Even smaller than that. Tiny model aircraft use tiny diesel engines, like.050 cu in. They actually get better fuel efficiency than their methanol+nitro fuelled counterparts (the venerable Cox.049 for example).
Of course, I realise these things are two-stroke, but it could be said that diesels scale better than any other type of internal combustion engine.
I think the trouble with using CCDs for thermography is that they would be swamped by the ambient temperature. I imagine it would be difficult to detect a ~25deg human (skin temp) on a 25deg day.
You should see some of the turds I've laid over the years. I promise you, if my toilet can handle those, a few banana and potato peels will be childs' play...
In.au at least, sinkwater, bathwater etc goes into the stormwater network, which then gets dumped virtually untreated back into the rivers. This is a big source of nuitrients for toxic algal blooms.
Throwing the waste into the toilet however would send it to the sewage plant, which is specifically sesigned to cope with high-nutrient matter
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In that case, couldn't I just crack open a beer? The stupid mosquitos get lured into the fizzy brew and then get covered in beer and can't fly out. In the ultimate irony, I can then consume the little bitches as I drink, getting a nice protein hit to balance out the carbs in the beer.
It's nice that you have that power. However I suspect that HP don't really make their big big bucks from individuals Their big markets would be the huge offices or bureaucracies which generate mountains of paperwork and use up several cartridges a day. They can easily keep these markets by offering some incentive like automated ordering, or even just taking the guy in charge of office consmables out to dinner.
However, you have at least made an effort. Any time the subject comes up with colleagues, make sure they too know they are being vigorously rogered ap their asses when they buy HP carts.
And the thousands of people (Vietnamese, Cambodian AND Americans) who have had their lives or livelihoods fucked up by that little debacle have received even less respect than these farmers. Fuck Monsanto.
I'm unemployed. I stay at home all day, but don't work. Apart from the poverty, it's the best lifestyle ever. And I'm only half joking, I'm catching up on all sorts of books, tinkering with my collection of defunct hardware, and even getting a bit of exercise. If I could find a cheaper source of instant noodles to sustain me, I would be all set...
This is exactly why we should be using it more carefully, for its industrial uses, rather than pissing it away out the exhaust of an SUV. Kudos to Iceland.
Cooper/aluminium lego? That would be bitchin! Go and patent the idea, or better yet, leave it open and convince somebody to maunfature it. I would buy a crate!
Need more heatsink area? just add a few more flat pieces! Need to insulate one heatsink from a nother? use a layer of the traditional plastice bricks.
Dammit, somebody make start making this now, I want some...
Thanks for the clarification, both of you. I guess auto makers just need consumers to demand such flexibility. Cars are already marketed with different specifications for different countries [for example, until recently here in.au, a US-sourced car would have the standard-in-USA airbags deleted (because 97% of Aussies wear seatbelts) but disc brakes on all four wheels, while the US models retained rear drums.] I guess that multi-fuel capability is just pretty low on consumers' priorities.
It's particularly bad in.au right now as there has been a bit of a scandal with some gas stations blending lots of ethanol with their petrol. Ethanol is pretty cheap here as it is not (yet) taxed like petrol, so budget gas stations can blend LOTS of it into their fuel to save money. Also to save money they tend not to maintain their equipment very well leading to plenty of water in their fuel, which does nothing to help matters.
However, I was under the impression that most modern engine management software has a certain level of self-learning capability. Tau Zero, any ideas? Is the oxygen sensor giving the ECU the right signal if it's being fed ethanol fumes? Has anybody out there tried customising their engine management to run efficiently on ethanol/moonshine?
Over to Google I go. This could be a cool summer project...
I think King Solomon said "there's nothing new under the Sun." At least Coupling did it in clever ways. Friends was unspeakably dire, at least all thepisode I endured were. Then again, mr Anonymous Coward, maybe we are the dumb-arses missing the subtle humour of Friends;-)
(I take no responsibility for the accuracy of the above quote. Some Bible chick told me in college when I was busy trying to convince her of my dubious charms in bed. I failed. She's still chaste now at 25, by all accounts. And still hot.)
I heard that the mainproblem is not with the engine itself but the fuelling system. Ethanol can cause hoses, seal etc to become brittle, and it is also hygroscopic (absorbs moisture from the air) which can then lead to corrosion. Aside from that it's just a matter of tweaking your fuel/air ratios (easy to do with modern engine management software)
Seems that the auto companies could make these changes for peanuts, but I guess they just don't want to.
I think a few ad execs worldwide have been inspired by the probe. In Australia, there was and ad where some jock types were out towing a boat with their new gas-guzzling SUV (yes the fucking things are popular over here too) and somehow they ended up finding water on Mars, presumably to use their boat in. Cut to a stereotyped "NASA" control room, where some nerds are on the phone saying "yes sir, there IS water on Mars, but we didn't find it." Cut to a screenshot of a confused-looking Spirit in the foreground, with the SUV in the background. I think their slogan was something like "Holden Adventra: go anywhere" (I guess the greenhouse gases spewed out by the V8 are a good thing on Mars. Helps with the terraforming and all...
Well if something does go wrong with his hardware your friend might get better service from the store than trying to get something replaced online. Just a thought, I'd go for the lower price too...
Or better stil, don't use DivX 5.x at all. The XVid codec included in the GKnot codec pack will do everything divx can and more, without any of the crap.
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Actually, according to my late grandfather, he wanted to shoot them. The way my grandfather told the story, the guy was the rear-gunner from the Lancaster, and the whole tailsection (with the guy in it) was shot off, and landed in the snow. I imagine this gave him some protection, too. When a squad of Germans came to check the wreckage, apparently they had to talk him out of trying to shoot his way through with only his service revolver.
Note that I don't necessarily take what the old man told me as gospel. If anybody has a link to more details of this story I'd love to hear them, though.
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Even smaller than that. Tiny model aircraft use tiny diesel engines, like .050 cu in. They actually get better fuel efficiency than their methanol+nitro fuelled counterparts (the venerable Cox .049 for example).
Of course, I realise these things are two-stroke, but it could be said that diesels scale better than any other type of internal combustion engine.
I think the trouble with using CCDs for thermography is that they would be swamped by the ambient temperature. I imagine it would be difficult to detect a ~25deg human (skin temp) on a 25deg day.
You should see some of the turds I've laid over the years. I promise you, if my toilet can handle those, a few banana and potato peels will be childs' play...
In .au at least, sinkwater, bathwater etc goes into the stormwater network, which then gets dumped virtually untreated back into the rivers. This is a big source of nuitrients for toxic algal blooms.
Throwing the waste into the toilet however would send it to the sewage plant, which is specifically sesigned to cope with high-nutrient matter
Simple. Hershey tastes like vomit.
My electric drill which plugs straight into the regular mains has variable speed. Why do I need 3-phase power?
I wish I was foolish enough to have 3million bucks to just throw at TV studios who already have too much money.
Were they still fools when the _got_ that kind of cash?
This is my new excuse for being poor - "I coulda been rich but I am not enough of a fool..."
In that case, couldn't I just crack open a beer? The stupid mosquitos get lured into the fizzy brew and then get covered in beer and can't fly out. In the ultimate irony, I can then consume the little bitches as I drink, getting a nice protein hit to balance out the carbs in the beer.
In Soviet Russia, I eat the mosquito!
Or something...
It's nice that you have that power. However I suspect that HP don't really make their big big bucks from individuals Their big markets would be the huge offices or bureaucracies which generate mountains of paperwork and use up several cartridges a day. They can easily keep these markets by offering some incentive like automated ordering, or even just taking the guy in charge of office consmables out to dinner.
However, you have at least made an effort. Any time the subject comes up with colleagues, make sure they too know they are being vigorously rogered ap their asses when they buy HP carts.
Erm, I can grow skin cells at high speed already. It's called skin cancer, and a bit of an epidemic here in the Southern Hemisphere.
And the thousands of people (Vietnamese, Cambodian AND Americans) who have had their lives or livelihoods fucked up by that little debacle have received even less respect than these farmers. Fuck Monsanto.
I'm unemployed. I stay at home all day, but don't work. Apart from the poverty, it's the best lifestyle ever. And I'm only half joking, I'm catching up on all sorts of books, tinkering with my collection of defunct hardware, and even getting a bit of exercise. If I could find a cheaper source of instant noodles to sustain me, I would be all set...
This is exactly why we should be using it more carefully, for its industrial uses, rather than pissing it away out the exhaust of an SUV. Kudos to Iceland.
Cooper/aluminium lego? That would be bitchin! Go and patent the idea, or better yet, leave it open and convince somebody to maunfature it. I would buy a crate!
Need more heatsink area? just add a few more flat pieces! Need to insulate one heatsink from a nother? use a layer of the traditional plastice bricks.
Dammit, somebody make start making this now, I want some...
Thanks for the clarification, both of you. I guess auto makers just need consumers to demand such flexibility. Cars are already marketed with different specifications for different countries [for example, until recently here in .au, a US-sourced car would have the standard-in-USA airbags deleted (because 97% of Aussies wear seatbelts) but disc brakes on all four wheels, while the US models retained rear drums.] I guess that multi-fuel capability is just pretty low on consumers' priorities.
.au right now as there has been a bit of a scandal with some gas stations blending lots of ethanol with their petrol. Ethanol is pretty cheap here as it is not (yet) taxed like petrol, so budget gas stations can blend LOTS of it into their fuel to save money. Also to save money they tend not to maintain their equipment very well leading to plenty of water in their fuel, which does nothing to help matters.
It's particularly bad in
However, I was under the impression that most modern engine management software has a certain level of self-learning capability. Tau Zero, any ideas? Is the oxygen sensor giving the ECU the right signal if it's being fed ethanol fumes? Has anybody out there tried customising their engine management to run efficiently on ethanol/moonshine?
Over to Google I go. This could be a cool summer project...
I think King Solomon said "there's nothing new under the Sun." At least Coupling did it in clever ways. Friends was unspeakably dire, at least all thepisode I endured were. Then again, mr Anonymous Coward, maybe we are the dumb-arses missing the subtle humour of Friends;-)
(I take no responsibility for the accuracy of the above quote. Some Bible chick told me in college when I was busy trying to convince her of my dubious charms in bed. I failed. She's still chaste now at 25, by all accounts. And still hot.)
I heard that the mainproblem is not with the engine itself but the fuelling system. Ethanol can cause hoses, seal etc to become brittle, and it is also hygroscopic (absorbs moisture from the air) which can then lead to corrosion. Aside from that it's just a matter of tweaking your fuel/air ratios (easy to do with modern engine management software)
Seems that the auto companies could make these changes for peanuts, but I guess they just don't want to.
So you Kiwis at least know that it's spelled AntarCtica? That's a bloody good start, actually...
I think a few ad execs worldwide have been inspired by the probe. In Australia, there was and ad where some jock types were out towing a boat with their new gas-guzzling SUV (yes the fucking things are popular over here too) and somehow they ended up finding water on Mars, presumably to use their boat in. Cut to a stereotyped "NASA" control room, where some nerds are on the phone saying "yes sir, there IS water on Mars, but we didn't find it." Cut to a screenshot of a confused-looking Spirit in the foreground, with the SUV in the background. I think their slogan was something like "Holden Adventra: go anywhere" (I guess the greenhouse gases spewed out by the V8 are a good thing on Mars. Helps with the terraforming and all...
Well if something does go wrong with his hardware your friend might get better service from the store than trying to get something replaced online. Just a thought, I'd go for the lower price too...
Or better stil, don't use DivX 5.x at all. The XVid codec included in the GKnot codec pack will do everything divx can and more, without any of the crap.
Actually, according to my late grandfather, he wanted to shoot them. The way my grandfather told the story, the guy was the rear-gunner from the Lancaster, and the whole tailsection (with the guy in it) was shot off, and landed in the snow. I imagine this gave him some protection, too. When a squad of Germans came to check the wreckage, apparently they had to talk him out of trying to shoot his way through with only his service revolver.
Note that I don't necessarily take what the old man told me as gospel. If anybody has a link to more details of this story I'd love to hear them, though.
"evidenced"? Evidence isn't a verb!
Yes.
But everybody knows the sun don't shine there...