Incandescent lights have a warm glow that is closer to natural light and "full spectrum" incandescents produce something very near sun light.
Hell no. Incansedcent lights are ORANGE.
Every grab a color corection filter to shoot daylight films under incandescent light? It's cyanish blue. Wonder why when you shoot with the INDOOR color balance setting on your digital cameras photos you take outside look blue and photos indoors shot on the outdoor settings look orange? Because incandescents are NOT the same color as daylight.
But, agreed, artifical light (most of them) are unnatural in their color. Even daylight balanced flourescents are not full-spectrum daylight balanced lights.
The Earth got used up, and we found a new solar system and used terraforming technology to create hundreds of new Earths. The central planets formed the Alliance and decided that all worlds should unite under their rule. There was some disagreement on that point. After the Unification War, many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the edges of the system, far from Alliance control. Out here, people struggled to get by with the most basic technologies. A ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying. "
At first kids would talk and play with their next door neighbors. Then they come out with books. Kids read to escape their dull lives by going to Treasure Island or the Little House on the Prairie. Then radio broadcasts come out and kids can listen to the Shadow or Little Orphan Annie and kids forget about their books. Then TV comes along and they can watch I Love Lucy or see Ed Sullivan introduce the new coolest bands and kids forget about radio programs. Then LSD, marijuana, and smoking bannana peels comes out and kids forget a lot of things.
Then video games come out with Pac-Man, Mario, Madden, MGS, and Halo and kids forget that they were addicted to drugs and become addicted to video games. Then the internet comes out and kids can talk and play with kids (and adults posing as kids) miles away, and kids forget about scripted forms of entertainment.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced an anti-phishing bill that proposed stiff penalties including up to 5 years in prison and fines as steep as $250,000. I wonder what happened to that ?
They decided that when a DUI that results in the death of the non-influenced party scores you on average less than 5 years the 5 year sentence for putting up a website might have been a little extreme. Especially when you consider there are existing laws that cover this behavior (fraud, theft via misrepresentation, id theft, credit card theft, computer hacking[when you use a stolen password to get into someplace you don't belong.])
Dude, give it a little time and Xena will be the stuff of an ancient story. A thousand years is nothing on the timescale of geological/planetary processes.
Cold air makes ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars run at greater levels of efficiency.
Why you ask?
I'll tell you why.
ICE engines work by mixing o2 with fuel. When you put more fuel/air mix into the engine it generates more power using fewer revolutions. (This is only true when using the same size engine. If you get a larger engine so you can fit in more air/fuel you get more power, but at the price of the weight of the larger engine and associated bits to support the operation of a larger engine.)
This fact is the reason for the existence of intercoolers. These devices cool the air/fuel mixture ("charge") before it enters the engine, allowing for greater power and efficiency.
To quote the wikipedia:
"An intercooler is a device used on turbocharged and supercharged internal combustion engines to improve the volumetric efficiency and increase the amount of charge in the engine, thereby increasing power."
Unfortunately the average idiot dosen't think. It takes THOUGHT to UNDERSTAND. When this shows up in a newspaper/tvnewscast/blog/whatever they'll read it, not think about it, and just assume it's a fact because it comes from their trusted media outlet (again, be it a newspaper, blog, tv news, etc.)
I'd also be willing to bet 18-29 year old Canadians are also the most likely to fall in trouble with the law on other fronts as well (drugs, violence, whatever.)
Now some who isn't thinking will read the above and assume it's time to lock all those 18-29 year old Canadians up and throw away the keys (or save the keys to set them free on their 30th birthday.)
I mean, there was alien spaceship that found planets with lots of natural resources, and would land upon them with the goal of building automated factories to make products and send them back to the alien home world.
It did by building lots of little robots (ooooh Beowulf cluster!), which in turn build factories, which build more little robots and then go on to build more factories and so until the planet is fully covered in robotic factories. These factories are what then build the products (and spacecraft) that the home world was so interested in to begin with.
Unfortunately one of the factory ships gets it's programing scrambled by radiation from a super nova. In it's confusion it decides Titan looks like a good planet for industry. So the ship builds factories, the factories make robots, the robots make factories... except the software that determined how robots and factors were to be made were also corrupted by the supernova radiation.
Long story short, the robots end up competing for limited resources, and evolution begins. Today there are intelegent robots on Titan. We just need a Mars bound manned mission that we can re-route Titan to prove this fact.
I'm also not entirely sure why a hotel employee would take home used keycards (if this were actually true) for that information when it's all right there in the computer anyway. It is a retail transaction after all, they can take your credit card info at any time. They don't need keycards for that.
Let's see... to look up my credit card # a clerk would have to issue a command to their computer that would leave a record on an audit/logfile. Else they have to use pen/paper while my card# was up for a valid reason. Either one is likely to get attetion from the company or the customer respectively.
Take the cards home and there's no company or customer there to spot what you're doing.
It's not like anyone is going to be building one any time soon. It would probably take years just to do the R&D to find the right material to build this with. Then comes the gathering of raw materials.
If are going to use the electrical system from the car to make o2 and h2, why be so redundant as to make a new device, but instead use technology that allows us to make fire from water and put it under the hood. I'm sure this thing would look alot cooler anyway.
Water injection (engines) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Water injection is a method for cooling the combustion chambers of engines by adding water to the incoming fuel-air mixture, allowing for greater compression ratios and largely eliminating the problem of engine knocking. This effectively increases the octane rating of the fuel, meaning that performance gains can be obtained when used in conjunction with a supercharger or turbocharger, altered spark ignition timing, and other modifications. Many water injection systems use a mixture of water and alcohol (usually 50/50), partly because the alcohol is combustible, while water is not; in addition, the alcohol serves as an antifreeze for the water.
The system was first used extensively on World War II fighter aircraft to
increase power
upon takeoff and bring up the service ceiling. A limited number of road vehicles with large-displacement engines from manufacturers such as Chrysler have also included water injection. Today, water injection is also of interest because it can potentially
decrease NOx emissions in exhaust
. Water injection is primarily used with piston-powered internal combustion engines, but it has also seen use with turbines.
The initial injection of water cools the fuel-air mixture somewhat, which may allow for more mixture to enter the cylinder. But the greater effect comes later during combustion when the water takes in significant amounts of heat energy as it converts from liquid to gas (steam),
increasing piston pressure (torque) and reducing the peak temperature with its resultant NOx formation as well as the amount of energy absorbed into the cylinder walls
. The duration of combustion is said to be longer. An interesting side effect that has been reported by some is that water injection effectively "steam cleans" the engine interior, resulting in less carbon residue buildup. Glowing hot carbon deposits are a known cause of knocking.
Fuel economy can be improved with water injection
, although the effect on most engines with no other modification, like leaning out the mixture, appears to be rather limited or even negligible in some cases.
Some degree of control over the water injection is important. It needs to be injected only when the engine is heavily loaded and the throttle is wide open; as with other systems which need to monitor engine load, this can be determined by manifold vacuum, which is low when the engine is loaded and high when it is unloaded; however, provision must be made for starting, when the manifold vacuum is also low but water injection is undesirable.
Reports of more rapid corrosion of the steel and cast iron components of engines to which water injection has been added suggest that more frequent oil changes, particularly when the engine does not experience sustained high temperature operation to evaporate any water from the oil, is prudent.
If this doesn't turn out to be vapor-ware or just a regular scam, it could turn out to be one of the biggest recent innovations in transportation history.
RTFA! It says this thing is small and only weighs in at 20 lbs. This is one of the BIGGEST recent in transportation history? Hell, even the smallest hybrid car will dwarf this little box.
My neighbor brags he gets 50MPG with his hybrid (the Toyota.)
So, he drives 200 miles a week to get to work and back and do daily tasks. Barring vacation trips he burns 4 gallons a week. 208 gallons a year. He could pay $7500 to get one of these boxes and burn 10-20% less fuel. That'd be a savings of 21-42 gallons of gas. Right now gas is just under $3/gal in our market. He'd save anywhere from $60 to $120ish a year in fuel costs. At a generous 20% savings assumption he'd pay off the price of this gizmo...oh wait... he wouldn't.
Okay, fine, I'm being a grump about it.
It'd take him 62.5 years ($7500/$120/Year=62.5)
So, if he enjoys driving his 2005 model 50mpg car in 2077 when the rest of us are getting 2000mpg(that's GRAM not gallon) with our Mr. Fusion powered electric vehicles, he'll get his money's worth.
I suppose it's possible. I do see the odd car from the 30's and 40's tooling around town on the weekend.
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The books are old enough to be in the public domain now. No problem.
maybe it just smelled fishy to them?
Incandescent lights have a warm glow that is closer to natural light and "full spectrum" incandescents produce something very near sun light.
Hell no. Incansedcent lights are ORANGE.
Every grab a color corection filter to shoot daylight films under incandescent light? It's cyanish blue. Wonder why when you shoot with the INDOOR color balance setting on your digital cameras photos you take outside look blue and photos indoors shot on the outdoor settings look orange? Because incandescents are NOT the same color as daylight.
But, agreed, artifical light (most of them) are unnatural in their color. Even daylight balanced flourescents are not full-spectrum daylight balanced lights.
Okay
"Here's How It Is...
The Earth got used up, and we found a new solar system and used terraforming technology to create hundreds of new Earths. The central planets formed the Alliance and decided that all worlds should unite under their rule. There was some disagreement on that point. After the Unification War, many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the edges of the system, far from Alliance control. Out here, people struggled to get by with the most basic technologies. A ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying. "
Won't work under linux.
Can anyone re-encode to avi or mpeg-4?
Yes, computers are clumsy for operating on things like photos and multimedia[NOT SAFE FOR WORK].
Hi - you must be new here.
No, HE is.
At first kids would talk and play with their next door neighbors. Then they come out with books. Kids read to escape their dull lives by going to Treasure Island or the Little House on the Prairie. Then radio broadcasts come out and kids can listen to the Shadow or Little Orphan Annie and kids forget about their books. Then TV comes along and they can watch I Love Lucy or see Ed Sullivan introduce the new coolest bands and kids forget about radio programs. Then LSD, marijuana, and smoking bannana peels comes out and kids forget a lot of things.
Then video games come out with Pac-Man, Mario, Madden, MGS, and Halo and kids forget that they were addicted to drugs and become addicted to video games. Then the internet comes out and kids can talk and play with kids (and adults posing as kids) miles away, and kids forget about scripted forms of entertainment.
Hmmmmm...perhaps you are onto something. Kids gettingaddicted to online gaming. Yes... indeed... I wonder where you got that idea from.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced an anti-phishing bill that proposed stiff penalties including up to 5 years in prison and fines as steep as $250,000. I wonder what happened to that ?
They decided that when a DUI that results in the death of the non-influenced party scores you on average less than 5 years the 5 year sentence for putting up a website might have been a little extreme. Especially when you consider there are existing laws that cover this behavior (fraud, theft via misrepresentation, id theft, credit card theft, computer hacking[when you use a stolen password to get into someplace you don't belong.])
Dude, give it a little time and Xena will be the stuff of an ancient story. A thousand years is nothing on the timescale of geological/planetary processes.
Cold air makes ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars run at greater levels of efficiency.
Why you ask?
I'll tell you why.
ICE engines work by mixing o2 with fuel. When you put more fuel/air mix into the engine it generates more power using fewer revolutions. (This is only true when using the same size engine. If you get a larger engine so you can fit in more air/fuel you get more power, but at the price of the weight of the larger engine and associated bits to support the operation of a larger engine.)
This fact is the reason for the existence of intercoolers. These devices cool the air/fuel mixture ("charge") before it enters the engine, allowing for greater power and efficiency.
To quote the wikipedia:
"An intercooler is a device used on turbocharged and supercharged internal combustion engines to improve the volumetric efficiency and increase the amount of charge in the engine, thereby increasing power."
Pho needs to be moderated as such: (-1 Overrated)
Unfortunately the average idiot dosen't think. It takes THOUGHT to UNDERSTAND. When this shows up in a newspaper/tvnewscast/blog/whatever they'll read it, not think about it, and just assume it's a fact because it comes from their trusted media outlet (again, be it a newspaper, blog, tv news, etc.)
I'd also be willing to bet 18-29 year old Canadians are also the most likely to fall in trouble with the law on other fronts as well (drugs, violence, whatever.)
Now some who isn't thinking will read the above and assume it's time to lock all those 18-29 year old Canadians up and throw away the keys (or save the keys to set them free on their 30th birthday.)
Dude, some stuff lives. It dosen't evolve. It will become extinct.
Just becuase something dosen't evolve dosen't mean it's not life. It just won't be life anymore when the conditions of it's enviroment change.
I mean, there was alien spaceship that found planets with lots of natural resources, and would land upon them with the goal of building automated factories to make products and send them back to the alien home world.
It did by building lots of little robots (ooooh Beowulf cluster!), which in turn build factories, which build more little robots and then go on to build more factories and so until the planet is fully covered in robotic factories. These factories are what then build the products (and spacecraft) that the home world was so interested in to begin with.
Unfortunately one of the factory ships gets it's programing scrambled by radiation from a super nova. In it's confusion it decides Titan looks like a good planet for industry. So the ship builds factories, the factories make robots, the robots make factories... except the software that determined how robots and factors were to be made were also corrupted by the supernova radiation.
Long story short, the robots end up competing for limited resources, and evolution begins. Today there are intelegent robots on Titan. We just need a Mars bound manned mission that we can re-route Titan to prove this fact.
What, don't believe me? Go read James P. Hogan's _Code_of_the_Lifemaker.(look! Not even a referral link!)
Just reverse the polarity; that always works.
Except for when you need to cross the streams!
I'd say on planet /. except that I'm not sure /. meets the definition of a planet.
I was thinking about the guns from Mike Chritons _CONGO_ myself. But the dialog didn't quite fit. So...what's this from ?
I'm also not entirely sure why a hotel employee would take home used keycards (if this were actually true) for that information when it's all right there in the computer anyway. It is a retail transaction after all, they can take your credit card info at any time. They don't need keycards for that.
Let's see... to look up my credit card # a clerk would have to issue a command to their computer that would leave a record on an audit/logfile. Else they have to use pen/paper while my card# was up for a valid reason. Either one is likely to get attetion from the company or the customer respectively.
Take the cards home and there's no company or customer there to spot what you're doing.
It's not like anyone is going to be building one any time soon. It would probably take years just to do the R&D to find the right material to build this with. Then comes the gathering of raw materials.
If are going to use the electrical system from the car to make o2 and h2, why be so redundant as to make a new device, but instead use technology that allows us to make fire from water and put it under the hood. I'm sure this thing would look alot cooler anyway.
20-pound unit for $7,500
Damn, 20 pounds, $7500. That's a whopping $375/pound.
When did the exchange rate between the UK and the USA get so skewed?
Sorry. Couldn't help myself.
Water injection (engines)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Water injection is a method for cooling the combustion chambers of engines by adding water to the incoming fuel-air mixture, allowing for greater compression ratios and largely eliminating the problem of engine knocking. This effectively increases the octane rating of the fuel, meaning that performance gains can be obtained when used in conjunction with a supercharger or turbocharger, altered spark ignition timing, and other modifications. Many water injection systems use a mixture of water and alcohol (usually 50/50), partly because the alcohol is combustible, while water is not; in addition, the alcohol serves as an antifreeze for the water.
The system was first used extensively on World War II fighter aircraft to
- increase power
upon takeoff and bring up the service ceiling. A limited number of road vehicles with large-displacement engines from manufacturers such as Chrysler have also included water injection. Today, water injection is also of interest because it can potentially- decrease NOx emissions in exhaust
. Water injection is primarily used with piston-powered internal combustion engines, but it has also seen use with turbines.The initial injection of water cools the fuel-air mixture somewhat, which may allow for more mixture to enter the cylinder. But the greater effect comes later during combustion when the water takes in significant amounts of heat energy as it converts from liquid to gas (steam),
- increasing piston pressure (torque) and reducing the peak temperature with its resultant NOx formation as well as the amount of energy absorbed into the cylinder walls
. The duration of combustion is said to be longer. An interesting side effect that has been reported by some is that water injection effectively "steam cleans" the engine interior, resulting in less carbon residue buildup. Glowing hot carbon deposits are a known cause of knocking.- Fuel economy can be improved with water injection
, although the effect on most engines with no other modification, like leaning out the mixture, appears to be rather limited or even negligible in some cases.Some degree of control over the water injection is important. It needs to be injected only when the engine is heavily loaded and the throttle is wide open; as with other systems which need to monitor engine load, this can be determined by manifold vacuum, which is low when the engine is loaded and high when it is unloaded; however, provision must be made for starting, when the manifold vacuum is also low but water injection is undesirable.
Reports of more rapid corrosion of the steel and cast iron components of engines to which water injection has been added suggest that more frequent oil changes, particularly when the engine does not experience sustained high temperature operation to evaporate any water from the oil, is prudent.
If this doesn't turn out to be vapor-ware or just a regular scam, it could turn out to be one of the biggest recent innovations in transportation history.
RTFA! It says this thing is small and only weighs in at 20 lbs. This is one of the BIGGEST recent in transportation history? Hell, even the smallest hybrid car will dwarf this little box.
Okay, let's see.
My neighbor brags he gets 50MPG with his hybrid (the Toyota.)
So, he drives 200 miles a week to get to work and back and do daily tasks. Barring vacation trips he burns 4 gallons a week. 208 gallons a year. He could pay $7500 to get one of these boxes and burn 10-20% less fuel. That'd be a savings of 21-42 gallons of gas. Right now gas is just under $3/gal in our market. He'd save anywhere from $60 to $120ish a year in fuel costs. At a generous 20% savings assumption he'd pay off the price of this gizmo...oh wait... he wouldn't.
Okay, fine, I'm being a grump about it.
It'd take him 62.5 years ($7500/$120/Year=62.5)
So, if he enjoys driving his 2005 model 50mpg car in 2077 when the rest of us are getting 2000mpg(that's GRAM not gallon) with our Mr. Fusion powered electric vehicles, he'll get his money's worth.
I suppose it's possible. I do see the odd car from the 30's and 40's tooling around town on the weekend.