you have extra power in your car because of the altenator. it is turned because your car is running and producing more power than you are using unless you're going up hill or accelerating. If you're at a dead stop and your engine is at idle where is the power of the combusing gas going? into heat, noise, and the altenator recharging your battery which is probably full after the first 5 min. So you have extra electricity.
No. There's no extra energy. The resistance of the alternator to turning is proportional to the electricity generated. Add more electrical load, and the alternator is harder to turn.
They have tried using this extra electricity for charging batteries for use in hybred electric cars but you have the offset of dragging around large batteries that weigh 50 lbs each and you have to have a couple to really get any extended electric mileage out of the system.
No. Hybrids are successful mostly because they recapture braking energy and allow the engine to be shut down when it is making more power than necessary.
They have tried using this extra electricity to power flywheels to store the power and release it back into the system when you release the brake but again you have this giant heavy flywheel to drag around.
No. Such systems were mechanical variants of a hybrid; that is, capturing the energy of braking and storing to use to accelerate the vehicle. There were some systems that used a huge flywheel as the vehicle's store of energy, but they never caught on.
The article uses this electricity to release the power that is naturally stored in the water solution. Einstien proved that all mater has a great deal of energy but getting it out has always been the problem. With gas we are getting no more than about a third of the actual energy out of the material we use up. That means that out of a gallon of gas we get the output of 1/3 actually making our car go. The rest is waisted.
No. Cars are not nuclear powered. Einstein has nothing to do with internal combustion. No material is used up or converted to energy. We're just rearranging the matter to a state of less potential energy. We harvest that energy as heat, which we then try to convert into kinetic energy. We only convert about 1/3, the rest stays as heat.
If we made an engine that recaptured the unspent fuel or had a system of burning the fuel completely we would have a better ratio of conversion from matter to energy.
No. There is very little unspent fuel, less than 1% in most modern engines. Again, the car is not nuclear powered, no fission or fusion taking place, no matter converted to energy.
Now we can't get the entire subatomic amounts Einstein was talking about but we can have the best chemical reaction amounts if we make a system that extracts the energy more effeciently from this reaction.
I don't know what you're talking about here, and I don't think you do either.
An example of this is when we add oxygen to gas (common practice now) to make a better chemical reaction inside the engine. We are taking a cheap additive and mixing it with a relitivly expensive main ingredient to make it burn better. If we add different chemicals we get different outputs, some help some hurt, most do both. Adding water helps the combustion by adding pressure and oxygen but hurts the engine by pressing water vapor into the oil and making our engine grind and wear out. Additive are nothing new and they have been proven to work. The main difference is that the right additivs are dangerous and hard to introduce to the system easily.
No. Oxygen additives don't produce a better chemical reaction, just a cleaner version of the same reaction. Adding water doesn't help combustion, just try adding some to your campfire. The old water injection systems reduced intake charge temperature by the phase change of water to steam, allowing greater compression ratios and greater efficiency.
..supposedly will use Python scripts for most of the AI behaviour. It's supposedly the most easily and thoroughly modifiable game ever. I can't wait to see what the community produces. In fact, I'd say that the developers will incorporate user-generated content in the official patch system.
IMHO, nothing helps more with diagnosing hardware problems than some tested hardware (video card, processor, RAM). Makes isolating a problem or conflict dead easy.
They're a way for people who don't have IT skills to evaluate the abilities of an IT person. As an analogy, say I'm terrible at math. If I see someone has a Ph.D. in Mathematics, I can be fairly confident that the person is at least competent in math.
Are certs perfect? Hell no. As mentioned in the article, it is possible to be supremely skilled and have no certs. It is also possible to have certs and be an empty suit (we all know this guy). But certs, for better or worse, are often the only game in town and you should learn to play it.
"This packaging is the property of the U.S. Postal Service and is provided solely for use in sending Priority Mail. Misuse may be a violation of Federal law."
Betcha won't find that on a private corporation's packages...
Can you name something that you believe can not be explained mathematically? Do you have evidence for this?
While I may not be able to name something, the evidence suggests that there are some true things that cannot be proven mathematically. Someone even proved this mathematically!
Wasn't it Winston Churchill who said "The best argument against democracy is a five minute chat with the average voter"?
Ah, but didn't he also say, "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
This programming language's name is obviously derived from my Slashdot nick. My SWAT team of highly-paid lawyers is examining a satellite photo of Sun's corporate headquarters, planning their legal assault.
Experience. We'll practice setting up a base on the moon because it will allow us to make mistakes at a relatively low cost. If we forget to bring some vital component, or something unexpected fails, or we need things that we didn't anticipate, help in the form of a resupply or rescue mission is only a few days of space travel away.
Contrast that with Mars, where help is 18-24 months away at best. We'd better know exactly what supplies will be needed because it's unlikely help could reach us in time.
Any nuclear reaction that converts mass to energy violates the Conservation of Energy principle. Examples include fusion and fission, in which the energy output is greater than the energy input.
Under NO conceivable circumstances within the universe that we currently live could you uninvasively transmit any detailed information
That's a pretty broad generalization. It's a big universe, with many principles and theories yet to be discovered. Just because our current theories say that something is impossible doesn't make it so. We sometimes have to revise those theories to account for new observeations.
Remember, a hundred years ago there were NO conceivable circumstances within the universe in which the laws of conservation of matter and energy could be broken. Today they are broken routinely.
business people, management, financial/accountants are mostly useless
Typical geek elitism. The decision making, negotiation and people skills required to be an effective manager are just as important as technical skills and often more difficult to learn. Their importance in the success or failure of an organization cannot be overestimated. There are dozens of examples of companies with great ideas and technical expertise in spades that fail because they lack management and financial skills. As an organization grows, these skills only become more important.
Perhaps the best evidence for the importance of managers and accountants in creating a successful organization is that there are so few organizations of any significant size that can function without them. These people make big money for a reason: Their skills are difficult to acquire and are in great demand. If they are so useless, why would a for-profit company pay them so much?
So you technicians, engineers, and other professionals who can actually do real things
Management and accounting are real things too. And they tend to be more important than easily replaced (look at outsourcing) technical skill.
Ms has built less trust then Goggle has.It is not just about monopoly, it is about what you do with your monopoly.
Right, and using their monopoly position to bully France into changing its laws would squander some of their hard-earned trust. Denying all of France the use of their product would not win over many hearts, and I don't imagine it would help the bottom line.
No, friends, the vindictive method is not the best method. Google should go to bat and file an appeal, fighting for their rights the good, old-fashioned way.
You're missing a major distinction here. The car manufacturer doesn't tell you that you can't drive 200mph or install a huge spoiler, the government does, in the interest of public safety.
A car manufacturer can't tell you what you can or can't do with your car, once you've bought it, it's yours to do with as you see fit. If you want to paint the car an outlandish color, you can do so.
Tecmo figures they should be able to tell you what you can do with the software you bought from them (though they probably say you didn't buy it, you just licensed it). If you want to paint a character an outlandish color, oops, you've violated the EULA.
Why are people not up in arms about restrictive EULAs? When you buy something, it should be yours to do with as you please, including making it into something that better suits your needs or desires. I guess if the product has enough appeal, people will willingly give up their rights (Reference: Steam/Half-Life 2).
Is this a joke or are you serious? I've wondered why there isn't a "Microsoft" section, seeing as about 20% of all/. stories seem to be about MS.
Tried http://microsoft.slashdot.org but it just leads to the front page. If you click the Gates/Borg image, you get directed to a search page with MS as merely another business. I don't see a way to easily filter MS stories from what I see on the front page, like I can for Linux, Apple, BSD or any of the other topics listed in the Sections bar on the left of the page.
There are more common examples of computers in control of deadly force. For instance, take the horrifying practise of WWII-era Japanese kamikaze pilot flying a plane loaded with explosives into a ship. Replace the pilot with a computer, and you've got a cruise missile.
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you have extra power in your car because of the altenator. it is turned because your car is running and producing more power than you are using unless you're going up hill or accelerating. If you're at a dead stop and your engine is at idle where is the power of the combusing gas going? into heat, noise, and the altenator recharging your battery which is probably full after the first 5 min. So you have extra electricity.
No. There's no extra energy. The resistance of the alternator to turning is proportional to the electricity generated. Add more electrical load, and the alternator is harder to turn.
They have tried using this extra electricity for charging batteries for use in hybred electric cars but you have the offset of dragging around large batteries that weigh 50 lbs each and you have to have a couple to really get any extended electric mileage out of the system.
No. Hybrids are successful mostly because they recapture braking energy and allow the engine to be shut down when it is making more power than necessary.
They have tried using this extra electricity to power flywheels to store the power and release it back into the system when you release the brake but again you have this giant heavy flywheel to drag around.
No. Such systems were mechanical variants of a hybrid; that is, capturing the energy of braking and storing to use to accelerate the vehicle. There were some systems that used a huge flywheel as the vehicle's store of energy, but they never caught on.
The article uses this electricity to release the power that is naturally stored in the water solution. Einstien proved that all mater has a great deal of energy but getting it out has always been the problem. With gas we are getting no more than about a third of the actual energy out of the material we use up. That means that out of a gallon of gas we get the output of 1/3 actually making our car go. The rest is waisted.
No. Cars are not nuclear powered. Einstein has nothing to do with internal combustion. No material is used up or converted to energy. We're just rearranging the matter to a state of less potential energy. We harvest that energy as heat, which we then try to convert into kinetic energy. We only convert about 1/3, the rest stays as heat.
If we made an engine that recaptured the unspent fuel or had a system of burning the fuel completely we would have a better ratio of conversion from matter to energy.
No. There is very little unspent fuel, less than 1% in most modern engines. Again, the car is not nuclear powered, no fission or fusion taking place, no matter converted to energy.
Now we can't get the entire subatomic amounts Einstein was talking about but we can have the best chemical reaction amounts if we make a system that extracts the energy more effeciently from this reaction.
I don't know what you're talking about here, and I don't think you do either.
An example of this is when we add oxygen to gas (common practice now) to make a better chemical reaction inside the engine. We are taking a cheap additive and mixing it with a relitivly expensive main ingredient to make it burn better. If we add different chemicals we get different outputs, some help some hurt, most do both. Adding water helps the combustion by adding pressure and oxygen but hurts the engine by pressing water vapor into the oil and making our engine grind and wear out. Additive are nothing new and they have been proven to work. The main difference is that the right additivs are dangerous and hard to introduce to the system easily.
No. Oxygen additives don't produce a better chemical reaction, just a cleaner version of the same reaction. Adding water doesn't help combustion, just try adding some to your campfire. The old water injection systems reduced intake charge temperature by the phase change of water to steam, allowing greater compression ratios and greater efficiency.
The article stat
..supposedly will use Python scripts for most of the AI behaviour. It's supposedly the most easily and thoroughly modifiable game ever. I can't wait to see what the community produces. In fact, I'd say that the developers will incorporate user-generated content in the official patch system.
IMHO, nothing helps more with diagnosing hardware problems than some tested hardware (video card, processor, RAM). Makes isolating a problem or conflict dead easy.
...implies that you don't have any certs.
They're a way for people who don't have IT skills to evaluate the abilities of an IT person. As an analogy, say I'm terrible at math. If I see someone has a Ph.D. in Mathematics, I can be fairly confident that the person is at least competent in math.
Are certs perfect? Hell no. As mentioned in the article, it is possible to be supremely skilled and have no certs. It is also possible to have certs and be an empty suit (we all know this guy). But certs, for better or worse, are often the only game in town and you should learn to play it.
"This packaging is the property of the U.S. Postal Service and is provided solely for use in sending Priority Mail. Misuse may be a violation of Federal law."
Betcha won't find that on a private corporation's packages...
Isn't the DCMA a federal law?
Can you name something that you believe can not be explained mathematically? Do you have evidence for this?
While I may not be able to name something, the evidence suggests that there are some true things that cannot be proven mathematically. Someone even proved this mathematically!
Except at assigning purpose. This is one thing that cannot be expressed mathematically.
Maybe there are new mathematics that we haven't discovered yet.
in this case I must agree with teh FDA panel that the risk's realy don't outwiegh the benifit.(sic)
Nice of the FDA to make that decision for me. I'd rather do my own risk/benefit analysis, thanks.Wasn't it Winston Churchill who said "The best argument against democracy is a five minute chat with the average voter"?
Ah, but didn't he also say, "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Their TigerVista Manager software seems to be a rebranded version of UltraMon, a great utility for managing multiple monitors.
This programming language's name is obviously derived from my Slashdot nick. My SWAT team of highly-paid lawyers is examining a satellite photo of Sun's corporate headquarters, planning their legal assault.
Experience. We'll practice setting up a base on the moon because it will allow us to make mistakes at a relatively low cost. If we forget to bring some vital component, or something unexpected fails, or we need things that we didn't anticipate, help in the form of a resupply or rescue mission is only a few days of space travel away.
Contrast that with Mars, where help is 18-24 months away at best. We'd better know exactly what supplies will be needed because it's unlikely help could reach us in time.
My guess is onboard video. In the PC world, onboard video is 100% VGA connector. Not everyone wants/needs an expensive video card.
Any nuclear reaction that converts mass to energy violates the Conservation of Energy principle. Examples include fusion and fission, in which the energy output is greater than the energy input.
Under NO conceivable circumstances within the universe that we currently live could you uninvasively transmit any detailed information
That's a pretty broad generalization. It's a big universe, with many principles and theories yet to be discovered. Just because our current theories say that something is impossible doesn't make it so. We sometimes have to revise those theories to account for new observeations.
Remember, a hundred years ago there were NO conceivable circumstances within the universe in which the laws of conservation of matter and energy could be broken. Today they are broken routinely.
business people, management, financial/accountants are mostly useless
Typical geek elitism. The decision making, negotiation and people skills required to be an effective manager are just as important as technical skills and often more difficult to learn. Their importance in the success or failure of an organization cannot be overestimated. There are dozens of examples of companies with great ideas and technical expertise in spades that fail because they lack management and financial skills. As an organization grows, these skills only become more important.
Perhaps the best evidence for the importance of managers and accountants in creating a successful organization is that there are so few organizations of any significant size that can function without them. These people make big money for a reason: Their skills are difficult to acquire and are in great demand. If they are so useless, why would a for-profit company pay them so much?
So you technicians, engineers, and other professionals who can actually do real things
Management and accounting are real things too. And they tend to be more important than easily replaced (look at outsourcing) technical skill.
Didn't IE4 have PNG support?
Euclid only proved that any integer of the form ((2^n)-1)*2^n is a perfect number when (2^n)-1 is prime.
Years later, Euler proved that every even perfect number is of this form, i.e. there are no even perfect numbers not of this form.
Wikipedia reference
Ms has built less trust then Goggle has.It is not just about monopoly, it is about what you do with your monopoly.
Right, and using their monopoly position to bully France into changing its laws would squander some of their hard-earned trust. Denying all of France the use of their product would not win over many hearts, and I don't imagine it would help the bottom line.
No, friends, the vindictive method is not the best method. Google should go to bat and file an appeal, fighting for their rights the good, old-fashioned way.
You're missing a major distinction here. The car manufacturer doesn't tell you that you can't drive 200mph or install a huge spoiler, the government does, in the interest of public safety.
A car manufacturer can't tell you what you can or can't do with your car, once you've bought it, it's yours to do with as you see fit. If you want to paint the car an outlandish color, you can do so.
Tecmo figures they should be able to tell you what you can do with the software you bought from them (though they probably say you didn't buy it, you just licensed it). If you want to paint a character an outlandish color, oops, you've violated the EULA.
Why are people not up in arms about restrictive EULAs? When you buy something, it should be yours to do with as you please, including making it into something that better suits your needs or desires. I guess if the product has enough appeal, people will willingly give up their rights (Reference: Steam/Half-Life 2).
Lemme get this straight. You're asking how secure a Microsoft product is on Slashdot?
Let me answer with a question. How smart do I think you are?
We do. It is just called the "Microsoft" section.
Is this a joke or are you serious? I've wondered why there isn't a "Microsoft" section, seeing as about 20% of all /. stories seem to be about MS.
Tried http://microsoft.slashdot.org but it just leads to the front page. If you click the Gates/Borg image, you get directed to a search page with MS as merely another business. I don't see a way to easily filter MS stories from what I see on the front page, like I can for Linux, Apple, BSD or any of the other topics listed in the Sections bar on the left of the page.
I really fail to see how this is News for Nerds or Stuff that Matters. It's just as bad as Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine.
Editors, can we have a Childish Microsoft Bashing section so I can filter this crap from my frontpage?
There are more common examples of computers in control of deadly force. For instance, take the horrifying practise of WWII-era Japanese kamikaze pilot flying a plane loaded with explosives into a ship. Replace the pilot with a computer, and you've got a cruise missile.
Just so you know where you fit in the Nazi pecking order.
Grammar Nazi > Spelling Nazi > Irony Nazi > Punctuation Nazi
Personaly, I finds it ironic that all you's nazi's cant get allong.