Based on a quick Google, electric motors already seem to run anywhere from 77% to over 96% efficency. Claims of running on
'80% less power' push even a crummy 77% efficency motor up to 385% efficency. Anything over 100% makes it a perpetual motion machine.
running on '80% less power' actually means the motor wastes '80% less power'. Thus 96% efficient motor wastes 4%, while this wonderful motor might waste just.8%, making it 99.2% efficient.
Seriously though... Imagine a someone gets injured or injure someone due to the smartness of the car... Or the people start relying on smart cars and start making mistakes, that is until a fatal mistake... This will lead to quite serious litigations...
I read a story about how they played a joke on Americans. There was this hangar, full of old rockets, used booster stages, and such... Everything was going to be scrapped. There were a few technicians, drinking vodka, when they heard some people coming... (It appeared to be some visitors from West, accompanied by some russian guides.) Technicians immediately started 'working' using tools like sledgehammers, hitting and cutting some rocket.
Some visitor asked (noticing vodka bottles), wtf are those guys doing to this expensive equipment? A guide seriously said that these workers prepare the rocket for launch.
I am not sure if the tourists bought the explanation.
Yeah, but it is not the end of it. Later M$ will be sued to remove Windows Explorer and allow KDE dlls, remove Command Prompt to allow xterm dlls, Wordpad may be replaced with KWriter, Paint with GIMP... Of course *NIX will learn how to write into NTFS. We ll see Office partially from M$, partially from OpenOffice...
Not to mention built in gcc, with a possibility to recompile the kernel....
CPU-Cooler tries to cool the CPU with the already heated air from the case...
when the cpu fan rushes the air through the radiator the hot air goes sideways, and then relatively quickly goes up, leaving the case. The colder air from the room displaces the warm air in the case.
Open case lying on its side is a very good setup to cool the cpu using ambient air. If the air in the room get circulated, say, by a ceiling fan or an air conditioner, the setup is as good as it gets.
If everyone uses this logic and stop virus spreading, there ll be no outbreaks and how would antivirus programmers know that there is a new virus out there? Soon 24h delay will be extended to 48h to allow antivirus programs to catch up with a new outbreaks, then a week...
Russian Space Agency didn't need NASA's help with providing jobs to russian scientists. They are actively invlolved in Chinese space program now, a very lucrative business, and soon will help India to develop their own space program. Russia also works together with ESA on many common projects, including the planned use of russian boosters in French Guinea.
Without participation in the ISS, Russia would still be taking space tourists to Mir.
When I was a child and played with electronics, I built a circuit which when disconnected triggered my alarm clock. I spent a day trying to hide all the wiring behind furniture and books and under the carpet and eventually got an alarm clock which beeped very annoyingly when a door to my bedroom was open.
Later I myself devised a dart, made out of 4 matches, some paper and a needle. I and my brother hurt each other a lot with that before we realized all the dangers (including losing an eye) and stopped playing with that.
When I grew up a bit, I started playing with chemicals, trying to make explosives... I actually managed to modify my pen so that it could shoot bullets made out of aluminium foil. It could penetrate a beer can from ~10m.
Next thing we will know, the enthusiasts will go through all Windows patches released up to date, and compare them with the leaked code. Moreover, EVERY new patch will be scrutinized to check whether the leaked code had the flaw, which was fixed by the new patch. Then there will be debates on whether the leak helped fo find the flaw...
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Is just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
50% of people are below average. In mathematics this percentage is closer to 90%.Why not? I'd feel proud that a copy made by me is so widely distributed! Imagine the recognition and appreciation...
So businesses throw good money after bad?
You ll need a cascade of those filters...
Don't go into woods, boy, there is data lurking...
Hmm, sorry I haven't RTFA, I was just trying to be logical there....
how big is this deal ?
running on '80% less power' actually means the motor wastes '80% less power'. Thus 96% efficient motor wastes 4%, while this wonderful motor might waste just .8%, making it 99.2% efficient.
Seriously though... Imagine a someone gets injured or injure someone due to the smartness of the car... Or the people start relying on smart cars and start making mistakes, that is until a fatal mistake... This will lead to quite serious litigations...
Qualified software programmers in Eastern Europe get more, up to $20k/y.
Some visitor asked (noticing vodka bottles), wtf are those guys doing to this expensive equipment? A guide seriously said that these workers prepare the rocket for launch.
I am not sure if the tourists bought the explanation.
I am a visitior number 2288382.
Yeah, but it is not the end of it. Later M$ will be sued to remove Windows Explorer and allow KDE dlls, remove Command Prompt to allow xterm dlls, Wordpad may be replaced with KWriter, Paint with GIMP... Of course *NIX will learn how to write into NTFS. We ll see Office partially from M$, partially from OpenOffice... Not to mention built in gcc, with a possibility to recompile the kernel....
when the cpu fan rushes the air through the radiator the hot air goes sideways, and then relatively quickly goes up, leaving the case. The colder air from the room displaces the warm air in the case.
Open case lying on its side is a very good setup to cool the cpu using ambient air. If the air in the room get circulated, say, by a ceiling fan or an air conditioner, the setup is as good as it gets.
If everyone uses this logic and stop virus spreading, there ll be no outbreaks and how would antivirus programmers know that there is a new virus out there? Soon 24h delay will be extended to 48h to allow antivirus programs to catch up with a new outbreaks, then a week...
Thanks God, he didn't use the acronym LAME or GNU.
Without participation in the ISS, Russia would still be taking space tourists to Mir.
Wow, just look at Alaska!
When I was a child and played with electronics, I built a circuit which when disconnected triggered my alarm clock. I spent a day trying to hide all the wiring behind furniture and books and under the carpet and eventually got an alarm clock which beeped very annoyingly when a door to my bedroom was open.
Later I myself devised a dart, made out of 4 matches, some paper and a needle. I and my brother hurt each other a lot with that before we realized all the dangers (including losing an eye) and stopped playing with that.
When I grew up a bit, I started playing with chemicals, trying to make explosives... I actually managed to modify my pen so that it could shoot bullets made out of aluminium foil. It could penetrate a beer can from ~10m.
Just don't forget to carry lightning rod.
How about 'OS formerly known as Lindows'? (reference to Prince)
Red Hat growth vs. Debian growth: Red Hat wins!
Next thing we will know, the enthusiasts will go through all Windows patches released up to date, and compare them with the leaked code. Moreover, EVERY new patch will be scrutinized to check whether the leaked code had the flaw, which was fixed by the new patch. Then there will be debates on whether the leak helped fo find the flaw...
Launch of Probe Lunik 2
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Lunokhod 1 and Apollo14