Actually, the engine control should be a dedicated realtime system. As the other response humorously indicated, interrupt handling is a bad thing with time-dependent outputs, especially those that can blow up or kill people when they fail. The ideal way is to have an overall car processor that handles most other things, and a relatively simple embedded system doung the EMS work.
Well, *all* vehicles sold in the US after the 1996 model year are federallymandated to have OBDII. It's true that few of the interfaces have tunable parameters, but the interface is there, and can be read from. Yes, manufacturer-proprietary interfaces for setting parameters are causing problems in the field of aftermarket OBDII software, but it certainly exists in manyforms.
Plus, there are certainly other EMS's available for less than the $3000 range, such as the Haltech, Microtech, and even the Megasquirt, which, while not unencumbered, has at least source and schematics available. It's just not to be used commercially without authorization. While I'd welcome a Free EMS, it's probably better to add your skillset to the DIY-EFI group, as they're already working on this.
Okay, I'd take a couple of directions here. First, how do you correlate the two inconsistent viewpoints of personal freedom? Consciousness-altering substances are often dangerous to the user (over time, at the very least), and dangerous to society, particularly through impaired operation of machinery. However, you seem to (correctly, IMHO) take the view that personal freedom allows use of potentially dangerous items. Your view might possibly be based on statistics that show that the rate of death/injury from possession or use of these substances is low, and possibly on a belief that if someone wishes to hurt themselves, it's their right and option.
I'd compare this view to that you seem to espouse on firearms ownership/use. Remember, there are 100+ million firearms in the US, and the overwhelming majority of these are used for completely law-abiding purposes.
(your attempt to bait an assumed conservative is severely misaimed. I'm not a conservative in the least.)
The second thing that I'd like to explore is your viewpoint on self-defense. At what point is it acceptable to use deadly force in self-defense? How about in defense of others? Defense of property? Does the defender being a government change anything? If you're going to take the viewpoint of the Society of Friends, I can at least accept it as internally consistent, if horribly naive.
It's quite humorous to see us both decrying the hypocrisy of the current "Land of the Free" from completely different viewpoints.
Well, when we're talking about law here, semantics are *exactly* what is necessary. Making law from the perspective of emotion instead of logic is how we got in this pickle in the first place. (see NFA of 1934, GCA of 1968, Bush ban, '92 naughty looking weapons ban)
Hint: Pretty much any firearm can be used for making holes in someone or something from a long distance, including shotguns and pistols, if properly accurized. Crossbows can do so as well. Your definition strikes me as a little fuzzy to be codified into law.
Contrast target shooting and hunting, and also be ready to go into how the very set of laws you're talking about are failing in the UK.
You've also ignored the point of competitive shooting. Is that by intent or omission?
Another interesting question: Contrast law-abiding firearms owner with criminal predator. Do you feel the two are equivalent?
Actually, yes, they are, by those of us who shoot competitively. The silly '92 gun ban made several inexpensive rifles used to get started in competitive shooting into high-priced collectors' items.
Please define "high powered sniper rifle". Differentiate from "hunting rifle" or "varmint rifle" or "target shooting rifle". Please be very specific.
If you've noticed how badly-written laws about technology are, they've got nothing on the labyrinthine morass of laws that cover firearms ownership.
M-14's not.223, it's 7.62 NATO (.308 Winchester). I think you may be thinking of M-16, which does fire 5.56 NATO. The Mini-14 (which you also might have confused the M-14 with) is also a.223 rifle, but not nearly as accurate as a sniper would need. I'd vote for some variant of Remington 700, for accuracy's sake. However, an accurized AR-pattern rifle might well do the job. Were this sniper using an M-14, there'd likely not be the survivor that there is - the 7.62 round is much more lethal.
Sorry, that's the hardware. The punched cards are the softwarefor that hardware, and while they may well have been bug-free, I don't have any proof one way or another.
Add significant license fees and support to that EMC order. EMC will require probably $20K just to turn on that Symmetrix, if they'll even deal with you. I've dealt with people who bought used EMC before, and got severely burned. Plus, as the other guy who you threatened with assault said, EMC will require EMC-supplied drives before they turn on the system. Enterprise-class gear doesn't run without contracts, generally.
Sorry, but I've personally seen the carnage when a supposedly-multiply-redundant EMC system lost customer data. Add to that EMC's egregious business methods, and they quickly become the last choice, behind Hitachi and IBM. There's a reason that no one else will work with EMC.
Plus, you probably shouldn't compare the Clariion systems directly with Hitachi/IBM Shark...they're much more on the level of the LSI (StorageTek/IBM/etc) systems.
Remember, anyone working with large systems generally won't take a risk on an untried vendor. When you're in the 10+ terabyte range, companies will generally only spring for first-tier vendors.
What's RaidWeb/Raidzone/etc's record on 24x7 service? 3-hour response? Do they replace drives? Once you get to that size, you're having *regular* drive failures, up to one a week or more. Also, look at access speed with those 160GB drives. How do these controllers handle repairing failures under load? What's their cache behavior under varying/extreme conditions? Do they suffer from the "cache hits high water mark under high load, then dumps the whole thing, slowing access to a crawl" problem?
The big guys can afford to do some of this testing, and can answer those questions. The little guys generally give unsatisfactory answers or can't answer the question.
I work with large systems every day (10TB-250TB), and the requirements and methodologies are *completely* different from small or workgroup systems that the average/. reader has experience with. When the system you're working on is a sizable fraction of the essential data of a corporation, and a sizable fraction of their budget, they're a little less likely to spend money on something that's not being used in a similar situation.
I'd call you mighty confused. Hell, at 50TB, you're in the range requiring director-class SAN switching, and a pair of those by themselves blow your $100K budget. Please get some real-world experience before holding forth on things you really don't understand. You'll pay more than $100K for the software to manage that size of a storage farm. Remember, we're talking HA design for your SAN, and a *serious* backup system. Oh, you were going to skip that? Keep your resume ready. "Uh, Mr. CEO, it'll just be a month while we rebuild and restore your data warehouse..."
This isn't about any cure. There are some benefits to high doses of anti-HIV drugs during pregnancy--they tend to reduce the risk of transmission of the virus. I agree to some extent with the trollish other poster that abortion on discovery of pregnancy if the mother is HIV+ is a good idea, but then I'm childfree, and don't have any urge to breed.
Um. Bubonic plague isn't even caused by a virus, dude. Yersinia pestis is a bacillus, and is pretty well understood. I don't know where your data's coming from, but if they confuse bacteria with virii, they probably shouldn't be trusted with medical statistics research.
You can try to knock me out, tough guy. Sorry, but if you attempt to assault _me_, I will defend myself, up to and including the use of deadly force if warranted to stop the illegal act. I could likely build a healthy defense case against a prizewinner like you. Lessee...previous history of violent behavior, likely some domestic violence. Do the local fuzz know you by name from their visits to your house in the middle of the night?
It might well be instructive for your sprogs to see their widdle duh-dee in a weeping pile, crapping himself as his life fluids pour out on the floor. Think about it. Not all of us who don't like to be annoyed by squalling sproggen "fussing quietly" at the tops of their lungs while their incompetent semen/egg donors stand by uselessly are incapable of defending ourselves.
Thank you. However, you're in the minority. The broad brush is there beecause only the corners and trim get missed when you use it, to extend the metaphor somewhat.
Corporations exist solely due to protection from government. This is pretty simple to understand. Yes, the corporation-as-person legal fiction is destructive, but it's created and *maintained* by governments.
RCW 49.44.140 applies in Washington state, and makes such drastic clauses nonenforceable:
Requiring assignment of employee's rights to inventions -- Conditions.
(1) A provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign or offer to assign any of the employee's rights in an invention to the employer does not apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information of the employer was used and which was developed entirely on the employee's own time, unless (a) the invention relates (i) directly to the business of the employer, or (ii) to the employer's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (b) the invention results from any work performed by the employee for the employer. Any provision which purports to apply to such an invention is to that extent against the public policy of this state and is to that extent void and unenforceable.
This RCW, in fact, was what I quoted when giving my "list of inventions", indicating that I claimed ownership for any inventions or publications which I created in the past, present, or future, and had no intention of listing them, as they did not fall under the types of inventions or publications that were covered under the law.
That's a measurement of hardware mirroring versus software RAID 5 far more than an IDE versus SCSI measurement. That "benchmark" is more than a bit disingenuous.
You seriously believe anything done in/to Iraq will prevent a nuke attack on a US city within 10 years? The chances of that are mighty high with or without Iraq.
Instant government change, true, but it might be worthwhile to look at how the Chinese military (militaries, actually) is/are organized. That wouldn't win a war with China.
Well, from comments of those using it, it seems to be Xperimental Prototype. Crashes regularly (even inside M$, where there should be trained XP support staff), has piles of compatibility problems, etc.
Sports? Attractive to women? I can understand the "male bonding" theme in having a pile of testosterone-crazed lumps running around patting each other on the butt, but as a rule, male sports idiocy is *tolerated*, not "found attractive" by women. Bunch of guys sitting around the TV drinking beer and grunting at the screen...riiiight...real attractive.
That was "what remains", as a "grammar Nazi" should have seen, i.e. "your still-living body, writhing in pain from the gutshot, as the women come out to castrate you and hang you from a tree as warning to the next invaders." Might look into the history of what the mujahadeen did to the Soviets when one was silly enough to get captured if you think this is a unfounded flamelike post. I'm relating history, and if we get into a ground war in Afghanistan, there'll likely be a draft. Keep planning for those educational waivers,/.ers!
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Actually, the engine control should be a dedicated realtime system. As the other response humorously indicated, interrupt handling is a bad thing with time-dependent outputs, especially those that can blow up or kill people when they fail. The ideal way is to have an overall car processor that handles most other things, and a relatively simple embedded system doung the EMS work.
Well, *all* vehicles sold in the US after the 1996 model year are federally mandated to have OBDII. It's true that few of the interfaces have tunable parameters, but the interface is there, and can be read from. Yes, manufacturer-proprietary interfaces for setting parameters are causing problems in the field of aftermarket OBDII software, but it certainly exists in many forms.
Plus, there are certainly other EMS's available for less than the $3000 range, such as the Haltech, Microtech, and even the Megasquirt, which, while not unencumbered, has at least source and schematics available. It's just not to be used commercially without authorization. While I'd welcome a Free EMS, it's probably better to add your skillset to the DIY-EFI group, as they're already working on this.
Okay, I'd take a couple of directions here. First, how do you correlate the two inconsistent viewpoints of personal freedom? Consciousness-altering substances are often dangerous to the user (over time, at the very least), and dangerous to society, particularly through impaired operation of machinery. However, you seem to (correctly, IMHO) take the view that personal freedom allows use of potentially dangerous items. Your view might possibly be based on statistics that show that the rate of death/injury from possession or use of these substances is low, and possibly on a belief that if someone wishes to hurt themselves, it's their right and option.
I'd compare this view to that you seem to espouse on firearms ownership/use. Remember, there are 100+ million firearms in the US, and the overwhelming majority of these are used for completely law-abiding purposes.
(your attempt to bait an assumed conservative is severely misaimed. I'm not a conservative in the least.)
The second thing that I'd like to explore is your viewpoint on self-defense. At what point is it acceptable to use deadly force in self-defense? How about in defense of others? Defense of property? Does the defender being a government change anything? If you're going to take the viewpoint of the Society of Friends, I can at least accept it as internally consistent, if horribly naive.
It's quite humorous to see us both decrying the hypocrisy of the current "Land of the Free" from completely different viewpoints.
Well, when we're talking about law here, semantics are *exactly* what is necessary. Making law from the perspective of emotion instead of logic is how we got in this pickle in the first place. (see NFA of 1934, GCA of 1968, Bush ban, '92 naughty looking weapons ban)
Hint: Pretty much any firearm can be used for making holes in someone or something from a long distance, including shotguns and pistols, if properly accurized. Crossbows can do so as well. Your definition strikes me as a little fuzzy to be codified into law.
Contrast target shooting and hunting, and also be ready to go into how the very set of laws you're talking about are failing in the UK.
You've also ignored the point of competitive shooting. Is that by intent or omission?
Another interesting question: Contrast law-abiding firearms owner with criminal predator. Do you feel the two are equivalent?
Actually, yes, they are, by those of us who shoot competitively. The silly '92 gun ban made several inexpensive rifles used to get started in competitive shooting into high-priced collectors' items.
Please define "high powered sniper rifle". Differentiate from "hunting rifle" or "varmint rifle" or "target shooting rifle". Please be very specific.
If you've noticed how badly-written laws about technology are, they've got nothing on the labyrinthine morass of laws that cover firearms ownership.
M-14's not .223, it's 7.62 NATO (.308 Winchester). I think you may be thinking of M-16, which does fire 5.56 NATO. The Mini-14 (which you also might have confused the M-14 with) is also a .223 rifle, but not nearly as accurate as a sniper would need. I'd vote for some variant of Remington 700, for accuracy's sake. However, an accurized AR-pattern rifle might well do the job. Were this sniper using an M-14, there'd likely not be the survivor that there is - the 7.62 round is much more lethal.
Sorry, that's the hardware. The punched cards are the softwarefor that hardware, and while they may well have been bug-free, I don't have any proof one way or another.
Add significant license fees and support to that EMC order. EMC will require probably $20K just to turn on that Symmetrix, if they'll even deal with you. I've dealt with people who bought used EMC before, and got severely burned. Plus, as the other guy who you threatened with assault said, EMC will require EMC-supplied drives before they turn on the system. Enterprise-class gear doesn't run without contracts, generally.
Sorry, but I've personally seen the carnage when a supposedly-multiply-redundant EMC system lost customer data. Add to that EMC's egregious business methods, and they quickly become the last choice, behind Hitachi and IBM. There's a reason that no one else will work with EMC.
Plus, you probably shouldn't compare the Clariion systems directly with Hitachi/IBM Shark...they're much more on the level of the LSI (StorageTek/IBM/etc) systems.
Remember, anyone working with large systems generally won't take a risk on an untried vendor. When you're in the 10+ terabyte range, companies will generally only spring for first-tier vendors.
/. reader has experience with. When the system you're working on is a sizable fraction of the essential data of a corporation, and a sizable fraction of their budget, they're a little less likely to spend money on something that's not being used in a similar situation.
What's RaidWeb/Raidzone/etc's record on 24x7 service? 3-hour response? Do they replace drives? Once you get to that size, you're having *regular* drive failures, up to one a week or more. Also, look at access speed with those 160GB drives. How do these controllers handle repairing failures under load? What's their cache behavior under varying/extreme conditions? Do they suffer from the "cache hits high water mark under high load, then dumps the whole thing, slowing access to a crawl" problem?
The big guys can afford to do some of this testing, and can answer those questions. The little guys generally give unsatisfactory answers or can't answer the question.
I work with large systems every day (10TB-250TB), and the requirements and methodologies are *completely* different from small or workgroup systems that the average
I'd call you mighty confused. Hell, at 50TB, you're in the range requiring director-class SAN switching, and a pair of those by themselves blow your $100K budget. Please get some real-world experience before holding forth on things you really don't understand. You'll pay more than $100K for the software to manage that size of a storage farm. Remember, we're talking HA design for your SAN, and a *serious* backup system. Oh, you were going to skip that? Keep your resume ready. "Uh, Mr. CEO, it'll just be a month while we rebuild and restore your data warehouse..."
This isn't about any cure. There are some benefits to high doses of anti-HIV drugs during pregnancy--they tend to reduce the risk of transmission of the virus. I agree to some extent with the trollish other poster that abortion on discovery of pregnancy if the mother is HIV+ is a good idea, but then I'm childfree, and don't have any urge to breed.
Um. Bubonic plague isn't even caused by a virus, dude. Yersinia pestis is a bacillus, and is pretty well understood. I don't know where your data's coming from, but if they confuse bacteria with virii, they probably shouldn't be trusted with medical statistics research.
Or perhaps this person is a responsible pet owner, and got his/her cat spayed. Presto! No more cat in heat calling every tom from miles around.
You can try to knock me out, tough guy. Sorry, but if you attempt to assault _me_, I will defend myself, up to and including the use of deadly force if warranted to stop the illegal act. I could likely build a healthy defense case against a prizewinner like you. Lessee...previous history of violent behavior, likely some domestic violence. Do the local fuzz know you by name from their visits to your house in the middle of the night?
It might well be instructive for your sprogs to see their widdle duh-dee in a weeping pile, crapping himself as his life fluids pour out on the floor. Think about it. Not all of us who don't like to be annoyed by squalling sproggen "fussing quietly" at the tops of their lungs while their incompetent semen/egg donors stand by uselessly are incapable of defending ourselves.
Thank you. However, you're in the minority. The broad brush is there beecause only the corners and trim get missed when you use it, to extend the metaphor somewhat.
Good. You are one of the few who doesn't inflict your squalling sproggen on the rest of us. Thank you.
Corporations exist solely due to protection from government. This is pretty simple to understand. Yes, the corporation-as-person legal fiction is destructive, but it's created and *maintained* by governments.
This RCW, in fact, was what I quoted when giving my "list of inventions", indicating that I claimed ownership for any inventions or publications which I created in the past, present, or future, and had no intention of listing them, as they did not fall under the types of inventions or publications that were covered under the law.
That's a measurement of hardware mirroring versus software RAID 5 far more than an IDE versus SCSI measurement. That "benchmark" is more than a bit disingenuous.
You seriously believe anything done in/to Iraq will prevent a nuke attack on a US city within 10 years? The chances of that are mighty high with or without Iraq.
Instant government change, true, but it might be worthwhile to look at how the Chinese military (militaries, actually) is/are organized. That wouldn't win a war with China.
Well, from comments of those using it, it seems to be Xperimental Prototype. Crashes regularly (even inside M$, where there should be trained XP support staff), has piles of compatibility problems, etc.
Sports? Attractive to women? I can understand the "male bonding" theme in having a pile of testosterone-crazed lumps running around patting each other on the butt, but as a rule, male sports idiocy is *tolerated*, not "found attractive" by women. Bunch of guys sitting around the TV drinking beer and grunting at the screen...riiiight...real attractive.
That was "what remains", as a "grammar Nazi" should have seen, i.e. "your still-living body, writhing in pain from the gutshot, as the women come out to castrate you and hang you from a tree as warning to the next invaders." Might look into the history of what the mujahadeen did to the Soviets when one was silly enough to get captured if you think this is a unfounded flamelike post. I'm relating history, and if we get into a ground war in Afghanistan, there'll likely be a draft. Keep planning for those educational waivers, /.ers!