it by growing a single crystal. Then crystal of Si is then heated to just short of the melting point and then, moving it through a electric induction heater a small portion of the crystal melts, and any remaining impurities tend to stay in the molten zone, leaving the rest of the crystal purer. After that its a process of repeating the purification until the required purity is acheive, that's how one of the most common substances on the planet becomes one of the most expensive.
Now consider this, each device in a computer introduces ineficiencies, the more parts the more waste, the more computers, the more waste so if one SiC based computer can do the work of 5 Si based computers, the overal effiency tends to go up; now imagine a Beowolf cluster of these, with only 25% of the nodes.
They do they are called thermo-couples and operate on the peltier effect.
Take two different wires twist them together into two junctions, break one wire put in a meter; then heat one junction, cool the other and electrical current flows. the peltier cooler work by adding current which causes one junction to warm, and the other to cool.
You should be able to take a peltier cooler, heat one side and cool the other and get some electricity out of it. I imagine the efficency is pathetic, but its just waste heat anyways. To get anything useful you need a lot of junctions which makes them expensive. An example is a car's engine loses about 30% to waste heat, so turning this into electricity would probably boast MPG by about 20-25%, unfortunately it's just too expensive.
Having the servo information shielded by a dichoric filter that only alows it to be read by a red emitting laser does raise a lot of DRM ideas such a placing meta-data on the tracks, obfuscated de-cryptions keys and the like.
Personaly, I don't have a problem with DRM as long as;
It isn't a thinnly veiled method to keep independents out of the market
The standards are published so OSS developer aren't kept out as well
Publishers replace defective and damaged media at reasonable cost
yeah I know like any of that is going to happen, but that's how I feel about it.
1. Corporations only give a perentage of their profits to the tax-man so making a charitable contribution will always lessen the post-tax profits
2. charitable contributions give less benefit to the corp than other deductions like depreciation on capital equipment would.
3. corporation are not sentient so they have no consciousness social or otherwise; but their board, shareholders and customers do.
4. if Target's marketing team figures out that their main demographic is upper-middle-class soccer-Mom's who give mostly to charity XYZ, then so will Target.
5. Corporate tax-rates are less than individual tax-rates; so the share-holders would benefit more by giving less and paying more to the share-holders who could make their own charitable contributions with the money.
Ask most Americans what 4 countries borders their country and most will say there is only two Canada and Mexico competely forgeting about Cuba, only 70 miles from our coast, and Russia, only 50 miles from our coast. Actualy I'd concede that most are blissfully ignorant about anything inside their borders as well. Of course most non-americans think we are a Hollywood-ism.
I've taken a pretty comprehensive look at the website and noticed that Hilbertz, invented the mineral accretion process to create structures in seawater, in 1977, and because the website was so heavy in words like patent, trademark, intelectual property ect. I decided to look a little deeper.
A quick GOOGLE brought up Stanford's website which give us patent numbers and other interesting information such as;
Patent - 4,246,075, Hilbertz, W.H., Mineral accretion of large surface structures, building components and elements, Jan. 20, 1981. (22 years ago so it's expired i believe the period is 17yrs. IANAL)
Patent - 4,440,605, Hilbertz, W.H., Repair of reinforced concrete structures by mineral accretion, Apr. 3, 1984 - expired Apr. 5, 1992 due to failure to pay maintenance fees.
Patent - 4,461,684, Hilbertz, W.H., Accretion coating and mineralization of materials for protection against biodegradation, Jul. 24, 1984 - expired July 26, 1992 due to failure to pay maintenance fees.
Patent - 5,543,034, Hilbertz, W.H. and Goreau, T.J., Method of enhancing the growth of aquatic organisms, and structures created thereby, Aug. 6, 1996. (7 yrs should be still good)
Patent - 4,623,433, Streichenberger, A.O., Process for orienting and accelerating the formation of concretions in a marine environment,
Nov. 18, 1986 - expired Nov. 23, 1994 due to failure to pay maintenance fees.
Patent 4,539,078, Wingfield, W.R., Method of and Apparatus for Making a Synthetic Breakwater, Sep. 3, 1985. (18 Yrs.)
Patent 4,507,177, Duckworth, R. et al., Method of Stabilization of Particulate Material, Mar. 26, 1985. (18 Yrs.)
I think it's high time for every kernel, service library, and utilty developer to send a Cease and Desist letter to SCO, along with an Intent to Sue letter in regards to the copyright infringments. My Magic-Eight-Balls predicts that SCO is going to face the Class-Action-from Hell; imagine 30,000-50,000 developers sueing at $50,000 each that's $1,500,000,000.00 - 2,500,000,000.00!
The water at the bottom of the lake isn't special. Wrong the water at the bottom of a lake is very special, especialy water at max density or 4C. This water doesn't mix with the lighter, warmer layers, so any that enters it like dead animal or plant material, sewage from a century ago or farm run off stays there. Because the water is so cold, the natural bacteria that usualy breaks down this stuff , does so either very slowly or not at all. Cuase this water to mix with upper, warmer layers and the bacteria and algea blooms eventualy dying causing ozygen depletion and a dead zone.
Sure this one system probably will not do squat, but if Enwave makes money once, they'll want money twice. Sooner or later a critical level will be exceeded and there will be ecological damage done.
the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing Equaly plausable is that they leased a server, or the server is actualy owned by Novel now, that the files reside on and they let the lease expire before they scrubbed the files; I've seen graphics that were the same on both Novel's and SCO's websites. Now they are stuck, a ftp server is dishing out their files and they could have lost the right to access the server to remove them, while DNS is happily pointing to the server.
It's easy to assume that when you haven't paid a bill in a while that the server files are deleted, but often they just change a password for ftp access so no one can delete the files.
I've heard that if you're on a sunrise coast, and the morning is dead-clear, you can see a green flash during the sunrise; but it might be a myth also.
Does everyone keep track of ALL of their registration keys?
I've often wondered if the frequency of Win9X crashes/currupted files was a thinly veiled attempt to get users to re-purchase software; not to mention all of the add-on stuff like virus protection, firewalls, pop-up blockers.
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think of cyan as all colors with the red subtracted, magenta with green subtracted ect. I think this will work a lot better with LCD's where you can use a dichroic filter to remove what you don't want from white.
The red light doesn't stimulate your rods, preserving their sensitivity; More importantly, it doesn't cause pupilary contraction, caused by yellow light. Also blue light filtered flashlights is favored now because present NODS (Night Observation Devices) are made with enhanced red sensitivity, often entering into the near-infrared and are pretty much blue blind. Blue scatters too much in fog, mists and smoke; that's why fog-lights are usualy yellow.
Hollywood wants super secret encryption Firstly a stupid question is one that questions a premise that everyone falsely believes to be true so here goes
If encryption is a methods to allow two trusted parties to comunicate without an untrusted third party understanding the communication; how could Hollywood, use it to comunicate with an un-trusted consummer? Obviously they can't. Some how, some way Hollywood has to give the decryption key to the untrusted for viewing and no matter how obfuscated the key is, it has to be available and therefore breakable.
No need to get pissed because they were notmade useless/unenforcable by a change, but knowingly made useless/unenforcable in the hopes that they will be changed to usefull/enforcable. There is no guarentee that these useless/unenforcable extra-legal software patents will become usefull or enforceable if or when the EU law changes to permit them.
These people are gambling when they got their "patents".
A while ago i was webmaster at poiuyt.com, and googling for poiuyt indicated that the password was qwerty. After the site had been hacked 4 times in a week, google returned the actual password indicating that a change was definately in order.
I've got all the time in the world to get them. It seems to me that if you're trying to crack my password and I change it; I've a 50/50 chance of either moving away from your crack, or moving toward your crack! Changing passwords only make sense after an intrusion, or to discourge employees from falsely blaming a compromise on outside sources.
save their own skins for putting out fairly weak systems considering that they use track 2, and that track only contains 40 characters, using a 32 character md5sum of two data fields and a secret field would be out of the question. If your bound and determined to commit retail fraud; I'd think you would want more for your prison sentence than free parking though.
soviet russia the head of state was chosen by the party Not so, in Soviet Russia, a democratic country with huge voter turn-outs; the most officials were democraticly elected from candidates selected by the party.
Squirrel wasn't always a NT shop, they probably sold as much SCO products like Xenix and Openserver as any other company. My guess is that when app producer's like Squirrel migrated to Microsoft, they drove a bigger spike in SCO's coffin than Linux ever could. These systems were absolutly necessary to the people who used them, and when the vendor said "we run on SCO period." you paid for SCO, you paid for installation of SCO, you paid for support of SCO. The only problem was that SCO was pretty stable, the apps were pretty stable, sooner or later the upgrades start to thin out and users realised that they hadn't had a support call for 3 years and hadn't installed a patch for 2 so people let the support contracts run out.
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(Engines work better as engines than generators, and generators work better as generators then engine I'll give you that one, an electric motor might be 85% efficent as a motor vs. 75% as a generator but compare that to a gassoline engine which is 30% efficent as a engine and not able to generate at all (roll it down hill and the gas tank doesn't fill).
Try appling voltage to your alternator and see if it spins As is, it will turn a bit and lock into position when fed electricity, take out the diode recitfiers, and feed alternating current to the alternator's rotor windinds and recify the current to the field windings and it'll run like a champ. Change the wiring a little more and you can make one king-kong stepper motor out of a car alternator.
As for belt slippage, the big super-chargers on top-fuel, funny cars and some street rods are capable of transferring in excess of 1500 horse-power. As for Not to mention that the crank is not designed to have power applied in that way, the crankshaft forces to take power out, aren't different from the forces to put power in (see above). The biggest difference between the front and back of the cranksaft is the attachment to the front of the crankshaft has a key and keyway, the key is made from a softer steel than the crankshaft so that it will shear before the crank is dammaged, the rear has a flange that doesn't.
EMFinputed = (reverseEMF + MechanicalOutput)/ motor effiency. When the cars velocity is greater than the motors equilibrium, it automaticaly provides regeneration a four diodes will send the power back into the battery battery.
You should try youpper's, people from the upper peninsula of Michigan, an odd cross of French-Canadian english and Flemish. Renting "Moonlight on the Escanaba" will give you a taste of the Youpper colloquialism and culture.
if India builds local INDUSTRY
Sorry to burst your bubble but India is simply too big and too poor for these service jobs to have any net effect. Even the Indians spending money to learn english well enough to hold these jobs know that the jobs will not help India and will get transfered to some other place even poorer eventualy. If these companies have no loyalty to their local workers, they're not going to have any for Indians either.
The main problem is getting the required purity, silicon based chips involve a multi-step process process to manufacture the substrate now. Basical they take very pure silica sand (SiO2), and purify it as much as possible chemicaly, Reduce it to remove the oxygen, melt it, then extract it by growing a single crystal. Then crystal of Si is then heated to just short of the melting point and then, moving it through a electric induction heater a small portion of the crystal melts, and any remaining impurities tend to stay in the molten zone, leaving the rest of the crystal purer. After that its a process of repeating the purification until the required purity is acheive, that's how one of the most common substances on the planet becomes one of the most expensive.
Now consider this, each device in a computer introduces ineficiencies, the more parts the more waste, the more computers, the more waste so if one SiC based computer can do the work of 5 Si based computers, the overal effiency tends to go up; now imagine a Beowolf cluster of these, with only 25% of the nodes.
They do they are called thermo-couples and operate on the peltier effect.
Take two different wires twist them together into two junctions, break one wire put in a meter; then heat one junction, cool the other and electrical current flows. the peltier cooler work by adding current which causes one junction to warm, and the other to cool.
You should be able to take a peltier cooler, heat one side and cool the other and get some electricity out of it. I imagine the efficency is pathetic, but its just waste heat anyways. To get anything useful you need a lot of junctions which makes them expensive. An example is a car's engine loses about 30% to waste heat, so turning this into electricity would probably boast MPG by about 20-25%, unfortunately it's just too expensive.
I read it as Daisey Duke the first time, I better not attempt any critical thinking until the coffee gets in the blood.
Personaly, I don't have a problem with DRM as long as;
yeah I know like any of that is going to happen, but that's how I feel about it.
1. Corporations only give a perentage of their profits to the tax-man so making a charitable contribution will always lessen the post-tax profits
2. charitable contributions give less benefit to the corp than other deductions like depreciation on capital equipment would.
3. corporation are not sentient so they have no consciousness social or otherwise; but their board, shareholders and customers do.
4. if Target's marketing team figures out that their main demographic is upper-middle-class soccer-Mom's who give mostly to charity XYZ, then so will Target.
5. Corporate tax-rates are less than individual tax-rates; so the share-holders would benefit more by giving less and paying more to the share-holders who could make their own charitable contributions with the money.
Ask most Americans what 4 countries borders their country and most will say there is only two Canada and Mexico competely forgeting about Cuba, only 70 miles from our coast, and Russia, only 50 miles from our coast. Actualy I'd concede that most are blissfully ignorant about anything inside their borders as well. Of course most non-americans think we are a Hollywood-ism.
I've taken a pretty comprehensive look at the website and noticed that Hilbertz, invented the mineral accretion process to create structures in seawater, in 1977, and because the website was so heavy in words like patent, trademark, intelectual property ect. I decided to look a little deeper.
A quick GOOGLE brought up Stanford's website which give us patent numbers and other interesting information such as;
- Patent - 4,246,075, Hilbertz, W.H., Mineral accretion of large surface structures, building components and elements, Jan. 20, 1981.
- Patent - 4,440,605, Hilbertz, W.H., Repair of reinforced concrete structures by mineral accretion, Apr. 3, 1984 - expired Apr. 5, 1992 due
- Patent - 4,461,684, Hilbertz, W.H., Accretion coating and mineralization of materials for protection against biodegradation, Jul.
- Patent - 5,543,034, Hilbertz, W.H. and Goreau, T.J., Method of enhancing the growth of aquatic organisms, and structures created thereby, Aug. 6, 1996. (7 yrs should be still good)
- Patent - 4,623,433, Streichenberger, A.O., Process for orienting and accelerating the formation of concretions in a marine environment,
- Patent 4,539,078, Wingfield, W.R., Method of and Apparatus for Making a Synthetic Breakwater, Sep. 3, 1985. (18 Yrs.)
- Patent 4,507,177, Duckworth, R. et al., Method of Stabilization of Particulate Material, Mar. 26, 1985. (18 Yrs.)
- Patent - 4,927,504, Scala, C.R., Sculpture process, May 22, 1990 (13 yrs)
So the basic technology is not under patent pretection, only it's application in constructing coral reefs and scuptures are.(22 years ago so it's expired i believe the period is 17yrs. IANAL)
to failure to pay maintenance fees.
24, 1984 - expired July 26, 1992 due to failure to pay maintenance fees.
Nov. 18, 1986 - expired Nov. 23, 1994 due to failure to pay maintenance fees.
I think it's high time for every kernel, service library, and utilty developer to send a Cease and Desist letter to SCO, along with an Intent to Sue letter in regards to the copyright infringments. My Magic-Eight-Balls predicts that SCO is going to face the Class-Action-from Hell; imagine 30,000-50,000 developers sueing at $50,000 each that's $1,500,000,000.00 - 2,500,000,000.00!
The water at the bottom of the lake isn't special.
Wrong the water at the bottom of a lake is very special, especialy water at max density or 4C. This water doesn't mix with the lighter, warmer layers, so any that enters it like dead animal or plant material, sewage from a century ago or farm run off stays there. Because the water is so cold, the natural bacteria that usualy breaks down this stuff , does so either very slowly or not at all.
Cuase this water to mix with upper, warmer layers and the bacteria and algea blooms eventualy dying causing ozygen depletion and a dead zone.
Sure this one system probably will not do squat, but if Enwave makes money once, they'll want money twice. Sooner or later a critical level will be exceeded and there will be ecological damage done.
the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
Equaly plausable is that they leased a server, or the server is actualy owned by Novel now, that the files reside on and they let the lease expire before they scrubbed the files; I've seen graphics that were the same on both Novel's and SCO's websites. Now they are stuck, a ftp server is dishing out their files and they could have lost the right to access the server to remove them, while DNS is happily pointing to the server.
It's easy to assume that when you haven't paid a bill in a while that the server files are deleted, but often they just change a password for ftp access so no one can delete the files.
I've heard that if you're on a sunrise coast, and the morning is dead-clear, you can see a green flash during the sunrise; but it might be a myth also.
Does everyone keep track of ALL of their registration keys?
I've often wondered if the frequency of Win9X crashes/currupted files was a thinly veiled attempt to get users to re-purchase software; not to mention all of the add-on stuff like virus protection, firewalls, pop-up blockers.
think of cyan as all colors with the red subtracted, magenta with green subtracted ect. I think this will work a lot better with LCD's where you can use a dichroic filter to remove what you don't want from white.
The red light doesn't stimulate your rods, preserving their sensitivity; More importantly, it doesn't cause pupilary contraction, caused by yellow light. Also blue light filtered flashlights is favored now because present NODS (Night Observation Devices) are made with enhanced red sensitivity, often entering into the near-infrared and are pretty much blue blind. Blue scatters too much in fog, mists and smoke; that's why fog-lights are usualy yellow.
Hollywood wants super secret encryption
Firstly a stupid question is one that questions a premise that everyone falsely believes to be true so here goes
If encryption is a methods to allow two trusted parties to comunicate without an untrusted third party understanding the communication; how could Hollywood, use it to comunicate with an un-trusted consummer? Obviously they can't. Some how, some way Hollywood has to give the decryption key to the untrusted for viewing and no matter how obfuscated the key is, it has to be available and therefore breakable.
No need to get pissed because they were not made useless/unenforcable by a change, but knowingly made useless/unenforcable in the hopes that they will be changed to usefull/enforcable. There is no guarentee that these useless/unenforcable extra-legal software patents will become usefull or enforceable if or when the EU law changes to permit them.
These people are gambling when they got their "patents".
A while ago i was webmaster at poiuyt.com, and googling for poiuyt indicated that the password was qwerty. After the site had been hacked 4 times in a week, google returned the actual password indicating that a change was definately in order.
I've got all the time in the world to get them.
It seems to me that if you're trying to crack my password and I change it; I've a 50/50 chance of either moving away from your crack, or moving toward your crack! Changing passwords only make sense after an intrusion, or to discourge employees from falsely blaming a compromise on outside sources.
save their own skins for putting out fairly weak systems
considering that they use track 2, and that track only contains 40 characters, using a 32 character md5sum of two data fields and a secret field would be out of the question.
If your bound and determined to commit retail fraud; I'd think you would want more for your prison sentence than free parking though.
soviet russia the head of state was chosen by the party
Not so, in Soviet Russia, a democratic country with huge voter turn-outs; the most officials were democraticly elected from candidates selected by the party.
Squirrel wasn't always a NT shop, they probably sold as much SCO products like Xenix and Openserver as any other company. My guess is that when app producer's like Squirrel migrated to Microsoft, they drove a bigger spike in SCO's coffin than Linux ever could. These systems were absolutly necessary to the people who used them, and when the vendor said "we run on SCO period." you paid for SCO, you paid for installation of SCO, you paid for support of SCO. The only problem was that SCO was pretty stable, the apps were pretty stable, sooner or later the upgrades start to thin out and users realised that they hadn't had a support call for 3 years and hadn't installed a patch for 2 so people let the support contracts run out.