Cats are worth slightly less actually: decreased cuteness factor and reduced lifespan. Cats depreciate over time like cars.
Of course, the inverse is true when dealing with Chinese or Korean restaurants... though it has nothing to do with cuteness and everything to do with elapsed time.
Actually, in Brazil, ethanol is somewhat successfully competeing with petrol. And not this blended petrol-ethanol garbage, 100% ethanol fuel. The ethanol fuel insdustry is producing a profit with _zero_ governement subsidies. One of the reasons it is more successful than the US is that sugarcane is used instead of corn. Sugarcane is more robust and easier to grow than corn and the energy density is higher; roughly 3-4 times as much fuel comes from an acre of sugarcane versus an acre of corn.
Ethanol plants burn waste plant parts to create electricity, producing about 15% surplus over a plant's requirements to produce the fuel. Ethanol fuel also produces about 10% of the exhaust compared to petrol engines over the same distance and a fraction of the contaminants such as sulfur compounds. Perhaps more signifigantly, ethanol has almost zero carbon impact because the carbon used to produce the fuel already exists in the biosphere, where as carbon from petrol has been locked in the ground for millions of years.
Yes ethanol gets about 30% less milage than the same volume of gasoline, it has less energy. It also tends to be 30% cheaper than petrol (at least in Brazil) which makes it competative in the consumer market. Ethanol has yet to make in roads in industrial settings because the fuel cannot compete with diesel for large trucks and machinery, but improved diesel technology means that those engines aren't as ineffecient or dirty as they used to be either.
I would have to second this. I build and upgrade PCs in my spare time for people. Nothing so fancy as case modding but if I'm feeling ambitious and demand is high, I can make $250 per week pretty easy. Plus I keep all the parts from upgrades, usually to get recycled into low end systems or repairs.
While I don't scoff at the hazards of working with electrical devices and don't recommend jewlery for several reasons while doing hands on work of most kinds, I have to wonder how large your hands are to have a ring that would short between the terminals in a 12V automotive battery.
FYI, the EEE PC operates just fine without the battery installed when running on AC power. Even if the power standard changes in the next 25 years, every laptop I've ever seen runs on DC power anyway, so it would just be a matter of getting the proper voltage and current capacity, something any power supply in any electronics workshop should be able to do. The adaptor for my EEE PC states 9.5V DC output at a max of 2.315A and a label containing matching information is on the device.
A device using solid state storeage would probably be more reliable than anything with moving parts over that length of time, but the best solution, given adequate space, would be multiple formats, seperately sealed in watertight bags inside the steel box. Legacy support shouldn't be too much of an issue. The 3.5" floppy was introduced in 1982 (as well as the CD) and is still supported in the latest versions of Windows and at least some Linux distros (Ubuntu and Fedora for certain, others presumedly).
So does my 700, in fact, it's replaced the bulky dell notebook that I used to carry to school for light typing and presentations. Bring my wireless mouse with me and I can even walk around and advance the slides like a pro! ^^
It's been my experience with many modern laptops that they tend to slow down when they near their shutdown temperatures. I don't know if it's a direct result of the heat or some software actually slowing the processor to try and generate less heat or something else, but when both my Dell and Toshiba get near their shutdown temperatures (somewhere around 90C) they both slow noticably. They both speed up again if their internal temperatures start to drop.
Also, many military electronics systems use RISC processors (RADAR, SONAR and comms off the top of my head) which are hardened against EMR. More importantly: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Military tech follows a general rule: If it's built today, it was designed ten years ago, using proven tech from ten years prior.
There are already problems with seal overpopulation in somuchas if we don't cull part of the seal population every year, they have an additional negative impact on the already deplete cod populations in the North Atlantic.
What does this mean? Everyone needs to eat more delicious seal flipper pie.
They went up. I'm afraid I can't give you a comparison of the rate of increase before vs. after the change, but really, when was the last time a utility (public OR private) lowered its rates?
I've noticed the same thing in parts of Canada, where former crown corporations (ex. electric and water) were shut down and for-profit companies took over on government contract. QoS took a very noticable nosedive very quickly. (greater grid instability and less 'safe' drinking water).
During my first year of post-secondary education, but the introductory physics and calculus classes administered quizes and assignments through a flash-based web-app. The school's computers all used IE 5 at the time (2000/2001) but if you logged in through the school's network using your own computer, you could access all the material. Using Netscape on my laptop, I remember that I used to be prompted before submitting the results from the flash app (Netscape security to the rescue). The app calculated the score itself and reported only the score to the server. It was a simply matter not to transmit the score and refresh the page to try again if people weren't happy with their scores.
In most vehicles, structural body panels do provide much of the support, but there is still an underlying frame. In this case, the car will necessarily have a much more robust frame than your average car.
I mentioned the deformation problem in a post above. Regardless of the tension applied, the fabric will be able to deform under the speeds caused by high speed wind. Even semi-rigid, epoxy-coated aircraft skins are deformable under as little pressure as can be exherted by your thumb. It occurs to me as I read down that the deformation of the fabric could be taken into the design, and the framework built to allow the deformation to happen as aerdynamically as possible. It's still robbing energy as it takes force to reform cloth under tension, but it would be possible to minimize it. I recall from the video seeing an elevated set of wires on the hood folding back into the shape of the car, this could be just such a feature: lift the skin under pressure so it doesn't touch/interefere with the engine (or vice versa) and let it drop as the speed and pressure decreases.
You're right, but on this car is that the fabric appears to remain quite flexable. Perhaps they have developed (or plan to develop before) some kind of fabric that can knit itself back together after suffering damage, even under high tension.
Potential for damage aside, one of the biggest problems I can see is aerodynamics: If the cloth is flexable enough bend and flex as the video implies, it's going to be deformed under the air pressure caused by high speed travel. If you consider cloth aircraft skins, the cloth is tensioned over the frame of the aircraft first then coated with an epoxy to make it rigid. It still as some flexability but would, in no way, be capable of bending and flexing on the scale that the material on this car does. The only way I can think to solve this is to add a solid planar surface under the cloth, which kinda defeats the point because, unless it's under the entire surface of the car, the fabric will still deform at the edges of the subsurface.
As a concept car, it's really quite novel, but I think you're going to see large scale production rigid-fibre bodies (like fibreglass) long before you see this kind of flexable fabric.
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Actually, I think someone just used a magic wand type tool and then maxed out the saturation.
No, the general public could make use of a good barbeque recipe.
Cats are worth slightly less actually: decreased cuteness factor and reduced lifespan. Cats depreciate over time like cars.
Of course, the inverse is true when dealing with Chinese or Korean restaurants... though it has nothing to do with cuteness and everything to do with elapsed time.
What about an integra?
...cause I've always wanted a kitty.
Actually, in Brazil, ethanol is somewhat successfully competeing with petrol. And not this blended petrol-ethanol garbage, 100% ethanol fuel. The ethanol fuel insdustry is producing a profit with _zero_ governement subsidies. One of the reasons it is more successful than the US is that sugarcane is used instead of corn. Sugarcane is more robust and easier to grow than corn and the energy density is higher; roughly 3-4 times as much fuel comes from an acre of sugarcane versus an acre of corn.
Ethanol plants burn waste plant parts to create electricity, producing about 15% surplus over a plant's requirements to produce the fuel. Ethanol fuel also produces about 10% of the exhaust compared to petrol engines over the same distance and a fraction of the contaminants such as sulfur compounds. Perhaps more signifigantly, ethanol has almost zero carbon impact because the carbon used to produce the fuel already exists in the biosphere, where as carbon from petrol has been locked in the ground for millions of years.
Yes ethanol gets about 30% less milage than the same volume of gasoline, it has less energy. It also tends to be 30% cheaper than petrol (at least in Brazil) which makes it competative in the consumer market. Ethanol has yet to make in roads in industrial settings because the fuel cannot compete with diesel for large trucks and machinery, but improved diesel technology means that those engines aren't as ineffecient or dirty as they used to be either.
But perfect for Starcraft!
I would have to second this. I build and upgrade PCs in my spare time for people. Nothing so fancy as case modding but if I'm feeling ambitious and demand is high, I can make $250 per week pretty easy. Plus I keep all the parts from upgrades, usually to get recycled into low end systems or repairs.
Not to mention that the entire Swiss Olympic track team would be made up of grad students.
While I don't scoff at the hazards of working with electrical devices and don't recommend jewlery for several reasons while doing hands on work of most kinds, I have to wonder how large your hands are to have a ring that would short between the terminals in a 12V automotive battery.
You win .
FYI, the EEE PC operates just fine without the battery installed when running on AC power. Even if the power standard changes in the next 25 years, every laptop I've ever seen runs on DC power anyway, so it would just be a matter of getting the proper voltage and current capacity, something any power supply in any electronics workshop should be able to do. The adaptor for my EEE PC states 9.5V DC output at a max of 2.315A and a label containing matching information is on the device.
A device using solid state storeage would probably be more reliable than anything with moving parts over that length of time, but the best solution, given adequate space, would be multiple formats, seperately sealed in watertight bags inside the steel box. Legacy support shouldn't be too much of an issue. The 3.5" floppy was introduced in 1982 (as well as the CD) and is still supported in the latest versions of Windows and at least some Linux distros (Ubuntu and Fedora for certain, others presumedly).
Actually, this post, further down, explains the process such that the individual is granted the patent.
It shows how totally off the patent system is if you can get somebody else to file for a patent for an idea that you came up with in the first place.
Many shops have a clause that any work you do is the IP of the company. Thus any patents would be filed under the company's name.
At least, that's my understanding of how it works. Doubtless I'll be swiftly corrected if I'm off by a few marks.
So does my 700, in fact, it's replaced the bulky dell notebook that I used to carry to school for light typing and presentations. Bring my wireless mouse with me and I can even walk around and advance the slides like a pro! ^^
It's been my experience with many modern laptops that they tend to slow down when they near their shutdown temperatures. I don't know if it's a direct result of the heat or some software actually slowing the processor to try and generate less heat or something else, but when both my Dell and Toshiba get near their shutdown temperatures (somewhere around 90C) they both slow noticably. They both speed up again if their internal temperatures start to drop.
Also, many military electronics systems use RISC processors (RADAR, SONAR and comms off the top of my head) which are hardened against EMR. More importantly: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Military tech follows a general rule: If it's built today, it was designed ten years ago, using proven tech from ten years prior.
Wait... I'm not seeing a downside here. :P
There are already problems with seal overpopulation in somuchas if we don't cull part of the seal population every year, they have an additional negative impact on the already deplete cod populations in the North Atlantic.
What does this mean? Everyone needs to eat more delicious seal flipper pie.
They went up. I'm afraid I can't give you a comparison of the rate of increase before vs. after the change, but really, when was the last time a utility (public OR private) lowered its rates?
I've noticed the same thing in parts of Canada, where former crown corporations (ex. electric and water) were shut down and for-profit companies took over on government contract. QoS took a very noticable nosedive very quickly. (greater grid instability and less 'safe' drinking water).
During my first year of post-secondary education, but the introductory physics and calculus classes administered quizes and assignments through a flash-based web-app. The school's computers all used IE 5 at the time (2000/2001) but if you logged in through the school's network using your own computer, you could access all the material. Using Netscape on my laptop, I remember that I used to be prompted before submitting the results from the flash app (Netscape security to the rescue). The app calculated the score itself and reported only the score to the server. It was a simply matter not to transmit the score and refresh the page to try again if people weren't happy with their scores.
// Possibly a more efficient way of doing thisIn most vehicles, structural body panels do provide much of the support, but there is still an underlying frame. In this case, the car will necessarily have a much more robust frame than your average car.
I mentioned the deformation problem in a post above. Regardless of the tension applied, the fabric will be able to deform under the speeds caused by high speed wind. Even semi-rigid, epoxy-coated aircraft skins are deformable under as little pressure as can be exherted by your thumb. It occurs to me as I read down that the deformation of the fabric could be taken into the design, and the framework built to allow the deformation to happen as aerdynamically as possible. It's still robbing energy as it takes force to reform cloth under tension, but it would be possible to minimize it. I recall from the video seeing an elevated set of wires on the hood folding back into the shape of the car, this could be just such a feature: lift the skin under pressure so it doesn't touch/interefere with the engine (or vice versa) and let it drop as the speed and pressure decreases.
You're right, but on this car is that the fabric appears to remain quite flexable. Perhaps they have developed (or plan to develop before) some kind of fabric that can knit itself back together after suffering damage, even under high tension.
Potential for damage aside, one of the biggest problems I can see is aerodynamics: If the cloth is flexable enough bend and flex as the video implies, it's going to be deformed under the air pressure caused by high speed travel. If you consider cloth aircraft skins, the cloth is tensioned over the frame of the aircraft first then coated with an epoxy to make it rigid. It still as some flexability but would, in no way, be capable of bending and flexing on the scale that the material on this car does. The only way I can think to solve this is to add a solid planar surface under the cloth, which kinda defeats the point because, unless it's under the entire surface of the car, the fabric will still deform at the edges of the subsurface.
As a concept car, it's really quite novel, but I think you're going to see large scale production rigid-fibre bodies (like fibreglass) long before you see this kind of flexable fabric.