I was half asleep writing that last night.. wow, look at the spelling/grammar.. once i hit a rainspot, anything.. anyway, smooth turning stereo knob-like fluid couplings in power steering sucks, such as Dodge Neons from the 90's, especially when it can be remote controlled to go in an opposite direction from where you want to go.. in fact power steering in general has issues, because even in my current car, a Saturn, which feels like there is a rigid connection between the tires and the steering wheel, assisted by power steering, well, I lost that power steering coming off the highway starting at 65 mph decelerating to a green light to make a left turn, but there was a slight right turn in the road right before the light, so you had to decelerate, turn to the right, then turn hard to the left. The light hit yellow just as expected, and I made it before the yellow, however when I pressed the gas after the left turn taking my foot off the brake, it wouldn't accelerate, I looked down at the console, and the engine was dead with the lights on, so I had to turn the ignition key to get it going again. The engine had died on me, and all of a sudden it made sense why just previously it was so hard to steer right, and then left, why I almost went off the asphalt on the left side of the curb when I was supposed to do the steering right part, it's because I lost power steering, that's why I practically had to rip the steering wheel with both hands to make it move the way I wanted it to move. Losing power steering can cost you your life if you can't make the car go where you want it to go, and as all newer cars are not carburetted but fuel injected, therefore chipped, and remote controlled and gps tracked, Da Man can cut your power steering off anytime, at the worst possible places, and make it look like you were in an accident, especially if you exercise your right to free speech on Slashdot in a way that he finds annoying. Please be aware of that.
How about remote control driving your car not in the direction you're intending to drive. In fact I had such a car, it felt like it had a smooth fluid coupling in the steering coulumn, kind of like old stero knobs, but it always acted up when I drove around the same area, or sometimes 10 minutes more south, either under of above a bridge, and I started spinning on the highway at 70 mph once i hit s rainspot, slowed a lot by the time I hit the berm, but both airbags deployed and the car was totaled. Only my right pinky hurt, even though I smashed out the driver's side window with my head, I din't feel anyting .
The secondary fluid knocking agent could be dumped into the fuel tank after pumping at the gas station, kind of like 2 cycle engine oil is added to their gasoline. Of course you'd choose something that self-dissolves well in gasoline without having to stir it. There are a whole lot of knocking agents out there, you don't even have to go for a classical free radical initiator, like azo compounds, but simple things like n-heptane with an octane rating of 0 should work. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
"knock is not a limitation" - Yes we agree knock is not a limitation, to the contrary, it's a benefit, something we seek in diesels. The other guy lack of combustibility is a limitation in diesel engines, which means lack of knock, such as propane(112) and methane(120) and ethanol(108) would have very high octane ratings, low knocking ratings, and low self combustibility, therefore not appropriate to diesel, which have a cetane number, cetane rating, the opposite of octane rating, a higher cetane number increases the ability to self ignite. We're talking about ways which can improve ignition and combustion in diesels here, so lower quality fuels with high octane numbers, such as ethanol, natural gas from your home gas pipe (i.e. methane), or propane from the storage tank in your backyard, could be used, and then you get miles/dollar of fuel, and different fuels can effectively compete against each other. An internal combustion car should be able to run on anything that burns in air without ashes, and it's fluid (i.e. liquid or gas), and it should get compression ratios/adiabatic high temperatures, as you say, limited only by material constraints, i.e. material strength and temperature resistance, not by fuel knocking issues. Under adiabatic compression all gases heat up, and this self heating from compression is what puts the limit on compression ratio in normal gasoline engines, normally around 9, that is initial, maximum volume (with the piston at the highest position at the beginning of compression stroke) divided by the minimum volume (with the piston at the lowest position at the end of the compression stroke) in normal engines is around 9. A higher compression ratio of say 11, or 13 or even 20 would mean the fuel/air mixture would self heat so much that self ignition happens, i.e. knocking, before the compression cycle is complete, that is driving the shaft backwards, the engine firing too early during the shaft rotation, not after the piston is past the lowest point in the cylinder, on command, with a spark plug. Some sports cars that require 93 octane gas, or 90, instead of 87, do so because their compression ratio is set higher than 9, say 9.5 or 10.5, at which ratio (adiabatic compression temperature) the 87 octane gas self ignites but the 93 does not. Unless you can feel your engine knocking on 87 gas, there is absolutely no reason to put 93 gas into your car, it's not better in any other respect. If you have a sports car with a higher compression ration set at the factory, and the user manual says use only 93 gas, use only 93 gas lest the 87 will knock like crazy and mess up your pistons/shafts/transmission. As you say because diesel does not premix the air/fuel, it compresses the air by itself, it can achieve any desired high temperature, even compression ratios of 50 or 100, as long as the cylinder metal does not melt or surface oxidize at that temperature. Unfortunately jet engines or even power station turbines may have rhenium metal in their superalloys, and that's more expensive than gold, so that's not for the general public, but the other stuff, nickel/chrome/vanadium/molybdenum/tantalum/zirconium/etc/etc, there are lots of very expensive alloys that are not as expensive as gold, and nowhere as cheap as plain carbon steel used in current engines, limiting even diesel to the a compression ratio of 20 compared to a 9 with an Otto engine, but these alloys they could take higher temperatures increasing compression ratios to say 25, or 30,
It's probably coming from the owners of Slashdot, dice holdings. How to shut up slashdot: Step 1. Buy it. Step 2. Figure out a way to shut it up. Allowing spamming is one way, how easy it would be to fix? Same thing happened to yahoo chat back in the day, you used to talk to real people, and after a while it was all bots. I noticed dice holdings updated their security certificate today, so it's no longer nagging, but now they started with the spamming. No more community venue of venting frustrations and help each other's thinking. Now how am I gonna get proper psychotherapy myself, if I can't keep coming to slashdot and keep bitching? This has been like laying back on the couch in a shrink's office, and talking.
How much you sellin it for? I'm really tempted for an unlicensed warez copy. Heck, after the apocalypse nobody's going to care that it's not properly licensed, you'll be happy to have food on the table every day, and to not be the food on thy neighbors table.
Smartdrv disk caching was activated on CD drives, for caching, but those were read only back then, so you could cut the power on the disk cache. You had like 30 disk buffers, but seriously, there was not poweroff or reboot command like there is in linux, that goes sending all services the sighalt, then sending all services the sigkill, yadda yadda.. in DOS, once you got the C:\> prompt the only way to really shut it off was to cut the power, or press Ctrl+Alt+Del, and in neither case did it display a "wait til I flush my disk buffers" message. And I don't remember it getting corrupted over improper shutdowns, there was no such thing as an improper shutdown. In fact I had to show an engineer as late at 97 that when you shut down windows 95, you can't just cut the power, like you used to in DOS, you have to click Start, Shut Down, etc. He went around the offices asking others if they knew about it. He kept wondering for years why his computer always complained when it was booting, and sometimes his EPA emissions reporting spreadsheets got corrupted, luckily he had floppy backups. To him click the Start button to shut the computer down was nonsense, he shut it off like a DOS computer, or a TV, VCR, Microwave - when you power off your radio or tv, none of them give you a screen like windows does, on, say a laptop, as in hold on and please wait while I masturbate a bit with my shutdown bullshit, before you can go and unplug it from the power chord and get on with your life with it. That's one of the worst things to say to a customer: please wait. When powering off, DOS never told you to "please wait while I masturbate a bit here."
In fact it was the Chinese who ported USB drivers to DOS. It's like the powers that be wished the Chinese used Linux, they'd be easier to hack without recourse to a lawsuit/compensation, compared to something like XP, where within China, they set the rules, and may require whoever does computer business there to pay up or get out of the country, stop doing business there, and that includes hardware manufacturers.
Want to.. it's not a question of want to.. but are they smart enough to actually make it work. It's like saying we want to be smart. Yeah, but just cuz you want to, it does not mean you can be smart. But wanting to be smart is often the only requirement to be smart.
By the way Linux is just as much, if not more, fucked than windows xp. It has all the traps and back doors and remote access and what not. You're dreaming if you think differently. One way to kinda mess with the whole remote control and backdoor system is to run nonstandard things, like ancient versions of linux from the late 90's. Then whoever is snooping on you has to run both the ancient stuff, and the new stuff, and it gets kind of annoying to them, because they like to keep everything under one hat, it's easier to analyze, manipulate, whatnot.. standardization of remote control cannot happen if people keep running nonstandard things, especially really old obsolete shit, like DOS (and I don't mean the modern FreeDOS, but more like DRDOS and IBM PC DOS, and what not. They probably all had traps and intentional backdoors programmed into them, but back then size was so limited, whatever backdoor or trap might have been impleneted, it must have been very small scale, low on features.
It's a divide and conquer strategy, send the crowd to various other places, not a single one. This slashdot crowd has too much influence in the world that other people, like media moguls, have to pay hard cash for, and it's free here.
In fact I should have been more specific and include the above in a context like this:
ParallelUniverse("Universe#347").Galaxy("Milky Way).Star("Solaris").Planet("Earth").Calendars("Gregorian").Century("16th AD")..AuthorLastname("Shakespeare").AuthorMiddleName("#NULL").AuthorFirstName("William").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio, Salarino, Salario").Actions("Enter");
etc,etc.
Hey in VB Classic (pre dotnet) the custom was this:
With ParallelUniverse("Universe#347").Galaxy("Milky Way).Star("Solaris").Planet("Earth").Calendars("Gregorian").Century("16th AD")..AuthorLastname("Shakespeare").AuthorMiddleName("#NULL").AuthorFirstName("William").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak")
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
End With
Slashdot won't respect indentations.
Has anyone ever heard of the concept of context? and every time you call that dot "." it taxes the cpu heavily. But I'm guessing it's done on purpose, it's promoted to the world as a competitive measure, so nobody out there can program well, or at least we get an excuse to tell people to upgrade, and keep buying faster cpu's.
Reading code in dotnet or java has the following retarded feeling: they keep specifying the context, just to make sure you don't get bitten in the ass if someone switches context on you or it's confusing what context you are in. So
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio, Salarino, Salario").Actions("Enter");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("In footh I know not why I am so Sad");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("It wearies me: you say it wearies you;");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("What stuffe 'tis made of , whereof it is borne,");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("I am to learn.");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("That I have much ado to know myself.");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Salarino").Actions("Speak").Phrase("Your mind is tossing on the ocean,");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Salarino").Actions("Speak").Phrase("There, where your argosies with portly sail,");
etc, etc...
As in how much more retarded can you get? I get worn out by the overhead of reading through all the useless crap, compared to a normal reading where I keep the title, the play, the scene as context in my head and don't constantly fucking repeat it. Yeah there is a risk that somebody might change the title on me unknowingly, and I'm still gonna be reading the text thinking I'm reading the Merchant of Venice, when actually it's Othello. Yeah.
Your sig says "It is now safe to switch off your computer."
With DOS, in the old days, you could just cut the power to the computer without any warning, and it would be fine, so shutdown time was 0 seconds, also boot time was super fast, like 1-10 seconds, unless you had a long autoexec.bat and config sys. And that was on 486 CPU's, pre-Pentium's.
DOS came with no bullshit, you can't really blame DOS for the programming error in the voting software, DOS is a reliable, secure(has no network layer unless you add one, and you can add non-tcp-ip stuff), real time, direct hardware access, and it is reliable and secure because it's so small, it fits on a floppy with plenty of room to spare unlike these 5 GB bloatloads of crap with daily patches they are releasing at microshaft these days. I don't remember a single service pack for DOS. Well, there were incremental versions, like 6.0, 6.2, 6.21, 6.22. By the way windows 95 comes with DOS 7,0, a very good version, and you can find most of the missing stuff in the oldmsdos folder on the win95 cdrom. Plus you get a neat version of windows for free,with a very small registry, and relatively low bs, but it doesn't run much modern stuff either, but it runs VB6 classic, and Office 97 just fine. They have yet to make an office version better than Office 97sp2 (service packs mostly fix vba crashes, but you can almost live with those crashes/hangs), Office 2000 is on par without needing bugfix service packs, while office 2002 is already too bloated(plus may require the activation bullshit), shit started going downhill by then, really accelerating by 2003, and pretty much turning into annoying piece of crap by office 2007, plus activation. Activation means you can't run it 50 years from now if Microsoft is out of business by then, or they simply refuse to activate it, and instead tell you to upgrade, which may happen even these days, to all versions starting with office xp=office 2002. Same goes for the OS, if you're packing up reserves for the future, and archiving stuff in case you have to go back to it, go for win95 full version that includes dos 7, and windows 2000, the very last windows without activation, also office 97 with sp1+sp2, and VB6 sp5 (don't use sp6, it introduces bugs on purpose, to usher along for upgrading.) Also Firebase database might come in handy, or ADO with SQL Server 7 or 2000, but SQL Server is expensive, and on a network it requires NT/2k server with client access licenses and such, so it's better to run off a common file on a network drive, or off of PostgreSQL 6-8 on Linux 2.4/2.6. The DOA database with office 97 access kinda sucks, but the access 2000 one is ADO, and the two are not compatible, ADO being much simpler than DOA, but it started to get bloated a bit, not enough to not make it better than DOA. Also from what I read delphi 5 and 7 are golden, but there is Lazarus now, I don't know how that would work on win95. Absolutely nobody is selling delphi 5 or 7, or it's like 300 bux. Delphi was a secret of coding houses cutting development time by like 5x compared to all the alternatives. I never programmed in it, but I've seen a lot of quality software by very smart people written in it, so it must be something really good if they chose it. VB6/VBA still kicks ass for basic stuff, but it's not very fast, and for heavy duty large projects, in development speed and code execution speed and codesize kept in balance, nothing beats delphi 5 or 7. The later dotnet versions of delphi are absolute pure raw crap, from what I read, just like anything touched by dotnet.
America has one of the highest antidepressant use in the world because it qualifies you for social security when you're unemployed for a long time, and have bills to pay. It's like this: are you broke? We got a pill for that too!
moreover it's easy to fake and orchestrate evidence against someone on the internet... where are the witnesses? server logs can be tinkered with, etc.. and digital data doesn't leave a footprint like handwriting or erased handwriting.. and handwriting can be forged too.. everything in the world can be forged.. except gold and platinum and such, as substances, because of their high density.
I live in a rental tub, like Diogenes used to, but I think he owned his tub. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... This one is made of cast iron because a magnet sticks to it, and it's pretty good all around x-ray protection, except from above.
How about an immune system like white blood cells to keep up the policing? They better cool the patient to just above freezing point, as even then there may be some active bacteria in him/her that will start the putrefaction/decomposition process. The only way to preserve a body is through mummification or formalin solution, or the like, where absolutely all life is fully destroyed, including bacterial cells and human cells. If you could completely clear her body from any fungi and bacteria that live in it in symbiosis, I think she'd die just from that, but if she don't, if she's completely sterile and don't need white blood cells at all, then you got a chance with this saline solution. Every time you fart it's a reminder that bacteria live in you, and without any bacteria or fungi in your body my guess is that you would die really fast, or at least be very vulnerable to nonsymbiotic deadly infection, or at the very least, things like digestion would get worse, as it's aided by the bacteria breeding in your saliva continuing the digestion in your stomach. Even when you go through an antibiotic/antifungal/antiviral regimen, and have to eat biotics like yogurt after the treatment, you don't lose all bacteria, fungi and viruses in your body.
I'm using xp too, still thinking about going back to windows 2000 when I'm fully off the internet, when everything on it gets DRM'd and your save buttons are gone, etc, but I have never in my life willingly would use windows update, even download managers for programs where you can't download the whole 50MB program, just some tiny 500 KB downloader/installer, that does the install for you, scare me, as they can upload all your private stuff, and you may get used to the program and will not be able to reinstall it later, it's better not to even get hooked on stuff like that.. I'll take a downloadable 200 MB service pack, that I can store on disk and reinstall in 50 years, but even that reluctantly, as I know it's full of new ways to screw me, like new trojan backdoors and ways to kill off the last non-dotnet version zonealarm, or at least fuck with it, which right now successfully smacks ctfmon, and also igfxsrvc and igfxtray on the head whenever they try to run, as those must be the ways the built in subliminal wifi intel chipset remote control/access ties into my operating system software, to download/modify files on my computer through the OS.. does my computer have a virus or trojan horse backdoor in it? hell yeah, it says right on the packaging, it's called "Intel Inside" though why they don't implement direct disk access and file system drivers in the chipset itself without going through the OS is beyond me.. there are still other things that run and snoop on me anyway, like some undeletable program_files/xerox and/frontpage folders, so when I logon with linux and place a dummy file with those names on the computer so a folder with the same name cannot be created, i find i have to keep reinstalling the OS, from an hp restore cd, and it takes like 8 friggin hours for XP to install plus add/remove all the garbage software bogging the computer down, when with lighthouse puppy 4.1.2rc1 all you gotta do is erase or simply move your personal file, and voila, you got a fresh OS install on a reboot..and all the later versions of lighthouse pup are fucked..
Composites combine the stiffness and high breaking stress of brittle materials with the energy absorbing ability of elastic materials. Glass fiber is not used as glass fiber, but as a composite with a polymer like polypropylene or epoxy, and as far as I know carbon fiber is used the same way. So just because the fiber itself is stiff and brittle, you can combine it with non brittle materials that make it better than bamboo, except less recyclable and less biodegradable and less cheap, but definitely better in all respects when it comes to strength.
For safety and recyclability reasons you should make all cars from stainless steel, which is about 5 times as expensive as carbon steel, but it does not rust, so it's almost infinitely recyclable, or you could get something like a 200 year lifespan out of a car body, if you want to keep restoring it, if the newer models give you nothing of true advance in technology compared to old technology. I for one would love to buy one of these bamboo cars for say 2000 dollars, but I would not feel safe driving it at 70 miles per hour, I'd max out at only 40 mph with it. If they are looking for lower weight strong materials for car bodies, that can safely do 70 mph (there is no such thing as safely do 70 mph, it's a risk taking exercise) Kevlar is the answer, all they gotta do is drop the price of Kevlar to very low.
Sometimes, when you don't have enough money for a Mercedez Benz (Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friend all got Porsche's I must make amends, if I had a million dollars, if I had a million dollars) but you have enough for a Trabant, it surely beats a motorcycle on an icy road and in freezing rain. It's cheap, air cooled, gravity fed fuel (no fuel pump to go bad), but it's 2 cycle engine (with oil added to the gas), hopelessly inefficient and polluting.
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I was half asleep writing that last night.. wow, look at the spelling/grammar.. once i hit a rainspot, anything.. anyway, smooth turning stereo knob-like fluid couplings in power steering sucks, such as Dodge Neons from the 90's, especially when it can be remote controlled to go in an opposite direction from where you want to go.. in fact power steering in general has issues, because even in my current car, a Saturn, which feels like there is a rigid connection between the tires and the steering wheel, assisted by power steering, well, I lost that power steering coming off the highway starting at 65 mph decelerating to a green light to make a left turn, but there was a slight right turn in the road right before the light, so you had to decelerate, turn to the right, then turn hard to the left. The light hit yellow just as expected, and I made it before the yellow, however when I pressed the gas after the left turn taking my foot off the brake, it wouldn't accelerate, I looked down at the console, and the engine was dead with the lights on, so I had to turn the ignition key to get it going again. The engine had died on me, and all of a sudden it made sense why just previously it was so hard to steer right, and then left, why I almost went off the asphalt on the left side of the curb when I was supposed to do the steering right part, it's because I lost power steering, that's why I practically had to rip the steering wheel with both hands to make it move the way I wanted it to move. Losing power steering can cost you your life if you can't make the car go where you want it to go, and as all newer cars are not carburetted but fuel injected, therefore chipped, and remote controlled and gps tracked, Da Man can cut your power steering off anytime, at the worst possible places, and make it look like you were in an accident, especially if you exercise your right to free speech on Slashdot in a way that he finds annoying. Please be aware of that.
How about remote control driving your car not in the direction you're intending to drive. In fact I had such a car, it felt like it had a smooth fluid coupling in the steering coulumn, kind of like old stero knobs, but it always acted up when I drove around the same area, or sometimes 10 minutes more south, either under of above a bridge, and I started spinning on the highway at 70 mph once i hit s rainspot, slowed a lot by the time I hit the berm, but both airbags deployed and the car was totaled. Only my right pinky hurt, even though I smashed out the driver's side window with my head, I din't feel anyting .
The secondary fluid knocking agent could be dumped into the fuel tank after pumping at the gas station, kind of like 2 cycle engine oil is added to their gasoline. Of course you'd choose something that self-dissolves well in gasoline without having to stir it. There are a whole lot of knocking agents out there, you don't even have to go for a classical free radical initiator, like azo compounds, but simple things like n-heptane with an octane rating of 0 should work. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
"knock is not a limitation" - Yes we agree knock is not a limitation, to the contrary, it's a benefit, something we seek in diesels. The other guy lack of combustibility is a limitation in diesel engines, which means lack of knock, such as propane(112) and methane(120) and ethanol(108) would have very high octane ratings, low knocking ratings, and low self combustibility, therefore not appropriate to diesel, which have a cetane number, cetane rating, the opposite of octane rating, a higher cetane number increases the ability to self ignite. We're talking about ways which can improve ignition and combustion in diesels here, so lower quality fuels with high octane numbers, such as ethanol, natural gas from your home gas pipe (i.e. methane), or propane from the storage tank in your backyard, could be used, and then you get miles/dollar of fuel, and different fuels can effectively compete against each other. An internal combustion car should be able to run on anything that burns in air without ashes, and it's fluid (i.e. liquid or gas), and it should get compression ratios/adiabatic high temperatures, as you say, limited only by material constraints, i.e. material strength and temperature resistance, not by fuel knocking issues. Under adiabatic compression all gases heat up, and this self heating from compression is what puts the limit on compression ratio in normal gasoline engines, normally around 9, that is initial, maximum volume (with the piston at the highest position at the beginning of compression stroke) divided by the minimum volume (with the piston at the lowest position at the end of the compression stroke) in normal engines is around 9. A higher compression ratio of say 11, or 13 or even 20 would mean the fuel/air mixture would self heat so much that self ignition happens, i.e. knocking, before the compression cycle is complete, that is driving the shaft backwards, the engine firing too early during the shaft rotation, not after the piston is past the lowest point in the cylinder, on command, with a spark plug. Some sports cars that require 93 octane gas, or 90, instead of 87, do so because their compression ratio is set higher than 9, say 9.5 or 10.5, at which ratio (adiabatic compression temperature) the 87 octane gas self ignites but the 93 does not. Unless you can feel your engine knocking on 87 gas, there is absolutely no reason to put 93 gas into your car, it's not better in any other respect. If you have a sports car with a higher compression ration set at the factory, and the user manual says use only 93 gas, use only 93 gas lest the 87 will knock like crazy and mess up your pistons/shafts/transmission. As you say because diesel does not premix the air/fuel, it compresses the air by itself, it can achieve any desired high temperature, even compression ratios of 50 or 100, as long as the cylinder metal does not melt or surface oxidize at that temperature. Unfortunately jet engines or even power station turbines may have rhenium metal in their superalloys, and that's more expensive than gold, so that's not for the general public, but the other stuff, nickel/chrome/vanadium/molybdenum/tantalum/zirconium/etc/etc, there are lots of very expensive alloys that are not as expensive as gold, and nowhere as cheap as plain carbon steel used in current engines, limiting even diesel to the a compression ratio of 20 compared to a 9 with an Otto engine, but these alloys they could take higher temperatures increasing compression ratios to say 25, or 30,
I think everyone in this Slashdot crowd looooves lesbian porn, filled with women and nothing but women. How can you call us misogynistic?
Wait till it bites you in the ass. Have you seen the movie "Screamers"? I think from 1996 or 5. Check out some youtube footages.
It's probably coming from the owners of Slashdot, dice holdings. How to shut up slashdot: Step 1. Buy it. Step 2. Figure out a way to shut it up. Allowing spamming is one way, how easy it would be to fix? Same thing happened to yahoo chat back in the day, you used to talk to real people, and after a while it was all bots. I noticed dice holdings updated their security certificate today, so it's no longer nagging, but now they started with the spamming. No more community venue of venting frustrations and help each other's thinking. Now how am I gonna get proper psychotherapy myself, if I can't keep coming to slashdot and keep bitching? This has been like laying back on the couch in a shrink's office, and talking.
How much you sellin it for? I'm really tempted for an unlicensed warez copy. Heck, after the apocalypse nobody's going to care that it's not properly licensed, you'll be happy to have food on the table every day, and to not be the food on thy neighbors table.
Smartdrv disk caching was activated on CD drives, for caching, but those were read only back then, so you could cut the power on the disk cache. You had like 30 disk buffers, but seriously, there was not poweroff or reboot command like there is in linux, that goes sending all services the sighalt, then sending all services the sigkill, yadda yadda.. in DOS, once you got the C:\> prompt the only way to really shut it off was to cut the power, or press Ctrl+Alt+Del, and in neither case did it display a "wait til I flush my disk buffers" message. And I don't remember it getting corrupted over improper shutdowns, there was no such thing as an improper shutdown. In fact I had to show an engineer as late at 97 that when you shut down windows 95, you can't just cut the power, like you used to in DOS, you have to click Start, Shut Down, etc. He went around the offices asking others if they knew about it. He kept wondering for years why his computer always complained when it was booting, and sometimes his EPA emissions reporting spreadsheets got corrupted, luckily he had floppy backups. To him click the Start button to shut the computer down was nonsense, he shut it off like a DOS computer, or a TV, VCR, Microwave - when you power off your radio or tv, none of them give you a screen like windows does, on, say a laptop, as in hold on and please wait while I masturbate a bit with my shutdown bullshit, before you can go and unplug it from the power chord and get on with your life with it. That's one of the worst things to say to a customer: please wait. When powering off, DOS never told you to "please wait while I masturbate a bit here."
In fact it was the Chinese who ported USB drivers to DOS. It's like the powers that be wished the Chinese used Linux, they'd be easier to hack without recourse to a lawsuit/compensation, compared to something like XP, where within China, they set the rules, and may require whoever does computer business there to pay up or get out of the country, stop doing business there, and that includes hardware manufacturers.
Want to.. it's not a question of want to.. but are they smart enough to actually make it work. It's like saying we want to be smart. Yeah, but just cuz you want to, it does not mean you can be smart. But wanting to be smart is often the only requirement to be smart.
By the way Linux is just as much, if not more, fucked than windows xp. It has all the traps and back doors and remote access and what not. You're dreaming if you think differently. One way to kinda mess with the whole remote control and backdoor system is to run nonstandard things, like ancient versions of linux from the late 90's. Then whoever is snooping on you has to run both the ancient stuff, and the new stuff, and it gets kind of annoying to them, because they like to keep everything under one hat, it's easier to analyze, manipulate, whatnot.. standardization of remote control cannot happen if people keep running nonstandard things, especially really old obsolete shit, like DOS (and I don't mean the modern FreeDOS, but more like DRDOS and IBM PC DOS, and what not. They probably all had traps and intentional backdoors programmed into them, but back then size was so limited, whatever backdoor or trap might have been impleneted, it must have been very small scale, low on features.
It's a divide and conquer strategy, send the crowd to various other places, not a single one. This slashdot crowd has too much influence in the world that other people, like media moguls, have to pay hard cash for, and it's free here.
In fact I should have been more specific and include the above in a context like this:
ParallelUniverse("Universe#347").Galaxy("Milky Way).Star("Solaris").Planet("Earth").Calendars("Gregorian").Century("16th AD")..AuthorLastname("Shakespeare").AuthorMiddleName("#NULL").AuthorFirstName("William").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio, Salarino, Salario").Actions("Enter");
etc,etc. Hey in VB Classic (pre dotnet) the custom was this:
With ParallelUniverse("Universe#347").Galaxy("Milky Way).Star("Solaris").Planet("Earth").Calendars("Gregorian").Century("16th AD")..AuthorLastname("Shakespeare").AuthorMiddleName("#NULL").AuthorFirstName("William").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak")
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
End With
Slashdot won't respect indentations. Has anyone ever heard of the concept of context? and every time you call that dot "." it taxes the cpu heavily. But I'm guessing it's done on purpose, it's promoted to the world as a competitive measure, so nobody out there can program well, or at least we get an excuse to tell people to upgrade, and keep buying faster cpu's.
Reading code in dotnet or java has the following retarded feeling: they keep specifying the context, just to make sure you don't get bitten in the ass if someone switches context on you or it's confusing what context you are in. So
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio, Salarino, Salario").Actions("Enter");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("In footh I know not why I am so Sad");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("It wearies me: you say it wearies you;");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("What stuffe 'tis made of , whereof it is borne,");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("I am to learn.");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Antonio").Actions("Speak").Phrase("That I have much ado to know myself.");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Salarino").Actions("Speak").Phrase("Your mind is tossing on the ocean,");
Author("Shakespeare").Play("The Merchant of Venice").Scene("Scene1").Actors("Salarino").Actions("Speak").Phrase("There, where your argosies with portly sail,");
etc, etc...
As in how much more retarded can you get? I get worn out by the overhead of reading through all the useless crap, compared to a normal reading where I keep the title, the play, the scene as context in my head and don't constantly fucking repeat it. Yeah there is a risk that somebody might change the title on me unknowingly, and I'm still gonna be reading the text thinking I'm reading the Merchant of Venice, when actually it's Othello. Yeah.
Your sig says "It is now safe to switch off your computer."
With DOS, in the old days, you could just cut the power to the computer without any warning, and it would be fine, so shutdown time was 0 seconds, also boot time was super fast, like 1-10 seconds, unless you had a long autoexec.bat and config sys. And that was on 486 CPU's, pre-Pentium's.
DOS came with no bullshit, you can't really blame DOS for the programming error in the voting software, DOS is a reliable, secure(has no network layer unless you add one, and you can add non-tcp-ip stuff), real time, direct hardware access, and it is reliable and secure because it's so small, it fits on a floppy with plenty of room to spare unlike these 5 GB bloatloads of crap with daily patches they are releasing at microshaft these days. I don't remember a single service pack for DOS. Well, there were incremental versions, like 6.0, 6.2, 6.21, 6.22. By the way windows 95 comes with DOS 7,0, a very good version, and you can find most of the missing stuff in the oldmsdos folder on the win95 cdrom. Plus you get a neat version of windows for free,with a very small registry, and relatively low bs, but it doesn't run much modern stuff either, but it runs VB6 classic, and Office 97 just fine. They have yet to make an office version better than Office 97sp2 (service packs mostly fix vba crashes, but you can almost live with those crashes/hangs), Office 2000 is on par without needing bugfix service packs, while office 2002 is already too bloated(plus may require the activation bullshit), shit started going downhill by then, really accelerating by 2003, and pretty much turning into annoying piece of crap by office 2007, plus activation. Activation means you can't run it 50 years from now if Microsoft is out of business by then, or they simply refuse to activate it, and instead tell you to upgrade, which may happen even these days, to all versions starting with office xp=office 2002. Same goes for the OS, if you're packing up reserves for the future, and archiving stuff in case you have to go back to it, go for win95 full version that includes dos 7, and windows 2000, the very last windows without activation, also office 97 with sp1+sp2, and VB6 sp5 (don't use sp6, it introduces bugs on purpose, to usher along for upgrading.) Also Firebase database might come in handy, or ADO with SQL Server 7 or 2000, but SQL Server is expensive, and on a network it requires NT/2k server with client access licenses and such, so it's better to run off a common file on a network drive, or off of PostgreSQL 6-8 on Linux 2.4/2.6. The DOA database with office 97 access kinda sucks, but the access 2000 one is ADO, and the two are not compatible, ADO being much simpler than DOA, but it started to get bloated a bit, not enough to not make it better than DOA. Also from what I read delphi 5 and 7 are golden, but there is Lazarus now, I don't know how that would work on win95. Absolutely nobody is selling delphi 5 or 7, or it's like 300 bux. Delphi was a secret of coding houses cutting development time by like 5x compared to all the alternatives. I never programmed in it, but I've seen a lot of quality software by very smart people written in it, so it must be something really good if they chose it. VB6/VBA still kicks ass for basic stuff, but it's not very fast, and for heavy duty large projects, in development speed and code execution speed and codesize kept in balance, nothing beats delphi 5 or 7. The later dotnet versions of delphi are absolute pure raw crap, from what I read, just like anything touched by dotnet.
America has one of the highest antidepressant use in the world because it qualifies you for social security when you're unemployed for a long time, and have bills to pay. It's like this: are you broke? We got a pill for that too!
moreover it's easy to fake and orchestrate evidence against someone on the internet... where are the witnesses? server logs can be tinkered with, etc.. and digital data doesn't leave a footprint like handwriting or erased handwriting.. and handwriting can be forged too.. everything in the world can be forged.. except gold and platinum and such, as substances, because of their high density.
I live in a rental tub, like Diogenes used to, but I think he owned his tub. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... This one is made of cast iron because a magnet sticks to it, and it's pretty good all around x-ray protection, except from above.
How about an immune system like white blood cells to keep up the policing? They better cool the patient to just above freezing point, as even then there may be some active bacteria in him/her that will start the putrefaction/decomposition process. The only way to preserve a body is through mummification or formalin solution, or the like, where absolutely all life is fully destroyed, including bacterial cells and human cells. If you could completely clear her body from any fungi and bacteria that live in it in symbiosis, I think she'd die just from that, but if she don't, if she's completely sterile and don't need white blood cells at all, then you got a chance with this saline solution. Every time you fart it's a reminder that bacteria live in you, and without any bacteria or fungi in your body my guess is that you would die really fast, or at least be very vulnerable to nonsymbiotic deadly infection, or at the very least, things like digestion would get worse, as it's aided by the bacteria breeding in your saliva continuing the digestion in your stomach. Even when you go through an antibiotic/antifungal/antiviral regimen, and have to eat biotics like yogurt after the treatment, you don't lose all bacteria, fungi and viruses in your body.
I'm using xp too, still thinking about going back to windows 2000 when I'm fully off the internet, when everything on it gets DRM'd and your save buttons are gone, etc, but I have never in my life willingly would use windows update, even download managers for programs where you can't download the whole 50MB program, just some tiny 500 KB downloader/installer, that does the install for you, scare me, as they can upload all your private stuff, and you may get used to the program and will not be able to reinstall it later, it's better not to even get hooked on stuff like that.. I'll take a downloadable 200 MB service pack, that I can store on disk and reinstall in 50 years, but even that reluctantly, as I know it's full of new ways to screw me, like new trojan backdoors and ways to kill off the last non-dotnet version zonealarm, or at least fuck with it, which right now successfully smacks ctfmon, and also igfxsrvc and igfxtray on the head whenever they try to run, as those must be the ways the built in subliminal wifi intel chipset remote control/access ties into my operating system software, to download/modify files on my computer through the OS.. does my computer have a virus or trojan horse backdoor in it? hell yeah, it says right on the packaging, it's called "Intel Inside" though why they don't implement direct disk access and file system drivers in the chipset itself without going through the OS is beyond me.. there are still other things that run and snoop on me anyway, like some undeletable program_files/xerox and /frontpage folders, so when I logon with linux and place a dummy file with those names on the computer so a folder with the same name cannot be created, i find i have to keep reinstalling the OS, from an hp restore cd, and it takes like 8 friggin hours for XP to install plus add/remove all the garbage software bogging the computer down, when with lighthouse puppy 4.1.2rc1 all you gotta do is erase or simply move your personal file, and voila, you got a fresh OS install on a reboot..and all the later versions of lighthouse pup are fucked..
Yeah but they don't have a cool sounding name like eich tee tee pee colon slash slash slashdot dot org.
Composites combine the stiffness and high breaking stress of brittle materials with the energy absorbing ability of elastic materials. Glass fiber is not used as glass fiber, but as a composite with a polymer like polypropylene or epoxy, and as far as I know carbon fiber is used the same way. So just because the fiber itself is stiff and brittle, you can combine it with non brittle materials that make it better than bamboo, except less recyclable and less biodegradable and less cheap, but definitely better in all respects when it comes to strength.
For safety and recyclability reasons you should make all cars from stainless steel, which is about 5 times as expensive as carbon steel, but it does not rust, so it's almost infinitely recyclable, or you could get something like a 200 year lifespan out of a car body, if you want to keep restoring it, if the newer models give you nothing of true advance in technology compared to old technology. I for one would love to buy one of these bamboo cars for say 2000 dollars, but I would not feel safe driving it at 70 miles per hour, I'd max out at only 40 mph with it. If they are looking for lower weight strong materials for car bodies, that can safely do 70 mph (there is no such thing as safely do 70 mph, it's a risk taking exercise) Kevlar is the answer, all they gotta do is drop the price of Kevlar to very low.
I still have a space dream, where people on a rotating cylinder space station form a circle, hold hands and dance singing songs of joy and exuberance.
Sometimes, when you don't have enough money for a Mercedez Benz (Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friend all got Porsche's I must make amends, if I had a million dollars, if I had a million dollars) but you have enough for a Trabant, it surely beats a motorcycle on an icy road and in freezing rain. It's cheap, air cooled, gravity fed fuel (no fuel pump to go bad), but it's 2 cycle engine (with oil added to the gas), hopelessly inefficient and polluting.
I would answer yes to those questions.