The 'Amerikabomber' isn't the first application of the concept either. The Nazis experimented with several similar combinations, often called 'Mistel'. Before WW2, the Short company tried combining two flying boats into the Mayo Composite. There was also a Russian bomber that could carry parasite fighters that's even older than the Mayo.
The article and the POEMS site talk about 'virtually unlimited', but is it really? Eventually, all the hot water being pumped down will heat up the oceans, making the temperature differential too small for Craven's ideas to work. This is probably less of an issue than with geothermal energy (which uses the same principle on land), where a 'well' becomes useless after about 20 years of use, but still.
Is Craven's idea to build cooling towers to 'harvest' freshwater really that good? If you remove enough water from the air, you'll affect the local climate: eventually it'll rain less. Or would a lower RH be compensated for by increased evaporation?
I found I prefer not to have a pad. 1. I often drove my mouse right off the edge of the pad. 2. The edge of the pad hurts my wrist. 3. I alternate the mouse between my left and right hand (due to RSI), meaning I'd need two pads. 4. Once I switched to optical mice, tracking has never been a problem. It helps that my (physical, natch) desktop and the LRF on the mouse seem to suit each other.
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People actually *like* that shit? Wow. Pointing sticks drive me crazy. On my laptop, I'm always accidentally bumping into the stick while typing (it's between the G, H and B keys). Even worse is that the buttons that go with it are right underneath the spacebar, so I'd often end up selecting some text (click-drag) and replacing it with whatever I typed next. So I always switch the stick off these days.
Um, I hate to disappoint you, but there are a few slight differences between the last version of Nextstep and OS X 10.4. Darwin may be available for x86, but there's a whole lot of code (as in 'thousands of man-years') on top of Darwin that's PPC only. Plus you'd need to write an emulator for PPC because it'll take a while before everyone has x86-versions of their software (see the 68k->PPC transition, and the Classic OS -> OS X transition).
Q: How many IBM engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A1: That depends on your service contract.
A2: 31. Four to schmooze the customer, sixteen to go over the contract, three to prepare the site for installation, one to operate the crane, one to drive the truck that carries the replacement, four to oversee installation, one to flip the switch and one to actually install the bulb.
Last year's Dakar rally had about 5400 km of 'special stage' (where the cometitors are timed, as opposed to liaison routes that are untimed, and add another ~5600 km to the trip), with the fastest competitors completing those in about 52 hours, ie about 100 km/h. There are stages where the fastest cars reach about 200 km/h. Other stages took more than 24 hours for some people (average 20 km/h), but most of that would be spent standing still and digging the vehicle out.
The route may be predetermined, but the car doesn't know about it in enough detail to drive blindly. All it has is a set of waypoints, so it still has to 'overcome the obstacles on the fly'.
The loudest sounds possible (at 1 bar ambient air pressure) are about 180 dB. At that level, the pressure minimum of the sound wave is 0 bar (ie vacuum).
No. There is an optimal size for text columns, but it's quite a bit wider than a newspaper column. Novels don't use columns, for instance. On A4-size paper, the optimal column width is about 2/3 to 3/4 of the page width. Newspaper columns are narrow because they're optimized for flexibility in placing multiple articles and ads on one page.
If that's the problem, then BMW may have solved it: they used a capacitor to power the electric motor of this hybrid prototype. This should be easier to implement, require fewer parts, etc. than adding an air engine.
Yes, I realize TG is more entertainment than information. I was talking about the TV show, by the way (even more entertainment-biased), and the footage they showed was of a tiny (more golf cart than road vehicle) car that sounded like a jackhammer.
The air engine is only used to accellerate the car from a standstill, and from TFA: "EV usually needs 30(A) of electrical current on driving and it consumpts 3~4 times more by starting or go up a hill." Getting past 'All your base', they're doing all this to get past the high initial power requirements of a pure electric vehicle. IDK if the weight and complexity penalty is worth it, though.
The tank contains 40 liters of oxygen at 300 bar. According to the specs, it'll run 130~150 times for 3~4 sec. Best case that's 600 s = 10 minutes. Which is pretty awful for 60 kg of added weight.
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So they bored the tumors to death, then?
The 'Amerikabomber' isn't the first application of the concept either. The Nazis experimented with several similar combinations, often called 'Mistel'. Before WW2, the Short company tried combining two flying boats into the Mayo Composite. There was also a Russian bomber that could carry parasite fighters that's even older than the Mayo.
It also requires a large crew, and lots of maintenance.
The article and the POEMS site talk about 'virtually unlimited', but is it really? Eventually, all the hot water being pumped down will heat up the oceans, making the temperature differential too small for Craven's ideas to work.
This is probably less of an issue than with geothermal energy (which uses the same principle on land), where a 'well' becomes useless after about 20 years of use, but still.
Is Craven's idea to build cooling towers to 'harvest' freshwater really that good?
If you remove enough water from the air, you'll affect the local climate: eventually it'll rain less. Or would a lower RH be compensated for by increased evaporation?
I found I prefer not to have a pad.
1. I often drove my mouse right off the edge of the pad.
2. The edge of the pad hurts my wrist.
3. I alternate the mouse between my left and right hand (due to RSI), meaning I'd need two pads.
4. Once I switched to optical mice, tracking has never been a problem.
It helps that my (physical, natch) desktop and the LRF on the mouse seem to suit each other.
People actually *like* that shit? Wow.
Pointing sticks drive me crazy. On my laptop, I'm always accidentally bumping into the stick while typing (it's between the G, H and B keys). Even worse is that the buttons that go with it are right underneath the spacebar, so I'd often end up selecting some text (click-drag) and replacing it with whatever I typed next.
So I always switch the stick off these days.
Um, I hate to disappoint you, but there are a few slight differences between the last version of Nextstep and OS X 10.4.
Darwin may be available for x86, but there's a whole lot of code (as in 'thousands of man-years') on top of Darwin that's PPC only.
Plus you'd need to write an emulator for PPC because it'll take a while before everyone has x86-versions of their software (see the 68k->PPC transition, and the Classic OS -> OS X transition).
But that's easily remedied. Just get someone to run him over with a Vauxhall Chevette!
Or:
Q: How many IBM engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A1: That depends on your service contract.
A2: 31. Four to schmooze the customer, sixteen to go over the contract, three to prepare the site for installation, one to operate the crane, one to drive the truck that carries the replacement, four to oversee installation, one to flip the switch and one to actually install the bulb.
Last year's Dakar rally had about 5400 km of 'special stage' (where the cometitors are timed, as opposed to liaison routes that are untimed, and add another ~5600 km to the trip), with the fastest competitors completing those in about 52 hours, ie about 100 km/h.
There are stages where the fastest cars reach about 200 km/h. Other stages took more than 24 hours for some people (average 20 km/h), but most of that would be spent standing still and digging the vehicle out.
The route may be predetermined, but the car doesn't know about it in enough detail to drive blindly. All it has is a set of waypoints, so it still has to 'overcome the obstacles on the fly'.
The loudest sounds possible (at 1 bar ambient air pressure) are about 180 dB. At that level, the pressure minimum of the sound wave is 0 bar (ie vacuum).
that should have read "The F@h client can be set to use N% of available CPU time (where N is between 0 and 100%).
It's available here
Just Folding@home should be enough. The F@h client can be set to use N% of available CPU time (where 0here
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he uses a MS spelling checker, apparently.
No. There is an optimal size for text columns, but it's quite a bit wider than a newspaper column.
Novels don't use columns, for instance. On A4-size paper, the optimal column width is about 2/3 to 3/4 of the page width.
Newspaper columns are narrow because they're optimized for flexibility in placing multiple articles and ads on one page.
If that's the problem, then BMW may have solved it: they used a capacitor to power the electric motor of this hybrid prototype.
This should be easier to implement, require fewer parts, etc. than adding an air engine.
RTFA. The air engine is just an auxiliary, you need a second engine (in this case an electric motor) to provide most of the power.
Yes, I realize TG is more entertainment than information. I was talking about the TV show, by the way (even more entertainment-biased), and the footage they showed was of a tiny (more golf cart than road vehicle) car that sounded like a jackhammer.
The air engine is only used to accellerate the car from a standstill, and from TFA:
"EV usually needs 30(A) of electrical current on driving and it consumpts 3~4 times more by starting or go up a hill."
Getting past 'All your base', they're doing all this to get past the high initial power requirements of a pure electric vehicle. IDK if the weight and complexity penalty is worth it, though.
The tank contains 40 liters of oxygen at 300 bar. According to the specs, it'll run 130~150 times for 3~4 sec. Best case that's 600 s = 10 minutes. Which is pretty awful for 60 kg of added weight.
You're kidding, right? Those air bottles are pressurized to 300 bar.
IIRC Top Gear reported on that car once. It was noisy, slow and had short range.
it included the spammers' home addresses.