Well according to http://www.allaboutbatteries.com/Energy-tables.html a NiCad AA battery holds 4320J of energy a WiiMote takes 2 so thats a total of 8640J. A Wii mote lasts around 24 to 30 hours (lets be pessimistic and say 24h),with this information lets take the worst case scenario of 4 players.
4 Wiimotes x 8640j=33840J
Xbox drains 118.8W at full load and the Wii 16.4W, thats a 102.4W difference.
33840J/102.4W=330seconds of runtime where the Wii has saved enough power to charge it's batteries Vs an XBOX or in other words the power drain of recharging the wii motes is negligable next to the power savings.
Yes but as Eddy Izzard prophesied the rich did go forth and purchased giant blenders and squirted the liquid camels through th eye of the needle in very fine jets.
I assume when you house catches fire you have your private fire truck turn up at great expense to yourself to put out the fire, likewise I'm sure you hire a contract police force when your robbed.
I'll make a note to ban baseball bats as they can be used in assaults, oh and pepper spray in case a mugger uses it on someone, oh and let us no forget cars that might be used to evade the law.
Yep, computers are a great whipping boy especially if the code was out sourced to dirty foreigners!* Who hasn't had an all American computer crash or do something weird? Put some foreign software on it a no wonder were in the mess we are, the greedy irresponsible lenders were miss led into thinking Billy-Jo could afford a $400,000 house on his road-side peanut stands income! No wonder those inexplicable 'magic' investments that somehow will give you money for no readily available reason looked so AAA good!
Pure EV's have one huge weakness and that is range, 200 miles per charge is perfect for 95% of the time when you are commuting to work or even driving round town as even a long commute of say 70 miles each way leaves you with a spare 60 when you get home (charge up over night and your ready to go). However it is the 5% that would stop me, this weekend I intend to drive from Burlington, VT to Lewis, NY that is 160 miles each way now you can see the problem that I can get there but getting back would be problematic as I need to more or less recharge the whole battery.
This is where I think hybrids are a great idea, like the new concept Jeep putting a compact and very efficient diesel geny on the car will allow the system to top-up the battery as you go, if the car had say a 100 mile range on battery then for long trips the diesel would kick in and re-charge the batteries. A further improvement would be having a power management option on the car so you could specify how you will be driving:
City driving : the car stays on battery till it reaches 10% then the genny kicks.
Highway : The genny keeps the battery around 50%
Performance/Towing : Genny is going pretty much full time
When you arrive at a docking station (home/office/parking bay) car can charge off the grid, in the evenings the car can soak up the surplus and during the day potentialy provide (with you prior consent) upto say 25% of the battery to help with peak demand.
Just my 2 cent but I think this is a workable solution as the car is not totally Dependant on the grid.
What is the best way for humans to deal with the inconsistent amount of light over the year and still foster coordination over disparate time zones?"
Yes how on Earth did we survive the 2 billion year evolution to the point where we could develope DST???
I this if we just plain scrapped it everything would go on as usual, most of us work in a building of some form and they come with lights these days. As for farmer I think the 5,000,000 candle power on a combine haverister just about does the trick.
So MPG is not exactly great although I did get a couple extra MPG by adding a K&N Induction kit and replacing the mechanical fan (bolter to engine, always running) with an electric one that spends most it's time off when driving. Over all I now get 17 MPG highway which is impressive considering the size of the roof rack.
Let me help: The wood? Hickory and Cherry. The temperature? 240deg. Time: 6hours.
So tell me; how many polar bears did I kill?
Depends, how many racks of baby Polar Bear Back Ribs can you smoker hold?
Then you should be fine with random police searches of your house and car and of course you will dutifully pay the speeding fine after you slightly over accelerated to 34 in a 30.
I think you'll find sci-fi deals with the issues of new technology very well even if a degree of creative license is needed. I robot covers the concept of rights for AI, we may never develop positronic brains but we will have AI one day and I think it would be prudent to read this book before we have a matrix-esk situation.
It is regardless how the science works (too a degree) the key point is has anyone checked to see how the machine responds to someone who blames them self for a crime they didn't commit (IE a car crash where the driver survives but the passengers don't due to a freak accident that the driver thinks is there fault but really isn't) befor we sentence an innocent person.
In Red Dwarf Arnold Rimmer has to undergo a mind scan after which he is found guilty of the 1st degree murder of the whole crew of the Red Dwarf. Kryton is able to get Rimmer aquitted by pointing out that the radiation leak was caused by Rimmer being an incompetent half wit anf the mid scan confused the guilt he felt with culpability, in his own mind he tried and convicted himself... How would this mind probe deal this?
Maybe but creation videos retard human development by teaching bad science and faith in woo woo. You could argue, it's the thin edge of the wedge today the year is 6,000 tomorrow we get rid of immunization and prey you don't get measles
...the magic words of Terrorism and Religion change the rules completely. I am not going to watch a training video and then go blow up a government building because I suddenly became radicalized, so why are they being taken down? Okay, so maybe we need to think of the children, so lets at least flag it as adult so net nanny will filter it out.
What really irks me is these (factual) videos are being censored yet on youtube there are thousands of (non factual, religious extremist)videos claiming the Earth (nay, universe) is 6,000 years old that are not being taken down. So in conclusion we either take down all offensive videos (leaving just dramatic gopher and rambling blogs) and slowly creep towards thought police or we have to allow freedom of speech, I think that might be in a couple of European countries constitutions, oh and some union in North America;-)
So your saying that the release of energy from the mass of 100 flaws of skyscraper falling wouldn't be able to shear and melt an iron girder, realy?! 9/11 was caused by a bunch of pissed off religious fanatics.
We've all seen them in malls the glass cubes with a 3d photo made out of laser etched bubbles.
If you could make a cube 1,000,000 x 1,000,000,000 x 1,000,000 bubbles you could store 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data plus it would be nigh on indestructible as glass is very resistant to corrosion, unaffected by cold/damp/heat/vibration and to a lesser degree radiation and would not run out of power. You could also leave instructions on how to read the data engraved on the cube.
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Tom:Ah ha! Yes, he is really neat, he is made of turtle meat.
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I wouldn't call PETA if I were you, the dog would only have a 10% chance of not being put down.
Well according to http://www.allaboutbatteries.com/Energy-tables.html a NiCad AA battery holds 4320J of energy a WiiMote takes 2 so thats a total of 8640J.
A Wii mote lasts around 24 to 30 hours (lets be pessimistic and say 24h),with this information lets take the worst case scenario of 4 players.
4 Wiimotes x 8640j=33840J
Xbox drains 118.8W at full load and the Wii 16.4W, thats a 102.4W difference.
33840J/102.4W=330seconds of runtime where the Wii has saved enough power to charge it's batteries Vs an XBOX or in other words the power drain of recharging the wii motes is negligable next to the power savings.
MEGA-WEAPON! Now where is that guy from Paper Chase?
Yes but as Eddy Izzard prophesied the rich did go forth and purchased giant blenders and squirted the liquid camels through th eye of the needle in very fine jets.
I assume when you house catches fire you have your private fire truck turn up at great expense to yourself to put out the fire, likewise I'm sure you hire a contract police force when your robbed.
However as a foreign born I only get the taxation, not the representation... hmmm I seem to remember that not ending too well last time.
I'll make a note to ban baseball bats as they can be used in assaults, oh and pepper spray in case a mugger uses it on someone, oh and let us no forget cars that might be used to evade the law.
Yep, computers are a great whipping boy especially if the code was out sourced to dirty foreigners!* Who hasn't had an all American computer crash or do something weird? Put some foreign software on it a no wonder were in the mess we are, the greedy irresponsible lenders were miss led into thinking Billy-Jo could afford a $400,000 house on his road-side peanut stands income! No wonder those inexplicable 'magic' investments that somehow will give you money for no readily available reason looked so AAA good!
*I'm here on an L1 takin' yer jurrrb!
This is where I think hybrids are a great idea, like the new concept Jeep putting a compact and very efficient diesel geny on the car will allow the system to top-up the battery as you go, if the car had say a 100 mile range on battery then for long trips the diesel would kick in and re-charge the batteries.
A further improvement would be having a power management option on the car so you could specify how you will be driving:
City driving : the car stays on battery till it reaches 10% then the genny kicks.
Highway : The genny keeps the battery around 50%
Performance/Towing : Genny is going pretty much full time
When you arrive at a docking station (home/office/parking bay) car can charge off the grid, in the evenings the car can soak up the surplus and during the day potentialy provide (with you prior consent) upto say 25% of the battery to help with peak demand.
Just my 2 cent but I think this is a workable solution as the car is not totally Dependant on the grid.
Yes how on Earth did we survive the 2 billion year evolution to the point where we could develope DST???
I this if we just plain scrapped it everything would go on as usual, most of us work in a building of some form and they come with lights these days. As for farmer I think the 5,000,000 candle power on a combine haverister just about does the trick.
Also they have the best healthcare system in the world http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
and it's social medicine... just saying...
the cause of and solution to all lifes problems!
So MPG is not exactly great although I did get a couple extra MPG by adding a K&N Induction kit and replacing the mechanical fan (bolter to engine, always running) with an electric one that spends most it's time off when driving.
Over all I now get 17 MPG highway which is impressive considering the size of the roof rack.
Looks like the UK got there first by designing the park at the bottom of the screen to look lie the Union Flag.
Let me help: The wood? Hickory and Cherry. The temperature? 240deg. Time: 6hours. So tell me; how many polar bears did I kill? Depends, how many racks of baby Polar Bear Back Ribs can you smoker hold?
Then you should be fine with random police searches of your house and car and of course you will dutifully pay the speeding fine after you slightly over accelerated to 34 in a 30.
I think you'll find sci-fi deals with the issues of new technology very well even if a degree of creative license is needed. I robot covers the concept of rights for AI, we may never develop positronic brains but we will have AI one day and I think it would be prudent to read this book before we have a matrix-esk situation.
It is regardless how the science works (too a degree) the key point is has anyone checked to see how the machine responds to someone who blames them self for a crime they didn't commit (IE a car crash where the driver survives but the passengers don't due to a freak accident that the driver thinks is there fault but really isn't) befor we sentence an innocent person.
In Red Dwarf Arnold Rimmer has to undergo a mind scan after which he is found guilty of the 1st degree murder of the whole crew of the Red Dwarf. Kryton is able to get Rimmer aquitted by pointing out that the radiation leak was caused by Rimmer being an incompetent half wit anf the mid scan confused the guilt he felt with culpability, in his own mind he tried and convicted himself... How would this mind probe deal this?
Maybe but creation videos retard human development by teaching bad science and faith in woo woo. You could argue, it's the thin edge of the wedge today the year is 6,000 tomorrow we get rid of immunization and prey you don't get measles
...the magic words of Terrorism and Religion change the rules completely. I am not going to watch a training video and then go blow up a government building because I suddenly became radicalized, so why are they being taken down? Okay, so maybe we need to think of the children, so lets at least flag it as adult so net nanny will filter it out.
;-)
What really irks me is these (factual) videos are being censored yet on youtube there are thousands of (non factual, religious extremist)videos claiming the Earth (nay, universe) is 6,000 years old that are not being taken down.
So in conclusion we either take down all offensive videos (leaving just dramatic gopher and rambling blogs) and slowly creep towards thought police or we have to allow freedom of speech, I think that might be in a couple of European countries constitutions, oh and some union in North America
More specifically, magnetism causes steel to melt 100 stories down from the impact zone, leaving remnants like this: http://a986.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/72/l_a567c508f431db9f78e20057b5b59fb9.jpg
So your saying that the release of energy from the mass of 100 flaws of skyscraper falling wouldn't be able to shear and melt an iron girder, realy?! 9/11 was caused by a bunch of pissed off religious fanatics.
We've all seen them in malls the glass cubes with a 3d photo made out of laser etched bubbles.
If you could make a cube 1,000,000 x 1,000,000,000 x 1,000,000 bubbles you could store 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data plus it would be nigh on indestructible as glass is very resistant to corrosion, unaffected by cold/damp/heat/vibration and to a lesser degree radiation and would not run out of power. You could also leave instructions on how to read the data engraved on the cube.
Any one else remember seeing the photo 'enhancement' device that allow Mr Ford to see round a corner?