Having never seen the show and not caring one bit whether or not it is real:
I have just one question- Why? Why bother to try to hoax an audience? What's the point? Pissing off the viewers? What the fuck does that accomplish? "Hahahaha everyone who watches out show is stupid!" I can see how that would be a fantastic marketing gimmick- No one would ever watch anything from these producers again. Moreover how do you know you succeeded? Everyone will just claim to know it was a joke and then what are you left with? It's complete idiocy.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." People these days are stupid- not just ignorant but downright stupid. That you could trick someone into believing they were being sent into space hardly seems like a difficult task to me.
Serious- rather than waste your time with a hack like this why not turn your monitor into an inexpensive but high quality projector? Check out www.lumenlab.com.
I loved the original look of the slimp3- such a geek toy.
Then they changed the look and rounded it and made it curvy- and I didn't like the look as much but I bought one- got a wired version for $179 and was happy with the deal.
I went to buy another one and now they've changed the look again and all I can ask is "why?" The vertical shape doesn't fit anywhere- it makes it look big and bulky (even though it isn't deep) and all in all it looks like a new iMac. As the version I want is no longer available I'm left with a single unit and no intention of buying another one until the shape changes again.
Stop what you are doing right now. If your architecture requires you to have one huge volume then you have architected things wrong. Imagine trying to fsck this damned thing! What about file system corruption- What the hell are you going to do when you lose a Petabyte of data because of some file system corruption? Small, sensible, easily managed smaller partitions are the way to go. Use a database to organize where given files are stored. Do something that makes sense. I have a client now who just lost a bunch of data because they used a system like this.
Having said all this- If you are still intent on finding a good file system then use AFS. It's probably your best free solution. If you want to sleep at night call EMC.
For all we know, British Intelligence may have tipped the police off that an attack was likely on that route, sometime soon. In which case, you're dealing with an entirely different scenario to one where the police were acting spontaneously, without due cause.
This makes it ok? Jesus Christ we are all doomed... What happened to this guy is NOT ok even if they knew for a _FACT_ someone was going to blow up a subway line. I would rather die free- killed by a terrorist- than live in the sort of society that condones these actions as acceptable. There use to be a time when the majority of Americans felt this way- nowadays? I guess not.
Benjamin Franklin said it best:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
It's not worthless. The system works amazingly well. The problem? Cost. Fiber optics and installation were not cheap- at least when the Ark Mori building was built. These days however? Costs have plummeted and energy costs have risen. It is an ideal time for this system to make a comeback. And the light quality? Amazing from what I heard from a friend who visited the building while she was working in Japan.
Shooting a.50 calibur rifle at a pool and seeing a huge plume of water and a disintegrated bullet made one of the more recent episodes entirely worth watching:)
That was one of the less intelligent bits of testing they have done on that show and some of their test rigs have been doozies. Let's list some of the problems:
1- When they tested the car at 55MPH using the computer it showed that using the AC was more efficient. Jamie wrote this off as "Yeah but the computer was measuring airflow and not fuel consumption." Modern engines use O2 sensors and closed feedback to maintain stoichiometry. As a result if you use less air the engine will inject less fuel to maintain stoichiometry or the appropriate air-fuel balance.
2- When they did the objective testing they drove at 45MPH and not the 70-80 commonly done on American highways (Don't claim people don't drive this fast- get on any highway in New Jersey, New York, Mass, or Maryland where I drive). Drag increases exponentially so this can make a _huge_ difference.
3- Instead of draining the fuel tank they siphoned it out instead. They could have missed the fuel in the sump on one car and gotten it on the other. As the difference in economy was only about 15 miles (less than a gallon of gas) it could have made the difference on it's own.
4- They used two different vehicles for the test- as the difference was so small then it could simply have been a result of engine differences, tire pressure differences, air cleaner performance differences, transmission slippage, etc.
It doesn't say anything about private use because that is so mind bogglingly wrong that the framers of the Constitution never even considered the possiblity that someone would think that way. Road construction is one thing. A blight on the landscape is another. But to take the well kept homes of otherwise normal people so you can build a Wal-Mart? Well that in a nutshell is exactly what has gone wrong with this country.
That's funny because when I went to install my server FreeBSD supported the hardware and Linux didn't. This was when the first I2O RAID adapters were coming out and I tried numerous Linux kernels and patches to get it working. None of the versions I tried would boot or run reliably for any length of time. So I went and tried FreeBSD which had a "beta" version of the drivers for this hardware. Lo and behold it worked flawlessly for over a year before I upgraded to a newer kernel.
I contacted the devloper to see why it was still listed as beta and he responded by sending me numerous pages of documentation and stress tests that had been performed along with a performance analysis. Basically he said that it was still listed as beta because he wasn't sure it was perfect and although he had not seen a crash yet with the latest version he had some more stress testing to perform before he would release it as a final verison.
It was then that I realized I needed to be running FreeBSD and not Linux. The Linux kernels I tried all listed I2O support (including my card) but some would not see the card at all and some would see it but crash. Linux listed support (it was not marked as a beta driver) for a card that it did not work with. FreeBSD did not list any support for a card it worked perfectly with. That, in a nutshell, is the difference between the two.
Can we stop talking about "replacing Nitrogen with Helium." This is wrong for two reasons. First- it isn't completely replaced as people keep implying- Helium is added to Nitrogen and Oxygen forming Trimix. It would be hard to call it Trimix if you didn't have all three. Second- The Helium replaces the Oxygen not the damned Nitrogen. The point is to get rid of the Oxygen which becomes more and more toxic the deeper you go. Nitrogen is still there.
"Your just going to have to go back and get a cert for decompression diving, and learn to hang out decompressing"
Decompression works up until a point. Yeah, you can decompress slowly using a tank if you have only been down for a while. The effects are cumulative over short periods, however. If you spend three hours down at 100 feet then it is going to take you a long time to decompress on the way- probably a lot more than you want spend just hanging out in the water staring at nothing on the way up.
Can you get my keyboard rig and portable sound system in your mini along with three people?
Do you always travel with two other people and a keyboard rig? No? Then why not save the SUV for transportation and get a small car for running around?
No one is insisting you give up your car if you need it. I have a pickup truck too and I use it when I need to transport stuff or when taveling long distances. When driving around in the city, however, I drive my Mini. It uses no gas, I can park it anywhere and it is damned manueverable. This is especially true when compared to something like the Ford Expedition which you can't park anywhere in the city. It would be nice if people would take a look at what they actually need in their car- Why is there a 5'2" 100 pound woman driving a Ford Expedition with no one but her inside, nothing in the back (all while driving on a cell phone of course).
Today, car companies make cars that people want to buy, period.
Considering that the new Mini has been selling like hotcakes it begs the question- was Detroit making what we wanted or what they wanted to make? After all- profits on SUVs are huge so they would rather make and sell them than smaller cars (where the competition is stiffer). It would appear that they have been able to convince a lot of people (such as yourself) that they wanted SUV's. What about a station wagon? Plenty of room, very safe but lighter and more economical than an SUV- The Dodge Magnum, Saab, and lots of other manufacturers are reintroducing station wagons because people are getting sick of huge gas guzzling SUVs. Just my two cents.
Really? I did my taxes a couple of months back and the only writeoffs allowed were for hybrids and alternative fuel cars. If I could write off $100,000 for buying a $100,000 Hummer H1, I certainly would have done so.
Do you own a business? If so you can write off the cost (up to $100k) of a vehicle weighing over 6k pounds. There is legislation in Congress to try to close this loophole because so many people abuse it.
You're wrong - the tolls are not put in place to recover damages done to the highways,
The tolls paid on bridges in NY pay for bridge maintenance. If you don't believe me go ask the Port Authority.
People would need to learn how to drive a sequential and it does take some getting use to- besides people are lazy. Moreover- in a light behicle like the Mini a CVT would make far more sense. An infinite number of ratios, no shifting, light weight and very compact.
For everyone who wants or already owns a compact car or a hybrid for whatever reason, that's their business - but many of the comments to this article are bashing those of us who drive larger, less fuel-efficient cars. (That, too, is their business.)
For the record- it isn't just their business- We're not involved in a war in Iraq because we needed sand to make glass. Houston and LA fail to meet federal clean air guidelines all the time due to smog caused by cars.
Mini's were built in England up until 2000 and were updated with anti-intrusion bars, airbags and the like. They still got excellent mileage.
The average crash standard ups the weight by somethign liek 300 kgs That still puts the Mini at a paltry 2000 pounds- Even the new Mini weighs in at 2700 lbs.
Respectfully, this is just one opinion - if everyone felt this way, no car company would ever have been able to sell a true sports car. Some people want a higher horespower-to-weight ratio for whatever reason. That's their business.
I'm not saying they are for everyone- it would just be nice to see a real alternative out there. That said, A Mini with a 180 HP engine (of which there are several examples around) has a power to weight ratio very close to a Dodge Viper.
Again, this subjective statement doesn't apply to everyone. I'm 6'-3" and the last time I sat in a passenger car without my head brushing the ceiling (or worse!), I was about thirteen years old.
Have you ever sat in an old Mini? I'm 5'10" and there are about 6 inches between the top of my head and the ceiling. The car has an amazing amount of room for the size.
Auto companies make bigger and heavier cars because people want to buy them, not to piss people off.
That's the question now isn't it? Who is leading who? A lot of people bought big SUV's because the government allows you to write off up to $100k dollars of the cost of a vehicle weighing over 6k pounds.
but many of the comments to this article are bashing those of us who drive larger, less fuel-efficient cars. (That, too, is their business.) I bought my Expedition earlier this year because I wanted a vehicle I could drive comfortably and haul around my son and all of his "stuff."
If you want to drive a big car- so be it. I have one question though- Why the hell should I pay the same tolls as you do? Your huge and heavy SUV is doing orders of magnitude more damage to the bridges and roads than my car and yet we both pay the same tolls. Does that make any sense? No of course it does not. Would any SUV owner be willing to pay their fare share of tolls? No of course not. You want to have your cake and eat it too.
Don't try to force-feed us a bunch of environmentalist warm and fuzzy crap under the guise of it being the ostensible "right" thing to do. One size does not fit all in this case.
No one is telling you what to drive- I for one would simply like to see some real improvements in auto design. I would also like you to pay your fair share.
The front seats have plenty of room. The rear seat behind the passenger has room. The one behind the driver is definitely cramped (due to the controls forcing the seat back) but then again I've been in some amazingly cramped modern cars too.
The Mini was built right up until 2000 and was exported to Japan as well as sold in England and met emissions requirements in both countries. All later models had catalytic converters but they added fuel injection and still got phenomenal gas mileage. For the record the Excursion gets 9 mpg and my car gets 50-60 that's 5 or 6 times the mileage not 2 or 3.
That said- we're talking about a car designed in the 50's! If you built the Mini today and added a CVT instead of a standard shift and put a decent 1 liter engine in it you would still have a great car but it would get even better mileage.
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Having never seen the show and not caring one bit whether or not it is real:
I have just one question- Why? Why bother to try to hoax an audience? What's the point? Pissing off the viewers? What the fuck does that accomplish? "Hahahaha everyone who watches out show is stupid!" I can see how that would be a fantastic marketing gimmick- No one would ever watch anything from these producers again. Moreover how do you know you succeeded? Everyone will just claim to know it was a joke and then what are you left with? It's complete idiocy.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." People these days are stupid- not just ignorant but downright stupid. That you could trick someone into believing they were being sent into space hardly seems like a difficult task to me.
-sirket
Serious- rather than waste your time with a hack like this why not turn your monitor into an inexpensive but high quality projector? Check out www.lumenlab.com.
-sirket
I loved the original look of the slimp3- such a geek toy.
Then they changed the look and rounded it and made it curvy- and I didn't like the look as much but I bought one- got a wired version for $179 and was happy with the deal.
I went to buy another one and now they've changed the look again and all I can ask is "why?" The vertical shape doesn't fit anywhere- it makes it look big and bulky (even though it isn't deep) and all in all it looks like a new iMac. As the version I want is no longer available I'm left with a single unit and no intention of buying another one until the shape changes again.
-sirket
Stop what you are doing right now. If your architecture requires you to have one huge volume then you have architected things wrong. Imagine trying to fsck this damned thing! What about file system corruption- What the hell are you going to do when you lose a Petabyte of data because of some file system corruption? Small, sensible, easily managed smaller partitions are the way to go. Use a database to organize where given files are stored. Do something that makes sense. I have a client now who just lost a bunch of data because they used a system like this.
Having said all this- If you are still intent on finding a good file system then use AFS. It's probably your best free solution. If you want to sleep at night call EMC.
-sirket
For all we know, British Intelligence may have tipped the police off that an attack was likely on that route, sometime soon. In which case, you're dealing with an entirely different scenario to one where the police were acting spontaneously, without due cause.
This makes it ok? Jesus Christ we are all doomed... What happened to this guy is NOT ok even if they knew for a _FACT_ someone was going to blow up a subway line. I would rather die free- killed by a terrorist- than live in the sort of society that condones these actions as acceptable. There use to be a time when the majority of Americans felt this way- nowadays? I guess not.
Benjamin Franklin said it best:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-sirket
That's only the initial ruling. Apple will appeal and prior art (the iPod itself) will be considered and the whole patent will be thrown out.
-sirket
It's not worthless. The system works amazingly well. The problem? Cost. Fiber optics and installation were not cheap- at least when the Ark Mori building was built. These days however? Costs have plummeted and energy costs have risen. It is an ideal time for this system to make a comeback. And the light quality? Amazing from what I heard from a friend who visited the building while she was working in Japan.
-sirket
Shooting a .50 calibur rifle at a pool and seeing a huge plume of water and a disintegrated bullet made one of the more recent episodes entirely worth watching :)
That was one of the less intelligent bits of testing they have done on that show and some of their test rigs have been doozies. Let's list some of the problems:
1- When they tested the car at 55MPH using the computer it showed that using the AC was more efficient. Jamie wrote this off as "Yeah but the computer was measuring airflow and not fuel consumption." Modern engines use O2 sensors and closed feedback to maintain stoichiometry. As a result if you use less air the engine will inject less fuel to maintain stoichiometry or the appropriate air-fuel balance.
2- When they did the objective testing they drove at 45MPH and not the 70-80 commonly done on American highways (Don't claim people don't drive this fast- get on any highway in New Jersey, New York, Mass, or Maryland where I drive). Drag increases exponentially so this can make a _huge_ difference.
3- Instead of draining the fuel tank they siphoned it out instead. They could have missed the fuel in the sump on one car and gotten it on the other. As the difference in economy was only about 15 miles (less than a gallon of gas) it could have made the difference on it's own.
4- They used two different vehicles for the test- as the difference was so small then it could simply have been a result of engine differences, tire pressure differences, air cleaner performance differences, transmission slippage, etc.
-sirket
It doesn't say anything about private use because that is so mind bogglingly wrong that the framers of the Constitution never even considered the possiblity that someone would think that way. Road construction is one thing. A blight on the landscape is another. But to take the well kept homes of otherwise normal people so you can build a Wal-Mart? Well that in a nutshell is exactly what has gone wrong with this country.
-sirket
That's funny because when I went to install my server FreeBSD supported the hardware and Linux didn't. This was when the first I2O RAID adapters were coming out and I tried numerous Linux kernels and patches to get it working. None of the versions I tried would boot or run reliably for any length of time. So I went and tried FreeBSD which had a "beta" version of the drivers for this hardware. Lo and behold it worked flawlessly for over a year before I upgraded to a newer kernel.
I contacted the devloper to see why it was still listed as beta and he responded by sending me numerous pages of documentation and stress tests that had been performed along with a performance analysis. Basically he said that it was still listed as beta because he wasn't sure it was perfect and although he had not seen a crash yet with the latest version he had some more stress testing to perform before he would release it as a final verison.
It was then that I realized I needed to be running FreeBSD and not Linux. The Linux kernels I tried all listed I2O support (including my card) but some would not see the card at all and some would see it but crash. Linux listed support (it was not marked as a beta driver) for a card that it did not work with. FreeBSD did not list any support for a card it worked perfectly with. That, in a nutshell, is the difference between the two.
Can we stop talking about "replacing Nitrogen with Helium." This is wrong for two reasons. First- it isn't completely replaced as people keep implying- Helium is added to Nitrogen and Oxygen forming Trimix. It would be hard to call it Trimix if you didn't have all three. Second- The Helium replaces the Oxygen not the damned Nitrogen. The point is to get rid of the Oxygen which becomes more and more toxic the deeper you go. Nitrogen is still there.
-sirket
"Your just going to have to go back and get a cert for decompression diving, and learn to hang out decompressing"
Decompression works up until a point. Yeah, you can decompress slowly using a tank if you have only been down for a while. The effects are cumulative over short periods, however. If you spend three hours down at 100 feet then it is going to take you a long time to decompress on the way- probably a lot more than you want spend just hanging out in the water staring at nothing on the way up.
-sirket
Damn! Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn! This is exactly what I was going to post! :)
-sirket
Oceania was one of the superpowers in George Orwell's 1984. The post in no way refers to Australia.
-sirket
Can you get my keyboard rig and portable sound system in your mini along with three people?
Do you always travel with two other people and a keyboard rig? No? Then why not save the SUV for transportation and get a small car for running around?
No one is insisting you give up your car if you need it. I have a pickup truck too and I use it when I need to transport stuff or when taveling long distances. When driving around in the city, however, I drive my Mini. It uses no gas, I can park it anywhere and it is damned manueverable. This is especially true when compared to something like the Ford Expedition which you can't park anywhere in the city. It would be nice if people would take a look at what they actually need in their car- Why is there a 5'2" 100 pound woman driving a Ford Expedition with no one but her inside, nothing in the back (all while driving on a cell phone of course).
I am referring to American gallons in my numbers-
-sirket
Today, car companies make cars that people want to buy, period.
Considering that the new Mini has been selling like hotcakes it begs the question- was Detroit making what we wanted or what they wanted to make? After all- profits on SUVs are huge so they would rather make and sell them than smaller cars (where the competition is stiffer). It would appear that they have been able to convince a lot of people (such as yourself) that they wanted SUV's. What about a station wagon? Plenty of room, very safe but lighter and more economical than an SUV- The Dodge Magnum, Saab, and lots of other manufacturers are reintroducing station wagons because people are getting sick of huge gas guzzling SUVs. Just my two cents.
-sirket
Really? I did my taxes a couple of months back and the only writeoffs allowed were for hybrids and alternative fuel cars. If I could write off $100,000 for buying a $100,000 Hummer H1, I certainly would have done so.
Do you own a business? If so you can write off the cost (up to $100k) of a vehicle weighing over 6k pounds. There is legislation in Congress to try to close this loophole because so many people abuse it.
You're wrong - the tolls are not put in place to recover damages done to the highways,
The tolls paid on bridges in NY pay for bridge maintenance. If you don't believe me go ask the Port Authority.
-sirket
People would need to learn how to drive a sequential and it does take some getting use to- besides people are lazy. Moreover- in a light behicle like the Mini a CVT would make far more sense. An infinite number of ratios, no shifting, light weight and very compact.
-sirket
For everyone who wants or already owns a compact car or a hybrid for whatever reason, that's their business - but many of the comments to this article are bashing those of us who drive larger, less fuel-efficient cars. (That, too, is their business.)
For the record- it isn't just their business- We're not involved in a war in Iraq because we needed sand to make glass. Houston and LA fail to meet federal clean air guidelines all the time due to smog caused by cars.
-sirket
Mini's were built in England up until 2000 and were updated with anti-intrusion bars, airbags and the like. They still got excellent mileage.
The average crash standard ups the weight by somethign liek 300 kgs
That still puts the Mini at a paltry 2000 pounds- Even the new Mini weighs in at 2700 lbs.
-sirket
Respectfully, this is just one opinion - if everyone felt this way, no car company would ever have been able to sell a true sports car. Some people want a higher horespower-to-weight ratio for whatever reason. That's their business.
I'm not saying they are for everyone- it would just be nice to see a real alternative out there. That said, A Mini with a 180 HP engine (of which there are several examples around) has a power to weight ratio very close to a Dodge Viper.
Again, this subjective statement doesn't apply to everyone. I'm 6'-3" and the last time I sat in a passenger car without my head brushing the ceiling (or worse!), I was about thirteen years old.
Have you ever sat in an old Mini? I'm 5'10" and there are about 6 inches between the top of my head and the ceiling. The car has an amazing amount of room for the size.
Auto companies make bigger and heavier cars because people want to buy them, not to piss people off.
That's the question now isn't it? Who is leading who? A lot of people bought big SUV's because the government allows you to write off up to $100k dollars of the cost of a vehicle weighing over 6k pounds.
but many of the comments to this article are bashing those of us who drive larger, less fuel-efficient cars. (That, too, is their business.) I bought my Expedition earlier this year because I wanted a vehicle I could drive comfortably and haul around my son and all of his "stuff."
If you want to drive a big car- so be it. I have one question though- Why the hell should I pay the same tolls as you do? Your huge and heavy SUV is doing orders of magnitude more damage to the bridges and roads than my car and yet we both pay the same tolls. Does that make any sense? No of course it does not. Would any SUV owner be willing to pay their fare share of tolls? No of course not. You want to have your cake and eat it too.
Don't try to force-feed us a bunch of environmentalist warm and fuzzy crap under the guise of it being the ostensible "right" thing to do. One size does not fit all in this case.
No one is telling you what to drive- I for one would simply like to see some real improvements in auto design. I would also like you to pay your fair share.
-sirket
The front seats have plenty of room. The rear seat behind the passenger has room. The one behind the driver is definitely cramped (due to the controls forcing the seat back) but then again I've been in some amazingly cramped modern cars too.
-sirket
The Mini was built right up until 2000 and was exported to Japan as well as sold in England and met emissions requirements in both countries. All later models had catalytic converters but they added fuel injection and still got phenomenal gas mileage. For the record the Excursion gets 9 mpg and my car gets 50-60 that's 5 or 6 times the mileage not 2 or 3.
That said- we're talking about a car designed in the 50's! If you built the Mini today and added a CVT instead of a standard shift and put a decent 1 liter engine in it you would still have a great car but it would get even better mileage.
-sirket