Mine was the mouse that came with the Amstrad 1512 ,
europes first really affordable mouse orientated PC clone. Ah,
running GEM off a single 360K FD (no HD).. And that nice clunky
mouse cursor when you ran the QBASIC 2.0 compiler..
I notice that you are bundling a game called "TicTacToe" (TM) with your new "Mediamaster 260S" PVR system. It may interest you to know that this game was bundled with our SCO Linux (TM)(C) package, and as such, is automatically our copyright and patent. Henceforth you will need to pay a run-time license of $699 per unit sold, backdated to the beginning of the universe.
You forget - the sugar would be from a bio source, so to make it the plant would have absorbed CO2, H2O and power from the sun & used photosythesis to make Sugar. When you burn the sugar you release that same CO2 back into the atmosphere, but there is no net increase in CO2!
The problem is probably economic, It means a lot of land to grow enough sugar to fuel lots of cars, and a lot of power harvest and to transport it about. Probably better to use solar cells/wind power & get the electric direct that way..
Well done, I was waiting for you to spot that..:-)
The 83% does not include the loss in any electric motor, nor in any of the other circuitry/mechanics..
I suppose where you live as to the % you get out of a car engine - manufacturers figures are usually very optmistic. In some citys you spend a lot of time in jams, with the engine idling over. Someone commputed the average speed in London of traffic to be about 11 mph. I would guess 32% is rarly achieved by a normal petrol car user in London.
THen we get into the whole electric vs petro-electric vs hydrogen/electric etc.. Electric hybrids seem best in cities, as you can switch off the big petrol/hydro/fuel cell an idle around on batteries at low speeds, and recharge using regenerative braking..
But if the efficiency v size/weight is good, no reason why the power cell cant be bio. Biggest problem is that you can just switch it on/off - big run up/down time..
83% Efficient? Thats impressive, if true. If you think that a typical car engine is only 20% efficient. Maybe one day you could run your car on Glucose..
We never really had the Apple-1 here, but you can re-live the
heady days of the British equivalent, CLive Sinclair's MK14..
(Precursor to ZX-80/81/Spectrum etc)
Perhaps, after the recent power outages in the US, the most
important application of supercoducting magnets could be power
storage. There seem to be 2 ways they are used - either to make
friction-free magnetic bearings for traditional
flywheel systems, or (more interesting) direct short-term storage
of power. For situations where you need to temporarily store a
*lot* of power this is an interesting technology alternative to
batteries/hydro/etc.. Current devices seem to cover mainly very
short term variations, but what about covering longer term
regulation (hours/days) of variable power from a wind-farm, or
solar, for example?
This could be bad news for the New
Horizons (Pluto-Kuiper Belt) mission, which plans to visit
some as-yet undiscovered Kuiper belt objects after swinging by
Pluto - but if there are a lot fewer than first thought..
Discovering many fewer Kuiper Belt Objects than was
predicted makes it difficult to understand how so many comets
appear near Earth since many comets were thought to originate in
the Kuiper Belt,..
Slashdot Mirror
Unless theyve been run over by a steamroller..
..money can't buy me love..
So this is what happens to all those AOL disks Ive been using as coasters..
Mine was the mouse that came with the Amstrad 1512 , europes first really affordable mouse orientated PC clone. Ah, running GEM off a single 360K FD (no HD).. And that nice clunky mouse cursor when you ran the QBASIC 2.0 compiler..
Yeh, making a 52x reader is going to be tough with that stylus..
Now wheres my mobile phone?
Oh damn its in the wash..
In 296,000 years Voyager-2 will pass Sirius... Do you think the gold video disc on-board will still be readable? :-)
Damn, does this mean I have to buy one of those bloody space-hoppers again?
I told you so... (Well almost..)
..you have been slashdotted."
HAL: "No, I haven't, Dave. Everything is quite normal here."
DAVE: "Trust me, your web site is overloaded and inaccessable."
HAL: "Dave, I think you are imagining things. Would you like to take a stress pill?"
DAVE: "No HAL I would not. Please open the pod bay door."
HAL: "I am afraid I cannot do that Dave. Would you like to hear this song Dr Chandra taught me? Daisy, Daisy..."
You've been slashdotted..
You may make less money selling Linux apps, at least at the moment..
I will move this discussion on to my Journal now,m if you like.. :-)
http://slashdot.org/~adeyadey/journal/44947
Dear Nokia,
I notice that you are bundling a game called "TicTacToe" (TM) with your new "Mediamaster 260S" PVR system. It may interest you to know that this game was bundled with our SCO Linux (TM)(C) package, and as such, is automatically our copyright and patent. Henceforth you will need to pay a run-time license of $699 per unit sold, backdated to the beginning of the universe.
Have a nice day.
Darl McBride, SCO.
You forget - the sugar would be from a bio source, so to make it the plant would have absorbed CO2, H2O and power from the sun & used photosythesis to make Sugar. When you burn the sugar you release that same CO2 back into the atmosphere, but there is no net increase in CO2!
The problem is probably economic, It means a lot of land to grow enough sugar to fuel lots of cars, and a lot of power harvest and to transport it about. Probably better to use solar cells/wind power & get the electric direct that way..
...
Well done, I was waiting for you to spot that.. :-)
The 83% does not include the loss in any electric motor, nor in any of the other circuitry/mechanics..
I suppose where you live as to the % you get out of a car engine - manufacturers figures are usually very optmistic. In some citys you spend a lot of time in jams, with the engine idling over. Someone commputed the average speed in London of traffic to be about 11 mph. I would guess 32% is rarly achieved by a normal petrol car user in London.
THen we get into the whole electric vs petro-electric vs hydrogen/electric etc.. Electric hybrids seem best in cities, as you can switch off the big petrol/hydro/fuel cell an idle around on batteries at low speeds, and recharge using regenerative braking..
But if the efficiency v size/weight is good, no reason why the power cell cant be bio. Biggest problem is that you can just switch it on/off - big run up/down time..
83% Efficient? Thats impressive, if true. If you think that a typical car engine is only 20% efficient. Maybe one day you could run your car on Glucose..
If the cloud was that dense, wouldnt Voyager I/II have hit it? They are still working fine..
We never really had the Apple-1 here, but you can re-live the heady days of the British equivalent, CLive Sinclair's MK14.. (Precursor to ZX-80/81/Spectrum etc)
http://users.aol.com/mk14emu/emulator.htm
Perhaps, after the recent power outages in the US, the most important application of supercoducting magnets could be power storage. There seem to be 2 ways they are used - either to make friction-free magnetic bearings for traditional flywheel systems, or (more interesting) direct short-term storage of power. For situations where you need to temporarily store a *lot* of power this is an interesting technology alternative to batteries/hydro/etc.. Current devices seem to cover mainly very short term variations, but what about covering longer term regulation (hours/days) of variable power from a wind-farm, or solar, for example?
Anyone got more gen on this?
Try Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) Systems
This link describes a commercial device that stores 3 megawatt-seconds..
This could be bad news for the New Horizons (Pluto-Kuiper Belt) mission, which plans to visit some as-yet undiscovered Kuiper belt objects after swinging by Pluto - but if there are a lot fewer than first thought..
Discovering many fewer Kuiper Belt Objects than was predicted makes it difficult to understand how so many comets appear near Earth since many comets were thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt,..
But just imagine a Beowulf clust.. arrg..
(sound of gun shot off stage)
By holding a piece of paper over it and sprinkling some iron filings?
I thought it was something eskimos did.. :-)