Flourescent lights are awful for getting true color. When I was professionally photographing houses for an old job, I had to go through hell to get a decent result. I'd stand in between two rooms: one with incandecent, one with flourescent. One picture would show the walls at a slightly pinkish hugh, the other, white. It normally would not be a huge deal, but in this job it was. Imagine spending several minutes getting the hugh right in a picture a few hundred times. Ugh.
Taken as a whole, statistics show that cars are safer designs than SUVs. Most of the best selling SUVs still use ladder frames from pickup trucks, which are not designed to absorb collision impacts. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), "In single vehicle crashes, heavy vehicles with stiff frames (most SUVs) might actually do more to harm the vehicle's occupants because there is little give, or energy absorption engineering, to dissipate the force of running into an immovable object."
This is proven when you consider the injury ratings in these crash test charts provided by the IIHS. Notice how many cars rate in the yellow (little injury) and how many SUVs rate in the red (high injury).
According to IIHS statistics, the only time an SUV will come out ahead in an accident is if it collides with a smaller vehicle. Even then, the only advantages you get with an SUV are at the expense of those driving smaller cars, which are designed to absorb impacts. SUVs just plain don't make sense safety-wise!
Yes, not the most reliable web site, but I saw the same information on a TLC program.
I kinda wonder if they have ever considered submitting these patent applications to a peer review board. It seems to me that if they could get a large number of people from various fields (ahem, slashdot) to look into the questionable patents, a lot of this could be avoided, and I know they would have no end to the list of volunteers.
At room temperature I'm still sure that gold is a better conductor. Metals change their conductivity greatly based on temp.
Yes, I know 212F applies better to this situation, but he's not making it up.
I just got finished reading this book, and had to chuckle at seeing this article. The book is about a group of nanomachines given agent based programming called PRED/PREY which uses something like the genetic programming spoken of in the article. Of course things go awry in there somewhere, but it is an interesting, and moderately technical fiction on this subject.
We have a product available to us by Apex called the PowerFC (with an optional commander control) that replaces the stock ECU. It allows special control of absolutely everything. Boost, fuel mixtures, injector duty cycles, rev limiter, and every other aspect of engine management is available for tweaking, and datalogging.
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Flourescent lights are awful for getting true color. When I was professionally photographing houses for an old job, I had to go through hell to get a decent result. I'd stand in between two rooms: one with incandecent, one with flourescent. One picture would show the walls at a slightly pinkish hugh, the other, white. It normally would not be a huge deal, but in this job it was. Imagine spending several minutes getting the hugh right in a picture a few hundred times. Ugh.
Taken from http://poseur.4x4.org/reasons2.html#Safe
Taken as a whole, statistics show that cars are safer designs than SUVs. Most of the best selling SUVs still use ladder frames from pickup trucks, which are not designed to absorb collision impacts. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), "In single vehicle crashes, heavy vehicles with stiff frames (most SUVs) might actually do more to harm the vehicle's occupants because there is little give, or energy absorption engineering, to dissipate the force of running into an immovable object." This is proven when you consider the injury ratings in these crash test charts provided by the IIHS. Notice how many cars rate in the yellow (little injury) and how many SUVs rate in the red (high injury).
According to IIHS statistics, the only time an SUV will come out ahead in an accident is if it collides with a smaller vehicle. Even then, the only advantages you get with an SUV are at the expense of those driving smaller cars, which are designed to absorb impacts. SUVs just plain don't make sense safety-wise!
Yes, not the most reliable web site, but I saw the same information on a TLC program.
I kinda wonder if they have ever considered submitting these patent applications to a peer review board. It seems to me that if they could get a large number of people from various fields (ahem, slashdot) to look into the questionable patents, a lot of this could be avoided, and I know they would have no end to the list of volunteers.
At room temperature I'm still sure that gold is a better conductor. Metals change their conductivity greatly based on temp. Yes, I know 212F applies better to this situation, but he's not making it up.
Yes, but the RIAA is not abusing this monopoly to stop indipendent labels from rising and doing well.
I just got finished reading this book, and had to chuckle at seeing this article. The book is about a group of nanomachines given agent based programming called PRED/PREY which uses something like the genetic programming spoken of in the article. Of course things go awry in there somewhere, but it is an interesting, and moderately technical fiction on this subject.
Shouldn't this get at least a small interesting karma? I had no idea that schools could/would own parts of the spectrum. That's freakin cool.
We have a product available to us by Apex called the PowerFC (with an optional commander control) that replaces the stock ECU. It allows special control of absolutely everything. Boost, fuel mixtures, injector duty cycles, rev limiter, and every other aspect of engine management is available for tweaking, and datalogging.
Most 0 mods I have ever seen in a /. article. This must tell us something...
Here comes another one.