If you believe that open-source is causing unemployment due to a lack of a marketable product, then you are completely wrong. Open-source will, and is creating employment as programmers are being hired by small companies to tailor their software to their needs. It's just not as pervalent, as open-source is only just breaking into the SME market.
Small business can pay as well as big business, but you have to wear at least one other hat, and you don't get stock options.
Not to throw too much wood on the fire, but wasn't an Al Queida sympathizer arrested at Intel? Just imagine what he could have done! Intentional security breaches right in the chips! Start the paranoia meters!
(and this is nothing more than baseless speculation. I don't want to be sued by Intel)
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A majority of the people interviewed by McCarthy weren't communists. That didn't make it any different either. In McCarty's eyes, they were ALL communists.
I'd attribute that to bad shocks as a primary cause, And I would like to congragulate you on being brave enough to take an 82 Mercury that fast without having to drive it off a cliff.
As the car increases velocity, the car, sans spoiler, will develop an upward force, due to the high/low pressure differences.
sans means without. So, without a spoiler, a car generates lift.
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While it is true many consumer production cars have spoilers merely for looks, spoilers can be VERY functional. You obviously have no background on this, and I am not going to get into the physics, but why do you see every rally car, and nearly every le mans car, with spoilers that have taken a fair bit of engineering to design? Think formula 1 cars have them just to look cool?
Now hold on a minute here. I do indeed have a background in this, background enough to know that to this date nobody, not one soul, has ever entered a stock Honda CRX in a formula 1 race.
Their production car based on the rally car, the Impreza WRX STi, also bears a spoiler similar to this. It creates significant downforce as low as 60mph, and its functionality has been confirmed by STi as well as prodrive.
You call 60MPH low? And my car has no spoiler, and I've never needed flight clearance to pass somebody on the expressway. Have you ever seen a car hovering six feet off the ground because of gale winds? I know that I've never seen it.
If I'm driving in a rally or F1 race, then yes, I need a spoiler. If I'm driving a rally race on the way to work, than I think I need a brain more than a spoiler.
BTW, RWD, FWD, or AWD, its entirely irrelevant. This must be in regards to this: a negative effect (particularly on front wheel drive cars) due to increased drag. The increased drag creates a downward force, strongest in the rear, on the opposite end of the drive tires. This acts as a type of see-saw, and in a straight line, removes some of the downward force from the drive tires. Say your car shifts from second to third at or about 60MPH. This removal of force can cause a temporary loss of traction as the car shifts, resulting in "secomd gear squack", as the tires roast going into gear. This is generally not a problem, again as most people don't race the quarter mile on their way to work.
Spoilers are very useful in rally driving, as one is taking turns as fast as possible. Spoilers are very useful in F1 racing, as the cars are going as fast as possible and have a habit of flying off the road if they don't have one (and they generally have one at the front of the car as well). Spoilers are very useful for your everyday driver because it gives you a handle to push by when you run out of gas. That's it. No additional benefit on your 15 minute drive to work.
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It all depends on the car shape and relative speed. Obviously the only additional force the spoiler would add to any stationary car would be the downward force from the weight of the spoiler. As the car increases velocity, the car, sans spoiler, will develop an upward force, due to the high/low pressure differences.
The major factor is at what speed will the car begin to noticeably lift from the ground. Most cars, even the rice powered ones will never reach speeds high enough to lose traction due to the upward force. Maybe at a fast highway speed with a great headwinds, but generally not in normal daily use. The spoiler increases the coefficient of drag, and the cars top speed, acceleration, etc. Again for most cars, this is negligible, and with the composite materials that the spoilers are made out of, the weight is negligble.
Most professional race cars have adjustable spoilers, tuned to conditions for each particular race. Some are even computer controlled to maximize the effectiveness of the spoiler on turns and straightaways. But those are professional race cars, and they go just a bit faster than my dodge, and most other everyday cars. I'd have to be flooring it downhill for a long weekend before I ever needed a spoiler.
A rear spoiler does nothing for a regular car. At high speeds, a car, which is shaped like a plane wing (more or less) develops an upward force which can cause instability, particularly on wide banking turns. The spoiler will have the same effect whether the car is front or rear wheel drive, which in most cases is no effect, and in some cases where the car is going real fast in a straight line, a negative effect (particularly on front wheel drive cars) due to increased drag.
The rear spoiler is, in effect, a third nipple. Kind of neat to have, ugly to look at, functionally useless, and if it sticks out more than a little, should be removed by a qualified person as soon as possible.
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If you believe that open-source is causing unemployment due to a lack of a marketable product, then you are completely wrong. Open-source will, and is creating employment as programmers are being hired by small companies to tailor their software to their needs. It's just not as pervalent, as open-source is only just breaking into the SME market.
Small business can pay as well as big business, but you have to wear at least one other hat, and you don't get stock options.
Not to throw too much wood on the fire, but wasn't an Al Queida sympathizer arrested at Intel? Just imagine what he could have done! Intentional security breaches right in the chips! Start the paranoia meters!
(and this is nothing more than baseless speculation. I don't want to be sued by Intel)
When are the nation states going to wake up and start an international war against spam?
When the spammers have oil.
And Ass-virginity unencumbered when they make him freedom-unencumbered.
The one attached to the boyfriend of the luckiest girl alive?
Although the term "SCSI" comes to mind as well.
Get the right booth-babes and they won't be neither micro nor softies. /Props to Letterman for blatantly stealing his joke.
Great reference!
What do you mean we don't use it? Where do you think we rest the keyboard when the rack tray is broken?
yeah, ricin.
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Operation "Enduring Freedom" mean anything to you?
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A majority of the people interviewed by McCarthy weren't communists. That didn't make it any different either. In McCarty's eyes, they were ALL communists.
I'll take door number two, Monty.
After all, the Democrats were against the war, and thusly terrorist sympathizers!
We are exactly 20 years off on our calendar.
I'd attribute that to bad shocks as a primary cause, And I would like to congragulate you on being brave enough to take an 82 Mercury that fast without having to drive it off a cliff.
As the car increases velocity, the car, sans spoiler, will develop an upward force, due to the high/low pressure differences.
sans means without. So, without a spoiler, a car generates lift.
While it is true many consumer production cars have spoilers merely for looks, spoilers can be VERY functional. You obviously have no background on this, and I am not going to get into the physics, but why do you see every rally car, and nearly every le mans car, with spoilers that have taken a fair bit of engineering to design? Think formula 1 cars have them just to look cool?
Now hold on a minute here. I do indeed have a background in this, background enough to know that to this date nobody, not one soul, has ever entered a stock Honda CRX in a formula 1 race.
Their production car based on the rally car, the Impreza WRX STi, also bears a spoiler similar to this. It creates significant downforce as low as 60mph, and its functionality has been confirmed by STi as well as prodrive.
You call 60MPH low? And my car has no spoiler, and I've never needed flight clearance to pass somebody on the expressway. Have you ever seen a car hovering six feet off the ground because of gale winds? I know that I've never seen it.
If I'm driving in a rally or F1 race, then yes, I need a spoiler. If I'm driving a rally race on the way to work, than I think I need a brain more than a spoiler.
BTW, RWD, FWD, or AWD, its entirely irrelevant.
This must be in regards to this: a negative effect (particularly on front wheel drive cars) due to increased drag. The increased drag creates a downward force, strongest in the rear, on the opposite end of the drive tires. This acts as a type of see-saw, and in a straight line, removes some of the downward force from the drive tires. Say your car shifts from second to third at or about 60MPH. This removal of force can cause a temporary loss of traction as the car shifts, resulting in "secomd gear squack", as the tires roast going into gear. This is generally not a problem, again as most people don't race the quarter mile on their way to work.
Spoilers are very useful in rally driving, as one is taking turns as fast as possible.
Spoilers are very useful in F1 racing, as the cars are going as fast as possible and have a habit of flying off the road if they don't have one (and they generally have one at the front of the car as well).
Spoilers are very useful for your everyday driver because it gives you a handle to push by when you run out of gas. That's it. No additional benefit on your 15 minute drive to work.
It all depends on the car shape and relative speed. Obviously the only additional force the spoiler would add to any stationary car would be the downward force from the weight of the spoiler. As the car increases velocity, the car, sans spoiler, will develop an upward force, due to the high/low pressure differences.
The major factor is at what speed will the car begin to noticeably lift from the ground. Most cars, even the rice powered ones will never reach speeds high enough to lose traction due to the upward force. Maybe at a fast highway speed with a great headwinds, but generally not in normal daily use. The spoiler increases the coefficient of drag, and the cars top speed, acceleration, etc. Again for most cars, this is negligible, and with the composite materials that the spoilers are made out of, the weight is negligble.
Most professional race cars have adjustable spoilers, tuned to conditions for each particular race. Some are even computer controlled to maximize the effectiveness of the spoiler on turns and straightaways. But those are professional race cars, and they go just a bit faster than my dodge, and most other everyday cars. I'd have to be flooring it downhill for a long weekend before I ever needed a spoiler.
A rear spoiler does nothing for a regular car. At high speeds, a car, which is shaped like a plane wing (more or less) develops an upward force which can cause instability, particularly on wide banking turns. The spoiler will have the same effect whether the car is front or rear wheel drive, which in most cases is no effect, and in some cases where the car is going real fast in a straight line, a negative effect (particularly on front wheel drive cars) due to increased drag.
The rear spoiler is, in effect, a third nipple. Kind of neat to have, ugly to look at, functionally useless, and if it sticks out more than a little, should be removed by a qualified person as soon as possible.
Cool paint adds 10 horsepower.
Rear spoilers add 30 hp.
Type R sticker == stick-on NOS
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