By those specs, these things are basically a better handling fighter jet that can't go quite as fast, but pretty damn fast.
Actually Schumacher's Ferrari was just shown to be faster than a eurofigher at distances shorter than 900m. After that all the extra downforce drags the Ferrari compared to the eurofighter which doesn't need any downforce. Here's a pic of the event.
The privacy policy doesn't state that they won't read your data or not give it out to other people. I certainly wouldn't store my tax return on this server.
So we've established that this is useless in modern car engines because less than 1% of fuel remains unburnt and hence no increase in fuel efficency. (Although I think it might reduce NOx emissions and such, but probably not any better than plain water injection.)
But here's a question: Could this technology be used to clean up the burn and increase efficency in a two-stroke engine, which really does leave a significant amount of unburnt fuel in the exhaust?
These buildings are on the Stanfurd University campus. They're old buildings that date to the 40's that were originally part of an electronics workshop. These shacks were until recently occupied by the Stanfurd Solar Car Project.
If you just HAVE to see these shacks for your self. They are located on 180 Stock Farm Road. And what kind of a guy would I be if I didn't give you a map to it.
The original cold fusion work from Texas A & M actually did produce cold fusion and the results were:verified by SRI.
The problem was that it was unrelyable, impractical and highly dangerous. (A researcher at SRI was killed when a hydrogen cell exploded.) But it did work.
This will move science into the realm of philosophy,
Science already is in the realm of philosophy. There is an entire branch of philosophy which deals with the Philosophy of Science complete with prestigious journals and fancy Greek terms like Epistemology.
Ironicly the aim of this study is weed out science from pseudo science and explore the limits human knowledge. Philosophy is exactly what this debate needs more of, not less of.
Check out a company called Dust Networks. They've been working on RFIDish localization for warehouse management based time of flight for years. I'm not sure if they've ever gotten it to work, but if anyone has it's these guys.
Otherwise, I think you're going to have to go with a bunch of cameras and some image processing. Maybe by taking pictures of the celing.
Well we Guatemalans were REAL happy when the CIA strafed our capital with fighter jet and "liberated us from democracy" durring that charming coup they put togeter. This plunged our country into 30 years of civil war and military dictatorship. Next time we'd apreciate it if you could keep your freedom and democracy and just send us the medicine.
Different. You can't compare them on the same scale.
Oh but you can!
When you add up the casualties from Gulf War I ~158,000 and the casualties from the latest conflict ~98,000 you can easily match the numbers from the typhone. The difference is that humans planned and carried these things and not mother nature.
Some guy in Berkeley (I think he was an EECS undergrad) threw together a database for doing just that after 9/11. I used it to check up on friends and aquaintences who were in Manhatan that day, but who's phone numbers I didn't have. Google it and you should find it.
Something like this would be usefull for centralizing hospital lists and traking foreign nationals.
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Corporations don't just redistribute wealth, they create it. They create products, services or ideas that are more valuble to other people than the wealth they spent to create those things. The profits go to benefit the shareholders who are people like your grandmother. Their expenses are redistributed to their employees, other firms and the communities they support.
One of the slick things that the Europeans did in designing the Galileo system is that they used very nearly the same frequencies as GPS, which makes it very easy for a consumer device to use both systems at the same time and therefor gaining a lot of accuracy. As an aside, it makes it impossible to jam one without jamming the other.
22502. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of such vehicle parallel with and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb, except that motorcycles shall be parked with at least one wheel or fender touching the right-hand curb. Where no curbs or barriers bound any roadway, right-hand parallel parking is required unless otherwise indicated.
(b) The provisions of subdivision (a) or (e) do not apply to a commercial vehicle if a variation from the requirements of subdivision (a) or (e) is reasonably necessary to accomplish the loading or unloading of merchandise or passengers on, or from, such vehicle and while anything connected with such loading, or unloading, is being executed.
This subdivision shall not be construed to permit any vehicle to stop or park upon a roadway in a direction opposite to that in which traffic normally moves upon that half of the roadway on which such vehicle is stopped or parked.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (b), local authorities may, by ordinance, prohibit commercial vehicles from stopping, parking, or standing on one side of a roadway in a business district with the wheels of such vehicle more than 18 inches from the curb. The ordinance shall be effective only if signs are placed in the areas to which it is applicable clearly indicating the prohibition.
(d) This section does not apply to vehicles of a public utility when such vehicles are being used in connection with the operation, maintenance, or repair of facilities of the public utility or are being used in connection with providing public utility service.
(e) Upon a one-way roadway, vehicles may be stopped or parked as provided in subdivision (a) or with the left-hand wheels parallel to and within 18 inches of the left-hand curb, except that motorcycles, if parked on the left-hand side, shall have either one wheel or one fender touching such curb. Where no curb or barriers bound any such one-way roadway, parallel parking on either side is required unless otherwise indicated.
The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply upon the roadways of a divided highway.
Amended Ch. 448, Stats. 1971. Operative May 3, 1972.
Since your computer is really just a sophisticated heater, you could save on your heating bills by putting it inside the living space. Why warm the garage with waste heat when you could be warming your den instead. Your heating costs are going to be huge this year anyway, so every little bit helps.
I do this in my room with my TV, when it gets cold I just turn the lights on and watch TV for an hour. Warms right up.
"The impactor is made primarily of copper (49%) as opposed to aluminum (24%) because it minimizes corruption of spectral emission lines that are used to analyze the nucleus."
Spending 311 million dollars without knowing what happens next doesnt seem a very nice idea.
Nasa is conducting the experiment precicely BECAUSE nobody know what will happen next. If we knew with certainty what was going to happen, THEN there wouldn't be a very good reason for carrying on with the experiment.
Last year they spent $200 billion blowing up comet Baghdad and we're all still waiting to see how that cliffhanger's going to end! This time it's cheaper and it doens't involve killing anybody.
There's a very good reason why you have to parallel park facing the same direction as traffic (at least in most jurisdictions): your brake light assemblies contain red "cat eye" reflectors. If you're not parking with the rear of the car facing the headlights of approaching traffic, your car is very hard to see, and it becomes a dangerous obstruction in the roadway.
Here's a counter argument. Motorcycles are allowed to park perpendicular to the curb, and yet this isn't seen as a public hazard. At least in California, you ARE required to have red reflectors on the side of the vehicle, but brake lights don't have to act as reflectors, just as lamps.
The applical part of the California Vehicle Code says you have to park parallel, but gives exceptions for motorcycles, public vehicles like garbage trucks, and for loading/unloading cargo and passangers. The bmw might get by on this last claim.
It does matter. If a very heavy car and a very heavy light car collide, conservation of momentum says that the lighter car has more delta-V durring the collision. This means that the lighter car absorbs more energy and feels sustains higher g's.
I don't think filling the trunk with lead balast is the answer either though.
They look like they have the aerodynamics of a cardboard box. My old 70's VW bug wasn't very stable at high speed and especially with cross winds. I guess that design had too much lift at those speeds. Can anyone who's driven one of these at speed comment on it's handeling?
From what I recall, the Puegot 206 Eco can get 88mpg on it's turbo diesel and can do considerably more than 60mph. But like great things French, it's not available in the US.
Here's a shot at explaining...
It's a way of breaking down multidimensional data and looking at in a few dimensions at at time. A pivot table will output a table with a maximum of 2-1/2 dimensions: x-axis, y-axis, and a filter.
Nuance: Sometimes you have you have two sets of data that have the same dimensions, so the data itself can be a variable. For example, sales in $USD and in Qty would be two sets of data, but would share the same dimensions like salesman, date, region, customer, etc.
Say you have an Oracle database with sales transactions from a resaurant. The possible dimensions that this data could have are pretty large. There would be more than this, but just of the top of my head you would have at least:
name_of_waiter,
date,
time,
day_of_week,
hour,
month,
dish_name,
dish_category,
customer_name,
form_of_payment,
cashier_name
With a pivot table, you could make a chart that had:
"name_of_waiter" on the x-axis,
"hour",
filter to show the data from the month of May, (the 1/2 dimention),
and looked at the data set $USD
The nice thing about pivot tables in Excel is that you can generate these tables quickly with a few drag and drop commands and do neat things like have muliple dimensions in the same axis. You really have to play with it to see how neat it is.
Biological organisms do acomplish computational tasks but I doubt anyone's going to try to port netBSD to the ecoli bacteria anytime soon. What we stand to learn from studying these systems is the understanding of the Algorithms that govern basic biological functions.
How does a few simple molecules of DNA self assemble into an elephant? These are structures which are orders of magnitude larger and seemingly more complex than the original building blocks. Can we code a set of building blocks to self assemble into a stapler instead of an elephant?
If our DNA code is to large and obfuscated to make any sence right now, let's forget about it for a moment, how wold you execute any of these instructions to begin with? What protine.dll files do you need to interpret DNA? What happens if you're missing them? What if you cold write extra?
What are the errors involved in genetic computation? Can knowing how these errors are produce be used to prevent disease? Will knowing how these errors occur help us detect precursurs years before disease sets in?
Can we use the knowledge of self assembly to make better RFID tags. The application of this knowledge to nano/micro/macro manufacturing are going to be most imediate in this field. Then maybe nano/micro robotics in a few years... okay many years.
As for the ethics, well we're a long way from being doing anything that's ethicly questionable so ethics is mostly a nonissue. The knowledge just isn't there yet. People occasionally do things in the course of their research that involve creepy things like dead babies, but that's not a new debate in the ethics.
Mac's already come with the best desktop *nix on the market. If you really want to, you can boot Darwin into console mode, into x, or into x over aqua in rootless mode, so there are various levels of geekiness you can choose from. If there's some linux app that you really have to have, well then there are versions of linux that will run on an mac, and macs that you can buy preinstalled with linux. You can even run OSX over Linux. I think in a year or two, there will be more porting to OSX and therefore less motivation to bother with this.
OSX does support two and three botton mice so you can punt what ever it comes with as soon as you get home. Theoretically, carbon can handle as many as 65,535 buttons. With one button, it's option-click or ctrl-click to get that functionality.
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Actually Schumacher's Ferrari was just shown to be faster than a eurofigher at distances shorter than 900m. After that all the extra downforce drags the Ferrari compared to the eurofighter which doesn't need any downforce. Here's a pic of the event.
The privacy policy doesn't state that they won't read your data or not give it out to other people. I certainly wouldn't store my tax return on this server.
But here's a question: Could this technology be used to clean up the burn and increase efficency in a two-stroke engine, which really does leave a significant amount of unburnt fuel in the exhaust?
If you just HAVE to see these shacks for your self. They are located on 180 Stock Farm Road. And what kind of a guy would I be if I didn't give you a map to it.
The problem was that it was unrelyable, impractical and highly dangerous. (A researcher at SRI was killed when a hydrogen cell exploded.) But it did work.
Ironicly the aim of this study is weed out science from pseudo science and explore the limits human knowledge. Philosophy is exactly what this debate needs more of, not less of.
Check out a company called Dust Networks. They've been working on RFIDish localization for warehouse management based time of flight for years. I'm not sure if they've ever gotten it to work, but if anyone has it's these guys.
Otherwise, I think you're going to have to go with a bunch of cameras and some image processing. Maybe by taking pictures of the celing.
Well we Guatemalans were REAL happy when the CIA strafed our capital with fighter jet and "liberated us from democracy" durring that charming coup they put togeter. This plunged our country into 30 years of civil war and military dictatorship. Next time we'd apreciate it if you could keep your freedom and democracy and just send us the medicine.
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Oh but you can!
When you add up the casualties from Gulf War I ~158,000 and the casualties from the latest conflict ~98,000 you can easily match the numbers from the typhone. The difference is that humans planned and carried these things and not mother nature.
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Something like this would be usefull for centralizing hospital lists and traking foreign nationals.
Meanwhile, Bush is planning to spend $30-$40 million in lavish inaguration festivities.
It is about MAKING money.
One of the slick things that the Europeans did in designing the Galileo system is that they used very nearly the same frequencies as GPS, which makes it very easy for a consumer device to use both systems at the same time and therefor gaining a lot of accuracy. As an aside, it makes it impossible to jam one without jamming the other.
Curb Parking
22502. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of such vehicle parallel with and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb, except that motorcycles shall be parked with at least one wheel or fender touching the right-hand curb. Where no curbs or barriers bound any roadway, right-hand parallel parking is required unless otherwise indicated.
(b) The provisions of subdivision (a) or (e) do not apply to a commercial vehicle if a variation from the requirements of subdivision (a) or (e) is reasonably necessary to accomplish the loading or unloading of merchandise or passengers on, or from, such vehicle and while anything connected with such loading, or unloading, is being executed.
This subdivision shall not be construed to permit any vehicle to stop or park upon a roadway in a direction opposite to that in which traffic normally moves upon that half of the roadway on which such vehicle is stopped or parked.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (b), local authorities may, by ordinance, prohibit commercial vehicles from stopping, parking, or standing on one side of a roadway in a business district with the wheels of such vehicle more than 18 inches from the curb. The ordinance shall be effective only if signs are placed in the areas to which it is applicable clearly indicating the prohibition.
(d) This section does not apply to vehicles of a public utility when such vehicles are being used in connection with the operation, maintenance, or repair of facilities of the public utility or are being used in connection with providing public utility service.
(e) Upon a one-way roadway, vehicles may be stopped or parked as provided in subdivision (a) or with the left-hand wheels parallel to and within 18 inches of the left-hand curb, except that motorcycles, if parked on the left-hand side, shall have either one wheel or one fender touching such curb. Where no curb or barriers bound any such one-way roadway, parallel parking on either side is required unless otherwise indicated.
The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply upon the roadways of a divided highway.
Amended Ch. 448, Stats. 1971. Operative May 3, 1972.
I do this in my room with my TV, when it gets cold I just turn the lights on and watch TV for an hour. Warms right up.
"The impactor is made primarily of copper (49%) as opposed to aluminum (24%) because it minimizes corruption of spectral emission lines that are used to analyze the nucleus."
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/tech/impactor.html
Nasa is conducting the experiment precicely BECAUSE nobody know what will happen next. If we knew with certainty what was going to happen, THEN there wouldn't be a very good reason for carrying on with the experiment.
Last year they spent $200 billion blowing up comet Baghdad and we're all still waiting to see how that cliffhanger's going to end! This time it's cheaper and it doens't involve killing anybody.
Here's a counter argument. Motorcycles are allowed to park perpendicular to the curb, and yet this isn't seen as a public hazard. At least in California, you ARE required to have red reflectors on the side of the vehicle, but brake lights don't have to act as reflectors, just as lamps.
The applical part of the California Vehicle Code says you have to park parallel, but gives exceptions for motorcycles, public vehicles like garbage trucks, and for loading/unloading cargo and passangers. The bmw might get by on this last claim.
I don't think filling the trunk with lead balast is the answer either though.
They look like they have the aerodynamics of a cardboard box. My old 70's VW bug wasn't very stable at high speed and especially with cross winds. I guess that design had too much lift at those speeds. Can anyone who's driven one of these at speed comment on it's handeling?
From what I recall, the Puegot 206 Eco can get 88mpg on it's turbo diesel and can do considerably more than 60mph. But like great things French, it's not available in the US.
Here's a shot at explaining... It's a way of breaking down multidimensional data and looking at in a few dimensions at at time. A pivot table will output a table with a maximum of 2-1/2 dimensions: x-axis, y-axis, and a filter. Nuance: Sometimes you have you have two sets of data that have the same dimensions, so the data itself can be a variable. For example, sales in $USD and in Qty would be two sets of data, but would share the same dimensions like salesman, date, region, customer, etc. Say you have an Oracle database with sales transactions from a resaurant. The possible dimensions that this data could have are pretty large. There would be more than this, but just of the top of my head you would have at least: name_of_waiter, date, time, day_of_week, hour, month, dish_name, dish_category, customer_name, form_of_payment, cashier_name With a pivot table, you could make a chart that had: "name_of_waiter" on the x-axis, "hour", filter to show the data from the month of May, (the 1/2 dimention), and looked at the data set $USD The nice thing about pivot tables in Excel is that you can generate these tables quickly with a few drag and drop commands and do neat things like have muliple dimensions in the same axis. You really have to play with it to see how neat it is.
Biological organisms do acomplish computational tasks but I doubt anyone's going to try to port netBSD to the ecoli bacteria anytime soon. What we stand to learn from studying these systems is the understanding of the Algorithms that govern basic biological functions.
How does a few simple molecules of DNA self assemble into an elephant? These are structures which are orders of magnitude larger and seemingly more complex than the original building blocks. Can we code a set of building blocks to self assemble into a stapler instead of an elephant?
If our DNA code is to large and obfuscated to make any sence right now, let's forget about it for a moment, how wold you execute any of these instructions to begin with? What protine.dll files do you need to interpret DNA? What happens if you're missing them? What if you cold write extra?
What are the errors involved in genetic computation? Can knowing how these errors are produce be used to prevent disease? Will knowing how these errors occur help us detect precursurs years before disease sets in?
Can we use the knowledge of self assembly to make better RFID tags. The application of this knowledge to nano/micro/macro manufacturing are going to be most imediate in this field. Then maybe nano/micro robotics in a few years... okay many years.
As for the ethics, well we're a long way from being doing anything that's ethicly questionable so ethics is mostly a nonissue. The knowledge just isn't there yet. People occasionally do things in the course of their research that involve creepy things like dead babies, but that's not a new debate in the ethics.
Mac's already come with the best desktop *nix on the market. If you really want to, you can boot Darwin into console mode, into x, or into x over aqua in rootless mode, so there are various levels of geekiness you can choose from. If there's some linux app that you really have to have, well then there are versions of linux that will run on an mac, and macs that you can buy preinstalled with linux. You can even run OSX over Linux. I think in a year or two, there will be more porting to OSX and therefore less motivation to bother with this.
OSX does support two and three botton mice so you can punt what ever it comes with as soon as you get home. Theoretically, carbon can handle as many as 65,535 buttons. With one button, it's option-click or ctrl-click to get that functionality.