Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: OT: This Swift thing Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:50:20 +1200 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <201406081314.08285.gheskett@wdtv.com> <468344054423943680.832468sturla.molden-gmail.com@news.gmane.org> <53951178$0$29988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net XriC/xpkYGoToX/XQpdABgKp9zwOBZS+xizhq9IhV4J8tnEGuz Cancel-Lock: sha1:/g5DO2muBKGW5AafkSEPc4fiz+U= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:73157 Chris Angelico wrote: > So, let me get this straight. A CPU has to have a fan, but a car > engine doesn't, because the car's moving at a hundred kays an hour. I > have a suspicion the CPU fan moves air a bit slower than that. If the car were *always* moving at 100km/h, it probably wouldn't need a fan. In practice, all cars do have fans (even the ones that aren't air-cooled), for the occasions when they're not moving that fast. (BTW, so-called water-cooled engines are really air-cooled too, just not by air flowing directly over the engine block. (Although marine engines may be an exception.)) -- Greg