...and yet I have created several articles from scratch, and so far as I am aware none have been deleted, at worst they have been merged with already extant stubs. To be fair I am an expert in the fields in which I write, and have dead tree sources ad infinitum to use as references.
Oddly enough that's what they do in the UK. The lights go green, everyone who can see the traffic light hits the loud pedal, and at least starts to roll. I was slightly astonished to find that Australian drivers don't do this. There again they are so unskillful that they'd probably crash into each other. On the other hand Australians d at least treat the amber light with the contempt it deserves. ObStarman.
Yes I read the papers. One of the engines has avery high power to weight ratio (good) but it says nothing about EFFICIENCY. The paper about the other engine more or less said that it went round all by itself, then the money ran out.
Gerotor motors need complex seals. see Wankel. They have high surface area/volume ratios. see Wankel.
Nutating motors need very complex seals. They provide high power to weight ratios, but suffer from similar surface area to volume ratio problems as gerotors, so causing high emissions and low efficiency.
I see no evidence that the traditional piston and crankshaft, poppet valve, type of mechanism is going to be replaced by a new IC engine.
"Different engines have drastically different amounts of CO2/Gallon emissions"
No they don't. All the carbon in the fuel ends up as carbon, carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide. CO is oxidised to CO2 in the cat, and C will be oxidised in the cats of 2010 diesel engines. C (soot) is not a problem in current gasoline engines.
The median wage in Australia is $50k, roughly. SO why are you septics so poor? septic tank = yank, btw. Could it possibly be that you are distorting the meaning of the words "typical american"?
I earn $200 000 a year, between shares and pay, and my car is worth $2000 or less, I bought it for $5k when it was 10 years old, it is now older than you (probably), at 23.
So, quit whining. Usless lazy incompetent people whine. Everybody else decides on their priorities.
No, I think the point he was making was that to be an engineer you need to go through an apprenticeship, not jump straight into management type roles.
So he rightly said that when recruiting for engineering positions, he didn't tend to look at these schools.
By the way, when I started work as an engineer, it was as a Student Apprentice, and I did a lot of workshop, and assembly line, work, as part of it. I have the knuckles to prove it.
Try a good recording of a piano. I probably spend too long listening to piano music, and have worked as a noise engineer for many years, so perhaps I'm more used to listening than most. But using ABX I could pick 256 vs 320 MP3s, so I use 384 just to be safe.
That being said I am quite happy listening to good quality 192s of orchestral or vocal works, as provided by eclassical. I think that the difference is that a piano is essentially a percussion instrument.
Yes, that's how I decided what bitrate to use. To be honest I couldn't reliably pick MP3 320 from 384, so I use 384 just for safety. Test music was a piano - on 128 it was laughable, and not frankly a whole lot better on 192.
who the fuck would look up a novel, the day after its release, in an encyclopaedia? What would they expect to find that doesn't count as a spoiler? How many pages it's got? Who the author was?
I don't understand why bookmarks get the flick, since they've been around since the year dot, and are both 'light' and important. Other than that it sounds like a good idea. Having said that, until two years ago I was using an AMD 400 as my internet PC, it seemed just fine on dialup, using FF 1.5 or so, on W98SE. I don't get the impression that browser speed or footprint is a big deal in itself, most of the processing seems to be content.
"Just hire everyone who walks in the door, and expect to fire most of them in a few months? "
I've worked for two companies where that has seemed to be the case. More accurately their hiring interviews were so cursory that they could not really tell who would fit in. So after three months it was bye-bye to about 20% of new employees.
50%? you got a cite for that? Warships were lucky to hit 18% in the same time-frame, and they had a lot more space to fit condensers and feedwater heaters and so on. Even today few stationary coal fired plants exceed 42%. Materials technology at the time prevented use of steam at much above 400 psi, from memory.
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...and yet I have created several articles from scratch, and so far as I am aware none have been deleted, at worst they have been merged with already extant stubs. To be fair I am an expert in the fields in which I write, and have dead tree sources ad infinitum to use as references.
Well that's a start. Then they'll need a test wardrobe, and a test kitchen, and a test bathroom. But yes, a test bed is a start.
"I'd hardly say a using a toilet will turn into a life or death situation"
6 year old child stands on a washbasin.
It breaks into foot long shards.
She is now in hospital, having fallen through and onto the shards.
So, are you suggesting the 'engineer' should put "don't stand on this" stickers on the washbasin?
Oddly enough that's what they do in the UK. The lights go green, everyone who can see the traffic light hits the loud pedal, and at least starts to roll. I was slightly astonished to find that Australian drivers don't do this. There again they are so unskillful that they'd probably crash into each other. On the other hand Australians d at least treat the amber light with the contempt it deserves. ObStarman.
Why, is she vegetarian?
Call that paradoxical? I bet it wouldn't make a humanoid robot's head explode.
Perhaps you meant "ironically". Or even, "counterproductively". But "paradoxically"? No.
Well fuck me dead, somebody has figured out how to convert mechanical work into electrical energy. Trust those whacky kids at MIT to pull it off.
Yes I read the papers. One of the engines has avery high power to weight ratio (good) but it says nothing about EFFICIENCY. The paper about the other engine more or less said that it went round all by itself, then the money ran out.
Well, how are those critical thinking skills working out for you? Do you pay attention in your engineering lectures?
How does the weasel word count in http://www.starrotor.com/Engine.htm strike you?
Gerotor motors need complex seals. see Wankel. They have high surface area/volume ratios. see Wankel.
Nutating motors need very complex seals. They provide high power to weight ratios, but suffer from similar surface area to volume ratio problems as gerotors, so causing high emissions and low efficiency.
I see no evidence that the traditional piston and crankshaft, poppet valve, type of mechanism is going to be replaced by a new IC engine.
"Different engines have drastically different amounts of CO2/Gallon emissions"
No they don't. All the carbon in the fuel ends up as carbon, carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide. CO is oxidised to CO2 in the cat, and C will be oxidised in the cats of 2010 diesel engines. C (soot) is not a problem in current gasoline engines.
"They are weakly correlated to be sure"
They are strongly correlated. >>0.9
Stop talking out your arse.
Well that sounds jolly techie. Nutating and gerotor engines? Not a chance in hell for sound engineering reasons.
The median wage in Australia is $50k, roughly. SO why are you septics so poor? septic tank = yank, btw. Could it possibly be that you are distorting the meaning of the words "typical american"?
I earn $200 000 a year, between shares and pay, and my car is worth $2000 or less, I bought it for $5k when it was 10 years old, it is now older than you (probably), at 23.
So, quit whining. Usless lazy incompetent people whine. Everybody else decides on their priorities.
Way to insult deaf people?
No, I think the point he was making was that to be an engineer you need to go through an apprenticeship, not jump straight into management type roles.
So he rightly said that when recruiting for engineering positions, he didn't tend to look at these schools.
By the way, when I started work as an engineer, it was as a Student Apprentice, and I did a lot of workshop, and assembly line, work, as part of it. I have the knuckles to prove it.
I suspect that comment meant nothing to your average pimple-face. But it made me laugh.
"what the Army does differently in this case"
They don't pay for their fuel, you do. Therefore they can afford to use any damn silly system they want.
Try a good recording of a piano. I probably spend too long listening to piano music, and have worked as a noise engineer for many years, so perhaps I'm more used to listening than most. But using ABX I could pick 256 vs 320 MP3s, so I use 384 just to be safe.
That being said I am quite happy listening to good quality 192s of orchestral or vocal works, as provided by eclassical. I think that the difference is that a piano is essentially a percussion instrument.
Loudspeakers don't have an SNR
I've used 20W rated speakers (B&W DM5) with 300W amps for 25 years
Don't talk bollocks.
Yes, that's how I decided what bitrate to use. To be honest I couldn't reliably pick MP3 320 from 384, so I use 384 just for safety. Test music was a piano - on 128 it was laughable, and not frankly a whole lot better on 192.
who the fuck would look up a novel, the day after its release, in an encyclopaedia? What would they expect to find that doesn't count as a spoiler? How many pages it's got? Who the author was?
I don't understand why bookmarks get the flick, since they've been around since the year dot, and are both 'light' and important. Other than that it sounds like a good idea. Having said that, until two years ago I was using an AMD 400 as my internet PC, it seemed just fine on dialup, using FF 1.5 or so, on W98SE. I don't get the impression that browser speed or footprint is a big deal in itself, most of the processing seems to be content.
I've got some bad news for you, unless you are a bacterium. It is WHEN you die, not IF.
"Just hire everyone who walks in the door, and expect to fire most of them in a few months? "
I've worked for two companies where that has seemed to be the case. More accurately their hiring interviews were so cursory that they could not really tell who would fit in. So after three months it was bye-bye to about 20% of new employees.
50%? you got a cite for that? Warships were lucky to hit 18% in the same time-frame, and they had a lot more space to fit condensers and feedwater heaters and so on. Even today few stationary coal fired plants exceed 42%. Materials technology at the time prevented use of steam at much above 400 psi, from memory.