It's even easier to not change the clocks OR the business hours. I like fact that here in Arizona, it's the same time all the time. You other folk are just plain weird. So it saves less than 1% on electricity... big whoop. I'll pay the extra 25 cents a month on my power bill, thank you very much. Just another example of the government minding the pennies, while blowing the big bucks.
No, all those words where we change them from "our" to "or" are ALL of French origin. Look in your dictionary. Here in the states, we hate them damn Frenchies, so we changed all their words so they were AMERCIAN instead of French.:)
So they won an award... big whoop. That only means that a couple judges (who probably weren't scientists by the way) thought it was better than the other exhibits. Maybe this was an off year. Second, no one said it wouldn't work, just that it's less efficient than the standard mechanical AC.
You ignored a lot in TFA yourself. The only people they interviewed for TFA were the two boys and their physics teacher from high school. No "scientists" were quoted in TFA as saying their project was in anyway good. Second, being able to blow cool-feeling air inside an air-conditioned hall for a few minutes is NOT the same thing as keeping a black car cool for several hours on a 110 degree day in sunny Arizona.
First, TFA says these boys nearly flunked because strapping a hair-dryer to five peltiers bought from eBay took all their free time for more than two years. Second, there was no mention of the massive heat-sinks and fans needed to cool the peltiers. If you were an electrical engineer, you'd know that peltiers have a hot side and a cool side. Failure to cool the hot side results in a loss of efficiency, an increase in current consumption, and a higher temperature on the cool side. Ever looked at a peltier CPU cooler? It has a big honking heat sink and fan to cool it. Just as a peltier CPU cooler has trouble working in a room with >90 degree ambient temps, so would the boys' peltier AC.
No, winning a prize at a fair is not a sign that a project is any good, much less useable in real life situations. This idea of using peltiers to cool a car is not even new, much less a "breakthrough invention." As others have pointed out, this was rejected by car makers decades ago as too inefficient. How can you "invent" something that was considered and rejected decades ago? TFA is just playing up the story more than it should because it's a couple of local boys who won a prize. Small papers always overblow local accomplishments.
Gas mileage isn't calculated by actually driving the car around. The car is placed on a machine that puts rollers under the drive wheels. The car is put in a certain gear and the engine run at a certain RPM to determine "city" and "highway" mileage. As the car never actually moves, wind resistance (among other things) never figures into the mileage.
Problem with that is that in many (most?) states, you have no right to a jury trial for a misdemeanor. Most rights we associate with the courts only apply to felonies.
You obviously don't follow the news closely... Blu-Ray can do 100G now, and Toshiba's scratch resistant coating will be standard on all Blu-Ray discs. Since it will be used on all discs, it will add less than a penny to the cost of the disc.
You gotta keep a close eye on the news - things are changing almost daily.
Having a high percentage of the population in prison means nothing more than we like to keep people in prison more than other countries.
First, most other countries still have such barbarisms as mob justice. Google for "honor killings" sometime. Second, many other countries can't afford to keep people in prison. Some of those solve the problem by simply executing the criminals, some of whom are only guilty of relatively minor crimes.
All in all, if you are going to be a criminal, make sure it's here in the US where they bend over backwards not to put you in jail in the first place, then make your stay at tax-payer's expense better than living on the street.
Why do people keep spreading this FUD? First, having a different instruction set doesn't make it harder to program. That's pure bologna. Any REAL programmer will tell you that. I can program in assembly on the 680x0, x86, PPC, Alpha, MIPS, and a number of other processors. Then remember that compilers make the ISA a moot issue in any case. C++ on Cell is no different than C++ on a DEC Alpha or on a Dell Centrino Laptop.
Second, IBM hasn't stopped promoting the cell. From the cell web page:
"CELL is not limited to game systems. IBM has announced a CELL-based "blade" leveraging the investment into the high-performance CELL architecture. Other future uses include HDTV sets, home servers, game servers, and supercomputers."
Please stop spouting MS XBox propaganda - you sound like a fanboy. I really hate how people with no knowledge or experience in real life programming somehow become knowledgeable experts after reading an article on ZDNet.
And of course they got that from Blue Max. Remember that? It was an old 8bit flying game with fully destroyable background. It was also an isometric scrolling game simulating 3D. VERY advanced for the times. It was fun to fly around and bomb roads, and houses, and cars...
Our sister always wanted to talk during the TV shows. We found that at about 9 on the volume, you could no longer hear her. I imagine the neighbors wished we had headphones instead.:)
People like that never get it - they come in while you're trying to enjoy and just start talking like you give a damn. So you grab the remote and turn the volume up... so they start talking louder. So you turn it up some more.
Fortunately, our sister couldn't yell loud enough to drown out the TV at or past 9... not that she didn't try.
Acronyms are generally considered words. More common examples are LASER, RADAR, FUBAR, and SNAFU. There are many others, but you get the idea now, right?
It is a great book. I have it sitting on the shelf just a few feet to my left. A lot of his stuff is just teen whacking material, but that one is really some of his best work.
Did you even bother to look at the dates? The table is upside down - the events at the top of the list occured MORE RECENTLY. The events at the bottom occured FIRST.
I don't think I'm "scaring people" with "big dollar signs" here. I'm simply pointing out the DOZENS of cases you see EVERY MONTH in the news. You know, where Company X wins a $400 million judgement against Company Y because they tried to bring out a device that supposedly violates some obscure patent on using screws to hold your device together.
You need to read the news a little more if you think patent cases are cheap and easy to handle. I guess that's how you sucker people into retaining your services. No wonder you want to stay anonymous.
I can see why you post as an anonymous coward. If you think that disputing a patent only costs those fees the patent office charges, you're stupider than you sound.
Suppose DVForge paid the $3K to $8K to re-examine the patent. The first thing the patent holder will do is file suit against DVForge for patent infringement. After a patent is issued, even non-commercial development of similar items is an infringement. NOW the costs start going up.
The second thing the patent holder does is hire a patent attorney to write papers to submit to the re-examination saying why the patent is valid. Now is DVForge going to going to pay a pricey patent lawyer to write disputing papers for them? Even more money.
And it goes on from there. Microsoft usually spends several million dollars on trying to get patents overturned to avoid lawsuits. YOU need to grow up and look at the way patents REALLY work (or don't work as the case may be).
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You mean Japanese. The Chinese have both l and r and have no trouble pronouncing them.
It's even easier to not change the clocks OR the business hours. I like fact that here in Arizona, it's the same time all the time. You other folk are just plain weird. So it saves less than 1% on electricity... big whoop. I'll pay the extra 25 cents a month on my power bill, thank you very much. Just another example of the government minding the pennies, while blowing the big bucks.
No, all those words where we change them from "our" to "or" are ALL of French origin. Look in your dictionary. Here in the states, we hate them damn Frenchies, so we changed all their words so they were AMERCIAN instead of French. :)
So they won an award... big whoop. That only means that a couple judges (who probably weren't scientists by the way) thought it was better than the other exhibits. Maybe this was an off year. Second, no one said it wouldn't work, just that it's less efficient than the standard mechanical AC.
You ignored a lot in TFA yourself. The only people they interviewed for TFA were the two boys and their physics teacher from high school. No "scientists" were quoted in TFA as saying their project was in anyway good. Second, being able to blow cool-feeling air inside an air-conditioned hall for a few minutes is NOT the same thing as keeping a black car cool for several hours on a 110 degree day in sunny Arizona.
First, TFA says these boys nearly flunked because strapping a hair-dryer to five peltiers bought from eBay took all their free time for more than two years. Second, there was no mention of the massive heat-sinks and fans needed to cool the peltiers. If you were an electrical engineer, you'd know that peltiers have a hot side and a cool side. Failure to cool the hot side results in a loss of efficiency, an increase in current consumption, and a higher temperature on the cool side. Ever looked at a peltier CPU cooler? It has a big honking heat sink and fan to cool it. Just as a peltier CPU cooler has trouble working in a room with >90 degree ambient temps, so would the boys' peltier AC.
No, winning a prize at a fair is not a sign that a project is any good, much less useable in real life situations. This idea of using peltiers to cool a car is not even new, much less a "breakthrough invention." As others have pointed out, this was rejected by car makers decades ago as too inefficient. How can you "invent" something that was considered and rejected decades ago? TFA is just playing up the story more than it should because it's a couple of local boys who won a prize. Small papers always overblow local accomplishments.
Gas mileage isn't calculated by actually driving the car around. The car is placed on a machine that puts rollers under the drive wheels. The car is put in a certain gear and the engine run at a certain RPM to determine "city" and "highway" mileage. As the car never actually moves, wind resistance (among other things) never figures into the mileage.
Not true. In most states, traffic offenses are Class C Misdemeanors. This makes them the lowest class, but they are still criminal offenses.
Problem with that is that in many (most?) states, you have no right to a jury trial for a misdemeanor. Most rights we associate with the courts only apply to felonies.
You obviously don't follow the news closely... Blu-Ray can do 100G now, and Toshiba's scratch resistant coating will be standard on all Blu-Ray discs. Since it will be used on all discs, it will add less than a penny to the cost of the disc.
You gotta keep a close eye on the news - things are changing almost daily.
Having a high percentage of the population in prison means nothing more than we like to keep people in prison more than other countries.
First, most other countries still have such barbarisms as mob justice. Google for "honor killings" sometime. Second, many other countries can't afford to keep people in prison. Some of those solve the problem by simply executing the criminals, some of whom are only guilty of relatively minor crimes.
All in all, if you are going to be a criminal, make sure it's here in the US where they bend over backwards not to put you in jail in the first place, then make your stay at tax-payer's expense better than living on the street.
Actually, if you leave the keys in the car and it gets stolen, in most states you ARE responsible for anything they do with the stolen car.
Why do people keep spreading this FUD? First, having a different instruction set doesn't make it harder to program. That's pure bologna. Any REAL programmer will tell you that. I can program in assembly on the 680x0, x86, PPC, Alpha, MIPS, and a number of other processors. Then remember that compilers make the ISA a moot issue in any case. C++ on Cell is no different than C++ on a DEC Alpha or on a Dell Centrino Laptop.
Second, IBM hasn't stopped promoting the cell. From the cell web page:
"CELL is not limited to game systems. IBM has announced a CELL-based "blade" leveraging the investment into the high-performance CELL architecture. Other future uses include HDTV sets, home servers, game servers, and supercomputers."
http://www.research.ibm.com/cell/
Please stop spouting MS XBox propaganda - you sound like a fanboy. I really hate how people with no knowledge or experience in real life programming somehow become knowledgeable experts after reading an article on ZDNet.
And of course they got that from Blue Max. Remember that? It was an old 8bit flying game with fully destroyable background. It was also an isometric scrolling game simulating 3D. VERY advanced for the times. It was fun to fly around and bomb roads, and houses, and cars...
Our sister always wanted to talk during the TV shows. We found that at about 9 on the volume, you could no longer hear her. I imagine the neighbors wished we had headphones instead. :)
People like that never get it - they come in while you're trying to enjoy and just start talking like you give a damn. So you grab the remote and turn the volume up... so they start talking louder. So you turn it up some more.
Fortunately, our sister couldn't yell loud enough to drown out the TV at or past 9... not that she didn't try.
Acronyms are generally considered words. More common examples are LASER, RADAR, FUBAR, and SNAFU. There are many others, but you get the idea now, right?
Why would you expect the desktop computers of execs and secretaries and consultants to be using server software?
Wow! That's great! Right up until a mugger removes your fingers (better get them all, don't know which one has the codes).
It's one of those "seems good until you stop to think about it" ideas.
Biometrics is assinine. Thieves have already started chopping off fingers to get expensive cars with biometrics.
n t_merc_chop/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/fingerpri
I'm not about to buy ANYTHING that requires removing a body part to steal it.
It is a great book. I have it sitting on the shelf just a few feet to my left. A lot of his stuff is just teen whacking material, but that one is really some of his best work.
It's to teach you a lesson for beating our soccer teams (football to you folk). ;)
It's good to see you have your prioirties right. Punish copyright infringement more harshly than murder or armed robbery!
Seems the world is headed toward imprisoning people for stealing a SLICE of bread, much less the whole loaf. Les Miserables for the new generation...
Did you even bother to look at the dates? The table is upside down - the events at the top of the list occured MORE RECENTLY. The events at the bottom occured FIRST.
I'd have put this in the "water still wet" department. People have known for decades that the brain used continuous, or analog computing.
I don't think I'm "scaring people" with "big dollar signs" here. I'm simply pointing out the DOZENS of cases you see EVERY MONTH in the news. You know, where Company X wins a $400 million judgement against Company Y because they tried to bring out a device that supposedly violates some obscure patent on using screws to hold your device together.
You need to read the news a little more if you think patent cases are cheap and easy to handle. I guess that's how you sucker people into retaining your services. No wonder you want to stay anonymous.
Old enough to at least be able to double-check with dictionary.com. :P
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=stupider
I know, I know - teachers have been drilling the hell out of kids to avoid things like that.
More stupid instead of stupider. Jim and I instead of me and Jim. Problem is, the latter uses are just fine.
I can see why you post as an anonymous coward. If you think that disputing a patent only costs those fees the patent office charges, you're stupider than you sound.
Suppose DVForge paid the $3K to $8K to re-examine the patent. The first thing the patent holder will do is file suit against DVForge for patent infringement. After a patent is issued, even non-commercial development of similar items is an infringement. NOW the costs start going up.
The second thing the patent holder does is hire a patent attorney to write papers to submit to the re-examination saying why the patent is valid. Now is DVForge going to going to pay a pricey patent lawyer to write disputing papers for them? Even more money.
And it goes on from there. Microsoft usually spends several million dollars on trying to get patents overturned to avoid lawsuits. YOU need to grow up and look at the way patents REALLY work (or don't work as the case may be).