You are right about the high rev part. take a mptprcycle. Most sport bikes redline above 10,000 rpm. Mine does at 11,000 and there are bigger ones that go up to 15,0000+.
Now as an example, the BMW K1200s has a 1.2 litre engine, puny by car standards, but it does the 0-100 in 2.8s and has a top speed somewhere near 300kph, but nobody really knows coz nobody's heroic enough to find out.
Now, with that kind of power it's feul consumption varies alot, at top gear, crusing at 90 kph which means the engine is reving VERY low it gets 49.8 mpg. At speeds above 120kph, the average consumption drops to 30+mpg. A very drastic diffrence.
You think Norway is bad? Try Malaysia, where i live. Here, discharging a firearm in the commission of a scheduled offence (i.e robbery) carries the MANDATORY DEATH sentance, regardless of if anyone was actualy hit. Being an accomplice to the guy who discharges the firearm (i.e gang robbery, or the supplier of said gun etc.) carries the same sentance.
Also, at the discretion of the judge, you can get hung for the mere possession of illegal firearms.
So the most the regular thief will have is a big knife. If the robbers carry guns, they are after big loot (banks, goldsmiths, very rich people etc) and they know that if the cops show up, they either get away or die trying, as being arrested means ending up with a date with the hangman.
This is like pointing at a random article of concept art in a car manufacturer's library and saying "Introducing the new 2006 Chevy."
Could it be? Yes, but so are the other 1000 art pieces. Would it be? Highly unlikely.
A chance snapshot of a working Xbox2 prototype would be news, but this is Concept Art! Heck, I could go fireup LightWave and make you a new Xbox2 as well.
But what about designing laptop HDD's that can keep up with desktop HDDs?
Nowadays, one can buy a desktop replacment laptop that has got everything, Desktop processor, upwars of a gig of ram, DVD-RW the works. Yet, the HDD is as slow as molasses in febuary.
I just can't wait for the first virus whose payload is to enable this policy so that suddenly everybody who uses a thumbdrive to transfer/store files can't get work done because the key won't mount.
IIRC, this is a very tried and tested way of retriving telemetry.
When spy satellites were first launched, they had no way of getting high resolution photography shot from space back to earth wirelessly.
So instead, satellites used to eject a canister at a preset time and location with actual exposed film in it. The canister would enter the atmosphere and deploy a small chute, where a waiting plane with a fishing hook/cloths lines like attachment would catch it in mid air.
Took some skill to catch a small falling object in midair before it hit the ground, but they managed it.
Having a web based service requires that people sign up. Most people would be reluctant to, maybe because of laziness, maybe because of indifference.
If you want to get more people involved, how about getting community funded Internet? Start a community association, then raise funds to put in a reasonable pipe and a few 802.11g router/ APs and provide the service FOC to members of the community.
The only cavet would be that all users will have to see a community page as home page on first load and the DHCP lease expires every 12 hours.
That way the community is more involved, as it provides an incentive for members of the community to participate.
You forget, people die. All you really need to shift are not the people who are already born, but the people who are to be born, that is, move couples who are yet to give birth.
All you need to do to stabalise the earths population is to move enough couples so that birth rates measure up to death rates.
All the chinese goverment is doing is fooling themselves.
People will notice in the course of daily conversation that certain words when typed won't go through and they will improvise. Soon a whole sub-language will develop and the goverment will be back at square 1.
I'd ask my housemate from China about it, but i can't articulate this sort of topics very well in Chinese.
So we just do the oppersite of our obsolete ball computer mouses. Instead of the mouse's movement moving a ball that in turn moves 3 rollers, we have 3 rollers that move a ball (or rather 4 balls) that in turn moves the car.
Though it works, i would think that doing so would be dumb because it would render the already inefficient power distribution system (gears, power train etc) in a car even more inefficient.
It would be cool though if we could develop a way to magneticly levitate the car a few inches above the balls and drive the system by controlling a magnetic field. Plus suspension on that kind of a car would be a dream.
People DO like advertising. Tastefully done advertising. I happen to like TV shows that show Ads from all over the world... it's a laugh every 30 seconds for an hour. Very enjoyable.
You know, it would be interestingto include this tech in Sims2 then have both a Pepsi and a Coke vending machine up for sale in teh game, and see which users would buy more of.
If you are going to use it between home and work, why not just get a SATA HDD and install the enternal SATA panal that comes with most new motherboards?
No drivers and only a reboot away to very highspeed transfers.
Like how I don't care if the DVD media I buy is - or + because my writer can burn into both, as long as they keep making writers that support all types of discs the additional competition can only be a good thing.
Well, in many places in the world, facilities for the disabled arn't required by law, yet many establishments provide them on their own to their disabled clientele.
That said, I would rather see that business' do this on their own, rather then to pass a law and to set precident for bullshit laws.
Where are we when the artists and music producers reach the conclusion that making a CD just isn't worthwhile anymore and that $100 concert tickets are the only way to go. Paid appearances. Sponsorships like Brittny Spears with Pepsi?. Make the music "scarce" again and keep it out of the hands of the "common people" so it is worth something again.
I'd think we'd be better off if that were to happed. We could freely trade and air all the music we wanted and the artists we like would get paid more from fatter ticketsales instead of the $0.2 they get per CD right now.
The only looser is the tupid **AA and their obsolete distribution channel and business model and thats the way i like it.
I think what the grandparent was trying to get at was that laws ought to be free of bias.
'Moral' and 'ethics' are very dirty words. They can be defined and abused anyway someone with an agenda wants.
What is needed in the legal system is something like the seperation of church and state, but instead of theology, ideology is whats seperated. Ideology in this sense is like how the all the **AA's think that the world owes them everytime soembody hums a tune. It's stupid, and doesn't benefit society.
In short, only laws that serve to benefit the whole of society, like speed laws and laws against murder, theft, etc should be passes and laws that serve only a small minority at the inconvinience of society at large ought to never see the light of day.
Yea... When people ask me what laptop to buy, I say 'IBM'. They then complain that IBM's seem to be over priced, spec for spec, but the fact that the IBMs just work and keep working is a very big plus in my book.
I've sold many a cheap laptop as a sales person and the horrors of cheap laptops...
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Sure you can. All it entails is more work. I tried IBM ViaVoice once, did the training and all but didn't quite work unless i spoke "American".
Then a year later, i saw an English speech2text program being promoted that was specially tuned to Asian accents (oriantal Asian), worked very well.
So basicly all you need are many profiles and a way for the computer to work out which profile to use.
Yes, i'm guilty of horrib
le typing.
He is right. The AthlonXP 2200+ chips are only clocked at 1.5Ghz.
You are right about the high rev part. take a mptprcycle. Most sport bikes redline above 10,000 rpm. Mine does at 11,000 and there are bigger ones that go up to 15,0000+.
Now as an example, the BMW K1200s has a 1.2 litre engine, puny by car standards, but it does the 0-100 in 2.8s and has a top speed somewhere near 300kph, but nobody really knows coz nobody's heroic enough to find out.
Now, with that kind of power it's feul consumption varies alot, at top gear, crusing at 90 kph which means the engine is reving VERY low it gets 49.8 mpg. At speeds above 120kph, the average consumption drops to 30+mpg. A very drastic diffrence.
You think Norway is bad? Try Malaysia, where i live. Here, discharging a firearm in the commission of a scheduled offence (i.e robbery) carries the MANDATORY DEATH sentance, regardless of if anyone was actualy hit. Being an accomplice to the guy who discharges the firearm (i.e gang robbery, or the supplier of said gun etc.) carries the same sentance.
Also, at the discretion of the judge, you can get hung for the mere possession of illegal firearms.
So the most the regular thief will have is a big knife. If the robbers carry guns, they are after big loot (banks, goldsmiths, very rich people etc) and they know that if the cops show up, they either get away or die trying, as being arrested means ending up with a date with the hangman.
And we don't plea bargian in this country.
This is like pointing at a random article of concept art in a car manufacturer's library and saying "Introducing the new 2006 Chevy."
Could it be? Yes, but so are the other 1000 art pieces. Would it be? Highly unlikely.
A chance snapshot of a working Xbox2 prototype would be news, but this is Concept Art! Heck, I could go fireup LightWave and make you a new Xbox2 as well.
Dispite all the rants, If Episodes 7, 8 and 9 were made, they'd all do well at the box office. So is there any reason why they won't do it?
Good creative shows have been pulled because of money and stereotypical, nonsensical tripe put in replacement all in the name of money.
So whats makes SW diffrent?
But what about designing laptop HDD's that can keep up with desktop HDDs?
Nowadays, one can buy a desktop replacment laptop that has got everything, Desktop processor, upwars of a gig of ram, DVD-RW the works. Yet, the HDD is as slow as molasses in febuary.
I just can't wait for the first virus whose payload is to enable this policy so that suddenly everybody who uses a thumbdrive to transfer/store files can't get work done because the key won't mount.
IIRC, this is a very tried and tested way of retriving telemetry.
When spy satellites were first launched, they had no way of getting high resolution photography shot from space back to earth wirelessly.
So instead, satellites used to eject a canister at a preset time and location with actual exposed film in it. The canister would enter the atmosphere and deploy a small chute, where a waiting plane with a fishing hook/cloths lines like attachment would catch it in mid air.
Took some skill to catch a small falling object in midair before it hit the ground, but they managed it.
Having a web based service requires that people sign up. Most people would be reluctant to, maybe because of laziness, maybe because of indifference.
If you want to get more people involved, how about getting community funded Internet? Start a community association, then raise funds to put in a reasonable pipe and a few 802.11g router/ APs and provide the service FOC to members of the community.
The only cavet would be that all users will have to see a community page as home page on first load and the DHCP lease expires every 12 hours.
That way the community is more involved, as it provides an incentive for members of the community to participate.
You forget, people die. All you really need to shift are not the people who are already born, but the people who are to be born, that is, move couples who are yet to give birth.
All you need to do to stabalise the earths population is to move enough couples so that birth rates measure up to death rates.
Watch PBS' "American Pron". http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn /
you can watch it.
Aparently, if 9/11 didn't happen, Bush's war on terrorism would be a war on pron.
All the chinese goverment is doing is fooling themselves.
People will notice in the course of daily conversation that certain words when typed won't go through and they will improvise. Soon a whole sub-language will develop and the goverment will be back at square 1.
I'd ask my housemate from China about it, but i can't articulate this sort of topics very well in Chinese.
So we just do the oppersite of our obsolete ball computer mouses. Instead of the mouse's movement moving a ball that in turn moves 3 rollers, we have 3 rollers that move a ball (or rather 4 balls) that in turn moves the car.
Though it works, i would think that doing so would be dumb because it would render the already inefficient power distribution system (gears, power train etc) in a car even more inefficient.
It would be cool though if we could develop a way to magneticly levitate the car a few inches above the balls and drive the system by controlling a magnetic field. Plus suspension on that kind of a car would be a dream.
People DO like advertising. Tastefully done advertising. I happen to like TV shows that show Ads from all over the world... it's a laugh every 30 seconds for an hour. Very enjoyable.
You know, it would be interestingto include this tech in Sims2 then have both a Pepsi and a Coke vending machine up for sale in teh game, and see which users would buy more of.
If you are going to use it between home and work, why not just get a SATA HDD and install the enternal SATA panal that comes with most new motherboards?
No drivers and only a reboot away to very highspeed transfers.
I've seen media costs drop from a high of RM28 (~US$7) to the current low of RM3 (~US$0.79) a piece.
Like how I don't care if the DVD media I buy is - or + because my writer can burn into both, as long as they keep making writers that support all types of discs the additional competition can only be a good thing.
I think protection by law against being killed by others pretty much benefits everybody.
Survival isn't a moral trait; it's an instinct that all living creatures have. Like I said, moral is a dirty word.
Well, in many places in the world, facilities for the disabled arn't required by law, yet many establishments provide them on their own to their disabled clientele.
That said, I would rather see that business' do this on their own, rather then to pass a law and to set precident for bullshit laws.
Where are we when the artists and music producers reach the conclusion that making a CD just isn't worthwhile anymore and that $100 concert tickets are the only way to go. Paid appearances. Sponsorships like Brittny Spears with Pepsi?. Make the music "scarce" again and keep it out of the hands of the "common people" so it is worth something again.
I'd think we'd be better off if that were to happed. We could freely trade and air all the music we wanted and the artists we like would get paid more from fatter ticketsales instead of the $0.2 they get per CD right now.
The only looser is the tupid **AA and their obsolete distribution channel and business model and thats the way i like it.
I think what the grandparent was trying to get at was that laws ought to be free of bias.
'Moral' and 'ethics' are very dirty words. They can be defined and abused anyway someone with an agenda wants.
What is needed in the legal system is something like the seperation of church and state, but instead of theology, ideology is whats seperated. Ideology in this sense is like how the all the **AA's think that the world owes them everytime soembody hums a tune. It's stupid, and doesn't benefit society.
In short, only laws that serve to benefit the whole of society, like speed laws and laws against murder, theft, etc should be passes and laws that serve only a small minority at the inconvinience of society at large ought to never see the light of day.
Yea... When people ask me what laptop to buy, I say 'IBM'. They then complain that IBM's seem to be over priced, spec for spec, but the fact that the IBMs just work and keep working is a very big plus in my book.
I've sold many a cheap laptop as a sales person and the horrors of cheap laptops...