If smaller fuel droplets help so much, I would assume engine engineers would have done this already by just adjusting the fuel injector with a different nozzle, much easier, much more trust worthy
Droplet size? Nozzles???
Dang thats a great idea - I'm going to interface my inkjet print to my car!
Oh wait - wouldn't work - prices for the cartridges exceed the price of gas...
Problem with using the account(s) that your ISP provides is that it makes it difficult to change your ISP or when you move and the same ISP is not available.
In addition, the poster wanted a domain name and, at least the ISPs that I know about, do not provide domain name.
Simply, soaps have one part of the molecule "oily" and the other part ionic so that the whole thing can dissolve in water. The oily side sticks to other oils and thats how it cleans your hands -it takes oils, fatty substances that can't ordinarily be dissolved by water and allow it to be carried away by water. Dirt which are polar are washed away normally without soap.
Detergents refer to a wide range of cleaning agents - from acids that change the structure of the material that is being removed to solvents that merely carry the material away - such as... water (or ethanol or ammonia solutions or...)
Basic problem with voting machines is no paper trail, except after the fact.
Simple solution is when a vote is recorded, print a receipt that the voter examines to confirm it is correct, and the voter has to deposit this receipt to finalize the vote (or the receipt cannot be touched but it can be examined). The receipt could even have information in the form or filled in circles so that the voter can visually confirm that, should the receipt require alternate electronic form of counting, the proper spot is marked. (no hanging chads or bubbles not filled in completely) and information printed such that hand counting would be easy.
I agree this is a mind-boggling simple application that was totally boggled. It makes one discombobulated!
I hope not. I imagine the police could give you the stuff and ask you if you ever commited any crimes. It'll be a routine thing, just like taking your fingerprint and DNA and firstborn, when you are arrested.
...I think many people who commit crimes would answer honestly (in their mind) that they did not. I think the thing will show that you're lying only if you think that you're lying. Many criminals have some rational for what they do .
And no, 100 Fahrenheit isn't very useful medically
While 100F body temp isn't considered normal, it isn't severe - it is low grade fever. You're usually not bed ridden at the temp. Once you're above 102 to 104 - that is considered moderate fever. Above 105 F it is pretty bad and much above 107F you turn into an average anonymous Slash dot poster. http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/pa/pa_feverpho_hhg.htm
Fahrenheit has approx. twice as many divisions between water freezing and boiling, so in effect given the same number of significant digits, a temperature in Fahrenheit is more "precise" than one given in Celsius, but your point that this precision is more than what is needed in everyday life is quite valid. Also, given the ease of conversion between Celsius and the even more useful (in scientific circles) Kelvin scales, Celsius has the edge.
I think the argument is that H2 is safer precisely because it is volatile (well it is a gas, all gases are "volatile" check definition:-)) . The H2 would disperse quickly (and rise up quickly as well) and there is less chance of having the correct H2 - O2 % mixture range for it to catch fire and for it to burn or explode while gasoline would be continually vaporizing and while the gas is dispersing, more is forming all the time with some in the correct % mix with O2 to ignite/burn.
That assumes that the H2 is transported as a compressed gas or when the container is breached that the gas is released all at once. If the H2 is part of some matrix then there are other considerations.
Also note that volts alone don't kill, it's combination of volts+amps.
Grrr - Not really.
If you had to grip two ends of a power supply would you rather grip the 12V PS with a current capability of 10000 amps or the 1000 V power supply with maximum current of 20 mA ?
hint V=IR where R is your resistance which is usually in the meg ohm region. It takes only a few mA to fry you.
or more accurately: If R1 is your resistance and R2 is the internal resistance of the power supply (approx: R2 = Vps/Ips Vps = open circuit voltage of PS, Ips = current capability of PS) then Vps = I ( R2 + R1) : again current "I" here has to be less than the fry value.
Of course if you had a power supply of many thousands of volts but current level capability is well under the value to interfere with your biological systems (Ven Der Graff (sp?)) generator - well it would be a hair raising experience but thats about it... Such a power source would have not applicability to EV. If there is a possibility of someone coming in contact with the PS, voltages need to be keep below the threshold that would pump more than a couple mA thorough a person. Of course this could be gotten around by having various protections if higher voltages are used.
Couple the pressure signal with a slow changing colorization so that when yo blink your eyes the short term increase in pressure will cause color change (or maybe rainbow effect) that slowly goes back to normal?
(Speaking as a person whose eye color naturally very slowly oscillates with time)
thanks, I think I'll go ahead and sell my "water balloon weapon" to the military although I think now I'll retrofit the design to be used with mylar balloons
Sure you can hit # to get right ion to voice mail, but you have to be fast otherwise you might have to talk to an actual person and we can't have that now, can we?
Heat problem of a matrix could be handled in a variety of methods that are commonly used to save power with discrete LEDS, just built into the chip so that its idiot proof- by flashing alternate (or flashing with gaps), each LED could be fairly low power (but with so many light output would still be good) and so on.
Interesting post, and I don't doubt that built-in fixtures will be produced.
Now for cars, don't forget that it is assumed that people who buy the high end cars don't care about paying extra $$ to get their car repaired (true or not) - and whether it costs significantly more to change a high end light (well it is so much more highly styled)
If you do care about costs, and don't own a fancy smancy car, you can still reap the benefits of LED signals.
A visit to a local Pep Boys store shows that you can buy a standard incandescent turn signal bulb or a new fangled LED turn signal bulb which fits in the same socket.
So the rich or style-conscious will buy the expensive to maintain stuff and the rest of the grunts will buy the utilitarian LED bulbs that screw/bayonet into standard fixtures.
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If smaller fuel droplets help so much, I would assume engine engineers would have done this already by just adjusting the fuel injector with a different nozzle, much easier, much more trust worthy
Droplet size? Nozzles???
Dang thats a great idea - I'm going to interface my inkjet print to my car!
Oh wait - wouldn't work - prices for the cartridges exceed the price of gas...
The original series with Capt Kirk and Spock.
Enough viewers wrote in, called in, etc that they begrudgingly continues the series.
and this was before there were Trekkies!
I think the later Start Trek series came into problems, but the original series was very rocky.
When changing code that was previously working, be sure to keep a backup copy.
now where's that misplaced semi colon grumble
In addition, the poster wanted a domain name and, at least the ISPs that I know about, do not provide domain name.
The outer atmosphere is approx. 75 miles, so even if you assume 75 m/hr, you'll be in that elevator for at least an hour.
They'll probably play Trance music. (it'll have the advantage of solving the "popping ear" problem should riders forget their chewing gum)
The Wild Black Yonder
but but...if you stare out there long 'nuf, you might turn into a Reaver ...
(gives new meaning to the quote "In space, no one can hear you scream")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detergent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap
Simply, soaps have one part of the molecule "oily" and the other part ionic so that the whole thing can dissolve in water. The oily side sticks to other oils and thats how it cleans your hands -it takes oils, fatty substances that can't ordinarily be dissolved by water and allow it to be carried away by water. Dirt which are polar are washed away normally without soap.
Detergents refer to a wide range of cleaning agents - from acids that change the structure of the material that is being removed to solvents that merely carry the material away - such as ... water (or ethanol or ammonia solutions or...)
No wonder why those things glow...
They measure electron state transition times. You can relax now.
Why'd you tell him to relax?
Look, he just threw off a bunch of photons all over the place - and it was a forbidden transition!
Ok, so you clean up the mess now! :-)
Simple solution is when a vote is recorded, print a receipt that the voter examines to confirm it is correct, and the voter has to deposit this receipt to finalize the vote (or the receipt cannot be touched but it can be examined). The receipt could even have information in the form or filled in circles so that the voter can visually confirm that, should the receipt require alternate electronic form of counting, the proper spot is marked. (no hanging chads or bubbles not filled in completely) and information printed such that hand counting would be easy.
I agree this is a mind-boggling simple application that was totally boggled. It makes one discombobulated!
Dang now I'm going to spend the entire day trying to figure out the inner meaning in that post -
What the heck is IR^2 ?
(and how can I use this new-found knowledge to take over the world, Pinky?)
BTW, temperature of human body, when measured in C, is ALWAYS given with first decimal number. So it's actually quite precise.
Same with Fahrenheit - where I grew up, 98.6 F is "normal" temperature.
But then the accuracy all depends on calibration of the thermometer - doubt if a C reading is calibrated any closer than a F thermometer. :-)
I hope not. I imagine the police could give you the stuff and ask you if you ever commited any crimes. It'll be a routine thing, just like taking your fingerprint and DNA and firstborn, when you are arrested.
And no, 100 Fahrenheit isn't very useful medically
While 100F body temp isn't considered normal, it isn't severe - it is low grade fever. You're usually not bed ridden at the temp. Once you're above 102 to 104 - that is considered moderate fever. Above 105 F it is pretty bad and much above 107F you turn into an average anonymous Slash dot poster. http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/pa/pa_feverpho_hhg.htm
Fahrenheit has approx. twice as many divisions between water freezing and boiling, so in effect given the same number of significant digits, a temperature in Fahrenheit is more "precise" than one given in Celsius, but your point that this precision is more than what is needed in everyday life is quite valid. Also, given the ease of conversion between Celsius and the even more useful (in scientific circles) Kelvin scales, Celsius has the edge.
That assumes that the H2 is transported as a compressed gas or when the container is breached that the gas is released all at once. If the H2 is part of some matrix then there are other considerations.
Also note that volts alone don't kill, it's combination of volts+amps.
Grrr - Not really.
If you had to grip two ends of a power supply would you rather grip the 12V PS with a current capability of 10000 amps or the 1000 V power supply with maximum current of 20 mA ?
hint V=IR where R is your resistance which is usually in the meg ohm region. It takes only a few mA to fry you.
or more accurately: If R1 is your resistance and R2 is the internal resistance of the power supply (approx: R2 = Vps/Ips Vps = open circuit voltage of PS, Ips = current capability of PS) then Vps = I ( R2 + R1) : again current "I" here has to be less than the fry value.
Of course if you had a power supply of many thousands of volts but current level capability is well under the value to interfere with your biological systems (Ven Der Graff (sp?)) generator - well it would be a hair raising experience but thats about it... Such a power source would have not applicability to EV. If there is a possibility of someone coming in contact with the PS, voltages need to be keep below the threshold that would pump more than a couple mA thorough a person. Of course this could be gotten around by having various protections if higher voltages are used.
My electricity is nuclear and my BBQ is natural gas..
Oh yeah? In my neighborhood, it's the other way around!
(try my Cs-137 Chili some time - yum!)
(Speaking as a person whose eye color naturally very slowly oscillates with time)
thanks, I think I'll go ahead and sell my "water balloon weapon" to the military although I think now I'll retrofit the design to be used with mylar balloons
Probably more effective to call and/or find out people in upper levels of the organization and write/call them.
Sure you can hit # to get right ion to voice mail, but you have to be fast otherwise you might have to talk to an actual person and we can't have that now, can we?
Heat problem of a matrix could be handled in a variety of methods that are commonly used to save power with discrete LEDS, just built into the chip so that its idiot proof- by flashing alternate (or flashing with gaps), each LED could be fairly low power (but with so many light output would still be good) and so on.
Solution - make the LEDs as an array/matrix on a chip, similar to the way CPUS are made now. A million or so LEDs glowing should be fairly bright.
Now for cars, don't forget that it is assumed that people who buy the high end cars don't care about paying extra $$ to get their car repaired (true or not) - and whether it costs significantly more to change a high end light (well it is so much more highly styled)
If you do care about costs, and don't own a fancy smancy car, you can still reap the benefits of LED signals.
A visit to a local Pep Boys store shows that you can buy a standard incandescent turn signal bulb or a new fangled LED turn signal bulb which fits in the same socket.
So the rich or style-conscious will buy the expensive to maintain stuff and the rest of the grunts will buy the utilitarian LED bulbs that screw/bayonet into standard fixtures.