i never ever push the car that hard onto the freeway - if i'm going to spin, and i do sometimes, actually, it's onto the smooth grass runout - i've come close to the guardrail several times, but i'm always back well down into the realm of control by the time i'm coming off into traffic. if i'm going to spin into oncoming traffic, odds are i'm going to be the one getting by far the worst injuries - not that i don't worry about killing somebody else, but if i'm going to be the most likely to die one, i'm definitely going not going to take stupid risks. same goes for driving down tree-lined roads, or roads with heavy pedestrian traffic. risk does have an input in my decisions - i'm not stupid. i'm confident in my driving skills, and my experiences bear me me out.
hah, you pussy. i very rarely *brake* for onramps - i just com ein a touch fast, then roll off the throttle and let the compression braking (yet another reason to love stick) shift the weight forward and bite the front wheels into the pavement, diving the car into the corner. Trailing Throttle Understeer - the cause of 90% of spinouts, but a great technique if you can master it [disclaimer: i know that trailing off will cause *oersteer* (dive the car into the turn too much), but my driver's ed teacher, who happened to also be an SCCA instructor, called it TT Understeer...i have no idea why]. having RWD helps, too (95 240SX) - if things really go bad and i start to oversteer (pus the front end), i can abruptly accelerate and break the back tires loose, fishtailing and bringing the car back in the right general direction. then there's the issue of getting control back, but i'd much rather be worrying about that while the car's relatively parallel to the road, not 90 degress to it. oh, and of course there's the cool factor of hanging th back end out around 90 degree corners, spinning the tires wildly in a cloud of smoke. and i wonder why i have to replace them every 10,000 miles:D
If you're talking about racing performance, then that's something else entirely, and has nothing to do with consumer vehicles.
hmm...ok, i know The Fast and the Furious is one of the worst movies ever made, but that whole streetracing thing isn't a Hollywood fantasy. some people do like to blatantly disregard the "rules" and see how much true performance they can squeeze out of their "consumer vehicles" on public streets. i imagine pure gas cars will still be a hot-ticket item in these crowds, but eventually they'll wear out, and then what? anyway, high-end sports cars come stock with that much horsepower, why do you ever need a 575-hp ferrari (that gets 9mpg)?
oh, you don't even know the half of it - i live in the "world famous resort paradise" of The Hamptons, and some people out here want to sue the town for not adequately blocking the winter storms from pounding the beach, and they put up blatantly openly illegal sewalls, cuz as roy scheider put it, "if the town won't save my house i will". i find it the supreme peak of arrogance - these people are living on the North Atlantc, in the WINTER, and they have the balls to complain that the town isn't stopping the ocean, and thinking they can do it themselves. serves them right, if you ask me. and the beach houses here start at about 4mil...go up to the far side of forty million...love watching them slide into the drink:)
...they don't have any true high-performance cars left. i just can't imagine a supra tt or a mkII mr2 turbo running nearly as fast on a hybrid engine as on a pure gas motor. although a really small, light nimble car like a mkIII mr2 or a miata could probably work well with a hybrid, especially with the smooth throttle control the electric motor. and who knows, i could be wrong and we could have 2.4L 550-hp 38mpg hybrid engines in two years.:D
if i were one of the reviewers of this work for publication, and i even heard a whisper about cheating, i'd pack the whole pile of results up and ship them straight back as invalid. if this is/serious/ scientific research, there should be absolutely zero tolerance for cheating, and any team even suspected of it should be summarily disqualified and have all their results tossed - not out of fairness for the competitors, but for the simple sake of scientific integrity...you can't have people cooking the books and then expect legitimate results.
i want to say CO2 Tek, but i know that's wrong - all i can tell you off the top of my head is that it's a scottish job about the size of a 3lb coffee can. continuous flow CO2, water coole pulsed.
yeah, but true IR lasers that can heat things well (ie cutting lasers) are usually CO2 lasers, which emit at 10.6 microns, 10600nm...1064 nm is IR, but it's not really effective thermally. (yes, i do work with lasers. 532nm, in fact - diode-pumped frequency-doubled Nd:YAG 100mW CW lasers from CrystaLaser...fun stuff:P)
if you hit a mirror with a powerful enough beam of laser light, the small fraction of light that's absorbed (no such thing as an ideal reflector) will rapidly ablate the mirror coat, and then you're screwed. we have problems with this with our pulsed IR laser at work - we need solid polished aluminum mirrors with heatsinks on the back, ad that's for a 500mJ, 500ns pulse; they don't last that long, either. a 100KW IR laser will vaporize pretty much anything that's not *perfectly* reflective, i.e. anything we can build with current technology.
well, couldn't you just get a fog machine and rig the nozzle to spray the juice onto the processor? that's hjow a regualr fog machine works, hell, it might even actually adequately cool your processor!
have you checked out the specs on these cars? they've modded them out more than i've done to my REAL car (yes,i drive an import [240SX]. no, i'm not a ricer. yes, all the parts i've put on are performance so far [swaybars, springs/adjustable struts, intake/headers/exhaust, chip, and matching cams])...they've probably spent more money, too...
I don't think there's such thing as too cold. well...if you cooled the system enough, something in there would probably start superconducting, and while SC is very useful if you've planned for it, it could really screw things up if you hadn't (i.e. if your copper substrate suddenly loses all resistivity, that's gonna mess up your processor).
unless they're driving a remote-control joystick-driven bomb with cool graphics and lots of 'splosions.the bombardier in the 4-seat version of the A6 (not the Intruder, i can't remember what it's called) and in the 2-seat F15D Strike Eagle get to fly the newest video-guided bombs down with a joystick. it's mostly IR though, so it's black and white. good polygon count though, and the 'splosions are SO cool.
i know this has been raised before, but it really is a pretty valid point...really, who needs 19Mbit downloads onto their PHONE? i peak out at about 5 at home, and that's more than enough for everything including video chats. now, what on earth am i going to do with four times the bandwidth onto a device that has maybe 2% of the functionality of my computer? the only thing i can think of that this would be useful for with our current paradigm of cell phone size and esthetics is video chat, and even then i'd really rather not use the 2" screen of my phone as opposed to the 17" screen of my desktop. maybe if they come out with a palm/phone combo with a reasonably sized screen, and capabilities to use a 19Mbit connection then i might be interested...but until then, i'm perfectly happy with my old-fashioned trimode CDMA phone. hell, i can even get all the data downloads i want (email, news, scores) perfectly well on my phone.
...who forgot to wash his petri dishes. that was fleming - he left a dish uncovered, it started growing some Penicillum mold, and the rest is history. pasteur took sterilized bottles of agar broth and kept them sealed, exposed to sterile air, or exposed to open air. only the one exposed to open air grew anything, conclusively disproving abiogenesis (life arising spontaneously).
ultimately, yes it is vastly superior to the mac. but for anything i'm going to realistically need to do with my computer, the mac is going to do just fine. of course if apple gets their shit together and builds a halfway decent system around these chips, the ibm might not be/that/ much better than the macs. but that's a pretty big if.
here's the cheapest POWER4 system i can find - $12,495. everybody bitches about how much macs cost, but i doubt it's going to be more than $4000-4500 for one with the new PowerPC. do i even have to make a point?
That he consciously chose not to escape from. When people don't leave their homes, 99+ times out of 100 the reason is that they didn't feel like leaving, not because they were physically locked in.
you obviously don't know much about agoraphobia. agoraphobics aren't physcially locked in their houses, but many of them might as well be, the compulsion to stay inside is that powerful...the definitely don't just "not feel like leaving". it seems what you're missing here is with mental illness, you/can't/ consciously escape - otherwise all we'd have to do would be tell depressed people "oh, come on, cheer up" and schizophrenics "*smack* get a grip, dude!".
you could probably cover it up in extra strong coffee, or a super-rich oatmeal stout, but that's about it. tastes better than it smells though...i hate that burning plastic aroma and flavor...not as bad as crack, though (seriously)
what is it with you people and these halfass sugar-water caffeniated drinks? double-strong black drip coffee is the One True Way, it's got loads more caffeine than sodas/energy drinks, and nothing else of any nutritional value - which lets you tailor your nutritional intake entirely through food. it's useful - eat complex carbs (bagels, buscuits, whatnot) in the morning to stock up on glycogen, then switch to sugars (junk food, dew) as you get more and more tired and need simpler carbs, maybe a good whack of protein midday (mmm...red meat...) to keep your muscles from self-digesting. of course, it's got so much caffeine in such a small volume of liquid i find it usually ends up dehydrating me, but that's why i keep a big nalge of plain old H20 next to my triple-size mug. 'course if you really wanna hurt, get a 100g bottle of USP sublimed caffeine...bet you didn't know that 2grams at once makes you hallucinate (and vibrate in place, and throw up, a lot...)
so is it a marvelously subtle troll, or just a moderator who's too dumb to see the sacrasm just dripping from that post...as if the 'apple needs to port their DRM-shunning to intel' and 'obligatory/. comment' were't obvious enough.
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i never ever push the car that hard onto the freeway - if i'm going to spin, and i do sometimes, actually, it's onto the smooth grass runout - i've come close to the guardrail several times, but i'm always back well down into the realm of control by the time i'm coming off into traffic. if i'm going to spin into oncoming traffic, odds are i'm going to be the one getting by far the worst injuries - not that i don't worry about killing somebody else, but if i'm going to be the most likely to die one, i'm definitely going not going to take stupid risks. same goes for driving down tree-lined roads, or roads with heavy pedestrian traffic. risk does have an input in my decisions - i'm not stupid. i'm confident in my driving skills, and my experiences bear me me out.
hah, you pussy. i very rarely *brake* for onramps - i just com ein a touch fast, then roll off the throttle and let the compression braking (yet another reason to love stick) shift the weight forward and bite the front wheels into the pavement, diving the car into the corner. Trailing Throttle Understeer - the cause of 90% of spinouts, but a great technique if you can master it [disclaimer: i know that trailing off will cause *oersteer* (dive the car into the turn too much), but my driver's ed teacher, who happened to also be an SCCA instructor, called it TT Understeer...i have no idea why]. having RWD helps, too (95 240SX) - if things really go bad and i start to oversteer (pus the front end), i can abruptly accelerate and break the back tires loose, fishtailing and bringing the car back in the right general direction. then there's the issue of getting control back, but i'd much rather be worrying about that while the car's relatively parallel to the road, not 90 degress to it. oh, and of course there's the cool factor of hanging th back end out around 90 degree corners, spinning the tires wildly in a cloud of smoke. and i wonder why i have to replace them every 10,000 miles :D
If you're talking about racing performance, then that's something else entirely, and has nothing to do with consumer vehicles.
hmm...ok, i know The Fast and the Furious is one of the worst movies ever made, but that whole streetracing thing isn't a Hollywood fantasy. some people do like to blatantly disregard the "rules" and see how much true performance they can squeeze out of their "consumer vehicles" on public streets. i imagine pure gas cars will still be a hot-ticket item in these crowds, but eventually they'll wear out, and then what?
anyway, high-end sports cars come stock with that much horsepower, why do you ever need a 575-hp ferrari (that gets 9mpg)?
oh, you don't even know the half of it - i live in the "world famous resort paradise" of The Hamptons, and some people out here want to sue the town for not adequately blocking the winter storms from pounding the beach, and they put up blatantly openly illegal sewalls, cuz as roy scheider put it, "if the town won't save my house i will". :)
i find it the supreme peak of arrogance - these people are living on the North Atlantc, in the WINTER, and they have the balls to complain that the town isn't stopping the ocean, and thinking they can do it themselves. serves them right, if you ask me. and the beach houses here start at about 4mil...go up to the far side of forty million...love watching them slide into the drink
...they don't have any true high-performance cars left. :D
i just can't imagine a supra tt or a mkII mr2 turbo running nearly as fast on a hybrid engine as on a pure gas motor. although a really small, light nimble car like a mkIII mr2 or a miata could probably work well with a hybrid, especially with the smooth throttle control the electric motor. and who knows, i could be wrong and we could have 2.4L 550-hp 38mpg hybrid engines in two years.
if i were one of the reviewers of this work for publication, and i even heard a whisper about cheating, i'd pack the whole pile of results up and ship them straight back as invalid. /serious/ scientific research, there should be absolutely zero tolerance for cheating, and any team even suspected of it should be summarily disqualified and have all their results tossed - not out of fairness for the competitors, but for the simple sake of scientific integrity...you can't have people cooking the books and then expect legitimate results.
if this is
i want to say CO2 Tek, but i know that's wrong - all i can tell you off the top of my head is that it's a scottish job about the size of a 3lb coffee can. continuous flow CO2, water coole pulsed.
yeah, but true IR lasers that can heat things well (ie cutting lasers) are usually CO2 lasers, which emit at 10.6 microns, 10600nm...1064 nm is IR, but it's not really effective thermally. :P)
(yes, i do work with lasers. 532nm, in fact - diode-pumped frequency-doubled Nd:YAG 100mW CW lasers from CrystaLaser...fun stuff
if you hit a mirror with a powerful enough beam of laser light, the small fraction of light that's absorbed (no such thing as an ideal reflector) will rapidly ablate the mirror coat, and then you're screwed. we have problems with this with our pulsed IR laser at work - we need solid polished aluminum mirrors with heatsinks on the back, ad that's for a 500mJ, 500ns pulse; they don't last that long, either. a 100KW IR laser will vaporize pretty much anything that's not *perfectly* reflective, i.e. anything we can build with current technology.
well, couldn't you just get a fog machine and rig the nozzle to spray the juice onto the processor? that's hjow a regualr fog machine works, hell, it might even actually adequately cool your processor!
i'd imagine banks take the Federally mandated customer privacies pretty seriously...but beyond that, i'd have to agree.
have you checked out the specs on these cars? they've modded them out more than i've done to my REAL car (yes,i drive an import [240SX]. no, i'm not a ricer. yes, all the parts i've put on are performance so far [swaybars, springs/adjustable struts, intake/headers/exhaust, chip, and matching cams])...they've probably spent more money, too...
I don't think there's such thing as too cold.
well...if you cooled the system enough, something in there would probably start superconducting, and while SC is very useful if you've planned for it, it could really screw things up if you hadn't (i.e. if your copper substrate suddenly loses all resistivity, that's gonna mess up your processor).
get BR and B mixed up. and keep forgetting to preview. and then end up spamming slashdot. ah well, at least my antics might be mildly amusing
blah. and that's what happens when you don't drink your coffee, get and
mixed up, and don't preview. BLEH.
unless they're driving a remote-control joystick-driven bomb with cool graphics and lots of 'splosions. the bombardier in the 4-seat version of the A6 (not the Intruder, i can't remember what it's called) and in the 2-seat F15D Strike Eagle get to fly the newest video-guided bombs down with a joystick. it's mostly IR though, so it's black and white. good polygon count though, and the 'splosions are SO cool.
i know this has been raised before, but it really is a pretty valid point...really, who needs 19Mbit downloads onto their PHONE? i peak out at about 5 at home, and that's more than enough for everything including video chats. now, what on earth am i going to do with four times the bandwidth onto a device that has maybe 2% of the functionality of my computer?
the only thing i can think of that this would be useful for with our current paradigm of cell phone size and esthetics is video chat, and even then i'd really rather not use the 2" screen of my phone as opposed to the 17" screen of my desktop. maybe if they come out with a palm/phone combo with a reasonably sized screen, and capabilities to use a 19Mbit connection then i might be interested...but until then, i'm perfectly happy with my old-fashioned trimode CDMA phone. hell, i can even get all the data downloads i want (email, news, scores) perfectly well on my phone.
1. i didn't read all the replies, my bad.
2. i wasn't trying to be a dick, just pointing out...sorry if i came across as such.
...who forgot to wash his petri dishes. that was fleming - he left a dish uncovered, it started growing some Penicillum mold, and the rest is history.
pasteur took sterilized bottles of agar broth and kept them sealed, exposed to sterile air, or exposed to open air. only the one exposed to open air grew anything, conclusively disproving abiogenesis (life arising spontaneously).
ultimately, yes it is vastly superior to the mac. but for anything i'm going to realistically need to do with my computer, the mac is going to do just fine. /that/ much better than the macs. but that's a pretty big if.
of course if apple gets their shit together and builds a halfway decent system around these chips, the ibm might not be
here's the cheapest POWER4 system i can find - $12,495. everybody bitches about how much macs cost, but i doubt it's going to be more than $4000-4500 for one with the new PowerPC. do i even have to make a point?
That he consciously chose not to escape from. When people don't leave their homes, 99+ times out of 100 the reason is that they didn't feel like leaving, not because they were physically locked in.
/can't/ consciously escape - otherwise all we'd have to do would be tell depressed people "oh, come on, cheer up" and schizophrenics "*smack* get a grip, dude!".
you obviously don't know much about agoraphobia. agoraphobics aren't physcially locked in their houses, but many of them might as well be, the compulsion to stay inside is that powerful...the definitely don't just "not feel like leaving". it seems what you're missing here is with mental illness, you
you could probably cover it up in extra strong coffee, or a super-rich oatmeal stout, but that's about it. tastes better than it smells though...i hate that burning plastic aroma and flavor...not as bad as crack, though (seriously)
what is it with you people and these halfass sugar-water caffeniated drinks? double-strong black drip coffee is the One True Way, it's got loads more caffeine than sodas/energy drinks, and nothing else of any nutritional value - which lets you tailor your nutritional intake entirely through food.
it's useful - eat complex carbs (bagels, buscuits, whatnot) in the morning to stock up on glycogen, then switch to sugars (junk food, dew) as you get more and more tired and need simpler carbs, maybe a good whack of protein midday (mmm...red meat...) to keep your muscles from self-digesting. of course, it's got so much caffeine in such a small volume of liquid i find it usually ends up dehydrating me, but that's why i keep a big nalge of plain old H20 next to my triple-size mug.
'course if you really wanna hurt, get a 100g bottle of USP sublimed caffeine...bet you didn't know that 2grams at once makes you hallucinate (and vibrate in place, and throw up, a lot...)
so is it a marvelously subtle troll, or just a moderator who's too dumb to see the sacrasm just dripping from that post...as if the 'apple needs to port their DRM-shunning to intel' and 'obligatory /. comment' were't obvious enough.