For example, a friend of mine and I were discussion this possible hack: On an engine with sequential multipoint injection (one injector per cylender, near the intake valve), could one modify the ECU so that, when the engine is under minimal load, instead of firing the injector on every intake stroke, it would fire on every other intake stroke - in effect changing a four stroke engine into an eight stroke engine?
Input trigger events (compared to ignition events) can be divided by any number between one and eight (number of cylinders must be evenly divisable by this injection number) - this means that there can be an injection event for every ignition event, or an injection event for every other ignition event (skip one), and so on depending on selection. The user can switch which injection division number to use while the car is running - the system will scale the required fuel amount properly on the fly.
The single BEST potential technology to make space travel even REMOTELY economical is the space elevator concept. Orbit is a FAR more practical place to operate then the moon is.
Umm, at this time a Space Elevator is not yet technologically/economically practical. BTW, don't be confused by the Sri Lanka location, that was just to get it closer to Arthur C. Clarke, engineers would want it AT the equator.
The best possible use for the moon is a colony of robots to mine fuel for inter-planetary vehicles. Their too, a space elevator would be the cheapest (and safest) way to get from the surface and into orbit.
Well, the best possible use for the Moon is really a nightlight for part of the month, just like it is now. What sort of fuel can you get from Lunar basalt that you can not get from Earth? Just where does this space elevator get to the Moon? The Moon orbit is all wrong and it is a bit far away for the elevator's top floor.
A moonshot is just more investment in a OVERLY EXPENSIVE, infeasible technology. Build a space-elevator, and I'll be VERY impressed.
Well, I would be impressed too, but the Moon is the distance that we have experience sending people without killing them, even though there is nothing worth bringing back. Mars has more potential from a learning standpoint at this stage of the game. Venus is a bit too action-packed for humans at this point in time.
If you think replicating the old Moon landings is expensive, just wait until you see how much one Molar Unit of "fuel" from your robot factory costs vs. one Molar Unit of kerosine.
LOL! Yea, I suppose they are going to build a stone tower to the Moon, perhaps they can mine the stones from that big tourist-trap wall (that CAN NOT be seen from orbit)? Or perhaps a big giant paper bottle rocket?
Umm, what 'high horse' would that be? The working phone system high-horse? The vehicle in every garage high-horse? The freedom of choice high-horse? The ISS high-horse? All of them and more? Sounds more like you wish to bash the USA for being good at things.
There is certainly not anything wrong with any other nation going to the Moon, planets, etc. I say it's about freakin' time too! I also hope, but don't expect, that these other nations actually SHARE their findings with others to the extent the US does.
However, every single estimate of modern Chinese (People's Republic) technological prowess has been wrong ever since that nation was formed. I suspect that this 'announcement' is full of more of the same. Now, if the story were of Taiwan it would be much more believable.
BTW, if anybody wants to bring up Irridium launches, even that was mostly US inginuity, not Chinese.
/me looks down at guy I knifed silently. Could have shot you, but now I can get position and use the gun that I also brought to shoot your friends. What a stupid saying!
And you assume that I don't know the other knife rule:
A knife is always loaded and needs no supressor.
And the "silent" rule:
Others do not always share your opinion that you are as silent as you think you are.
Those came after the elipses in my earlier post, silly.
2,600 gadgets? I didn't know there were that many new boxes, phone phreak tools and kiddie scripts out there! I need to get back on IRC and USENET to see what I am missing:(
Ah, my perception may be a bit clouded with all of the empty TeleGlobe and Nortel buildings around here in Northern Virginia.
Not that there is any shortage of former MCI buildings (the Defense firm that employs me is about to take onof those over), but MCI seems to have leased from folk that rip the "badge" off of the building a little quicker than others.
The story speculates about the source of the copy, suggesting it's from a film or digital source rather than a cinema-screen-leech.
Wow, sounds like the culprit is an insider! Perhaps someone should contact these guys and point out the "inadvertant error" in their analysis before the real criminals get away?
It is quite amazing that some person or small group can easily get some hystaria going (if this takes off) over a style choice.
In this case, some group that does not "like" the p2p usage on the 'net because they prefer to use the net for some other reason. This is not new. There was some of this cackling when the web gained popularity.
Other examples: cars, fur, meat, makeup, baloons. This is by no means a complete list. For each item listed, some group wants it replaced with what they choose to use that brings no advantage and solves no problem that they express in the "logic" for replacing the type of item.
Umm, isn't a definitioon of insanity doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result?
On a completely different note, years ago when I discovered the Warner Brother's store in Fair Lakes Shopping Center (around Chantilly, VA) I went in and tried to order anvils and dynamite. They didn't have any:(
Yea! Also, I forgot the divorce process. (I have been trying to forget that for almost 10 years, but do not want to forget so much as having to be doomed to repeat it)
Money, yes. Jail probably not. Death, not yet but just wait until the Workers World Party takes over. Don't forget padlocking your business until the issue is resolved, but I am not sure that applies here.
Perhaps you should review federal regulations and civil penalties.
Actually, I suspect that this is not, in fact, a formal law but a typical conglomeration of regulations served with a good heaping helping of a conglomeration of definitions for the terms within the various regulations resulting in a maze of conflicting beurocratic interpretations.
Result? Save everything so we can hand them a pile of crap the next time they bother us.
Well, if the storage cost is more than the fine then this is less of a problem than it may seem. Skip the storage and take the fine (if caught). Odd that there is no mention of the amount of any fines in the article.
The underlying problem of a meddling nanny-state still remains and this is more evidence of it's obscenity.
Another obscenity is this bit towards the end:
He said agencies have been working to develop a new definition of applicant for the past three years and could have one by the end of next month.
How fortuitous that the reporter just happened to be writing this story within a few short weeks of the underlying beurocratic 'requirement' is being re-forged!
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That sounds similar to this:
Good thoughts, but . . .
The single BEST potential technology to make space travel even REMOTELY economical is the space elevator concept. Orbit is a FAR more practical place to operate then the moon is.
Umm, at this time a Space Elevator is not yet technologically/economically practical. BTW, don't be confused by the Sri Lanka location, that was just to get it closer to Arthur C. Clarke, engineers would want it AT the equator.
The best possible use for the moon is a colony of robots to mine fuel for inter-planetary vehicles. Their too, a space elevator would be the cheapest (and safest) way to get from the surface and into orbit.
Well, the best possible use for the Moon is really a nightlight for part of the month, just like it is now. What sort of fuel can you get from Lunar basalt that you can not get from Earth? Just where does this space elevator get to the Moon? The Moon orbit is all wrong and it is a bit far away for the elevator's top floor.
A moonshot is just more investment in a OVERLY EXPENSIVE, infeasible technology. Build a space-elevator, and I'll be VERY impressed.
Well, I would be impressed too, but the Moon is the distance that we have experience sending people without killing them, even though there is nothing worth bringing back. Mars has more potential from a learning standpoint at this stage of the game. Venus is a bit too action-packed for humans at this point in time.
If you think replicating the old Moon landings is expensive, just wait until you see how much one Molar Unit of "fuel" from your robot factory costs vs. one Molar Unit of kerosine.
LOL! Yea, I suppose they are going to build a stone tower to the Moon, perhaps they can mine the stones from that big tourist-trap wall (that CAN NOT be seen from orbit)? Or perhaps a big giant paper bottle rocket?
Umm, what 'high horse' would that be? The working phone system high-horse? The vehicle in every garage high-horse? The freedom of choice high-horse? The ISS high-horse? All of them and more? Sounds more like you wish to bash the USA for being good at things.
There is certainly not anything wrong with any other nation going to the Moon, planets, etc. I say it's about freakin' time too! I also hope, but don't expect, that these other nations actually SHARE their findings with others to the extent the US does.
However, every single estimate of modern Chinese (People's Republic) technological prowess has been wrong ever since that nation was formed. I suspect that this 'announcement' is full of more of the same. Now, if the story were of Taiwan it would be much more believable.
BTW, if anybody wants to bring up Irridium launches, even that was mostly US inginuity, not Chinese.
Paper maps ar good too. They still work after they have been shot.
See my other post farther down about the knife rules.
/me looks down at guy I knifed silently. Could have shot you, but now I can get position and use the gun that I also brought to shoot your friends. What a stupid saying!
And you assume that I don't know the other knife rule:
A knife is always loaded and needs no supressor.
And the "silent" rule:
Others do not always share your opinion that you are as silent as you think you are.
Those came after the elipses in my earlier post, silly.
You have apparently missed Rule 1 of warfare:
There is no such thing as a fair fight.
Well, you missed Rule 2 also:
Don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
Well, maybe Rule 3 also:
If the enemy is in shooting range you are too.
(modified by asymetric Artillery advantages and close air support)
Well, Rule 4 too . . .
2,600 gadgets ? I didn't know there were that many new boxes, phone phreak tools and kiddie scripts out there! I need to get back on IRC and USENET to see what I am missing :(
Oh please! I am from Tennessee too and I knew there was life on Mars when they started shooting our probes down back in the 20th century.
Yea, pronouncing it the same way the only Nuclear Engineer to occupy the White House is so wrong. How dim of him having a bit of an accent!
:-)
Now, for the real news, I am well ahead of the curve with my hydrogen powered Jeep! Glad to see these other folks following my lead
Ah, my perception may be a bit clouded with all of the empty TeleGlobe and Nortel buildings around here in Northern Virginia.
Not that there is any shortage of former MCI buildings (the Defense firm that employs me is about to take onof those over), but MCI seems to have leased from folk that rip the "badge" off of the building a little quicker than others.
Thank you for the correction!
The story speculates about the source of the copy, suggesting it's from a film or digital source rather than a cinema-screen-leech.
Wow, sounds like the culprit is an insider! Perhaps someone should contact these guys and point out the "inadvertant error" in their analysis before the real criminals get away?
Exactly!
It is quite amazing that some person or small group can easily get some hystaria going (if this takes off) over a style choice.
In this case, some group that does not "like" the p2p usage on the 'net because they prefer to use the net for some other reason. This is not new. There was some of this cackling when the web gained popularity.
Other examples: cars, fur, meat, makeup, baloons. This is by no means a complete list. For each item listed, some group wants it replaced with what they choose to use that brings no advantage and solves no problem that they express in the "logic" for replacing the type of item.
This method certainly can't make them go out of business any faster than the other Canadian telcos.
Umm, isn't a definitioon of insanity doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result?
:(
On a completely different note, years ago when I discovered the Warner Brother's store in Fair Lakes Shopping Center (around Chantilly, VA) I went in and tried to order anvils and dynamite. They didn't have any
No, you have it backwards.
If they make a black hole at the surface of the earth all the gravity runs out and we can fly.
Most of the females get indignant.
Yea, you are lucky the women were not wearing these jackets!
Yea! Also, I forgot the divorce process. (I have been trying to forget that for almost 10 years, but do not want to forget so much as having to be doomed to repeat it)
Yes, but women are far too nice for that.
You must not have been around any women at a shoe sale or when another woman is hitting on her guy.
Well, a slightly different version of this story was submitted on Thursday May 22, @03:56PM . Enjoy!
Money, yes. Jail probably not. Death, not yet but just wait until the Workers World Party takes over. Don't forget padlocking your business until the issue is resolved, but I am not sure that applies here.
Perhaps you should review federal regulations and civil penalties.
Actually, I suspect that this is not, in fact, a formal law but a typical conglomeration of regulations served with a good heaping helping of a conglomeration of definitions for the terms within the various regulations resulting in a maze of conflicting beurocratic interpretations.
Result? Save everything so we can hand them a pile of crap the next time they bother us.
The underlying problem of a meddling nanny-state still remains and this is more evidence of it's obscenity.
Another obscenity is this bit towards the end:
How fortuitous that the reporter just happened to be writing this story within a few short weeks of the underlying beurocratic 'requirement' is being re-forged!
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Well, I would be more interested if the title were not so cryptic.
This does not count as gratuitous?
When did he start calling himself Al Gore?