IANAME (Mech Engineer), but I guess that the alternator recharges the batteries normally, and once the batteries are recharged, the work done by the alternator is not really being harnessed. So, instead of letting that energy go to waste (heat), it is channeled to split water...small amount of energy conservation but a little bit is better than none.
You seem to be operating off the assumption that the alternator always takes the same amount of effort to turn, and that after it's done charging the batteries it's just wasting energy.
It doesn't work that way, though. If no electrical load is on the alternator, it's basically freewheeling without much resistance. However, if you put an electrical load on it, it becomes harder to turn. If alternators were 100% efficient, they'd sap 1 hp from the engine's crankshaft to generate 746 watts. But they're not 100% efficient. Doing what you suggest would just waste energy.
They should just come out and say it- This law is being pushed by ISPs who fear losing money because wireless home networks are becoming more common and they fear that potential customers might use their neighbors unlocked wireless connection instead of paying for their own. This is about money, not safety.
Trying pass sneaky laws and marketing them by saying "it's for your safety" or "think about the children" is just an insult to the intelligence of the public.
Yeah, sort of like the ultra-opinionated youth that tries so hard to think out outside the box and be original that he ends up looking like everyone else.
On the desktop I'd probably pick the Intel box, simply because of the computer's easy upgradability, but I'd never buy an Intel notebook. Most of them are heavy, loud, huge and ugly - not to forget the lousy *nix compatibility.
In case you haven't heard, Apple is dumping the PPC and using Intel chips.
t's open for everyone, however if you leave something there, it still belongs to you, for example the Chinese couldn't legally take any American or Soviet equipment left on the Moon./i?
Doesn't international law only pertain to the Earth? How can you legally convict someone of a crime according to your country's laws when it happened on another planet (or moon)?
China sits on wast dollar reserves. and can easily drive the value of dollar down the drain and/or raise the US interest rate a few points. Result of the almost 8 trillion dollar deficit USA has.
Why would they ever do that? If someone owed you $1000, would you like the money they owe you to be worth something or would you rather have them repay you in funds that are worthless to you?
I think the biggest problem with Wikipedia isn't the minor technical errors but the constant advocacy by extremely vocal groups. I often find information that clearly doesn't belong in the article but is put there by people advocating some cause. For instance, an article about dogs I read a while back had a disproportionate amount of information about vegetarianism in dogs. The article was supposed to be about dogs in general, not about veganism as it relates to dogs.
Also, the neutral point of view often gets in the way of accuracy. If you state something that is common sense and I put forth a lunatic fringe point of view that is highly unlikely, our views must be given about equal credibility in the article even though my point of view could be rubbish. If the poor reader was reading the article to get information about the subject, they wouldn't know what to believe.
Another major problem is that authors seem to forget who the target audience is for an encyclopedia. Instead of making the article simple and easy to read, the author instead seems to be concerned with making a name for himself by using the most advanced vocabulary possible. Remember, you're trying to educate someone who doesn't know much about the subject yet (hence them reading an encyclopedia article), you're not trying to impress your peers with your literary complexity.
So what if he wrote the story? After he tells the story to me, it exists in my brain. The version in my brain is under my control. It ends however I want it to end.
Any well-told work transcends its author. To limit your interpretations of it to those in the mind of the author is to accept an outright blasphemous form of mental slavery.
To me, it seems as if someone's telling you a story and the version in your head doesn't sync with what they're telling you, that's simply a case of poor comprehension or a loose grip on reality on your part.
It's their job to convey the information to you, and it's your job to understand it. If you have a problem with their story, make your own.
Clarification- I'm not trying to say that you believe that, I'm just stating that since the rate of decay is accelerating, we won't have the 50+ weeks until it gets under the 300 km figure that was stated.
True, but if the ISS is at 340 km and it is dropping at 1 km/day, then we have almost a year to fix the problem.
No we don't. Obviously if it gets under a certain altitude it's going to burn up. You don't really think it will still be orbiting at 50 km altitude, do you?
You are talking out of your ass. If you knew what you were talking about you would not have said that. My Saturn has 224,000 miles on it and it is still running.
We don't use a SunRay, but we do use WinTerms at work. They also require no disk and zero admin. The thing is that they create more problems than the Windows machines. Their profile on the server is constantly getting corrupted and we have to fix that all the time. You also can't work offline with them.
I also remember reading an article recently about how India's Air Force kicked our ass in joint training exercises.
Read up on the type of engagement it was. It wasn't supposed to be an even match to test dogfighting skill. It was a match that simulated the US being in a foreign country, greatly outnumbered, without the use of AWACS. We wanted to see how effective an enemy could be if they had "home field advantage". Pretty effective it turns out.
am assuming you have heard of a country called India, which is a developing nation. If you still don't get it, then get out of your basement and watch the real world. We are not in 70s anymore.
Oh, I think I get what you're saying. Right now it's 2005 and there's a country called "India". But back in the 70's India didn't exist. Now I get it.
Looking at the website, it's apparent why they're not catching on more- it costs more than a full-fledged computer at $1,049.
Let's be realistic here.
Pros: Thin client doesn't need powerful processing or storage, eliminating the costly CPU, hard disk, and operating system. You only need to buy a keyboard and mouse.
Cons: Sold in small numbers compared to the PC. The economy of scale for tradional desktops is so great that system builders like Dell can sell a full-fledged desktop with 2.8 ghz CPU, 512 megs memory, 80 GB hard drive, 17" monitor, CD-RW drive, operating system, AND they'll throw in the keyboard and mouse, all for $300 less than you can get the minimalist "inexpensive" dumb terminal for.
Or, if you want it to be portable, you can get a laptop for around the same price.
Centripetal acceleration is tangential to the curve, in a purely circular path, the vector can be envisioned going away from the center of the circle, not towards. You imply that centripetal is what keeps us on our feet. No way, Jose. You're off by pi.
Centrifugal force is the force that goes away from the center of the circle.
Centripetal force goes towards the center of the circle. Gravity is a centripetal force.
The other day, while at a bar, I told people that I can jump over the moon.
I'm proud to announce that today I jumped 2 feet- a critical proof-of-concept that demonstrates the feasibility of my claim. Maybe I'll be able to back it up after all!
Why would you double the materials price? That would make it $180 just for the materials, plus the cost of labor. Are you telling me that Apple only makes a few dollars profit on these?
My dad is a machinist, and that job is very heavy on trig. If you're trying to figure out how to calculate a correct taper or how to calculate threads, you need to know trig.
This definitely sounds like one of the most altruistic actions of a company I've ever heard.
You've got to be kidding me if you're saying you believe that.
This will certainly lead to some happier employees.
This will certainly lead to LESS employees, which is what IBM wants.
But it can also lead to more college professors having IBM experience, which could lead to students better educated to work at IBM.
You don't want to work for IBM, trust me.
Not only does it help the industry, in the very long term it can come back to help IBM. This seems like fantastic foresight on IBM's part.
This seems like poor foresight on your part. You seriously can't see it? IBM wants people out. They don't want higher educated (And higher paid) Western employees, they want lower paid Eastern employees, probably contracted out. This isn't about goodwill, this is about the Almighty Dollar. You have fallen victim to IBM's clever PR marketing. The commercials, with innovative people in a fresh, exciting company- it's all front. It's not like that within the company. Inside it's as dull and bureaucratic as it can get.
By the way, in case you haven't guessed by now, I work for IBM.
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IANAME (Mech Engineer), but I guess that the alternator recharges the batteries normally, and once the batteries are recharged, the work done by the alternator is not really being harnessed. So, instead of letting that energy go to waste (heat), it is channeled to split water...small amount of energy conservation but a little bit is better than none.
You seem to be operating off the assumption that the alternator always takes the same amount of effort to turn, and that after it's done charging the batteries it's just wasting energy.
It doesn't work that way, though. If no electrical load is on the alternator, it's basically freewheeling without much resistance. However, if you put an electrical load on it, it becomes harder to turn. If alternators were 100% efficient, they'd sap 1 hp from the engine's crankshaft to generate 746 watts. But they're not 100% efficient. Doing what you suggest would just waste energy.
Umm, No...read your own quote: Electricity (from the alternator in the engine) is used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Ok, so the hydrogen is extracted from water with the energy produced by burning diesel fuel.
They should just come out and say it- This law is being pushed by ISPs who fear losing money because wireless home networks are becoming more common and they fear that potential customers might use their neighbors unlocked wireless connection instead of paying for their own. This is about money, not safety.
Trying pass sneaky laws and marketing them by saying "it's for your safety" or "think about the children" is just an insult to the intelligence of the public.
Yeah, sort of like the ultra-opinionated youth that tries so hard to think out outside the box and be original that he ends up looking like everyone else.
On the desktop I'd probably pick the Intel box, simply because of the computer's easy upgradability, but I'd never buy an Intel notebook. Most of them are heavy, loud, huge and ugly - not to forget the lousy *nix compatibility. In case you haven't heard, Apple is dumping the PPC and using Intel chips.
You're incredibly astute, and pick up humor and sarcasm extremely well.
t's open for everyone, however if you leave something there, it still belongs to you, for example the Chinese couldn't legally take any American or Soviet equipment left on the Moon./i?
Doesn't international law only pertain to the Earth? How can you legally convict someone of a crime according to your country's laws when it happened on another planet (or moon)?
China sits on wast dollar reserves. and can easily drive the value of dollar down the drain and/or raise the US interest rate a few points. Result of the almost 8 trillion dollar deficit USA has.
Why would they ever do that? If someone owed you $1000, would you like the money they owe you to be worth something or would you rather have them repay you in funds that are worthless to you?
From looking at your pics, I've noticed that just about all the guys who use Macs in your pictures look, well, flaming gay.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not my scene at all. I think I'll stick with PCs.
I think the biggest problem with Wikipedia isn't the minor technical errors but the constant advocacy by extremely vocal groups. I often find information that clearly doesn't belong in the article but is put there by people advocating some cause. For instance, an article about dogs I read a while back had a disproportionate amount of information about vegetarianism in dogs. The article was supposed to be about dogs in general, not about veganism as it relates to dogs.
Also, the neutral point of view often gets in the way of accuracy. If you state something that is common sense and I put forth a lunatic fringe point of view that is highly unlikely, our views must be given about equal credibility in the article even though my point of view could be rubbish. If the poor reader was reading the article to get information about the subject, they wouldn't know what to believe.
Another major problem is that authors seem to forget who the target audience is for an encyclopedia. Instead of making the article simple and easy to read, the author instead seems to be concerned with making a name for himself by using the most advanced vocabulary possible. Remember, you're trying to educate someone who doesn't know much about the subject yet (hence them reading an encyclopedia article), you're not trying to impress your peers with your literary complexity.
So what if he wrote the story? After he tells the story to me, it exists in my brain. The version in my brain is under my control. It ends however I want it to end.
Any well-told work transcends its author. To limit your interpretations of it to those in the mind of the author is to accept an outright blasphemous form of mental slavery.
To me, it seems as if someone's telling you a story and the version in your head doesn't sync with what they're telling you, that's simply a case of poor comprehension or a loose grip on reality on your part.
It's their job to convey the information to you, and it's your job to understand it. If you have a problem with their story, make your own.
Trying to act artsy is no excuse for accuracy.
Clarification- I'm not trying to say that you believe that, I'm just stating that since the rate of decay is accelerating, we won't have the 50+ weeks until it gets under the 300 km figure that was stated.
True, but if the ISS is at 340 km and it is dropping at 1 km/day, then we have almost a year to fix the problem.
No we don't. Obviously if it gets under a certain altitude it's going to burn up. You don't really think it will still be orbiting at 50 km altitude, do you?
You are talking out of your ass. If you knew what you were talking about you would not have said that. My Saturn has 224,000 miles on it and it is still running.
We don't use a SunRay, but we do use WinTerms at work. They also require no disk and zero admin. The thing is that they create more problems than the Windows machines. Their profile on the server is constantly getting corrupted and we have to fix that all the time. You also can't work offline with them.
I also remember reading an article recently about how India's Air Force kicked our ass in joint training exercises.
Read up on the type of engagement it was. It wasn't supposed to be an even match to test dogfighting skill. It was a match that simulated the US being in a foreign country, greatly outnumbered, without the use of AWACS. We wanted to see how effective an enemy could be if they had "home field advantage". Pretty effective it turns out.
am assuming you have heard of a country called India, which is a developing nation. If you still don't get it, then get out of your basement and watch the real world. We are not in 70s anymore.
Oh, I think I get what you're saying. Right now it's 2005 and there's a country called "India". But back in the 70's India didn't exist. Now I get it.
Looking at the website, it's apparent why they're not catching on more- it costs more than a full-fledged computer at $1,049.
Let's be realistic here.
Pros: Thin client doesn't need powerful processing or storage, eliminating the costly CPU, hard disk, and operating system. You only need to buy a keyboard and mouse.
Cons: Sold in small numbers compared to the PC. The economy of scale for tradional desktops is so great that system builders like Dell can sell a full-fledged desktop with 2.8 ghz CPU, 512 megs memory, 80 GB hard drive, 17" monitor, CD-RW drive, operating system, AND they'll throw in the keyboard and mouse, all for $300 less than you can get the minimalist "inexpensive" dumb terminal for.
Or, if you want it to be portable, you can get a laptop for around the same price.
Not sure whether or not this is Sarcasm, but I'll rebuke this as best I can:
If you couldn't tell whether THAT was sarcasm or not, you're hopeless.
Centripetal acceleration is tangential to the curve, in a purely circular path, the vector can be envisioned going away from the center of the circle, not towards. You imply that centripetal is what keeps us on our feet. No way, Jose. You're off by pi.
Centrifugal force is the force that goes away from the center of the circle.
Centripetal force goes towards the center of the circle. Gravity is a centripetal force.
The other day, while at a bar, I told people that I can jump over the moon.
I'm proud to announce that today I jumped 2 feet- a critical proof-of-concept that demonstrates the feasibility of my claim. Maybe I'll be able to back it up after all!
Yup.
In fact, we can simulate everything on a computer, so why bother doing anything?
Why would you double the materials price? That would make it $180 just for the materials, plus the cost of labor. Are you telling me that Apple only makes a few dollars profit on these?
My dad is a machinist, and that job is very heavy on trig. If you're trying to figure out how to calculate a correct taper or how to calculate threads, you need to know trig.
This definitely sounds like one of the most altruistic actions of a company I've ever heard.
You've got to be kidding me if you're saying you believe that.
This will certainly lead to some happier employees.
This will certainly lead to LESS employees, which is what IBM wants.
But it can also lead to more college professors having IBM experience, which could lead to students better educated to work at IBM.
You don't want to work for IBM, trust me.
Not only does it help the industry, in the very long term it can come back to help IBM. This seems like fantastic foresight on IBM's part.
This seems like poor foresight on your part. You seriously can't see it? IBM wants people out. They don't want higher educated (And higher paid) Western employees, they want lower paid Eastern employees, probably contracted out. This isn't about goodwill, this is about the Almighty Dollar. You have fallen victim to IBM's clever PR marketing. The commercials, with innovative people in a fresh, exciting company- it's all front. It's not like that within the company. Inside it's as dull and bureaucratic as it can get.
By the way, in case you haven't guessed by now, I work for IBM.