I'd rather see velocity reported precisely and some legal safeguards introduced that put an end to this notion that
automated systems can give you speeding tickets.
There are people who drive dangerously at or below the posted limit. There are times when the posted limit is too high and there
are times when the posted limit is too low. Having a trained professional actually eyeball the potential violater at least
gives the option of them making a judgement call -- something photo radar can't do.
But one person wearing the development and operations hat? That leads to nothing but frustration, burnout, entropy, and failure.
Not only that, but it violates SOX 404 "separation of duties" standards. Our SOX audit firm enforces strict standards on business systems that keep the developers from having any access to production systems.
As an honest-to-goodness engineer with several semesters of propulsion classes, it never ceases to amaze me that the group of internet fora readers has a massive intersection with diesel fanbois who just can't seem to get it through their thick-as-a-diesel-engine-block skulls that engineering is about compromise and there is no such thing as the one best way.
The benefit of ethanol isn't that it's being burned in concert with gasoline, it's that it can be added to the cylinder to combat preignition. You're also incorrect on how ECMs prevent knock damage. When the ECM senses knock (via the knock sensor) it will retard the timing until the knocking goes away. Adding more fuel _might_ help with knock as it will reduce the overall temperature of the burned mixture but that's counterproductive in that it negatively impacts fuel economy and emissions.
Computer controlled intake and exhaust valves aren't exactly new -- the technology is known as "variable valve timing" and has been showing up in production automobiles since the 80s (I'll grant that computer controlled, infinite profile timing is more recent, but it still dates back to ~ 2000). Call me when the MINI shows up with computer controlled pnuematic or electric valves;)
It's not surprising at all. If you keep the load on ferrous materials below a certain limit, they'll essentially have an infinite life. If you try and shave a couple of grams by using aluminum connecting rods, they do not have that same infinite life and will have to be replace.
In addition, there's also a point at which a significant reduction in the size and weight of one item (read: That big fucking cast-iron engine under the hood) can drive you towards significant structural reductions in the rest of the vehicle (read: Suspension, the unit-body structure that holds up the engine and transmission, etc. etc.) which then makes it easier to decrease aerodynamic drag without compromising the payload envelope (i.e. where the doofus GP poster sits). You then see an increase in installed efficiency.
The simple example for this is the motorcycle: An 1100cc motorcycle is insanely fast and gets kick-ass fuel economy where the same 1100cc displacement in your run-of-the-mill Suzuki econobox means you're insane to drive it on the highway.
The problem is the old ones didn't work just fine. ASAT couldn't have been used to knock out a communications satellite. It was limited to hitting objects in Low Earth Orbit while communications satellites work best when they're in geosynchronous orbit. Christ, it's not rocket... er, nevermind.
We currently have a very limited number of people put into that formal role
That's not entirely true. In some cities (Chicago, for example) there are more candidates for K-6 teaching positions
than there are positions themselves.
I'd also offer that there are significant non-financial incentives towards a career in education:
1) A sense of accomplishment that comes from seeing that kid in your third grade class turn out to be a stellar individual
2) A more flexible schedule for families where both parents work
3) Personal achievement. Kids don't grow up playing "garbage man". I've never heard a kid say "I want to be a copy machine repair man when I grow up." Play-skool(!) doesn't sell "My first call center" toys.
What is needed, apparently, is some way to manage to sell that to the unions, or, at the least, a way to muzzle the union on this issue.
It would dead simple to muzzle the unions simply by enforcing the Beck Decision
My personal conspiracy theory is that the executive branch will do all it can to enforce Beck ahead of the 2008 elections in an attempt to cut the legs out from under the DNC.
That wouldn't work in the US -- the hijacker would find a personal injury shark, er, lawyer which would then sue the bejezus out of everyone theoretically involved (probably in Madison County, Illinois) -- the pilots, the cabin crew, the passengers, the airline, the food service company, the municipality that operated the originating airport, the municipality that operated the destination airport, and the federal government. Sumbitch would probably win too.
I would argue that what we're seeing in the embedded space is a metric ass-load of vendors who don't even bother with the userland separation -- they just violate the GPL and figure they can get away with it.
HP, the same company that at one time hired Bruce Perens, is currently shipping a NAS device that runs on top of a Linux kernel. They don't advertise source availability and the only way to get the source is from the private web page of one of the guys who worked on the project, is proud of the product, and wants to create a community around it.
The US withdrew from the ABM treaty as was it's right. The given justification was that the limitations of the ABM treaty offered no significant protection from the former Soviet Union while severely limiting US options in protecting itself from other threats.
I'd also add that the Soviet Union disregarded the ABM before the ink was even dry, so it was really nothing more than propaganda to begin with.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/abmt/text/unil_us. htm
My understanding of the VMS/NT fiasco is that it was some guys who had worked on the VMS networking code who had "lifted" some source on their own stick, not a direct requirement handed down from Bill Gates to Dave Cutler.
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but by and large plagiarism
I could tell you were an English major because you used "by and large" instead of "by enlarge".
I'd rather see velocity reported precisely and some legal safeguards introduced that put an end to this notion that automated systems can give you speeding tickets. There are people who drive dangerously at or below the posted limit. There are times when the posted limit is too high and there are times when the posted limit is too low. Having a trained professional actually eyeball the potential violater at least gives the option of them making a judgement call -- something photo radar can't do.
But one person wearing the development and operations hat? That leads to nothing but frustration, burnout, entropy, and failure.
Not only that, but it violates SOX 404 "separation of duties" standards. Our SOX audit firm enforces strict standards on business systems that keep the developers from having any access to production systems.
Richter, Give dees peepul dair aiyur!
(Translated from Austro-English that's "Richter, Give these people their air!")
Amazingly, the diesel is not right for everyone.
As an honest-to-goodness engineer with several semesters of propulsion classes, it never ceases to amaze me
that the group of internet fora readers has a massive intersection with diesel fanbois who just can't seem to
get it through their thick-as-a-diesel-engine-block skulls that engineering is about compromise and there
is no such thing as the one best way.
The benefit of ethanol isn't that it's being burned in concert with gasoline, it's that it can be added to the cylinder to combat preignition. You're also incorrect on how ECMs prevent knock damage. When the ECM senses knock (via the knock sensor) it will retard the timing until the knocking goes away. Adding more fuel _might_ help with knock as it will reduce the overall temperature of the burned mixture but that's counterproductive in that it negatively impacts fuel economy and emissions. Computer controlled intake and exhaust valves aren't exactly new -- the technology is known as "variable valve timing" and has been showing up in production automobiles since the 80s (I'll grant that computer controlled, infinite profile timing is more recent, but it still dates back to ~ 2000). Call me when the MINI shows up with computer controlled pnuematic or electric valves ;)
It's not surprising at all. If you keep the load on ferrous materials below a certain limit, they'll essentially have an infinite life. If you try and shave a couple of grams by using aluminum connecting rods, they do not have that same infinite life and will have to be replace.
In addition, there's also a point at which a significant reduction in the size and weight of one item (read: That big fucking cast-iron engine under the hood) can drive you towards significant structural reductions in the rest of the vehicle (read: Suspension, the unit-body structure that holds up the engine and transmission, etc. etc.) which then makes it easier to decrease aerodynamic drag without compromising the payload envelope (i.e. where the doofus GP poster sits). You then see an increase in installed efficiency.
The simple example for this is the motorcycle: An 1100cc motorcycle is insanely fast and gets kick-ass fuel economy where the same 1100cc displacement in your run-of-the-mill Suzuki econobox means you're insane to drive it on the highway.
Gail: Harris, are you sure it's a good idea to pre-tape the weather? Harris: Sure, this is LA. What could happen? http://imdb.com/title/tt0102250/
Don't mess with Warren Zevon: He'll rip your lungs out.
In Soviet Russia, GPS sends signals to satellite
I think you mean "Atlanta". You know, the one with the giant Delta hub.
Does this mean that submarine patents are okay?
The Soviet system was a fig-leaf for the real system they had that was a national system and did violate the ABM treaty.
The problem is the old ones didn't work just fine. ASAT couldn't have been used to knock out a communications satellite. It was limited to hitting objects in Low Earth Orbit while communications satellites work best when they're in geosynchronous orbit. Christ, it's not rocket... er, nevermind.
...but then I live in Arizona.
We currently have a very limited number of people put into that formal role That's not entirely true. In some cities (Chicago, for example) there are more candidates for K-6 teaching positions than there are positions themselves. I'd also offer that there are significant non-financial incentives towards a career in education: 1) A sense of accomplishment that comes from seeing that kid in your third grade class turn out to be a stellar individual 2) A more flexible schedule for families where both parents work 3) Personal achievement. Kids don't grow up playing "garbage man". I've never heard a kid say "I want to be a copy machine repair man when I grow up." Play-skool(!) doesn't sell "My first call center" toys.
What is needed, apparently, is some way to manage to sell that to the unions, or, at the least, a way to muzzle the union on this issue.
It would dead simple to muzzle the unions simply by enforcing the Beck Decision
My personal conspiracy theory is that the executive branch will do all it can to enforce Beck ahead of the 2008 elections in an attempt to cut the legs out from under the DNC.
That wouldn't work in the US -- the hijacker would find a personal injury shark, er, lawyer which would then sue the bejezus out of everyone theoretically involved (probably in Madison County, Illinois) -- the pilots, the cabin crew, the passengers, the airline, the food service company, the municipality that operated the originating airport, the municipality that operated the destination airport, and the federal government. Sumbitch would probably win too.
If you bought Kevin Bacon's bike and then sent a video of yourself riding it into your swimming pool to AFV, what would your "Kevin Bacon" number be?
I would argue that what we're seeing in the embedded space is a metric ass-load of vendors who don't even bother with the userland separation -- they just violate the GPL and figure they can get away with it.
HP, the same company that at one time hired Bruce Perens, is currently shipping a NAS device that runs on top of a Linux kernel. They don't advertise source availability and the only way to get the source is from the private web page of one of the guys who worked on the project, is proud of the product, and wants to create a community around it.
It's not a corporate media blackout, it's the mind control satellites.
The US withdrew from the ABM treaty as was it's right. The given justification was that the limitations of the ABM treaty offered no significant protection from the former Soviet Union while severely limiting US options in protecting itself from other threats. I'd also add that the Soviet Union disregarded the ABM before the ink was even dry, so it was really nothing more than propaganda to begin with. http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/abmt/text/unil_us. htm
My understanding of the VMS/NT fiasco is that it was some guys who had worked on the VMS networking code who had "lifted" some source on their own stick, not a direct requirement handed down from Bill Gates to Dave Cutler.
I do believe you've missed the point -- he's paraphrasing a quote from Futurama.
The only reply that makes sense is "You suck!"