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Comment Re:Fuel efficiency is nice, but... (Score 1) 368

by Pass_Thru on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @07:37AM (#45886209) Attached to: Australian Team Working On Engines Without Piston Rings

Generally this is correct, certainly on UK model cars of old, but there are exceptions.

Landrover 2.25 litre petrol or diesel engines should easily reach 250,000 miles, and these were designed in the late 1950's. Landrover used this engine right into the 1980's with very few modifications over its lifetime
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLand_Rover_engines%232.25-litre_petrol_.28Engine_Codes_10H.2C_11H_and_13H.29

Timberwolf (a.k.a. Firefox) Alpha 1 For AmigaOS 152

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 09, 2010 @05:00PM from the because-it-was-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We're happy to announce the availability of the first alpha release of Timberwolf, the AmigaOS port of the popular Firefox browser. Timberwolf needs AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2 installed. Please read the documentation for information about usage and limitations. This is an alpha release, meaning it will have a lot of problems still, and be slower than it should be. We are releasing it as a small 'Thank you' to all those that have donated in the past to show that development is still going on. Timberwolf is available on os4depot.net. For further information and feedback, check the Timberwolf support forum on amigans.net."

4G iPhone Misplacer Invited To Germany For Beer 164

Posted by samzenpus on Friday April 23, 2010 @10:44AM from the beer-makes-things-better dept.

eldavojohn writes "You may recall the hapless engineer who left a fairly sensitive iPhone at a bar recently. Well, in a PR stunt, Lufthansa has invited him to visit Germany on their dime after citing his latest Facebook status, 'I underestimated how good German beer is' as well as his obvious passion for German beer and culture. It's not clear if Gray Powell has decided to 'pick up where he last left off' (as the letter puts it). I know what my decision would be."

Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic 807

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @02:01AM from the so-many-notes-mister-mozart dept.

DJRumpy writes "The Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg won fame and fans by arguing that many of the alarms sounded by environmental activists and scientists — that species are going extinct at a dangerous rate, that forests are disappearing, that climate change could be catastrophic — are bogus. A big reason Lomborg was taken seriously is that both of his books, The Skeptical Environmentalist (in 2001) and Cool It (in 2007), have extensive references, giving a seemingly authoritative source for every one of his controversial assertions. So in a display of altruistic masochism that we should all be grateful for (just as we're grateful that some people are willing to be dairy farmers), author Howard Friel has checked every single citation in Cool It. The result is The Lomborg Deception, which is being published by Yale University Press next month. It reveals that Lomborg's work is 'a mirage,' writes biologist Thomas Lovejoy in the foreword. '[I]t is a house of cards. Friel has used real scholarship to reveal the flimsy nature' of Lomborg's work."

Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

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