After parsing your post a second time, yes, Segways are mighty unstable. It's not as easy as it looks. Run over anything bigger than a tennis ball with one of the wheels, and you will get tossed forward or sideways headfirst. But it looks like a wipeout with the Honda device results in a spill similar to having a chair pulled out from under you - still a good way to hurt yourself but at least you fall ass first and not sideways or forwards from a standing height.
The most common Segway wipeouts seem to be exactly that - underestimating the width of the machine and hanging one wheel up on a sidewalk crack or obstacle. The machine usually does a very quick zero-radius 180 but sometimes it will tip over.
For what it's worth Segway provides you with three keys to the device. Each key has a progressively higher speed limit programmed into it. You power up with the Black Key of Death at your own peril.
What needs to be grounded? There are ground return paths in all component connections, and that is desirable over having random ground currents circulate in the case.
Having debugged a few interference problems on PCs myself, as far as RFI is concerned, radiation is primarily from external cables. The main problems with PCs are 1) Reradiation from the external power, peripheral, and network cables, 2) Pickup of stray radiation on cables inside the case itself.
Who's buy SPARC these days? I don't know of anyone, and for similarly priced machines the X86/AMD boxes run circles around SPARC.
And Solaris is completely independent from chip architecture. SPARC Solaris and X86 Solaris are essentially identical, except for the boot architecture. Pretty much the same for the OpenSolaris fork, which is where all the new features are going. (GA, commercial Solaris is essentially a back-port of OpenSolaris, featurewise.)
In one of my old jobs we paid the premium for SPARC only because we had invested pretty heavily in a disaster recovery process based on OpenBoot, and has problems migrating to X86 because of the BIOSes: they were buggy and no two models were the same.
This has been promoted somewhat - First, in Northern California, if you call 911 from a cell phone you will get forwarded to a central highway patrol dispatch center and immediately placed on hold from 5 to 10 minutes. I've called 911 twice from my cell and both times I was home before I got off hold. This will probably get fixed when the GPS locating mess gets fixed. Meanwhile, you program in as many non-911 local agency numbers as you can.
Second, as parent pointed out you may be able to text when voice won't get through.My county emergency services can *send* text messages in the event of a large scale alert but I don't know if they can receive them.
Your information will only be visible by your friends, they fixed that. Except your picture will appear in *their* spam ads for penis enlargements and credit scams.
I don't do any Facebooks apps, and won't until their privacy settings are more fine grained than "yes" and "no".
One of my traffic engineering professors, the great Robert Herman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Herman), conducted a study in the 60s or 70s in which he compared the effectiveness of aggressive driving in various conditions. They collected data in various places, like New York City and Matamoros, Mexico, with Herman himself and various graduate student at the wheel.
The biggest payoff was in congested situations. For the aggressive driver only of course.
I can imagine Prof Herman and various graduate students all piled into a car and heading for Mexico. One thing I learned from him - to be a scientist, get out there and collect real data about the real world. TFA is a mere simulation - lets see if they can reproduce the results in real traffic.
Well, think of a real world scenario, NK decides to airmail a nuke to Seoul, Honolulu, or Seattle. It will kill outright at most a couple hundred thousand people, it will not destroy the entire nation's infrastructure, there's no reason not to wait a few days or weeks before turning NK into a smoking hole. The morning of 9/11, all air travel in the US stopped for the better part of a week, and people just dealt with it.
I'm actually more worried about my neighbors freaking out and shooting everything in sight if NK dumps a nuke on a city 1000 miles away than I am worried about the strike itself.
Just send the username, password, and IP address of a few of the virtual machines to Nigeria or somewheres, and let the fun begin.
Besides, the idea to not really to view the infections, it's probably to monitor how the botnets behave as a horde, and deduce who controls it and what their objectives are. That's nearly impossible from observice just a few machines.
I'm not saying it's not a worthy idea to reduce charging time, but the idea of Everyman being able to charge his electric car in his garage in an hour isn't going to happen anytime soon. So for the foreseeable future we're stuck with either overnight charging or a hybrid system.
I don't believe the 10 min charge. TFA says it uses 8000 A123 cells. You charge an A123 at (lets round off to) 3V and lets assume a 2AH rating. Unless the laws of thermodynamics have been violated, it takes at least 2AH in for 2AH out, so lets assume a perfect battery and say we're somehow able to charge these suckers at 6 X 2A. So, 8000 X 3 X 12 = 288KVA, which is fairly preposterous amount of power. I could be off by a factor or 2 or 3 on my assumption for the AH capacity of the A123 though.
If we downsize the charging current to 1/10C or 0.2A. OK, 8000*3*0.2 is 4800 VA. Basically a jumbo dryer outlet, which is easy in a new house.
I think the 10 min charging claim means, "enough charge to make it down the street to the next electrical outlet."
And I guarantee that strip mall will be owned by a Korean, Iranian, Iraqi, Vietnamese, or some other immigrant. One *more* reason America is #1 cool. When you want to own a strip mall on the moon, America is where you go.
Banks could mail these out by the millions. Cheaply. A win, mostly.
I'll call it 1.2-factor authentication. The user still has to be in possession of this gizmo, and it's fairly easy to crack, but it's better than a plain old password.
I worked at a large bank that mailed out RSA fobs by the thousands. Effective, but expensive as hell. About 10 people full time just to mail out the things and deal with dead ones, and when you get a batch they all preset to fail on the same date, thousands of them.
That applies to *any* cost. At $100/TB, it's "pick any one". Your average user is just looking for a place to stash his pr0n, so optimizing for cost is perfectly fine.
Specifically, the answer is no. Flight plans are filed online.
Even in the days of personalized weather briefings, you not always warned, you had to ask, because it's the pilot's sole responsibility to gather all information relative to the safety of the flight.
I haven't flown recently, but NOTAMs would usually be issued about particularly dangerous weather days. But in a Super Decathlon over the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, every day is a potentially dangerous day. Your're going about two miles per minute, with a rate of climb of 400 feet per minute. If you suddenly see a 500 foot cliff dead ahead, and you can't make a 180, you're probably not going to be able to make it.
I used to fly out of the Bay Area, and the club I flew with specifically prohibited us from flying over the Sierra without supplemental training. Every pilot in California and Nevada is usually trained of the danger, not to cross the Sierra without several thousand fleet of ground clearance.
And when I took hang gliding lessons, there were many many stories of pilots who tried to fly the huge lift coming off the eastern slope, only to return to earth under a parachute with pieces of their broken gliders falling all around them.
Mountain flying can be tricky - one of my flight instructors was killed several years ago in the Rockies, flew into the end of a canyon. He was not a risk taker, and had been regularly flying between the Bay Area and Lake Tahoe for many years,
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Mobo fits on the RHS, and big rectangular cutout for your enormous stack of CPU coolers.
I don't see where the air is supposed to go, though.
Oh, well this is just for the crowd who have a house full of lucite furniture and inflatable chairs, whoever they are.
Maybe they have developed a "helpful information" filter?
Really, if they have - I'll buy me some of that.
After parsing your post a second time, yes, Segways are mighty unstable. It's not as easy as it looks. Run over anything bigger than a tennis ball with one of the wheels, and you will get tossed forward or sideways headfirst. But it looks like a wipeout with the Honda device results in a spill similar to having a chair pulled out from under you - still a good way to hurt yourself but at least you fall ass first and not sideways or forwards from a standing height.
The most common Segway wipeouts seem to be exactly that - underestimating the width of the machine and hanging one wheel up on a sidewalk crack or obstacle. The machine usually does a very quick zero-radius 180 but sometimes it will tip over.
For what it's worth Segway provides you with three keys to the device. Each key has a progressively higher speed limit programmed into it. You power up with the Black Key of Death at your own peril.
>> "I am BEN FRANKLIN, master of SEX and VOODOO!"
According to the latest Dan Brown book, you're probably correct.
What needs to be grounded? There are ground return paths in all component connections, and that is desirable over having random ground currents circulate in the case.
Having debugged a few interference problems on PCs myself, as far as RFI is concerned, radiation is primarily from external cables. The main problems with PCs are 1) Reradiation from the external power, peripheral, and network cables, 2) Pickup of stray radiation on cables inside the case itself.
Just curious - how do they do this? Do they send you a checksum? My online back statement are just plain old PDFs.
I declare this a victory for Open Source. Now - on to making beards, sandals with black socks, and red suspenders fashionable again!
Who's buy SPARC these days? I don't know of anyone, and for similarly priced machines the X86/AMD boxes run circles around SPARC.
And Solaris is completely independent from chip architecture. SPARC Solaris and X86 Solaris are essentially identical, except for the boot architecture. Pretty much the same for the OpenSolaris fork, which is where all the new features are going. (GA, commercial Solaris is essentially a back-port of OpenSolaris, featurewise.)
In one of my old jobs we paid the premium for SPARC only because we had invested pretty heavily in a disaster recovery process based on OpenBoot, and has problems migrating to X86 because of the BIOSes: they were buggy and no two models were the same.
This has been promoted somewhat - First, in Northern California, if you call 911 from a cell phone you will get forwarded to a central highway patrol dispatch center and immediately placed on hold from 5 to 10 minutes. I've called 911 twice from my cell and both times I was home before I got off hold. This will probably get fixed when the GPS locating mess gets fixed. Meanwhile, you program in as many non-911 local agency numbers as you can.
Second, as parent pointed out you may be able to text when voice won't get through.My county emergency services can *send* text messages in the event of a large scale alert but I don't know if they can receive them.
Your information will only be visible by your friends, they fixed that. Except your picture will appear in *their* spam ads for penis enlargements and credit scams.
I don't do any Facebooks apps, and won't until their privacy settings are more fine grained than "yes" and "no".
That comment immediately brought the courtroom scene from "Idiocracy" to mind: "Blah blah blah blah blah! Verdict: Guilty as shit!"
This ruling will be bad for "bidnis".
The extra $70 - $90 per mo or so he's not spending on iPhone service buys a lot of pockets.
But the nose piercings were all on the wrong side, so they couldn't be sure.
One of my traffic engineering professors, the great Robert Herman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Herman), conducted a study in the 60s or 70s in which he compared the effectiveness of aggressive driving in various conditions. They collected data in various places, like New York City and Matamoros, Mexico, with Herman himself and various graduate student at the wheel.
The biggest payoff was in congested situations. For the aggressive driver only of course.
I can imagine Prof Herman and various graduate students all piled into a car and heading for Mexico. One thing I learned from him - to be a scientist, get out there and collect real data about the real world. TFA is a mere simulation - lets see if they can reproduce the results in real traffic.
Well, think of a real world scenario, NK decides to airmail a nuke to Seoul, Honolulu, or Seattle. It will kill outright at most a couple hundred thousand people, it will not destroy the entire nation's infrastructure, there's no reason not to wait a few days or weeks before turning NK into a smoking hole. The morning of 9/11, all air travel in the US stopped for the better part of a week, and people just dealt with it.
I'm actually more worried about my neighbors freaking out and shooting everything in sight if NK dumps a nuke on a city 1000 miles away than I am worried about the strike itself.
This concept is so 1999 you should have typed "Powerbook-Toting Hipsters Eschew Tradition to Look Cool, Again"
Just send the username, password, and IP address of a few of the virtual machines to Nigeria or somewheres, and let the fun begin.
Besides, the idea to not really to view the infections, it's probably to monitor how the botnets behave as a horde, and deduce who controls it and what their objectives are. That's nearly impossible from observice just a few machines.
I'm not saying it's not a worthy idea to reduce charging time, but the idea of Everyman being able to charge his electric car in his garage in an hour isn't going to happen anytime soon. So for the foreseeable future we're stuck with either overnight charging or a hybrid system.
Until Mr Fusion comes along.
I don't believe the 10 min charge. TFA says it uses 8000 A123 cells. You charge an A123 at (lets round off to) 3V and lets assume a 2AH rating. Unless the laws of thermodynamics have been violated, it takes at least 2AH in for 2AH out, so lets assume a perfect battery and say we're somehow able to charge these suckers at 6 X 2A. So, 8000 X 3 X 12 = 288KVA, which is fairly preposterous amount of power. I could be off by a factor or 2 or 3 on my assumption for the AH capacity of the A123 though.
If we downsize the charging current to 1/10C or 0.2A. OK, 8000*3*0.2 is 4800 VA. Basically a jumbo dryer outlet, which is easy in a new house.
I think the 10 min charging claim means, "enough charge to make it down the street to the next electrical outlet."
And I guarantee that strip mall will be owned by a Korean, Iranian, Iraqi, Vietnamese, or some other immigrant. One *more* reason America is #1 cool. When you want to own a strip mall on the moon, America is where you go.
Banks could mail these out by the millions. Cheaply. A win, mostly.
I'll call it 1.2-factor authentication. The user still has to be in possession of this gizmo, and it's fairly easy to crack, but it's better than a plain old password.
I worked at a large bank that mailed out RSA fobs by the thousands. Effective, but expensive as hell. About 10 people full time just to mail out the things and deal with dead ones, and when you get a batch they all preset to fail on the same date, thousands of them.
You cannot violate this rule:
"Pick any two: performance, cost, availability."
That applies to *any* cost. At $100/TB, it's "pick any one". Your average user is just looking for a place to stash his pr0n, so optimizing for cost is perfectly fine.
Specifically, the answer is no. Flight plans are filed online.
Even in the days of personalized weather briefings, you not always warned, you had to ask, because it's the pilot's sole responsibility to gather all information relative to the safety of the flight.
I haven't flown recently, but NOTAMs would usually be issued about particularly dangerous weather days. But in a Super Decathlon over the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, every day is a potentially dangerous day. Your're going about two miles per minute, with a rate of climb of 400 feet per minute. If you suddenly see a 500 foot cliff dead ahead, and you can't make a 180, you're probably not going to be able to make it.
I used to fly out of the Bay Area, and the club I flew with specifically prohibited us from flying over the Sierra without supplemental training. Every pilot in California and Nevada is usually trained of the danger, not to cross the Sierra without several thousand fleet of ground clearance.
And when I took hang gliding lessons, there were many many stories of pilots who tried to fly the huge lift coming off the eastern slope, only to return to earth under a parachute with pieces of their broken gliders falling all around them.
Mountain flying can be tricky - one of my flight instructors was killed several years ago in the Rockies, flew into the end of a canyon. He was not a risk taker, and had been regularly flying between the Bay Area and Lake Tahoe for many years,