- As mentioned above, the Door Close button is there mostly to give passengers the illusion of control. In elevators built since the early '90s. The button is only enabled in emergency situations with a key held by an authority.
- The only known occurence of an elevator car free falling due to a snapped cable (barring fire or structural collapse), was in 1945. A B25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, severing the cables of two elevators. The elevator car on the 75th floor had a woman on it, but she survived due to the 1000 feet of coiled cable of fallen cable below, which lessened the impact.
- Elevators are twenty times safer than escalators. There are twenty times more elevators than escalators, but only 1/3 more accidents.
- Elevators are also safer than cars. An average of 26 people die in elevators each year in the U.S. There are 26 car deaths every five hours.
- Most people who die in elevators are elevator technicians.
- The Otis Elevator Company carries the equivalent of the world's population in their elevators every five days.
- The New York Marriott was the first to introduce a smart elevator system that assigned passengers to elevators depending on what floor they were heading to.
- Elevators used to require a two-man dispatcher/operator team to function. The advent of navigational buttons rendered those jobs obsolete.
- The area required for personal space is 2.3 feet. The average amount on elevators is generally 2 feet.
- Elevator hatches are generally bolted shut for safety reasons. In times of elevator crisis, the safest place is inside the elevator.
- The myth about jumping just before impact in a falling elevator is just that — myth. You can't jump fast enough to counteract the speed of falling. And you wouldn't know when to jump.
- Due to the laws of physics, elevators can't be any taller than 1700 feet. Hoist ropes become too heavy after that, snapping at 3200 feet.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Things You Don't Know About Modern Elevators
This is copied from Engadget:
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Time.com's First Annual Blog Index
Surprisingly I only read No.5 - Engadget. Sounds like I need to add more bookmarks to my Google Reader.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
笑死人的中国片英文翻名
《seventeen years》――十七年（故弄玄虚，《回家过年》）
《ashes of time》――时间的灰烬（《东邪西毒》，这个译名意味深长，无论你是东邪还是西毒，武功再高还不是最后都成了时间的灰烬？）
《all men are brothers: blood of the leopard》--四海之内皆兄弟：豹子的血（《水浒传》，《水浒传》有个英文译名就是《四海之内皆兄弟》）
《chinese odyssey 1: pandora's box》――中国的奥德赛1：潘多拉宝盒（《大话西游之月光宝盒》，这个绝对是入乡随俗了，不过好象都挨不上边耶）
《chinese odyssey 2: cinderella》――灰姑娘（《大话西游之仙履奇缘》，至尊宝成了孙悟空，灰姑娘穿上了水晶鞋，天才啊！）《dream factory》--梦工厂（《甲方乙方》，够牛的）
《steel meets fire》--钢遇上了火（翻译遇上了鬼？《烈火金刚》）
《third sister liu》--第三个姐姐刘（《刘三姐》，典型的不动脑筋）
《in the mood for love》――在爱的情绪中（《花样年华》，恋爱中的译者）
《woman-demon-human》――女人-恶魔-人类（《人鬼情》，失恋中的译者）
《from beijing with love》--从北京带着爱（到香港换不了菜，《国产007》）
《flirting scholar》--正在调情的学者（别人看《红楼梦》看到诗，你看到了……？《唐伯虎点秋香》）
《royal tramp》--皇家流浪汉（《鹿鼎记》，为什么不译成 " 皇家马德里 " ？）
《flowers of shanghai》--上海之花（pg18？《海上花》）
《a better tomorrow》--明天会更好（ " 玉山白雪飘零，燃烧少年的心..." ，《英雄本色》）
《saviour of the soul》--灵魂的救星（啊呸！真不要脸！《九一神雕侠侣》）
《Romatic of Three Kingdoms》-- 三个王国的罗曼史（居然是《三国演义》，我@#$%"&....）
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Friday, December 14, 2007
Great books to read
Holiday Shut-Down is coming. I have no plan for travel, so I bought some "suppose to be good" books to read:
1. The World Is Flat
2. Made To Stick
3. How To Talk So People Listen
4. Negotiation Genius
Another book I'd recommend to others is Good To Great. (I read it).
As you probably can tell, these are non-technical books for working professional or managements. I don't really remember when was last time I picked up a book about circuit design. =)
1. The World Is Flat
2. Made To Stick
3. How To Talk So People Listen
4. Negotiation Genius
Another book I'd recommend to others is Good To Great. (I read it).
As you probably can tell, these are non-technical books for working professional or managements. I don't really remember when was last time I picked up a book about circuit design. =)
Christmas card took 93 years to arrive - Wow!
This is a piece of news from CNN - a Christmas card arrives 93 years late.
...A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas.
The Christmas card was dated December 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Nebraska....
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Death Note - Best Anime Ever?
放假在家一口气看完剩下的<<死亡笔记>>. 虽然L的死让我觉得不奋, 但也更显得有情节的婉转性. 整个故事是不错的, 情节写得很有层次和逻辑性, 比大多数日本动画片里的打打杀杀更有趣味. 喜欢看悬念小说的人会喜欢...
在Google查了一下, 竟然发现有无聊的人做的假的死亡笔记的网页让人们互相诅咒 (网站就不便公布了). 世界上什么人都有, 所以做基拉的人也可以理解. 不过都活得很累, 而且没有好下场...
在Google查了一下, 竟然发现有无聊的人做的假的死亡笔记的网页让人们互相诅咒 (网站就不便公布了). 世界上什么人都有, 所以做基拉的人也可以理解. 不过都活得很累, 而且没有好下场...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)