For a while Ferarri and perhaps a couple other teams used a molybdenum (maybe not molybdenum) composite that has been since outlawed in F1 racing, but Porsches ceramic solicon carbide brakes are new.
FYI, the clutch in the Carrera GT is silicon carbide as well.
You know what happened to the Nova Scotia plant the other week...a sperm whale ended up upriver from the plant and they shut it down indefinitely until they could coax the whale back through the way it came.
Not very reliable. Of course if they just ignored the whale the plant wouldn't be down.
I live 2 hours from Toronto. It was front page news on our local paper.
To travel on public roads, the teams obtain temporary permits from the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. The permit requires that the solar car be led and followed by two regular vehicles. They are banned from using the 400-series highways, which are divided highways with speed limit of 100 km/h. If the car was on a county highway it was going either 80 or 90 km/h, and if it was on a provincial highway it would have been going around 80 km/h.
The paper stated that the cruising speed of the car was around 80 km/h with peak speed of 120 km/h, and that the team was following the permit conditions.
The solar vehicles are equipped with full roll cages and 4-point race harnesses. However, there is little frontal protection in the form of crumple zones. As a matter of fact, the ultra-light-weight body doesn't absorb any impact energy at all, and the magnesium tube frame doesn't either.
Um, using antistatic mylar would be the same as touching the case directly. Mylar works by conducting electricity so a charge won't build up between two dielectrics. Put mylar between and watch board go zap from electrical short to ground.
I'm willing to wager that most software systems used by the military are covered by such disclaimers from the developers. Military technology tends to be underwritten by the government, removing responsibility from the company.
After all, the military does all of their own testing; if there is still a glitch the problem lies in their requirements.
Where I work we have business DSL with a small ISP. In the past a laptop or two on the network have gotten worms. They just plain disconnected us from the net until we gave them reasonable evidence that the worm had been removed.
It worked wonders...I got the job of installing Symantec Antivirus Corporate and doing Windows Update on the computers that didn't have it yet. Now they schedule a day about once a month when all laptops are to be plugged into the network at once to make sure they are updated.
Used to have our laptops hit hard when we plugged into the local college network, but no problems now.
What I don't get is how pumping cell-phone frequencies into the area of the hospital prevents cell-phone frequencies from triggering defibrillators...
I work in a hospital in Canada occasionally as a contractor, and they force you to turn off your cellphone while you stand there and watch maintenance guys with high-power two-way radios walk by. They inform me that they mounted a 10-mile repeater on the roof to get enough power to breach all the walls...someone tell me how much sense that makes.
Actually, the ridges parallel to airflow created huge amounts of drag. If they had corrugated the skin perpendicular to the flow of air, they could have used a lot less fuel and maintained more lift.
Of course, to the untrained eye, parallel appears to be more logical than perpendicular but that is not the case.
I have no accreditation to back up this claim. I read it way back when I was about 12, but I do understand it has to do with boundary layer separation.
In my city London, Ontario, Canada, if you leave your vehicle running or the keys are the ignition and doors unlocked prior to being stolen, you will be fined more than $100 CDN for wasting taxpayers' time and money on Police investigation by inviting a crime.
That's not what I am saying...receptacles have slots in them you know, otherwise they wouldn't receive anything. Last time I checked most institutional rooms (except hospitals and labs) don't have all GFI circuits as standard. My point is that most people wouldn't keep the station on the floor; the water would have to 2.5 feet deep which would cause problems much more significant than some exposed USB port.
I highly doubt that the USB port isn't disabled because of flooding potential...5 volts @ 500mA max is going to do how much damage? Compare with the fact that water that floods the USB port is also going to flood the station itself, which would contact the water.
Don't overlook the fact that there are many many 120v receptacles at shin level.
The USB port is mostly disabled because PoE wouldn't be able to provide the specified 2.5W to the USB port.
You must realize that all other things aside, higher-octane fuel has less energy/volume than lower-octane fuel. One will ALWAYS use more premium fuel than regular grade for the same power. Premium just doesn't make sense unless you HAVE to like on a turbo car.
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"I quit" :D
I know I'm wrecking your fun, but aluminum scratches very easily. Had to be said.
An amendment is in the works.
A home invasion is a burglary when the resident is present.
Um, the atmosphere isn't a vacuum...
Those aren't ceramic, they are carbon brakes.
For a while Ferarri and perhaps a couple other teams used a molybdenum (maybe not molybdenum) composite that has been since outlawed in F1 racing, but Porsches ceramic solicon carbide brakes are new.
FYI, the clutch in the Carrera GT is silicon carbide as well.
You know what happened to the Nova Scotia plant the other week...a sperm whale ended up upriver from the plant and they shut it down indefinitely until they could coax the whale back through the way it came.
Not very reliable. Of course if they just ignored the whale the plant wouldn't be down.
But if you had a VAG car as the parent does, you wouldn't need to pay a mechanic a zillion bucks to reset a code. VAG-COMs are cheap.
As a matter of fact, I think you can pick up a similar device for programming MB electronic systems.
They had a special permit from the Ministry of Transportation to travel on a public road, with regular cars leading and following as escort.
I live 2 hours from Toronto. It was front page news on our local paper.
To travel on public roads, the teams obtain temporary permits from the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. The permit requires that the solar car be led and followed by two regular vehicles. They are banned from using the 400-series highways, which are divided highways with speed limit of 100 km/h. If the car was on a county highway it was going either 80 or 90 km/h, and if it was on a provincial highway it would have been going around 80 km/h.
The paper stated that the cruising speed of the car was around 80 km/h with peak speed of 120 km/h, and that the team was following the permit conditions.
The solar vehicles are equipped with full roll cages and 4-point race harnesses. However, there is little frontal protection in the form of crumple zones. As a matter of fact, the ultra-light-weight body doesn't absorb any impact energy at all, and the magnesium tube frame doesn't either.
Um, using antistatic mylar would be the same as touching the case directly. Mylar works by conducting electricity so a charge won't build up between two dielectrics. Put mylar between and watch board go zap from electrical short to ground.
I'm willing to wager that most software systems used by the military are covered by such disclaimers from the developers. Military technology tends to be underwritten by the government, removing responsibility from the company.
After all, the military does all of their own testing; if there is still a glitch the problem lies in their requirements.
Where I work we have business DSL with a small ISP. In the past a laptop or two on the network have gotten worms. They just plain disconnected us from the net until we gave them reasonable evidence that the worm had been removed.
It worked wonders...I got the job of installing Symantec Antivirus Corporate and doing Windows Update on the computers that didn't have it yet. Now they schedule a day about once a month when all laptops are to be plugged into the network at once to make sure they are updated.
Used to have our laptops hit hard when we plugged into the local college network, but no problems now.
Freely-rotating bodies spin on only one axis.
What I don't get is how pumping cell-phone frequencies into the area of the hospital prevents cell-phone frequencies from triggering defibrillators...
I work in a hospital in Canada occasionally as a contractor, and they force you to turn off your cellphone while you stand there and watch maintenance guys with high-power two-way radios walk by. They inform me that they mounted a 10-mile repeater on the roof to get enough power to breach all the walls...someone tell me how much sense that makes.
Ummm...the scammer hijacked someone else's account and set up a fake escrow service. "What has he done wrong?" ??????????
So if you steal someone's idea, they don't have the idea anymore? :D
You forgot the "B" :D
Actually, the ridges parallel to airflow created huge amounts of drag. If they had corrugated the skin perpendicular to the flow of air, they could have used a lot less fuel and maintained more lift. Of course, to the untrained eye, parallel appears to be more logical than perpendicular but that is not the case. I have no accreditation to back up this claim. I read it way back when I was about 12, but I do understand it has to do with boundary layer separation.
In my city London, Ontario, Canada, if you leave your vehicle running or the keys are the ignition and doors unlocked prior to being stolen, you will be fined more than $100 CDN for wasting taxpayers' time and money on Police investigation by inviting a crime.
That's not what I am saying...receptacles have slots in them you know, otherwise they wouldn't receive anything. Last time I checked most institutional rooms (except hospitals and labs) don't have all GFI circuits as standard. My point is that most people wouldn't keep the station on the floor; the water would have to 2.5 feet deep which would cause problems much more significant than some exposed USB port.
I highly doubt that the USB port isn't disabled because of flooding potential...5 volts @ 500mA max is going to do how much damage? Compare with the fact that water that floods the USB port is also going to flood the station itself, which would contact the water.
Etc. Etc.
It's as simple as power requirements.
Don't overlook the fact that there are many many 120v receptacles at shin level. The USB port is mostly disabled because PoE wouldn't be able to provide the specified 2.5W to the USB port.
You must realize that all other things aside, higher-octane fuel has less energy/volume than lower-octane fuel. One will ALWAYS use more premium fuel than regular grade for the same power. Premium just doesn't make sense unless you HAVE to like on a turbo car.
It's spelled "axles".
Um...our Prime Minister, Paul Martin, never said anything about it...