In the Canadian GP of 2007 both Massa and Fisichella were disqualified due an error they made reentering in the pit lane. In this case no rules were broken, but a lucky pit stop from Ferrari and a miscalculation from Mercedes team caused the overtake by pit stop.
I think if an overtake by pitstop during the safety car is mandate could have unwanted conequence, like all cars going to the pit lane.
I can understand whu Mercedes is upset: the give a nice car to be used as a real safety car and they used instead the virtual one....
You can't do this, because there are a couple cases that a pass in the pit lane while in yellow flags or safety car isn't avoidable. The first one is that a cas has tyres that are degraded and have to be changed, like almost in this case: Vettel did the pit stop after Hamilton and Raikkonen.
The second one is in the case of rain, where tyre have to be changed too.
By the way a lot of teams changed tyres during the safety car period, and this always happens in F1 races.
VSC isn't a new thing, was seldom used in the last years
Seems to me a lucky pit stop. I remember a lot of overtakes made at the pit stop, especially on circuits like Montecarlo, where the correct timing decision on tyre change made the difference.
I was expecting an article on Haas double botched tyre change, that made the VSC and the actual safety car enter in action.
A friend of mine is a sysadmin in a tyre factory. He lives alone, has a mortgage to pay, and prefer to work from midnight to 8 AM. HR was wery happy to put him in a fixed night schedule, except the 33% pay rise.
But he works 8 hours a day then sleeps in the morning....
Absolutely. This is the problem that railways faced a lot of time ago. A person in the cabin without the need of steering, and in the case the engine isn't coal powered has only to check some gauges, could become distracted. So the added semaphores and signal repetition in the cabin, the dead man switches and automatic emergency braking. This didn't stopped train accidents, but they are so rare that a train accident without deaath is still newsworthy. For passenger transport the solution of automatic transport is already a solved and mature technology, and the human operator is not present on the train. Of course the railroad is a controlled space with safety systems in place and human supervision. I suppose that spending money to build underground and railroad for automatic tranis will be money better spent but this is not an hip think but a boring engineering task, and requires chartered architects, civil and mechanincal engineers.
There are a lot of people killedbyelevators every year.
Normally chriminal charges are made to the company that installed the machine, the company that made the machine and the building owner.
That is the definition of manslaughter.
If you have a pot of flower in the balcony and it fells of due the wind and hit a pedestrian two stories down, it's manslaughter.
For a tablet the answer is simple. A tablet or a convertible that is "IBM compatible" with windows and Linux Support.
At least Microsoft continues to make security fixes and you can use any application if you can hook a keyboard and a mouse.
On the other hand a phone could be another story. I think the best choiche is a midrange one.
I still have three CRT colour TV set. And the video quality of a Trinitron tube is excellent. You have only to use the SCART connector.
Someone hooked a digital TV receiver to a
1964 Brionvega ALGOL black and white TV set. Or if you're the RAI museum ot TV and radio you could put a little VHF modulator and generate an anolgue signal for the 1954 TV sets in exposition.
Or better pfund public schools in technical enginnerig that make evening courses. Make a nominal fee, like 100$/semester and make the end exam a legal one.
In ITaly they're called ITIS Istituto tecnico industriale statale: State industrial technical institute or ITGS State surveyor technical institute and the thing works. There are some private (christian catholic schools mainly, especially due the fact that some priests stated trade schools in 1800 like st. John Bosco) ones. They cost a lot more.
There are also evening schools for learning lagnuages (bot computer and natural) and so on...
Help people to restart to go to school or make teens to go at high schools effectivley.
I have had a Nexus 7 since 2012, that started to have a lot of problem with recharging and eventually stopped to switch on.
The OS version installed was 5.1 and was slow as hell, so i downgraded to 4.3.
Now I have bought an 11" Windows 10 laptop/covertible. It has a touch screen and a keyboard. And runs Linux too, in dual boot
I suppose that I'll receive software updates on both OS, I have full-fledged browsers and so on. The only downside is that I have to use it's 24V charger an not a random USB one.
And last but not least the price was actually lower than a similar sized tablet
This is the same reasoning that happens with serial gamblers. I, twice a year buy a national lottery ticket, well knowing that the chances to win are slim, and always buy half a dozen ticket during the Patron Saint celebrations, because the money will go to repair the church. I actually won a toaster once.
Other people wilt start to spend all the money on slot machines.
HAving a technology that is highly addictive could be dangerous to some people, and a thing done mainly to serve ads an make people stay on a site for this, could become an addiction for some people.
You could give them an analogue TV set and use an RF modulator to broadcast a single channel on VHF.
Then, in another room you could use a Raspberry PI with the composite out, or even a cheap DTV receiver with the ability to play the files in the usb drive in a loop.
Retrocasting with a Raspberry PI
Hello from Turin, Italy.
We have had a giant automotive multinational here. In the 1960 they sold do the Public transports 200 trams, that were used also for special tram lines for the factory and the offices, the tramways were built by the public transport. FIAT also built buses, of course, and they were used for workers arriving outside Turin. They also built houses for factory workers and clerks nearby the factories. The municipality built also some public housing nearby.
Most people was happy with the factory, eve if the union workers protests were sometimes hard.
Not to mention Olivetti and Ivrea, if we have to talk about IT companies.
I'm also sure that in the USA there were industries that cared about their workers and the city where they were: I am baffled why nowadays capitalism can't be tied with social responsibilities.
I remember that in the 70s and the 80s paper mills took cotton fabric and dresses to use for making cotton paper. They want only cotton and without buttons and so on. I remember that as a kid I collected the used clothes for the parish. Used clothes and blankets in decent state, especially the wool ones were repaied by some old widows and given to the poor.
I think the problem is that mixing different type of fabric is a pain for reuse or recycle.
One couòd also eat salads, cheese, ham, canned fish that could be eaten cold. And anyway an electromechanical microwave is really cheap, and buying at a grocery store is cheaper. Near my office there's a mall and we have bought for the office a tiny fridge and a microwave, so normally we buy sometging at the mall, even fresh, daily made foods and heat them. It actually costs less than going to the fast food.
Ahh... weird units.
Even in metrics countries there are some interesting units used.
Have you ever heard about CGS or Gauss system and derivatives?
In Italy pressure is mesaured in
Hint: The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991. Cold war ended in these years
And for nobody seeing lights during the night, there is the plain fact that nowadays it's difficult to see the planets or the Mily way in the night due the light pollution, so the sky at night become a thing nobody sees.
I have a Casio calculator watch. I changed the battery, a CR3032, in 2005, changed the wristband four or five time always finding the original spare, used it in harsh conditions. Has a '90 LCD not-backlight display, half 7-segment,half dot matrix.
Casio also made a calculator watch with an IRDA interface, the Casio BZX-20.
I suppose that making a low power asic piloting an lcd display it's not to hard, because was already none. On the other hand if one likes to make on it the same things that are made on a device wit a huge battery chardeg daily,it could be really difficult.
I have bought a new laptop and the give me as a christmas special twelve movie ticket to use in a couple of nearby movie theathers. One is a big multi projection in a mall, two are tiny one projection small movie theather, that sometimes are also making live theather or conferences, and one is specialized in art films.
After ten years or so I never put foot in a movie theather I watched some movies. What I could say is that the experience in the tiny theather was vaw more pleasant than the one in the mall one, no popcorn smell, the cafeteria made a decent espresso at a reasonable price, whereas in the big mall there was half an hour of advers and a stink of popcorn that was terible, not to mention gals using the phone during the film.
Have to try the art film one, but I think there will be some automatic selection when you put a japanese movie.
How works in Italy, where there is a National Health Service.
There are four broad categories of prescriptions.
Over the counter ones, you could walk in a pharmacy or in a supermarket and buy them. If you want a tax deducion you have to give the Fiscal code to be printed in the invoice.
Full paid but with required prescription: sold only in pharmacies but you need a prescription from a medical doctor.
Only in hospital: you have to go in a hospital to get them, and normally a nurse will inject you and watches for adverse reactions, They are free
Medicine on prescription:they are free but if there are more than one version if you want instead of the lowest cost one the brand one you have a small copay on the difference. On some drugs there is a small copay anyway like 1/ 2 €
Douctor could prescribe a brand one, but the pharmacy could swap if requested on the generic brand one. Strange vesion are going full price.
I think also that because all the production is made in distant countries by unknown facories makes finding spares really difficult and costly.
An '80 CRT TV set made by Philips had a schematic diagram and a spare part list, going down to bare PCBs. I have succesfully repaired myself a couple of Philpis CRT monitors, great for retrogaming with a RasPI or a real Commodore 64, because an elecronic shop still had some spares.
Nowadays Philips TV are rebranded aplliances made by obscure chinese firms that make it im other countries and not only the service manual is missing, but also the user guide is. You have to guess how to access all the functions following a complex menu tree.
In Japan, due the eartquakes, underground power lines aren't used too much because an overhead power line could be repaired faster than one in a conduit.
So especially in suburban areas in Japan a lot of power lines and fiber lines are put overhead.
So, in this case is art imitating reality.
Like cops eating dougnut in US police procedurals.
I can be ok if the battery is accessible opening a back panel kept in place by Torx screws. like my Casio LCD watch or my Lenovo laptop. Or even my Yaesu transceiver.
I am writing from Italy. Cable TV here never had a big train, some council houses complex and some "new Towns",made in the '70 and some tourist town like Venice and Siena had a CATV system that mainly was used to get rid of terrestrial antennas. Satellite and terrestrial pay TV have more diffusion .
Now, most people here are ok with free terrestrial TV and pay tv services are struggling too, because if you have decent programmes of free TV you can't possibly watch two program at the same time. The only people interested are the football and sports nuts and pubs, that are gathering sports nuts.
The biggest problem is that the advertising on paid channels is almost the same on the free channels, and you could easily record the transmission and skip the ads when if you try this with a pay tv you get DRM blocking you to record, you can easily decide to save money and stay with the free channels.
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In the Canadian GP of 2007 both Massa and Fisichella were disqualified due an error they made reentering in the pit lane. In this case no rules were broken, but a lucky pit stop from Ferrari and a miscalculation from Mercedes team caused the overtake by pit stop.
I think if an overtake by pitstop during the safety car is mandate could have unwanted conequence, like all cars going to the pit lane.
I can understand whu Mercedes is upset: the give a nice car to be used as a real safety car and they used instead the virtual one....
You can't do this, because there are a couple cases that a pass in the pit lane while in yellow flags or safety car isn't avoidable. The first one is that a cas has tyres that are degraded and have to be changed, like almost in this case: Vettel did the pit stop after Hamilton and Raikkonen.
The second one is in the case of rain, where tyre have to be changed too.
By the way a lot of teams changed tyres during the safety car period, and this always happens in F1 races.
VSC isn't a new thing, was seldom used in the last years
Seems to me a lucky pit stop. I remember a lot of overtakes made at the pit stop, especially on circuits like Montecarlo, where the correct timing decision on tyre change made the difference.
I was expecting an article on Haas double botched tyre change, that made the VSC and the actual safety car enter in action.
A friend of mine is a sysadmin in a tyre factory. He lives alone, has a mortgage to pay, and prefer to work from midnight to 8 AM. HR was wery happy to put him in a fixed night schedule, except the 33% pay rise. But he works 8 hours a day then sleeps in the morning....
Absolutely. This is the problem that railways faced a lot of time ago. A person in the cabin without the need of steering, and in the case the engine isn't coal powered has only to check some gauges, could become distracted. So the added semaphores and signal repetition in the cabin, the dead man switches and automatic emergency braking. This didn't stopped train accidents, but they are so rare that a train accident without deaath is still newsworthy.
For passenger transport the solution of automatic transport is already a solved and mature technology, and the human operator is not present on the train. Of course the railroad is a controlled space with safety systems in place and human supervision.
I suppose that spending money to build underground and railroad for automatic tranis will be money better spent but this is not an hip think but a boring engineering task, and requires chartered architects, civil and mechanincal engineers.
There are a lot of people killed by elevators every year.
Normally chriminal charges are made to the company that installed the machine, the company that made the machine and the building owner.
That is the definition of manslaughter. If you have a pot of flower in the balcony and it fells of due the wind and hit a pedestrian two stories down, it's manslaughter.
For a tablet the answer is simple. A tablet or a convertible that is "IBM compatible" with windows and Linux Support. At least Microsoft continues to make security fixes and you can use any application if you can hook a keyboard and a mouse. On the other hand a phone could be another story. I think the best choiche is a midrange one.
I still have three CRT colour TV set. And the video quality of a Trinitron tube is excellent. You have only to use the SCART connector. Someone hooked a digital TV receiver to a 1964 Brionvega ALGOL black and white TV set. Or if you're the RAI museum ot TV and radio you could put a little VHF modulator and generate an anolgue signal for the 1954 TV sets in exposition.
Or better pfund public schools in technical enginnerig that make evening courses. Make a nominal fee, like 100$/semester and make the end exam a legal one.
In ITaly they're called ITIS Istituto tecnico industriale statale: State industrial technical institute or ITGS State surveyor technical institute and the thing works. There are some private (christian catholic schools mainly, especially due the fact that some priests stated trade schools in 1800 like st. John Bosco) ones. They cost a lot more. There are also evening schools for learning lagnuages (bot computer and natural) and so on... Help people to restart to go to school or make teens to go at high schools effectivley.
I have had a Nexus 7 since 2012, that started to have a lot of problem with recharging and eventually stopped to switch on.
The OS version installed was 5.1 and was slow as hell, so i downgraded to 4.3.
Now I have bought an 11" Windows 10 laptop/covertible. It has a touch screen and a keyboard. And runs Linux too, in dual boot
I suppose that I'll receive software updates on both OS, I have full-fledged browsers and so on. The only downside is that I have to use it's 24V charger an not a random USB one.
And last but not least the price was actually lower than a similar sized tablet
This is the same reasoning that happens with serial gamblers. I, twice a year buy a national lottery ticket, well knowing that the chances to win are slim, and always buy half a dozen ticket during the Patron Saint celebrations, because the money will go to repair the church. I actually won a toaster once.
Other people wilt start to spend all the money on slot machines.
HAving a technology that is highly addictive could be dangerous to some people, and a thing done mainly to serve ads an make people stay on a site for this, could become an addiction for some people.
You could give them an analogue TV set and use an RF modulator to broadcast a single channel on VHF. Then, in another room you could use a Raspberry PI with the composite out, or even a cheap DTV receiver with the ability to play the files in the usb drive in a loop. Retrocasting with a Raspberry PI
Hello from Turin, Italy. We have had a giant automotive multinational here. In the 1960 they sold do the Public transports 200 trams, that were used also for special tram lines for the factory and the offices, the tramways were built by the public transport. FIAT also built buses, of course, and they were used for workers arriving outside Turin. They also built houses for factory workers and clerks nearby the factories. The municipality built also some public housing nearby.
Most people was happy with the factory, eve if the union workers protests were sometimes hard.
Not to mention Olivetti and Ivrea, if we have to talk about IT companies.
I'm also sure that in the USA there were industries that cared about their workers and the city where they were: I am baffled why nowadays capitalism can't be tied with social responsibilities.
I remember that in the 70s and the 80s paper mills took cotton fabric and dresses to use for making cotton paper. They want only cotton and without buttons and so on. I remember that as a kid I collected the used clothes for the parish. Used clothes and blankets in decent state, especially the wool ones were repaied by some old widows and given to the poor.
I think the problem is that mixing different type of fabric is a pain for reuse or recycle.
One couòd also eat salads, cheese, ham, canned fish that could be eaten cold. And anyway an electromechanical microwave is really cheap, and buying at a grocery store is cheaper. Near my office there's a mall and we have bought for the office a tiny fridge and a microwave, so normally we buy sometging at the mall, even fresh, daily made foods and heat them. It actually costs less than going to the fast food.
Have you ever heard about CGS or Gauss system and derivatives?
In Italy pressure is mesaured in
Hint: The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991. Cold war ended in these years
And for nobody seeing lights during the night, there is the plain fact that nowadays it's difficult to see the planets or the Mily way in the night due the light pollution, so the sky at night become a thing nobody sees.
I have a Casio calculator watch. I changed the battery, a CR3032, in 2005, changed the wristband four or five time always finding the original spare, used it in harsh conditions. Has a '90 LCD not-backlight display, half 7-segment,half dot matrix.
Casio also made a calculator watch with an IRDA interface, the Casio BZX-20.
I suppose that making a low power asic piloting an lcd display it's not to hard, because was already none. On the other hand if one likes to make on it the same things that are made on a device wit a huge battery chardeg daily,it could be really difficult.
I have bought a new laptop and the give me as a christmas special twelve movie ticket to use in a couple of nearby movie theathers. One is a big multi projection in a mall, two are tiny one projection small movie theather, that sometimes are also making live theather or conferences, and one is specialized in art films.
After ten years or so I never put foot in a movie theather I watched some movies. What I could say is that the experience in the tiny theather was vaw more pleasant than the one in the mall one, no popcorn smell, the cafeteria made a decent espresso at a reasonable price, whereas in the big mall there was half an hour of advers and a stink of popcorn that was terible, not to mention gals using the phone during the film.
Have to try the art film one, but I think there will be some automatic selection when you put a japanese movie.
How works in Italy, where there is a National Health Service.
There are four broad categories of prescriptions. Over the counter ones, you could walk in a pharmacy or in a supermarket and buy them. If you want a tax deducion you have to give the Fiscal code to be printed in the invoice.
Full paid but with required prescription: sold only in pharmacies but you need a prescription from a medical doctor.
Only in hospital: you have to go in a hospital to get them, and normally a nurse will inject you and watches for adverse reactions, They are free
Medicine on prescription:they are free but if there are more than one version if you want instead of the lowest cost one the brand one you have a small copay on the difference. On some drugs there is a small copay anyway like 1/ 2 €
Douctor could prescribe a brand one, but the pharmacy could swap if requested on the generic brand one. Strange vesion are going full price.
I think also that because all the production is made in distant countries by unknown facories makes finding spares really difficult and costly. An '80 CRT TV set made by Philips had a schematic diagram and a spare part list, going down to bare PCBs. I have succesfully repaired myself a couple of Philpis CRT monitors, great for retrogaming with a RasPI or a real Commodore 64, because an elecronic shop still had some spares.
Nowadays Philips TV are rebranded aplliances made by obscure chinese firms that make it im other countries and not only the service manual is missing, but also the user guide is. You have to guess how to access all the functions following a complex menu tree.
In Japan, due the eartquakes, underground power lines aren't used too much because an overhead power line could be repaired faster than one in a conduit. So especially in suburban areas in Japan a lot of power lines and fiber lines are put overhead.
So, in this case is art imitating reality. Like cops eating dougnut in US police procedurals.
I can be ok if the battery is accessible opening a back panel kept in place by Torx screws. like my Casio LCD watch or my Lenovo laptop. Or even my Yaesu transceiver.
I am writing from Italy. Cable TV here never had a big train, some council houses complex and some "new Towns",made in the '70 and some tourist town like Venice and Siena had a CATV system that mainly was used to get rid of terrestrial antennas. Satellite and terrestrial pay TV have more diffusion
. Now, most people here are ok with free terrestrial TV and pay tv services are struggling too, because if you have decent programmes of free TV you can't possibly watch two program at the same time. The only people interested are the football and sports nuts and pubs, that are gathering sports nuts.
The biggest problem is that the advertising on paid channels is almost the same on the free channels, and you could easily record the transmission and skip the ads when if you try this with a pay tv you get DRM blocking you to record, you can easily decide to save money and stay with the free channels.