Maleny and ditto the weather. Haven't had many mosquitos this summer - fortunately. Lucky for me, about the hippie/organic culture around here - there are locally-made repellents consisting of ti-tree oil, lavender, and some other herbal essences, that work quite well keeping the little bastards at bay - works for other bothersome pests, too.
And the exploitation of resources is something humans have been doing since, well, forever. It's something that we do, and will continue to do. Ideas are a resource - a resource that should be shared and not "owned", but there's nothing wrong with you exploiting your own expression of an idea, be it selling your novel, or your software - or even selling your rights to exploitation of that product - it's the idiots who grant patents for "rounded corners" that need fixing. I haven't got a problem with you obtaining a patent and exploiting your innovative variation on an idea (your idea or someone else's), as long as it's innovative. I guess the problem here is that it's too easy to prove "rounded corners" are innovative and deserve a patent.
Doctor's offices/surgeries (and the nearby pharmacies) often have a proportion of sick people higher than, say, supermarkets, or cafes. I'd have thought walking into a doctor's waiting room constituted a higher-than-average risk.
Now that's definitely true. Every time I manage to terminate a bloodsucker - mosquito, leech, etc - I remind them that they've become losers and evolutionary dead-ends.
Makes me feel a little better, anyway. I hate leeches.
Ditto for video rendering - Premiere Pro can use CUDA cores to render most effects real-time. It makes a BIG difference to productivity not having to queue up your various colour corrections and special effects for rendering, make adjustments, lather, rinse, repeat.
It was 80 kmh, not 80 mph. Yes it's somewhat dangerous and not to be practised, as a rule. As a one-off exercise to test the efficacy of the emergency brake, it's not a bad thing.
The driver's situation was already potentially catastrophic - I suppose it's one of those situations where you're damned if you do - provoke a lock-up and spin at 125, and damned if you don't - keep going at 125 until the fuel runs out, and hope you don't collide, or "fail to negotiate" a corner, or anything else that might happen to an out-of-control vehicle travelling at 125. Assuming other choices weren't available, of course - switch off the ignition, flick it into neutral, etc. I think the driver was extraordinarily lucky he's not dead.
Dangerous? Perhaps. It was already a dangerous situation, and the car needed TO SLOW DOWN. Using an emergency brake is a valid option. Yanking hard on the brake might cause the rear wheels to lock, but applying it slowly and firmly will slow you down, hopefully (but not definitely) to a manageable speed. Have you thought about the way front wheel drive cars work? The front wheels "pull" the car along. The rear wheels are otherwise passive and applying the handbrake will tend to "drag" the car backwards - where's the physics that will "easily" cause a spin? One force in one direction (drive) working against another force (brakes) in the opposite direction. Unless one wheels locks up or the braking force is grossly unequal between the two rear wheels, what force from what vector causes a spin? "The "torque steer" phenomenon mostly shows up during a gear change. Anyway the driver's life was already in peril, what else would you advise?
The engine can not "easily" move a car from stopped with the handbrake on - it takes a lot work, and the dynamics are different from a case where the vehicle is already moving. As I mentioned elsewhere, if handbrakes aren't to be used in an emergency, why are they made of friction materials - pads or shoes - rubbing against a moving disc or drum?
You're probably right, but it would be momentum and engine. IF you can put it in neutral, or turn off the engine, AND the regular brakes aren't working, THEN the handbrake will do the job.
Not really - brakes are designed to convert kinetic energy into heat via friction - so they're also designed to shed heat efficiently - you'll notice that braking systems have all sorts of active ventilation systems around them - look up designs for "ventilated brake disc". High-performance racing systems can work even when the disc is glowing red. Admittedly, handbrakes won't do it as well as the footbrake systems - the handbrakes in my cars run mechanical/cable linkages to a shoes/drum combo on the rear wheels, which are disc/drum combos.
Are you saying you wouldn't use your handbrake in an emergency, if the situation demanded it?
So, it's not allowed to be used in an emergency? "Sorry Honey, I know we're hurtling down the hill to our certain death because the hydraulic brakes have failed, but it's a parking brake".
It serves both purposes - to be used in an emergency, and as a primary device to hold the car still when parked. If it was only a parking brake, then why does it use friction material (pads/shoes) and a drum or disc to rub against said material ? Instead of some other method?
Don't know about the USA, but in Oz I've never seen anything other than Off/steering lock, then accessories, then on/run, then start. Turning the key from ON to Accessories will not lock the steering. Sometimes the steering won't lock until the key is physically removed from the barrel.
Who's scared? Test condition{handbrake},{velocity} if {handbrake} = ON AND velocity = 0, THEN throttle = released ELSE throttle = off
I'm sure someone with better logic skills can widen this to include various other parameters like transmission=neutral. Or put the various transmission and engine management systems into a test or maintenance mode if you want to put the car on a dyno, or similar. It's not such a difficult thing to consider - "hey, if the car's moving and someone pulls on the handbrake, maybe we'd better shut off the throttle". As I said, surely this has been considered and rejected - I'd still like to see the decision tree for the various states of the throttle - just what conditions would cause a normal, or emergency shut-off?
Harumph. Well, "handbrake on" should be a "throttle off" trigger - just like footbrake turns off cruise control. I can't believe car designers/engineers are THAT stupid - they must have thought of this and decided against it.
Yes, I'm aware I've strayed from the core of the article - I was just musing on safety design issues in general.
Wow. I don't think you're pulling it hard enough (ba-doom-tish!). I've managed to stop, from town speeds, every car I've ever had, using the handbrake. It's one of the things I test when I buy a car. There's a long straight downhill stretch between my nearest town and the sh!thole down the bottom of the hill - long enough to have a "truck brake rest area" at the top of the stretch and another one at the bottom. I can stop my car from 80km/h using the handbrake before it reaches the bottom. Foot off the gas, stick it in third or second gear, and pull slowly but firmly on the handbrake. You can feel it bite, and you just keep on pulling.
To get the feel of what your handbrake can do, try pulling a handbrake turn next time you're on dirt - off the gas, stick in neutral if you want, yank the handbrake while turning the steering quickly one way, then the other - it should lock up the back wheels and send you into crazy-fun land.
Not if you ease it on. Its other name is "emergency brake". I don't know much about engine management computers, but cruise control in my car shuts off from a number of different triggers - use the brakes, exceed speed parameters (high OR low), etc - as well as just pressing the button to shut it off. Surely there'd be more than one trigger for an electronic throttle to shut down, and using the emergency brake should be number 1 or 2 on the priority list.
Premiere pro - adjustment layers. Saves a LOT of time applying effects to video clips on the same track. Also, when using a compatible video adapter the software (mercury playback engine) offloads many intensive tasks such as special effects to the GPU (CUDA cores, actually) and that really speeds up the workflow. Native capture/ingest of new high-def video formats which previously required third-party plugins. Plug your camera into a laptop running Prelude/OnLocation and you can watch various lighting/colour graphs and histograms in real-time - Luma/Chroma, YPbPr, RGB and so on, allowing you to adjust lighting before you start filming, instead of the old "fix it in post" regime.
Granted, you were talking about Photoshop and that product probably peaked some years ago. Other products in the suite continue to improve.
Yes, I'm a bit of an Adobe fanboi when it comes to the video production suite - my high-school son bought it on education pricing, so I've got no complaints about Adobe's pricing - I've always bought the boxed product (with one exception, see below), and NEVER paid full retail.
When I bought CS5.5 it was in the grace period after CS6 was announced, so I took advantage of the free upgrade and downloaded the CS6 suite. When the boxed CS5.5 arrived it included a free fully-licenced copy of CS4 - CS5.5 was 64-bit only and CS4 was included to keep you working while you waited for delivery of your shiny 64-bit editing suite. So a single purchase of CS5.5 at the right time on education pricing got me 3 fully licenced copies of the software - different versions, obviously, but 2 of them are in use - CS6 on the main machine, and CS4 on my old laptop, used for on location tests and and so on. It pays to do your research and take advantage of what's on offer, rather than walk into a shop and complain about the high cost.
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Maleny and ditto the weather. Haven't had many mosquitos this summer - fortunately. Lucky for me, about the hippie/organic culture around here - there are locally-made repellents consisting of ti-tree oil, lavender, and some other herbal essences, that work quite well keeping the little bastards at bay - works for other bothersome pests, too.
And the exploitation of resources is something humans have been doing since, well, forever. It's something that we do, and will continue to do. Ideas are a resource - a resource that should be shared and not "owned", but there's nothing wrong with you exploiting your own expression of an idea, be it selling your novel, or your software - or even selling your rights to exploitation of that product - it's the idiots who grant patents for "rounded corners" that need fixing. I haven't got a problem with you obtaining a patent and exploiting your innovative variation on an idea (your idea or someone else's), as long as it's innovative. I guess the problem here is that it's too easy to prove "rounded corners" are innovative and deserve a patent.
Doctor's offices/surgeries (and the nearby pharmacies) often have a proportion of sick people higher than, say, supermarkets, or cafes. I'd have thought walking into a doctor's waiting room constituted a higher-than-average risk.
Now that's definitely true. Every time I manage to terminate a bloodsucker - mosquito, leech, etc - I remind them that they've become losers and evolutionary dead-ends.
Makes me feel a little better, anyway. I hate leeches.
I feel your pain - try some ti-tree and lavender/rosemary-based repellants. Thursday Plantation offer some decent products.
Where are you, BTW? Bayside Redlands, or Nudgee? I live in Maleny.
And by ignoring the smell of DEET, the mosquito is more likely to get herself a blood meal, and is thus more likely to reproduce. Whar evolution?
Perhaps you could take the time to read the whole thread, particularly the comments where I say I've done just that.
Asymmetrical plug/socket design. It's not that difficult.
Yes, and how much are you willing to pay for your ticket/s?
I'd mod you up, but I've already commented, and I hate seeing that "undoing mods" bar of shame :-(
Murphy strikes again! No, I'm not being sarcastic -that's the origin of the phrase - a cock-up concerning connectors that weren't one-way only.
Ditto for video rendering - Premiere Pro can use CUDA cores to render most effects real-time. It makes a BIG difference to productivity not having to queue up your various colour corrections and special effects for rendering, make adjustments, lather, rinse, repeat.
It was 80 kmh, not 80 mph. Yes it's somewhat dangerous and not to be practised, as a rule. As a one-off exercise to test the efficacy of the emergency brake, it's not a bad thing.
The driver's situation was already potentially catastrophic - I suppose it's one of those situations where you're damned if you do - provoke a lock-up and spin at 125, and damned if you don't - keep going at 125 until the fuel runs out, and hope you don't collide, or "fail to negotiate" a corner, or anything else that might happen to an out-of-control vehicle travelling at 125. Assuming other choices weren't available, of course - switch off the ignition, flick it into neutral, etc. I think the driver was extraordinarily lucky he's not dead.
Dangerous? Perhaps. It was already a dangerous situation, and the car needed TO SLOW DOWN. Using an emergency brake is a valid option. Yanking hard on the brake might cause the rear wheels to lock, but applying it slowly and firmly will slow you down, hopefully (but not definitely) to a manageable speed. Have you thought about the way front wheel drive cars work? The front wheels "pull" the car along. The rear wheels are otherwise passive and applying the handbrake will tend to "drag" the car backwards - where's the physics that will "easily" cause a spin? One force in one direction (drive) working against another force (brakes) in the opposite direction. Unless one wheels locks up or the braking force is grossly unequal between the two rear wheels, what force from what vector causes a spin? "The "torque steer" phenomenon mostly shows up during a gear change. Anyway the driver's life was already in peril, what else would you advise?
The engine can not "easily" move a car from stopped with the handbrake on - it takes a lot work, and the dynamics are different from a case where the vehicle is already moving. As I mentioned elsewhere, if handbrakes aren't to be used in an emergency, why are they made of friction materials - pads or shoes - rubbing against a moving disc or drum?
You're probably right, but it would be momentum and engine. IF you can put it in neutral, or turn off the engine, AND the regular brakes aren't working, THEN the handbrake will do the job.
Not many - I like to take them to the point of lockup, although that's not really an issue with anti-lock systems these days.
Not really - brakes are designed to convert kinetic energy into heat via friction - so they're also designed to shed heat efficiently - you'll notice that braking systems have all sorts of active ventilation systems around them - look up designs for "ventilated brake disc". High-performance racing systems can work even when the disc is glowing red. Admittedly, handbrakes won't do it as well as the footbrake systems - the handbrakes in my cars run mechanical/cable linkages to a shoes/drum combo on the rear wheels, which are disc/drum combos.
Are you saying you wouldn't use your handbrake in an emergency, if the situation demanded it?
cough*synchromesh*cough
So, it's not allowed to be used in an emergency? "Sorry Honey, I know we're hurtling down the hill to our certain death because the hydraulic brakes have failed, but it's a parking brake".
It serves both purposes - to be used in an emergency, and as a primary device to hold the car still when parked. If it was only a parking brake, then why does it use friction material (pads/shoes) and a drum or disc to rub against said material ? Instead of some other method?
Don't know about the USA, but in Oz I've never seen anything other than Off/steering lock, then accessories, then on/run, then start. Turning the key from ON to Accessories will not lock the steering. Sometimes the steering won't lock until the key is physically removed from the barrel.
Who's scared? Test condition{handbrake},{velocity} if {handbrake} = ON AND velocity = 0, THEN throttle = released ELSE throttle = off
I'm sure someone with better logic skills can widen this to include various other parameters like transmission=neutral. Or put the various transmission and engine management systems into a test or maintenance mode if you want to put the car on a dyno, or similar. It's not such a difficult thing to consider - "hey, if the car's moving and someone pulls on the handbrake, maybe we'd better shut off the throttle". As I said, surely this has been considered and rejected - I'd still like to see the decision tree for the various states of the throttle - just what conditions would cause a normal, or emergency shut-off?
Harumph. Well, "handbrake on" should be a "throttle off" trigger - just like footbrake turns off cruise control. I can't believe car designers/engineers are THAT stupid - they must have thought of this and decided against it.
Yes, I'm aware I've strayed from the core of the article - I was just musing on safety design issues in general.
Wow. I don't think you're pulling it hard enough (ba-doom-tish!). I've managed to stop, from town speeds, every car I've ever had, using the handbrake. It's one of the things I test when I buy a car. There's a long straight downhill stretch between my nearest town and the sh!thole down the bottom of the hill - long enough to have a "truck brake rest area" at the top of the stretch and another one at the bottom. I can stop my car from 80km/h using the handbrake before it reaches the bottom. Foot off the gas, stick it in third or second gear, and pull slowly but firmly on the handbrake. You can feel it bite, and you just keep on pulling.
To get the feel of what your handbrake can do, try pulling a handbrake turn next time you're on dirt - off the gas, stick in neutral if you want, yank the handbrake while turning the steering quickly one way, then the other - it should lock up the back wheels and send you into crazy-fun land.
Not if you ease it on. Its other name is "emergency brake". I don't know much about engine management computers, but cruise control in my car shuts off from a number of different triggers - use the brakes, exceed speed parameters (high OR low), etc - as well as just pressing the button to shut it off. Surely there'd be more than one trigger for an electronic throttle to shut down, and using the emergency brake should be number 1 or 2 on the priority list.
Premiere pro - adjustment layers. Saves a LOT of time applying effects to video clips on the same track. Also, when using a compatible video adapter the software (mercury playback engine) offloads many intensive tasks such as special effects to the GPU (CUDA cores, actually) and that really speeds up the workflow. Native capture/ingest of new high-def video formats which previously required third-party plugins. Plug your camera into a laptop running Prelude/OnLocation and you can watch various lighting/colour graphs and histograms in real-time - Luma/Chroma, YPbPr, RGB and so on, allowing you to adjust lighting before you start filming, instead of the old "fix it in post" regime.
Granted, you were talking about Photoshop and that product probably peaked some years ago. Other products in the suite continue to improve.
Yes, I'm a bit of an Adobe fanboi when it comes to the video production suite - my high-school son bought it on education pricing, so I've got no complaints about Adobe's pricing - I've always bought the boxed product (with one exception, see below), and NEVER paid full retail.
When I bought CS5.5 it was in the grace period after CS6 was announced, so I took advantage of the free upgrade and downloaded the CS6 suite. When the boxed CS5.5 arrived it included a free fully-licenced copy of CS4 - CS5.5 was 64-bit only and CS4 was included to keep you working while you waited for delivery of your shiny 64-bit editing suite. So a single purchase of CS5.5 at the right time on education pricing got me 3 fully licenced copies of the software - different versions, obviously, but 2 of them are in use - CS6 on the main machine, and CS4 on my old laptop, used for on location tests and and so on. It pays to do your research and take advantage of what's on offer, rather than walk into a shop and complain about the high cost.