Here's yet another collision is 2002. My guess is this is the one being referenced in the CTV article, not the one just off campus that I was referring to.
I go to U of T and I know a few people on the Bluesky team (although not Andrew Frow), and while I mean no disrespect to grieving team members in this hard time, I think that this incident is just the latest of several that point to a deeper problem in the team's goals and leadership.
As the CTV article stated, one of Bluesky's cars was T-boned just south of U of T campus two years ago. But also, at the end of last summer a pickup driven by a Bluesky member with their solar car in tow flipped somewhere in the northern states, resulting in a hospitilization.
The fact that Bluesky is having an accident every year, to me, indicates that these people are perhaps being pushed a little too hard, and perhaps the cars are not being designed with the driver's safety in mind (and I'm not just talking about the durability of the vehical but also such things as the driver's visibilty of the road and reliability of his control systems).
[This is a repost of an AC post I made; didn't realise I was logged out]
Your idea shows that you have no concept of the limitation of solar cells.
The solar car that crashed (which I am presuming was Bluesky's latest car, but it could be an earlier one with less power) has solar cells rated at producing 1050 watts (check here, scroll to the bottom) which Google converts as being 1.40807319 horsepower. So about 1.5 horsepower.
Compare this to a regular gasoline engine having perhaps 100 horsepower, and remembering that to retrofit a car to be solar you have to put in batteries (ie EXTRA WEIGHT), I would claim that such a conversion would be either impossible or highly infeasible.
Definately keep clear of the Scanjet 5550c; there's a reason why it's the cheapest feed scanner out there. It will frequently jam if you a) load more than 5 sheets into the feeder or b) use any sort of paper that has been handled by human beings.
Our Engineering Society was trying to put up an exam archive with one of them and quickly gave up and started scanning with the flatbed.
Also the scanner has no sane support (one of the few HP scanners that doesn't)
However, when your g-men break down your door and ask you where you got all the mp3s, you're far more likely to get off on having bought them a site that looks legal than from having downloaded them for free off p2p.
Also the high quality tracks on allofmp3 are well worth the pennies you pay for them.
By uploading you're just providing them with source they don't yet have (is the argument they make). They then concievably would start paying license fees on this new material.
I suppose my subject title should have been "Reason they say this is legal"...
They Legal Info page on allofmp3.com has changed since I first started using the site (great service, they're definately NOT stealing credit card info), but the gist of their old legal page is that they were paying license fees as if they were broadcasting their music over radio; hence the license fee per song for them is probably less than a penny.
The best part about the site? After getting your account upgraded, you are able to rip and upload music to them and recieve DOUBLE your size credit in downloads:)
Well I'm someone else, and I recently had to reinstall XP twice in a month because of: a) I couldn't get sound to work at all (installing drivers caused a BSOD, even from no drivers installed at all)
and
b) My video card would "crash" every time I booted up. ATI's new drivers have a crash recovery module now that tries to reset the hardware and driver after a crash, but this was only worked about half the time. New install of windows and there were no crashes (and yes I tried uninstall/reinstalling the driver up the wazoo, and it was WHQL certified).
That's my biggest dislike of windows; you have to reinstall it to fix problems. Hell, I have a roommate that has to reinstall every 4 months when something breaks (I thankfully don't use XP as my primary OS, so I don't break it that quickly)
You, unlike the developers being targeted by the warez scene, have chosen to allow your intellectual property to be in the public domain AS IS YOUR RIGHT.
It's getting harder and harder to do that these days with the variety in DIMMs on the market and the compatibility problems between different manufacturers. Manufacturers are even having problems staying compatible with themselves at high speeds/low CAS values (eg the modules you can buy in pairs that are specially tested with each other).
I have had a hell of a time with memory on a dual Xeon server I built recently; I know I wouldn't want to be mixing modules from different manufacturers on it!
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Too bad run length encoding is hella patented.
Here's yet another collision is 2002. My guess is this is the one being referenced in the CTV article, not the one just off campus that I was referring to.
I go to U of T and I know a few people on the Bluesky team (although not Andrew Frow), and while I mean no disrespect to grieving team members in this hard time, I think that this incident is just the latest of several that point to a deeper problem in the team's goals and leadership.
As the CTV article stated, one of Bluesky's cars was T-boned just south of U of T campus two years ago. But also, at the end of last summer a pickup driven by a Bluesky member with their solar car in tow flipped somewhere in the northern states, resulting in a hospitilization.
The fact that Bluesky is having an accident every year, to me, indicates that these people are perhaps being pushed a little too hard, and perhaps the cars are not being designed with the driver's safety in mind (and I'm not just talking about the durability of the vehical but also such things as the driver's visibilty of the road and reliability of his control systems).
[This is a repost of an AC post I made; didn't realise I was logged out]
Your idea shows that you have no concept of the limitation of solar cells.
The solar car that crashed (which I am presuming was Bluesky's latest car, but it could be an earlier one with less power) has solar cells rated at producing 1050 watts (check here, scroll to the bottom) which Google converts as being 1.40807319 horsepower. So about 1.5 horsepower.
Compare this to a regular gasoline engine having perhaps 100 horsepower, and remembering that to retrofit a car to be solar you have to put in batteries (ie EXTRA WEIGHT), I would claim that such a conversion would be either impossible or highly infeasible.
Check out SCOX. Down 7.2% for the day already.
Informative?
I suppose the moderators today haven't seen any of the GNAA trolls
Here's one if you'd like to catch up on your reading...
Definately keep clear of the Scanjet 5550c; there's a reason why it's the cheapest feed scanner out there. It will frequently jam if you a) load more than 5 sheets into the feeder or b) use any sort of paper that has been handled by human beings.
Our Engineering Society was trying to put up an exam archive with one of them and quickly gave up and started scanning with the flatbed.
Also the scanner has no sane support (one of the few HP scanners that doesn't)
Dr. Marcone works for U of Guelph. He's citing his own studies most likely. The Health Canada limits are probably not based on his studies.
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My bad, looks like someone turned on english language restrictions in my google prefs (not me!!)
Funny, I googled and got nothing but the news story. Even googling without the quotes doesn't give anything about the game.
Does the US Gov't have hooks into google to prevent "Terrorist" information from being found?
Those look like Win2k icons on the desktop though.
Not that that's very impressive in itself... Or did Win98 even support 16bit color icons?
My bad, it was 384kbps of what they claimed was a "lossless compression", but I think was just mp3.
However, when your g-men break down your door and ask you where you got all the mp3s, you're far more likely to get off on having bought them a site that looks legal than from having downloaded them for free off p2p.
Also the high quality tracks on allofmp3 are well worth the pennies you pay for them.
By uploading you're just providing them with source they don't yet have (is the argument they make). They then concievably would start paying license fees on this new material.
I suppose my subject title should have been "Reason they say this is legal"...
The files they encode from are IIRC 384kbps wav files. Pretty good sources :)
They Legal Info page on allofmp3.com has changed since I first started using the site (great service, they're definately NOT stealing credit card info), but the gist of their old legal page is that they were paying license fees as if they were broadcasting their music over radio; hence the license fee per song for them is probably less than a penny.
:)
The best part about the site? After getting your account upgraded, you are able to rip and upload music to them and recieve DOUBLE your size credit in downloads
To the first two replies to this post:
Why should his C++ app be able to take down windows? Was he incorrectly making calls to void win_crash()?
Well I'm someone else, and I recently had to reinstall XP twice in a month because of:
a) I couldn't get sound to work at all (installing drivers caused a BSOD, even from no drivers installed at all)
and
b) My video card would "crash" every time I booted up. ATI's new drivers have a crash recovery module now that tries to reset the hardware and driver after a crash, but this was only worked about half the time. New install of windows and there were no crashes (and yes I tried uninstall/reinstalling the driver up the wazoo, and it was WHQL certified).
That's my biggest dislike of windows; you have to reinstall it to fix problems. Hell, I have a roommate that has to reinstall every 4 months when something breaks (I thankfully don't use XP as my primary OS, so I don't break it that quickly)
You, unlike the developers being targeted by the warez scene, have chosen to allow your intellectual property to be in the public domain AS IS YOUR RIGHT.
Actually, it's Kingston's HyperX dimms that I'm having the problem with... Running them at PC2700 instead of PC3200 even.
It's getting harder and harder to do that these days with the variety in DIMMs on the market and the compatibility problems between different manufacturers. Manufacturers are even having problems staying compatible with themselves at high speeds/low CAS values (eg the modules you can buy in pairs that are specially tested with each other).
I have had a hell of a time with memory on a dual Xeon server I built recently; I know I wouldn't want to be mixing modules from different manufacturers on it!
This is a good find and very relevant to the discussion.
What post would that be AC? I've pulled so many of you today...
Please give your serious argument for why I should be able to download AutoCAD for free.