However, it was changed to the "humans as batteries" concept because the producers (or somebody higher up at Warner...the details are sketchy) thought that the former explanation...
Not to mention the product placement. At a very key point in the film, a Duracell is held up centre camera.
After all, are you going to tell me you can't use waste heat from the ICE to heat up some water?
Interesting reminder, in context. Waste heat from an ICE might be easier to tap if you used a low pressure (as in near-vacuum) closed cycle medium. Easier to build steam from liquid in near-vacuum, and easier to liquify with an ambient heat sink. Would that be capable of doing any work though?
Geez, 200c is low temp? Couple this with high temperature semiconductors running well below freezing, you could stick a thermocouple between the generator and the delivery system and generate more juice.
...whereas, in the USA you have to *pay* the cable companies to transmit advertisements, interspersed with crap "Reality TV" filler, into your home.
There's an alternative. Three years ago my daughters told me that everything on TV, both cable and free-to-air, was crap. They found the repetition of even half-decent material was annoying and if we wanted a video they'd be happy to wait until we could find the DVD. So I pulled the plug on it and sent the cable modem back to the carrier. We are happily without cable or free-to-air TV and none of us have missed it at all in the last three years. We've got the Internet, video rental stores and cheap good DVD's at the supermarket. "Downside" (heh) is the strange looks we get when we say "sorry, we haven't seen it" in conversations with others.
funny, that stuff doesn't bother me in the least. maybe i'm broken.
Aye, like me. I have a distinct notch in my hearing at 50 and 60hz (Australian and US AC frequency). Far too many years in computer rooms. It's the fans, mostly.
Actually, the medieval crossbows were quite strong, and were designed to go easily through the 16 to 20 gauge mild steel plate the knights and men-at-arms used at the time. A mere 30 lb longbow at 28" draw would go through 20 gauge mild steel with a field point pretty easily too, I know this from tests I've done. But to compare the SCA crossbow used vs a medieval crossbow with it's hand-crank winch to cock the prod and 3/4" diameter steel bolts, well, not much similarity there. You'd probably be better off comparing the medieval crossbow to a fairly large bore pistol, say 357 mag with target loads.
SCA crossbows (at least here in Lochac) are designed not to hurt. They're pretty gentle things. I know this because I wrote the proposal to get the Victorian group on the police registry of legal sports users back when I was on the OziBoD. Did the research, documented our modern application and we restricted use to equivalent of a 30 pound draw longbow. With an SCA rubber blunted bolt instead of the um, somewhat malleable bolts shown by our Ukranian friends you might raise a bruise in re-enactment combat, just. No real physical damage to the armoured loons on the field.
I suspect a proper 250 lb prod crossbow with a period broadhead bolt would do serious damage to whatever was on the other side of that display.
Impressed with the display, though -- the hammer example was really cool.
I always did wonder how much that I heard in that spa was real and how much was due to the invention of beer. The slow S-turns I heard, the too hot to refuel I heard too, as well as that scrap of dialog. It was back in 1979 or so that I heard it, so some details may have been missed or glossed over. Apologies for any inaccuracies, but *dang* what an aircraft.
I used to work over at Moffat, during the Pioneer Venus days. I remember a NASA U-2 doing that same trick wrt. vertical take off. It just rolled a little ways down the runway, rotated, and headed straight up. I remember you could hear it long after you lost the visual.
Problem was that they didn't have a material that could seal the tank and still be flexible while not melting off at those high temperatures. Have they solved this problem?
One of the problems they had was dissimilar metals in the airstream, mostly for sensors and plugs -- they had different rates of thermal expansion than the skin. Things that leaked and didn't fit on the ground were designed to fit together quite well at rated speed.
Heat was definitely a problem. There was at least one reported case where a pilot inadvertently got his helmet welded to the canopy in flight. And while sitting in the spa at the Jokewood in Mountain View a few years back I heard a story of a KC135Q refueling officer having to wait while the SR71 made slow S-turns to keep from stalling, while the skin of the aircraft changed from strawberry red to black. Too hot to refuel until he did.
"Turn your ECM off please, I can't see you". "ECM is off. You will acquire visual prior to radar".
Dang what an aircraft. Remember we had this before LBJ outed it in front of Congress. And word had it that one pilot said if they ever needed to break the record again, all they needed was to move the throttle up another notch.
And vice versa, I suspect. I think the maturity of a corporation can be measured as that point where their legal costs outweigh their development costs.
The 730 came after the 750 if I remember correctly, by a year or two. I think it was crippled in other ways, not just clock speed. I think chronology went - 780, 782, 750, 785, 8000-series, 6000 series, Microvax, 4000 series, with Alpha introduced in parallel sometime after 8000 series. I honestly can't remember where the 730 came in (may have been just after Microvax). Model numbers obviously had little truck with chronology, though. And the 750 was a good little calculator, given the tools of the time -- if you ignore the tape casette used for boot media, which was was rated somewhere around 1k / calendar month in throughput.
I highly doubt you ever owned a computer that ran in single digit Hz.
Griffith Park Observatory used to have a light bulb and relay computer -- you pressed the keys, and a cube of incandescent lights lit up to show multiplication in three dimensions. I can replay the sound in my head even after fifty years. It ran at exactly 1Hz.
My funny RAMAC story goes back to Scientific Data Systems in 1969. One of the rare and precious RAMAC disk units was in the Inglewood shop for repair. A gentleman from a sub-Himalayan country had been hired because of his educational quals, which looked very good on paper - PhD in electrical engineering or something equally credible. His boss carefully explained that this unit was the only spare one they had for NASA DSN (which worked on SDS 920's iirc. If any of you can explain "^G^GERR in context you get my next mod point) and that it was very precious. Then he gave him the job of cleaning the disks.
A couple hours later he was found with a large bottle of MEK (Methyl-Ethyl Ketone, a popular cleaner at the time) and a packet of 0000 steel wool. The top three disks were very shiny, he'd gotten all that brown crap off them.
First person I ever heard fired on an intake of breath.
However a better analogy is to imagine the swiss army knife as a giant multi dimensional universal army knife which exists simultaneously at every size imaginable and is always both clasped and unclasped in every dimension and contains every physical tool known to man. In this scenario every distro ( in an unbroken continuum from the very first to the very last their will ever be )
This would be the Ubuntu "Malleable McGyver" release then.
You lost me at "anterograde". The opposite of "retrograde" is "prograde".
It's ok, I'll clarify for you. "Anterograde" is the opposite of "Gatorade". It's a chemical compound that dehydrates you, yet tastes remarkably unlike orangutan sweat.
It's not humility, I'm just being clinical. Brains come in all packages. But I'm not willing to strip away the role playing gender games, they keep me from rolling out of bed.
Care to respond or are we all going to just let these anachronistic and misogynistic myths perpetuate ad infinitum?
Can we all join the fun?
My wife is smarter than me, more fit, better educated and a better programmer. I'm just barely more qualified with networks and architecture, and I'm definitely less of a cook. I have an extraordinary amount of respect for her.
But if I ever accused her of being a rational being, she'd break my cranium, and then subtly change something to keep me off balance.
See? Geeks do know about women. Just not very much.
For comparison, the Vax 750 ran at 600Khz. K, not M. The 780 ran at 1MIP.
There was an urge at the time to rate computers as nMVax, i.e. multiples of 1 Millivax. This in turn was based on the MilliHelen, the amount of beauty required to launch 1 ship.
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Horse petunias. Just raise the ambient pressure.
Not to mention the product placement. At a very key point in the film, a Duracell is held up centre camera.
Possibly with my lifestyle, but generally it runs from 500w to 1kw for more active peeps iirc.
Interesting reminder, in context. Waste heat from an ICE might be easier to tap if you used a low pressure (as in near-vacuum) closed cycle medium. Easier to build steam from liquid in near-vacuum, and easier to liquify with an ambient heat sink. Would that be capable of doing any work though?
Cool, then treat the membrane as a consumable and develop a process for moving the film past the rest of the structure.
Geez, 200c is low temp? Couple this with high temperature semiconductors running well below freezing, you could stick a thermocouple between the generator and the delivery system and generate more juice.
There's this hot little Night Elf Paladin chick I have my eyes on...
Plugh!!
It all makes perfect sense | Expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shilling and pence.
There's an alternative. Three years ago my daughters told me that everything on TV, both cable and free-to-air, was crap. They found the repetition of even half-decent material was annoying and if we wanted a video they'd be happy to wait until we could find the DVD. So I pulled the plug on it and sent the cable modem back to the carrier. We are happily without cable or free-to-air TV and none of us have missed it at all in the last three years. We've got the Internet, video rental stores and cheap good DVD's at the supermarket. "Downside" (heh) is the strange looks we get when we say "sorry, we haven't seen it" in conversations with others.
Aye, like me. I have a distinct notch in my hearing at 50 and 60hz (Australian and US AC frequency). Far too many years in computer rooms. It's the fans, mostly.
SCA crossbows (at least here in Lochac) are designed not to hurt. They're pretty gentle things. I know this because I wrote the proposal to get the Victorian group on the police registry of legal sports users back when I was on the OziBoD. Did the research, documented our modern application and we restricted use to equivalent of a 30 pound draw longbow. With an SCA rubber blunted bolt instead of the um, somewhat malleable bolts shown by our Ukranian friends you might raise a bruise in re-enactment combat, just. No real physical damage to the armoured loons on the field.
I suspect a proper 250 lb prod crossbow with a period broadhead bolt would do serious damage to whatever was on the other side of that display.
Impressed with the display, though -- the hammer example was really cool.
Perhaps the executives who could afford it preferred their own Lear Jets /Gulfstreams /etc?
I used to work over at Moffat, during the Pioneer Venus days. I remember a NASA U-2 doing that same trick wrt. vertical take off. It just rolled a little ways down the runway, rotated, and headed straight up. I remember you could hear it long after you lost the visual.
One of the problems they had was dissimilar metals in the airstream, mostly for sensors and plugs -- they had different rates of thermal expansion than the skin. Things that leaked and didn't fit on the ground were designed to fit together quite well at rated speed.
Heat was definitely a problem. There was at least one reported case where a pilot inadvertently got his helmet welded to the canopy in flight. And while sitting in the spa at the Jokewood in Mountain View a few years back I heard a story of a KC135Q refueling officer having to wait while the SR71 made slow S-turns to keep from stalling, while the skin of the aircraft changed from strawberry red to black. Too hot to refuel until he did.
"Turn your ECM off please, I can't see you". "ECM is off. You will acquire visual prior to radar".
Dang what an aircraft. Remember we had this before LBJ outed it in front of Congress. And word had it that one pilot said if they ever needed to break the record again, all they needed was to move the throttle up another notch.
And vice versa, I suspect. I think the maturity of a corporation can be measured as that point where their legal costs outweigh their development costs.
The 730 came after the 750 if I remember correctly, by a year or two. I think it was crippled in other ways, not just clock speed. I think chronology went - 780, 782, 750, 785, 8000-series, 6000 series, Microvax, 4000 series, with Alpha introduced in parallel sometime after 8000 series. I honestly can't remember where the 730 came in (may have been just after Microvax). Model numbers obviously had little truck with chronology, though. And the 750 was a good little calculator, given the tools of the time -- if you ignore the tape casette used for boot media, which was was rated somewhere around 1k / calendar month in throughput.
Griffith Park Observatory used to have a light bulb and relay computer -- you pressed the keys, and a cube of incandescent lights lit up to show multiplication in three dimensions. I can replay the sound in my head even after fifty years. It ran at exactly 1Hz.
A couple hours later he was found with a large bottle of MEK (Methyl-Ethyl Ketone, a popular cleaner at the time) and a packet of 0000 steel wool. The top three disks were very shiny, he'd gotten all that brown crap off them.
First person I ever heard fired on an intake of breath.
This would be the Ubuntu "Malleable McGyver" release then.
It's ok, I'll clarify for you. "Anterograde" is the opposite of "Gatorade". It's a chemical compound that dehydrates you, yet tastes remarkably unlike orangutan sweat.
You're right, but could you please lose the $ in the name? It makes my eyeballs rattle. We know who they are.
It's not humility, I'm just being clinical. Brains come in all packages. But I'm not willing to strip away the role playing gender games, they keep me from rolling out of bed.
Can we all join the fun?
My wife is smarter than me, more fit, better educated and a better programmer. I'm just barely more qualified with networks and architecture, and I'm definitely less of a cook. I have an extraordinary amount of respect for her.
But if I ever accused her of being a rational being, she'd break my cranium, and then subtly change something to keep me off balance.
See? Geeks do know about women. Just not very much.
There was an urge at the time to rate computers as nMVax, i.e. multiples of 1 Millivax. This in turn was based on the MilliHelen, the amount of beauty required to launch 1 ship.