Yes, the Climate Orbiter is a quite famous example.
Another good story, if you haven't read about it yet, is the Gimli Glider. Fortunately, that one ended much better.
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- Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:40 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Very Efficient, and May be Bad For You.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10151
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:15 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
- Replies: 357
- Views: 573933
"Why do some people dislike others because they are different?"
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:52 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: The PWM Slipstream fan on the Mugen-2, controllable?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2688
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:39 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
- Replies: 357
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On an unrelated note, somewhere somebody mentioned abortion, as though it was a religious issue. For me, though, it's always been about whether an unborn child is a human being or not. [edit: I think so] The problem is the definition of "a human being" will basically boil down to religion (as in "t...
- Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:31 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Very Efficient, and May be Bad For You.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10151
I envy Canada and the UK (myself being from the US) very much for having a reasonable/capable enough population to switch. Well, we're not fully switched. There's still feet and inches getting used for shorter distances (personal height is a notorious example) and pounds for most smaller weights. N...
- Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:00 pm
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: Green Laptops
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7656
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:56 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
- Replies: 357
- Views: 573933
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:47 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Very Efficient, and May be Bad For You.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10151
Over here most people have electric ovens, and by law they require their very own circuit and fuse - 30A @ 240v - I have no idea how much juice most ovens actually use, but the potential is there for huge amounts 7.2KW Anything that rotates, moves, heats, or glows due to heat is a pretty bad candid...
- Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:28 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Very Efficient, and May be Bad For You.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10151
Well one does have to deal with the technical abilities of the author, but suffice to say when dealing with any square waves there is a very large amount of high frequency content involved. And that's the very nature of switching power supplies. I am absolutely in favour of studying this properly, ...
- Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:08 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: How Do DC Bricks Work
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5572
Re: How Do DC Bricks Work
Even though the Pico is 150w would I get any benefit from connecting a Dell DA-2 I have lying around? Or would this provide too much power? Basically does the Pico PSU draw power from the brick or does the brick push power at the Pico? Would it be more heat efficient and less likely to catch fire o...
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:21 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Does voting change things really to the better ?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5554
Re: Does voting change things really to the better ?
I much prefer a well-formulated written argument to a video of a man speaking encoded in a proprietary format hosted on a third-party commercial website. Do you have a transcript?Cov wrote:Please do take part in the poll, but only after watching this videoclip.
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:09 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Very Efficient, and May be Bad For You.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10151
Is bad journalism bad for you? A telltale sign of an energy-efficient device is the ballast, or transformer, that you see near the end of a power cord on a laptop computer, printer, or cell phone charger (although not all devices have them). When plugged in, it's warm to the touch, an indication tha...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:03 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Amish poised to produce breakthrough processor
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6801
- Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:13 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: I want one of these... [large image]
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8957
Nice to meet someone else whose ears can actually hear 40 kHz sounds.aristide1 wrote:I realize just about everyone is sold on iPods, but frankly if I were to convert all my vinyl to digital I woun't accept anything lower than 96KHz/24 bit. And given how cheap hard drives are I'd go with 192KHz/24 bit.
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:42 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Russia's secret plan to save Earth from asteroid
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12030
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:34 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Russia's secret plan to save Earth from asteroid
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12030
- Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:56 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Would you buy another Antec product after this incident ??
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5222
This mostly looks like a case of foot in mouth to me. The otherwise reasonably useful comment about fakes is ill-placed in a FS thread unless there are reasons to believe the items for sale are fake, and the new-old-stock comment, while containing a grain of truth, is not something you say as a comp...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:52 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Athlon XP is running at 1.25 GHz
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4585
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:16 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Athlon XP is running at 1.25 GHz
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4585
Re: Athlon XP is running at 1.25 GHz
Yes, the stock front side bus on Palomino cores is 133 MHz, 266 MHz "rated" DDR (double data rate). The method of changing it back is going to depend on your motherboard.
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:30 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Athlon XP is running at 1.25 GHz
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4585
Re: Athlon XP is running at 1.25 GHz
Is there any reason to think that installing the new HSF would be related to the slower CPU speed? Well, not directly. If the heatsink was not installed correctly or its performance was inadequate, the CPU might be overheating, but I don't think Athlon XPs had any dynamic throttling that could caus...
- Sat Dec 19, 2009 4:55 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Logitech VX Revolution - will there ever be a wired version?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6167
- Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:31 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: how to use this adapter cable?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2160
- Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:09 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Logitech VX Revolution - will there ever be a wired version?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6167
- Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:55 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 473621
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:23 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Super Efficient Cars [very large pictures]
- Replies: 387
- Views: 908059
Hi, consider: 1) the use of ICE-powered automobiles resulting in creation of carbon dioxide and particulate matter, with adverse effects on air quality (and consequently human health) as well as environmental factors such as concentration CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere, 2) the overdependence on perso...
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:56 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Town under siege: 6,000 camels to be shot
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5725
Apparently, camels stopped being practical for use as work animals around 1930, so most of wild population would be around for 100-150 years now. Yay for human-introduced species! Wikipedia tells me the population is increasing at around 10% per year, and presumably they're hitting a hard resource l...
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:28 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Town under siege: 6,000 camels to be shot
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5725
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:37 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
- Replies: 357
- Views: 573933
During the Middle Ages several European Catholic 'theocracies' set out openly and zealously to conquer as much of the world as they could and forcibly convert the natives of those countries to Christianity whilst at the same time robbing them of their treasure. And look how badly that's turned out,...
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:00 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
- Replies: 357
- Views: 573933
Seems of the surface to be totally harmless, but many of the things that a Jain is supposed to strive for I already do, but it also asks things of it followers, and that is where we part company, and some of the things it asks is totally un-natural. Vegetarianism, we are omnivores, not herbivores. ...
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:32 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD GPs are dying? Really?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 47541
Re: WD Green drives as backup drives
I wasn't sure whether I should start a new thread. There's been a lot of talk about abnormally high park counts on Linux machines because of relatively frequent disk access by the kernel. I'm wondering if that would occur if the drives were mounted for data storage only. Basically, I envision a set...