I would be concerned about the long term effects of this: does all the starting and stopping of the engine cause additional wear and tear? Do you have to change the oil more often?
Yes, locomotives use a hybrid power system, but it's (usually) all based on electric conversion: The engine drives an alternator, and the power from the alternator drives traction motors (avoiding batteries). Dynamic regeneration is usually not used: when dynamic braking, all power from the traction motors are radiated out the dynamic braking grids as heat.
This seems like a stupid way to protest. I'm going to protest Dairy Queen not offering free unlimited ice cream!! Everybody meet me there to buy an ice cream!!
I guess this guy's business plan is: 1. Buy lots of company A's product while, at the same time, protesting it. 2. ??? 3. Profit!
Check out the Underwood No. 5 PC where yet another fellow with too active an imagination has converted a typewriter to a computer. Quite clever, actually.
Does anybody else out there remember a program for the Commodore 64 that use the 1541 floppy disk drive to make music? By moving the drive head at different speeds, it played "Jingle Bells" or something else like that. The drive still ran OK after that one. Can't say too much on this project, though.
There was a much better documentary on The Discovery Channel. Also a bit of information on the likelyhood that the flood may have occurred during a torrent of the Euphrates river. The BBC recently broadcast a documentary on this one, probably the same one as the discovery channel.
I could do it in one really long line of C. Without comments.
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Check out this link. It details a bit on how the spirit rover only has a 1 megapixel camera on board, yet delivers IMAX quality images.
From the article: "NASA's Spirit Rover is providing a lesson to aspiring digital photographers: Spend your money on the lens, not the pixels.
Anyone who has ever agonized over whether to buy a 3-megapixel or 4-megapixel digital camera might be surprised to learn that Spirit's stunningly detailed images of Mars are made with a 1-megapixel model, a palm-sized 9-ounce marvel that would be coveted in any geek's shirt pocket.
Spirit's images are IMAX quality, mission managers say. "
500 trillion watts!! Great scott!!
I assume that that is only.5 gigawatts. Only.71 to go...
And I'm sure if I have my conversions wronge, some slashbot will correct me.
Cheap meaning less than the price of either (a) a standalone PC, no matter what power processor, even free -- because, as you mentioned, the power is pretty wasteful, and (b) a NAS, the cheapest which seem to hover around the $550 level. I didn't see anything like what you mentioned around the $200 level.
Somewhat offtopic, but does anybody know of a cheap wired NAS device? What would be great would be a hard drive that I can plug into my router. With this, I can leave the hard drive on all the time, and access it from across the network, without leaving a pc/server on. The only one I found didn't use DHCP at all, but required some special Windows drivers.:-(
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I would be concerned about the long term effects of this: does all the starting and stopping of the engine cause additional wear and tear? Do you have to change the oil more often?
Yes, locomotives use a hybrid power system, but it's (usually) all based on electric conversion: The engine drives an alternator, and the power from the alternator drives traction motors (avoiding batteries). Dynamic regeneration is usually not used: when dynamic braking, all power from the traction motors are radiated out the dynamic braking grids as heat.
This seems like a stupid way to protest. I'm going to protest Dairy Queen not offering free unlimited ice cream!! Everybody meet me there to buy an ice cream!!
I guess this guy's business plan is:
1. Buy lots of company A's product while, at the same time, protesting it.
2. ???
3. Profit!
That must be some of that "new economy" stuff.
Yeah, but who wants to be exploring Mars dressed in a dolphin outfit?
Check out this pdf for a full 10 page report.
Of course, everyone knows that it's got to be the original C64 version.
Cue the Peter Gunn Theme Song!!
Check out the Underwood No. 5 PC where yet another fellow with too active an imagination has converted a typewriter to a computer. Quite clever, actually.
Does anybody else out there remember a program for the Commodore 64 that use the 1541 floppy disk drive to make music? By moving the drive head at different speeds, it played "Jingle Bells" or something else like that. The drive still ran OK after that one. Can't say too much on this project, though.
That would be hafnium.
Why won't scientists get working on the nude bomb instead? I think that would have a lot more "peacetime" applications.
Try selling that one on eBay. Whoops! I guess you can't.
Oh...you mean like a fruit apple...
About time those mice got back to business. Now to get the rats of NIMH employed again.
What do you think? 1970s Pr0n stars or computer salesmen? You be the judge!
Dogs and cats - living together. Mass hysteria!!
There was a much better documentary on The Discovery Channel. Also a bit of information on the likelyhood that the flood may have occurred during a torrent of the Euphrates river. The BBC recently broadcast a documentary on this one, probably the same one as the discovery channel.
I could do it in one really long line of C. Without comments.
Check out this link. It details a bit on how the spirit rover only has a 1 megapixel camera on board, yet delivers IMAX quality images.
From the article: "NASA's Spirit Rover is providing a lesson to aspiring digital photographers: Spend your money on the lens, not the pixels. Anyone who has ever agonized over whether to buy a 3-megapixel or 4-megapixel digital camera might be surprised to learn that Spirit's stunningly detailed images of Mars are made with a 1-megapixel model, a palm-sized 9-ounce marvel that would be coveted in any geek's shirt pocket. Spirit's images are IMAX quality, mission managers say. "
Then get me down!!
Damn! Off by a factor of ... well, it's a lot!
And let me be the first to correct my spelling of the word "wrong".
p.s. I am not Dan Quayle.
500 trillion watts!! Great scott!! .5 gigawatts. Only .71 to go...
I assume that that is only
And I'm sure if I have my conversions wronge, some slashbot will correct me.
Cheap meaning less than the price of either (a) a standalone PC, no matter what power processor, even free -- because, as you mentioned, the power is pretty wasteful, and (b) a NAS, the cheapest which seem to hover around the $550 level. I didn't see anything like what you mentioned around the $200 level.
I read it as Aaliyah the singer won the nobel prize. I was really disappointed with this post.
Somewhat offtopic, but does anybody know of a cheap wired NAS device? What would be great would be a hard drive that I can plug into my router. With this, I can leave the hard drive on all the time, and access it from across the network, without leaving a pc/server on. The only one I found didn't use DHCP at all, but required some special Windows drivers. :-(