Yeah I guess moving air doesn't create sound, which makes the use of a muffler on the exhaust kind of puzzling. What is the purpose of the muffler on an exhaust?
They are tuned to reflect the exhaust back at the piston to increase the compression... At least in model airplane engines that used alcohol. Haven't seen one of those in a while though.
Man just the other day I was reminiscing about my Commodore 64 back in high school. Getting a 3.5" floppy for that computer was a monumental achievement for me at the time. Of course it didn't mean much for PC users but for a 64 this was like a small hard drive...:)
Most of Niven's works are just "wow big thing" mind experiments. But A World Out Of Time starts in the present day and actually has a character you can sort of connect with. It progresses slowly enough at first to get a handle on what's going on. I think that's necessary to making a movie.
Numerous novels invoke deus ex machina under the guise of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. James P Hogan's Entoverse posits a universe-spanning computer network that communicates by some sort of sub-atomic phenomena. Maybe it was a ten dimensional post-biological sapient parallel universe that became conscious. This is all trite nonsense. To me, I've read all this shit before. It's just meaningless prattle. At least Rudy Rucker's "ware" books were hilarious. He had conscious beings that could encrypt themselves as some sort of particle that would materialize on Earth and had multi-dimensional time and could see forwards and backwards in time at the same time. Or whatever. It's all the same. Look, I just invented a 12 dimensional computer that's as small as a quark. See, it's one dimension bigger and one particle smaller. How is this interesting or a great idea? It's sophomoric.
We could have made movies out of Niven novels at any time in the last three decades with similar "big engineering sci-fi wow" scenarios. A World Out Of Time springs to mind. I've read Three Body Problem and found it terse and unremarkable. I must be getting too old to "get" new stuff, or read so much all I see is recycled ideas.
The reason dogs eat poop is because digestive systems aren't able to remove 100% of the nutrients the first time around. Ever wonder what sled dogs ate in the Great White North way back when? I did. Then I took an anthropology course.... I stopped wondering. The Innu eat an almost 100% meat diet and their poop is pretty nutritious the second time around. Those dogs know something.
I was in high school 30 years ago and I cheated during an exam by wearing a long-sleeve shirt and passing the wire of an ear bud in there. Then I listened to my home-made "audio book" of Canadian history on my crappy Candle portable cassette player. I got real good at pressing the buttons quietly!
Here in Montreal I have the feeling the weather predictions were far more accurate in the 1990s and 2000s. Lately they have been consistently wrong summer and winter. They keep forecasting major snowfalls and nothing happens.
I vividly remember remember buying a Commodore 1351 mouse for my Commodore 64 in the late 1980s for use with GEOS. In high school, having this device that allowed my humble cobbled-together 64 to have a GUI with a mouse was so exciting I slept with the box next to my bed.
" And it wasn't hot glued shut with industrial epoxy."
The power supply sure was... One of my first memories of electronics in high school was building a monster (in physical size) power supply for my 64. A metal case with two 9VAC transformers from VIC-20 power supplies. One was rectified and regulated to 5V with a big TO-3 3 amp regulator on a heat sink. That thing still works today!
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It's not just Apple, Ticpods, Sennheiser, Samsung, whatever also make wireless headphones. It's a common design feature...
Like the computer in Logan's Run... There is no sanctuary... LOL
The FN P90 is not that primitive, is it?
In medicine, 94% is "excellent".
Sorry, still don't see it. You must be the same guy who thinks the speed of the hammer has something to do with the glass breaking.
Oh I see. It must be another one of those unreliable wikipedia pages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yeah I guess moving air doesn't create sound, which makes the use of a muffler on the exhaust kind of puzzling.
What is the purpose of the muffler on an exhaust?
They are tuned to reflect the exhaust back at the piston to increase the compression... At least in model airplane engines that used alcohol. Haven't seen one of those in a while though.
for tax breaks?
http://content.time.com/time/m...
Man just the other day I was reminiscing about my Commodore 64 back in high school. Getting a 3.5" floppy for that computer was a monumental achievement for me at the time. Of course it didn't mean much for PC users but for a 64 this was like a small hard drive... :)
+4 interesting comments... You?
Most of Niven's works are just "wow big thing" mind experiments. But A World Out Of Time starts in the present day and actually has a character you can sort of connect with. It progresses slowly enough at first to get a handle on what's going on.
I think that's necessary to making a movie.
Numerous novels invoke deus ex machina under the guise of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. James P Hogan's Entoverse posits a universe-spanning computer network that communicates by some sort of sub-atomic phenomena.
Maybe it was a ten dimensional post-biological sapient parallel universe that became conscious. This is all trite nonsense. To me, I've read all this shit before.
It's just meaningless prattle.
At least Rudy Rucker's "ware" books were hilarious. He had conscious beings that could encrypt themselves as some sort of particle that would materialize on Earth and had multi-dimensional time and could see forwards and backwards in time at the same time. Or whatever.
It's all the same.
Look, I just invented a 12 dimensional computer that's as small as a quark.
See, it's one dimension bigger and one particle smaller.
How is this interesting or a great idea? It's sophomoric.
We could have made movies out of Niven novels at any time in the last three decades with similar "big engineering sci-fi wow" scenarios. A World Out Of Time springs to mind.
I've read Three Body Problem and found it terse and unremarkable. I must be getting too old to "get" new stuff, or read so much all I see is recycled ideas.
Lime disease! ...
Yeah!
The reason dogs eat poop is because digestive systems aren't able to remove 100% of the nutrients the first time around.
Ever wonder what sled dogs ate in the Great White North way back when?
I did. Then I took an anthropology course.... I stopped wondering.
The Innu eat an almost 100% meat diet and their poop is pretty nutritious the second time around.
Those dogs know something.
"They may have one isle with some canned food"
That's a pretty big store. Where do you find decent parking near an isle?
Here in Canada, our stores are not nearly as large as in the States apparently.
Our stores simply use aisles.
I was in high school 30 years ago and I cheated during an exam by wearing a long-sleeve shirt and passing the wire of an ear bud in there. Then I listened to my home-made "audio book" of Canadian history on my crappy Candle portable cassette player.
I got real good at pressing the buttons quietly!
Here in Montreal I have the feeling the weather predictions were far more accurate in the 1990s and 2000s. Lately they have been consistently wrong summer and winter. They keep forecasting major snowfalls and nothing happens.
Nobody can repeat the Concorde either. Did the Concorde exist?
Every day for the past year and a half.
I vividly remember remember buying a Commodore 1351 mouse for my Commodore 64 in the late 1980s for use with GEOS. In high school, having this device that allowed my humble cobbled-together 64 to have a GUI with a mouse was so exciting I slept with the box next to my bed.
Yes I was that pathetic in high school.
(Still am. Pathetic, not in high school)
So you disagree that all we have improved is information processing by telling me you have cheap bandwidth? ...I see.
Doesn't have to be
https://youtu.be/1qtxPSR8q98?t...
" And it wasn't hot glued shut with industrial epoxy."
The power supply sure was... One of my first memories of electronics in high school was building a monster (in physical size) power supply for my 64. A metal case with two 9VAC transformers from VIC-20 power supplies. One was rectified and regulated to 5V with a big TO-3 3 amp regulator on a heat sink. That thing still works today!