The "Jet" or "gas turbine" is a turbofan engine similar to those fitted to small corporate aircraft like Learjets... They are not gas hogs. To be clearer: they are at low altitudes. At 45,000 feet (Global Flyer's cruising altitude,) the fuel efficiency is impecable.
Fuel is stored in tanks in the wings, pontoons and forward fuselage... basically, the plane is a fishtank for a couple hours until he can get some fuel out of the wings and make it into a more "flyable" bomb.
If internal compustion engines were more efficient than gas turbines, why weren't they implemented in the airline industry?
Furthermore, I'd much rather have a turbine because they have so few moving parts... the simplest have one! Less to breakdown on you while you are pissing out the window into an infinite void of pacific waves 45,000 feet below...
Agreed... It is in my oppinion that industry is very self regulating. We will have to ease slowely toward memory like this. I imagine one could buy something congruent to this technology today, but it would be prohibitively expensive. We hear "breaking news" about technologies like this so often... It barely phases me anymore.
The governing factor in the success of these cutting edge devices is consumer driven supply and demand. No doubt, there will be use for this level of storage density; the form factor is provocative, just like MiniDisk was. It seems that more often than not, these sort of inventions just disappear over time... overshadowed by properly marketed technologies, like CDs.
In any case, I imagine it will take quite a while before something like this becomes a mainstream medium. Not to lean too far left, but we do have to consider the MPAAs timeframe in figuring out what to put on a disk that can hold the genome of 1-200 species. They'll need to up with something like Ultra High Definition digital video to combine with their already outrageous levels of "deleted scenes" and "special features." And what's the RIAA going to do? They sure won't throw half the world's available music on a postage stamp and sell it for $16.95! Nono... time for a new format: audio recording frequencies 2 Ghz above that which is discernable to the human ear in.WAV, with a two Gigabyte security tag.
"Last week, the company launched what will be a nationwide network of ad-supported wi-fi hotspots." Note: All hotspots will occur exclusively at starbucks coffee shops. Considerations are underway to expand to McDonalds and Walmarts near you!
-Use 220V power sources only! -System WILL NOT function properly if flyback transformer output is BELOW 500 KV. -If bleeding from the ears or urinary tract occurs during use, consult medical assistance immediately. -DO NOT use in bathtub, shower, or rain. -Conditions of high humidity should be avoided as electrical arcing may occur between peripheral devices on user. -People with braces or a pacemaker should refrain from use of this product.
Flight Instructor: $25/hour. Aircraft rental: $125/hour. Aircraft renter's insurance: $25/month Student supplies and Examiner's fee: $500 Some nice Rayban Aviator glasses: $600 Total fixed-wing license cost: ~$6,172.85
Getting hammered at a frat party to later find yourself effing up a barrel roll and plowing a $96,000 Cessna Skylane through mom's back yard in a cartwheeling mass of burning 100 Octane low-lead Avgas and crumpled aircraft aluminum (aluminium... whatever)...Priceless.
Time to take moore's law into you're own hands dude!
Just rip apart an old LCD monitor and lay it on a used overhead projector... I bet you could get 1280 x 1024 for less than $200, especially if you don't care about it weighing 20lbs...
That's it... I think it's time to officially classify the "Beowulf cluster" troll. I've heard people on/. want to cluster toasters, hampster wheels, spouses/girlfriends, and just about everything else. Atleast it's not as annoying as being subliminally forced to think about your breathing for the next half hour.
and make an earth-satellite or moon-satellite out of it. Then we could put scientific equipment on it. Maybe we could use it as the outer station of a space elevator. Or use it as a test subject for rerouting space bodies that ARE going to hit the earth.
Since it's moving already, we could (as previously posted) land a probe on it and allow it to fly off into space under it's own inertia. Since it's already moving, we could land a very large nuclear powered unit on it with little fuel, allowing for more gear onboard. A telescope would be cool. We could make a time capsule out of it... it's next pass would remind people in a thousand years of what life back then was like.
Saddly, discussion on things like global warming is seeming (to me) to increasingly resemble those highschool prom orgizational meetings... You know: the ones where there are FAR too many people with different ideas and oppinions. The jocks want to crash the party (don't know really, never was one) the cheerleaders want it to be a miraculous event, someone wants it to be commemorative... whatever. Point is that nothing gets done because of the sheer volume of parcipitants. My logic is along these lines: Science is (among other things) an amazing way to apply order to seemingly chaotic environs. Scientists can accurately control an SUV sized vehicle from earth to Titan... Their jobs are based on bringing order to disorder. --I'm sure that deserves a rebuttal or something, but whatever. So the scientists are saying that things "may" be going awry in terms of climate? and they tell us that there "may" be dire consequences? And they've given us a list of things that may help or possibly even fix the problem? Cool beans! So these guys no how to keep the party going... it's their job. But we have in the boardroom, Cheerleaders, religious people, jocks, Carrie... ect. In the end, we already have an idea as to how this can be fixed, but practically no one but the scientists want to bother with/believe in best course of action.
So I think what will happen is that we stupid, stubbern humans will continue to do what we've always done. THen at some point, things will get bad and we'll turn to the guys who knew about the potential concequences all along and ask them to fix it...
or... yeah, Carrie goes haywire and kills us all at the prom. um... ok, I'm done.
Anyone know anything about weather (pun intended) the approximate date for the "end of the world" could coincide with a foretold date of armageddon? Was Nostradamus vague enough to "predict" even this?
yeah... but I'm a futurist and feel that at some point, technology will be so advanced as to achieve immortality... But yeah... right now, things are looking pretty cool as far as the human condition is concerned.
Does anyone find it as depressing as I do that we'll miss SO MUCH of the amazing feats of humanity? I want to eat dinner in a five-star lounge with a Gigantic ringed planet half-risen in the eastern horizon, casting a sunset-like glow on the walls...
they cost thousands of dollars right now, but the sunnybrook high dynamic range monitors seen at last year's SIGGRAPH were a showstopper... They currently have a model that offeres a dynamic range of 40,000:1 compared to the best of today's displays ~700:1, that's something to brag about. most are about 300:1! I believe 40,000:1 reaches the limits of human vision. They work by individually illuminating the pixels with LEDs, thus facilitating higher dynamic range and local control. Darks are darker lights are brighter. http://www.sunnybrooktech.com/hdr/index .html has a good visual on how effective the system is. Once the price drops to reasonable levels, I think that the act of purchasing a flatscreen will become something more than an "emmotional" venture.
"Officer... I'm sorry. Please don't write this ticket... Look man it was only Mach 7.4! hey you're really starting to piss me off! Damnit! I'm going to be late for lunar yoga! Thanks for the negative energy man!"
Actually, Disney is in a hitch I imagine... They just fired all but 10 (?) of their animators down in Floridas U. Studios so that they can make the switch to 3d. The remaining 10 I imagine are the ones making a transition to 3d... They will be in total disarray for a couple of years atleast...
Man, it's entertaining to sit back and observe the demise of a juggernaut corporation.
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The "Jet" or "gas turbine" is a turbofan engine similar to those fitted to small corporate aircraft like Learjets... They are not gas hogs.
To be clearer: they are at low altitudes. At 45,000 feet (Global Flyer's cruising altitude,) the fuel efficiency is impecable.
Fuel is stored in tanks in the wings, pontoons and forward fuselage... basically, the plane is a fishtank for a couple hours until he can get some fuel out of the wings and make it into a more "flyable" bomb.
If internal compustion engines were more efficient than gas turbines, why weren't they implemented in the airline industry?
Furthermore, I'd much rather have a turbine because they have so few moving parts... the simplest have one! Less to breakdown on you while you are pissing out the window into an infinite void of pacific waves 45,000 feet below...
Soon, toner wars will cloud skies over all of us... how cool.
You know... I'm really starting to get a good idea of just how successful terrorism is.
All this post 9/11 paranoia is devastating our nation.
Agreed...
.WAV, with a two Gigabyte security tag.
It is in my oppinion that industry is very self regulating. We will have to ease slowely toward memory like this. I imagine one could buy something congruent to this technology today, but it would be prohibitively expensive. We hear "breaking news" about technologies like this so often... It barely phases me anymore.
The governing factor in the success of these cutting edge devices is consumer driven supply and demand. No doubt, there will be use for this level of storage density; the form factor is provocative, just like MiniDisk was. It seems that more often than not, these sort of inventions just disappear over time... overshadowed by properly marketed technologies, like CDs.
In any case, I imagine it will take quite a while before something like this becomes a mainstream medium. Not to lean too far left, but we do have to consider the MPAAs timeframe in figuring out what to put on a disk that can hold the genome of 1-200 species. They'll need to up with something like Ultra High Definition digital video to combine with their already outrageous levels of "deleted scenes" and "special features."
And what's the RIAA going to do? They sure won't throw half the world's available music on a postage stamp and sell it for $16.95! Nono... time for a new format: audio recording frequencies 2 Ghz above that which is discernable to the human ear in
"Slashdot: News for nerds... mostly male."
http://newmail.monsterserve.com/movies.htm
http://www.kolumbus.fi/jon.haglund/wav/ap_1million .wav
"and hence would be black for all intents and purposes."
Dude... not cool.
"and hence would be 'African American' for all intents and purposes."
Welcome to the 21st century.
"Last week, the company launched what will be a nationwide network of ad-supported wi-fi hotspots."
Note: All hotspots will occur exclusively at starbucks coffee shops. Considerations are underway to expand to McDonalds and Walmarts near you!
-Use 220V power sources only!
-System WILL NOT function properly if flyback transformer output is BELOW 500 KV.
-If bleeding from the ears or urinary tract occurs during use, consult medical assistance immediately.
-DO NOT use in bathtub, shower, or rain.
-Conditions of high humidity should be avoided as electrical arcing may occur between peripheral devices on user.
-People with braces or a pacemaker should refrain from use of this product.
Flight Instructor: $25/hour.
...Priceless.
Aircraft rental: $125/hour.
Aircraft renter's insurance: $25/month
Student supplies and Examiner's fee: $500
Some nice Rayban Aviator glasses: $600
Total fixed-wing license cost: ~$6,172.85
Getting hammered at a frat party to later find yourself effing up a barrel roll and plowing a $96,000 Cessna Skylane through mom's back yard in a cartwheeling mass of burning 100 Octane low-lead Avgas and crumpled aircraft aluminum (aluminium... whatever)
"Oprah Claims Microsoft Has Poor Interoperability..."
Honestly, I was confused for a second there.
Time to take moore's law into you're own hands dude! Just rip apart an old LCD monitor and lay it on a used overhead projector... I bet you could get 1280 x 1024 for less than $200, especially if you don't care about it weighing 20lbs...
That's it... I think it's time to officially classify the "Beowulf cluster" troll. I've heard people on /. want to cluster toasters, hampster wheels, spouses/girlfriends, and just about everything else.
Atleast it's not as annoying as being subliminally forced to think about your breathing for the next half hour.
A small gathering of Mini Coopers around a campfire in europe... Or something...
when he invented the segway.
and make an earth-satellite or moon-satellite out of it. Then we could put scientific equipment on it. Maybe we could use it as the outer station of a space elevator. Or use it as a test subject for rerouting space bodies that ARE going to hit the earth.
Since it's moving already, we could (as previously posted) land a probe on it and allow it to fly off into space under it's own inertia. Since it's already moving, we could land a very large nuclear powered unit on it with little fuel, allowing for more gear onboard. A telescope would be cool.
We could make a time capsule out of it... it's next pass would remind people in a thousand years of what life back then was like.
Saddly, discussion on things like global warming is seeming (to me) to increasingly resemble those highschool prom orgizational meetings... You know: the ones where there are FAR too many people with different ideas and oppinions. The jocks want to crash the party (don't know really, never was one) the cheerleaders want it to be a miraculous event, someone wants it to be commemorative... whatever. Point is that nothing gets done because of the sheer volume of parcipitants.
My logic is along these lines: Science is (among other things) an amazing way to apply order to seemingly chaotic environs. Scientists can accurately control an SUV sized vehicle from earth to Titan... Their jobs are based on bringing order to disorder. --I'm sure that deserves a rebuttal or something, but whatever.
So the scientists are saying that things "may" be going awry in terms of climate? and they tell us that there "may" be dire consequences? And they've given us a list of things that may help or possibly even fix the problem? Cool beans!
So these guys no how to keep the party going... it's their job. But we have in the boardroom, Cheerleaders, religious people, jocks, Carrie... ect.
In the end, we already have an idea as to how this can be fixed, but practically no one but the scientists want to bother with/believe in best course of action.
So I think what will happen is that we stupid, stubbern humans will continue to do what we've always done. THen at some point, things will get bad and we'll turn to the guys who knew about the potential concequences all along and ask them to fix it...
or... yeah, Carrie goes haywire and kills us all at the prom.
um... ok, I'm done.
Anyone know anything about weather (pun intended) the approximate date for the "end of the world" could coincide with a foretold date of armageddon?
Was Nostradamus vague enough to "predict" even this?
yeah... but I'm a futurist and feel that at some point, technology will be so advanced as to achieve immortality...
But yeah... right now, things are looking pretty cool as far as the human condition is concerned.
Does anyone find it as depressing as I do that we'll miss SO MUCH of the amazing feats of humanity? I want to eat dinner in a five-star lounge with a Gigantic ringed planet half-risen in the eastern horizon, casting a sunset-like glow on the walls...
Yo Mamma's so fat...
they cost thousands of dollars right now, but the sunnybrook high dynamic range monitors seen at last year's SIGGRAPH were a showstopper... They currently have a model that offeres a dynamic range of 40,000:1x .html has a good visual on how effective the system is.
compared to the best of today's displays ~700:1, that's something to brag about. most are about 300:1!
I believe 40,000:1 reaches the limits of human vision.
They work by individually illuminating the pixels with LEDs, thus facilitating higher dynamic range and local control. Darks are darker lights are brighter.
http://www.sunnybrooktech.com/hdr/inde
Once the price drops to reasonable levels, I think that the act of purchasing a flatscreen will become something more than an "emmotional" venture.
"Officer... I'm sorry. Please don't write this ticket... Look man it was only Mach 7.4! hey you're really starting to piss me off! Damnit! I'm going to be late for lunar yoga! Thanks for the negative energy man!"
First post?
Actually, Disney is in a hitch I imagine...
They just fired all but 10 (?) of their animators down in Floridas U. Studios so that they can make the switch to 3d.
The remaining 10 I imagine are the ones making a transition to 3d...
They will be in total disarray for a couple of years atleast...
Man, it's entertaining to sit back and observe the demise of a juggernaut corporation.