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Most of what I found doesn't even turn left, they're drag strips. Only thing I found in Washington was Spokane Raceway Park, a little best west of Spokane.

Of course, Oregon has Portland International Raceway.
 
Another thing, just what in the hell are these?!?
 

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What are some good race track in Washington state that aren't "leftleftleftleft" every lap? I was planning on going to a trackday with my Uncle and his Viper.
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Do we have any left-left-left racetracks in Washington?

It depends on where you are I guess. It probably won't be worth the 5 hour journey across the state just to do a track day. I don't know abotu Eastern Washington, but in the West people have already mentioned Pacific Raceways. They do a lot of drags there, so you might have to look for a time they open up the road course. SCCA also does events down in Packwood (South of Mount Rainier) and at the Bremerton Airport. If you are in Seattle, it might be worth the three hour drive to head down to Portland and race there.
 
Sage
Giant isopods.
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I got quite frightened at first, having figured them at first to be sowbugs in a digitally-edited picture. The real answer startled me.

How can more megabytes be stored in similarly sized objects? Is it a matter of distribution of the components in the structure? (i.e.: a 64MB memory card and a 8MB type)
 
How small is 1 byte of data? I know this sound stupid but..... could you even see data? Lets put it this way, a 1GB of memory could fit into a small micro SD card, is it even smaller than an atom or even a nucleus? That is ridiculously small..... :eek:
 
Muzaffar Musa
How small is 1 byte of data? I know this sound stupid but..... could you even see data? Lets put it this way, a 1GB of memory could fit into a small micro SD card, is it even smaller than an atom or even a nucleus? That is ridiculously small..... :eek:
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A very very very vague question. A byte is 8 bits, a bit being a binary operator, or more commonly 0 and 1. So a byte can be as small as anything you can have that can have 8 bits with two different states for each. In theorey, data could be stored at the quantum state, which means several states per a bit rather than 1 and 0. Of course, we don't have the hang of that yet, but those computers would be amazing.

Sub-atomic size is probably the best way to describe a btye, since you could probably store electrons and use those to indicate 1 and not have them there to indicate 0.
 
Why does Jordan like Citroens?
 
Muzaffar Musa
How small is 1 byte of data? I know this sound stupid but..... could you even see data? Lets put it this way, a 1GB of memory could fit into a small micro SD card, is it even smaller than an atom or even a nucleus? That is ridiculously small..... :eek:
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Back in the Olde Days, storage was core memory, which was basically coils wrapped around the intersections of a grid of wires. Those you could see. My dad has an 8K card from one of the computers he used to work on; it's a 10 inch square. For 8 kilobytes!

Current PC memory uses a transistor and a capacitor for each bit of data. How small you can make those components is how much room a bit takes.

Currently this is WAY WAY bigger than anything atomic-scale. By orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude.

Famine's point is vaid. The size of an individual bit or byte of storage is totally irrelevant. Unless, of course, he has actually smelled yellow through pharmaceutical experimentation, in which case we missed his point entirely. Again.
 
daan
His previous avatar was a Peugeot.
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Oh yeah, that's right. I guess I forgot because it was red. I'm still used to Peugeot being silver.

So, anyway, what's with the French cars then, eh?
 
Omnis
Oh yeah, that's right. I guess I forgot because it was red. I'm still used to Peugeot being silver.

So, anyway, what's with the French cars then, eh?
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Better still, does Jordan like WRC? Hmmm....
Oh, and since when he first used WRC cars as his avatar? Since GTP6, 7, 8?
 
wfooshee
Unless, of course, he has actually smelled yellow through pharmaceutical experimentation, in which case we missed his point entirely. Again.
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There was an episode of "Dirty Jobs" where Mike went to a lab where they could re-create any smell using different chemicals. Mike brought in some dirty diapers, and they matched the smell using four methyl and sulfur compounds. If they can do that, they surely can match the smell of yellow :).
 
There are people with a brain defect whom can literally taste colours and see tastes and so on.


Are there any short keys that we can use instead of a mouse to surf GTP? 💡
 
Alt F4 works better.


* Note - Do not press any keys unless you know what they do...
 
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