Well given their history I doubt they will ever ditch their classic car. The even started bringing in the Morgan 3 wheelers again to the US which actually makes me want to go and get a motorcycle endorsement so I can drive one.
And just think in 2 years I will have to deal with this stupid shit. It was bad enough since where I went to college was also a training camp for a team and I would be taking summer classes when it was going on. I almost ran over stupid professional athletes several times because they don't know their head from their ass and would just walk or run out into the road without looking. A super bowl is going to be orders of magnitude worse.
Also remoteness is a factor. I have a property up in northern Minnesota that I will likely at some point put a cabin up on. My options for power are a generator, pay for a several hundred meter run (about 500) and a transformer, or solar/wind plus battery storage. Generators seem to come in 2 forms, cheap and noisy, or expensive and quiet and that ignores the fuel cost and other maintenance. If I wanted to get connected to the grid it would probably be in the $10,000-$15,000 range for the run and transformer plus the monthly connection fee. That leaves solar/wind as a a fairly cost effective option. As it wouldn't be used all the so time I could have a fairly low generating capacity (maybe a couple of KW) but a higher than average reserve capacity. When the site isn't being used the solar/wind can charge a battery bank.
I do miss the older style supplemental sets that they had in the 80s, I seem to remember they had smaller sets where it was a pile of gears and axles, a sets of about 100 assorted [color] pieces, sets of accessories, sets of plates, etc. that you could mail order from the catalog in that was included in the sets that were above $20. That appears to have been replaced by the pick a brick option on their website but there doesn't appear to be a good way to get a pile of new bricks of a specific type like there use to be.
In addition to the Lego Classic line mentioned above you may want to check out the Creator line. They do have specialty pieces, hinges, those triangle wing pieces but they are used in new and interesting ways. The amount of part reuse of late has really surprised me, and is a good thing. Also the difference between when I was little and now is that there is a lot more building with plates instead of bricks. This as well as making generic pieces for side building (SNOT) has greatly added to the detail and complexity that can be achieved. It isn't like it was in the mid 90s through the mid 2000s where they made tons giant pieces that really limited reuse. Also I never had a problem with hinges, and other specialty pieces that allow for lots of reuse and movement as well as the tiles (plates with the smooth top) as while they were limited back in the 80s I always wished they included more like they do now. Also now there is a greater willingness to have Technic parts in non Technic sets which seems to also have only made things better. I think Lego learned their lesson from almost going into bankruptcy then to now being the largest toy company in the world.
Having recently gotten back into Lego (kids) I have been pleasantly surprised by how even the "special" pieces get reused to create interesting designs and details. I will say that the push that some people have made for some more unique but generic parts like additional sizes of the idler gears that are engaged by the driving ring. The justification is that it allows complex gearing in a more compact layout which I can see being useful. Also I wouldn't mind if Lego created some ring gears that weren't the giant original Hailfire droid wheels (too big ), the ones that are used for mining drills/mining wheels, or the ones that are part of the large turntable, as having a clean way to make planetary gear systems seems like it would be good. These would be special pieces but would be very generic and useful.
Yes, it is the 2.5L m54 engine. I got a kick out of the looks I got from people when I was heading up deer hunting towing my trailer, or head to the processor with a deer tied on top of the trailer. I also like the looks I get when towing my father-in-laws small sail boat with it. The boat is larger than the car, but is fiberglass so boat plus trailer only weighs in at about 1500 lbs. I probably get more looks at the boat launch than any place else. My only complaint is I really miss the high clearance and real 4WD with posi as getting to some places is just too difficult with a low slung rear wheel drive sporty sedan. Also I can't pull stumps with the BMW as I don't have that nice 4-low, and yes I did do crap like that with the Jeep when I had it.
Many drive trucks for the towing or cargo capacity, not for off-roading.
No some drive trucks for their towing or cargo capacity, just like some drive them for off-roading. Most however seem to drive them because the thing that at some point in time in the future they may need to tow or haul something even though they have never hauled or towed anything ever. The other reason seems to be that they have a small dick, I have a friend who seems to suffer from this problem. When I put a hitch on my car (e46 BMW) my neighbors thought I was nuts. My response was you wouldn't have though anything about towing with my Jeep when I had that but my car has more torque and horsepower than that jeep did. Granted the Jeep had a class 3 hitch while my car has a class 1 but then the most I have ever towed was about 1500 lbs so it isn't like that matters. I do however miss the high clearance and real 4 wheel drive with 4-low and posi on both axles that the jeep had but then I am one of the few who owned a SUV/truck and did SUV/truck things with it and mostly drove a car.
No public corporation is going to throw away easy money "just because".
Yes they will. For some reason there are these useless twats called MBAs who think that they are god's gift to management. They tend to run companies and I have seen cases where they wouldn't do something not because it didn't make money, but instead because it didn't make enough money. The company I am at had an opportunity a couple of years ago to make 5% on something with 0 effort and expense (things would be drop shipped from the actual manufacturer or something like that) but didn't do it because they didn't want their average profit to drop below 10%. So because the average profit margin would have dropped, even though total profit and revenue would have been higher, they didn't do it.
If the solution can be oversolved, more than enough satellites to provide position, they will drop the ones that offer the least accurate positions. So in most cases it would drop that one since it would appear that the signal had traveled a couple of miles further. If however it can only really lock on to 3 (2D lock) or 4 (3D lock) satellites you would likely see huge issues with accuracy. With only the minimum ones in view there really wouldn't be any way for the GPS to know one was off without an update so it would miscalculate things. Not having a good lock is very common given that most devices don't use a large high sensitivity antenna let alone a large high sensitivity active antenna so some people may have been affected but it would have likely been those with cheap GPS devices.
I have several GPS devices of varying quality from the cheap cellphone GPS, regular handheld GPS, high sensitivity GPS, to a couple of timing GPS modules and active antennas that can be used for RTK. The cellphone one is the worst of them all with a significant jump in accuracy by going to worse of the 2 handheld devices (old garmin with a non high sensitivity antenna). The cellphone really only gets locks on satellites that are closer to directly overhead than closer to the horizon. On the other end the high end timing module with large active antenna can lock on to all of the ones it sees but since there are accuracy issue when they are really low in the sky I tell it to only lock on to ones that are 10 degrees above the horizon when not using it for RTK, when doing RTK I have it grab everything and then handle it in post processing.
That is true hence the 80s cars suck, but more so if they were American. I think the American ones really exemplified the box on tires style more than any country though as other at least tried to not have sharp corners. Although for some reason people seemed to still like the box on tires look given how many cars like the Scion xB, Kia Soul, and Nissan Cube I see around now.
they look great, they're fun, they're reliable (yes, really), and because I'm very happy every time I drive mine
So is my MG Midget but that doesn't mean it is a $100,000 car. And yes a late '60s little British car can be reliable provided you have modern gaskets and threw away anything that had Lucas Electric written on it. It doesn't mark its territory, leak oil, and with some of the upgrades available they can really perform as they are a very light and low to the ground vehicle. Mine got a supercharger, bored out 60 over, better cam, aluminum head with better flow, header, better distributor, forged alloy pistons, lightened knife edge crank shaft, 4 wheel disk brakes, a 5 speed manual transmission, aluminum doors, boot and bonnet, posi diff, the full frontline spridget suspension upgrade, as well as other things since I did a frame up restoration. It also is an alcohol burner with a 10.5:1 compression ratio, yes that is with a supercharger but the alcohol does wonders for preventing detonation.
If you could make 7-15% every 1-3 days (min 800% APR) you wouldn't be posting on/. or more likely you are one of those people who believe they have a strategy to win at playing the slot machines or lottery scratch offs.
Damn I wish I hadn't commented elsewhere so I could have spent some mod points on this. That said it looks like they need to update their satellite almanacs as PRN-23 is still showing good while the NANU says otherwise. I would think the satellites are broadcasting an updated almanac now so there won't be any major issues with this then.
Well considering that the time stamp from each satellite is what is used in the calculations, see pseudoranges, and those travel at the speed of light your position could be off by some large, easily 100s of meters, amount.
Well there are corrections that are broadcast from the satellites. If you have a GPS that allows a user to upload a new almanac manually you can get them here instead of waiting for the over the air update. Also there is the WAAS system that broadcasts corrections that take some of the error out of the system. Also this is a huge error, as in off by kilometers off. That said I don't think either of those would be able to correct for something like this. A time off by 13 milliseconds means position could be off by a couple of miles.
Unless by "qualified" you mean "willing to work at 1/2 scale wages".
This is indeed the case and should be simply proved as the Disney employees had to train their H-1B replacements. Personally I feel that the H-1B program serves a useful purpose but that isn't what is is being used for. It should be used for those rare cases where there just isn't a person in the US who can do the job or can't be trained in enough time to do the job. As such the individuals brought in as H-1Bs have truly in demand and rare skills as there isn't a single person in the US who has the necessary skill set or couldn't be trained in time. So given that it seems that these individuals should be the highest compensated person at the company they are working for or doing work for. This is total compensation, including relocation, vehicle, stock options, medical, base pay, bonuses, various stipends, expense accounts, etc. because they are obviously absolutely critical to the company they are performing work for as companies can survive without the various CxO individuals for months, but not long enough to train an American to do one of these jobs. Make that change and we will see just how critical all these H-1Bs if we are still hitting the caps on them each year then I would say that we should then remove the caps.
Sadly I have proposed this to my useless senators as well as my hawkish congress critter but they all seem to hate American workers, especially one of my senators who has been pushing for higher H-1B caps for years now.
Hell even if quantum computers do exist the speed up isn't meaningful (yes it is a substantial reduction in effort but still unfeasible) for modern encryption algorithms. Using AES256 as an example if broken using a quantum computer is as difficult as breaking AES128 on a conventional computer. Or to put things in more perspective to break AES256 would take energy close to the total mass energy of the entire universe running on an ideal conventional computer. Similarly AES256 cracked on an ideal quantum computer would require the entire about energy output of our Sun over it's entire projected lifetime. To make matters worse this assumes an ideal computer which even the best modern machines are many orders of magnitude worse than. These are private key encryption schemes, but if we move to public key schemes like RSA it is easily broken on a quantum computer, but there are already replacements available such as Lattice-based cryptography.
For this I offer up the original Kink Kong (1933). Basically it was the original special effects movie for those who haven't seen it. Now over 80 years later it still holds up fairly well. Granted most of things were brand new and look a little rough but then watch Terminator 2 and the more advance effects there are also a little rough by today's standards. While King Kong may have rough edges today it wasn't really until T2 that we saw a substantial improvement in effects, yes stop motion got better as did rear projection, animatronics, etc. but it wasn't until CGI that there was another giant leap forward.
If you think your 91/30 (most likely) is heavy checkout a Finnish M39, they have a heavier barrel as well as thicker wood for the whole stock, especially the hand guard.
I understood that, I was just making a joke since the quoted part was very generic about an unloaded gun. Although my handgun if it were unloaded would probably make a pretty good club but then it is for protection from apex predators in the wilderness so it is big and heavy as well.
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Well given their history I doubt they will ever ditch their classic car. The even started bringing in the Morgan 3 wheelers again to the US which actually makes me want to go and get a motorcycle endorsement so I can drive one.
My guess is it would leak oil out of the radiator, or the wheel would spark and flicker.
So you are saying I should have been using the hood ornament on my POS oldsmobile as an aiming device? Maybe if I had the team wouldn't have sucked.
And just think in 2 years I will have to deal with this stupid shit. It was bad enough since where I went to college was also a training camp for a team and I would be taking summer classes when it was going on. I almost ran over stupid professional athletes several times because they don't know their head from their ass and would just walk or run out into the road without looking. A super bowl is going to be orders of magnitude worse.
Also remoteness is a factor. I have a property up in northern Minnesota that I will likely at some point put a cabin up on. My options for power are a generator, pay for a several hundred meter run (about 500) and a transformer, or solar/wind plus battery storage. Generators seem to come in 2 forms, cheap and noisy, or expensive and quiet and that ignores the fuel cost and other maintenance. If I wanted to get connected to the grid it would probably be in the $10,000-$15,000 range for the run and transformer plus the monthly connection fee. That leaves solar/wind as a a fairly cost effective option. As it wouldn't be used all the so time I could have a fairly low generating capacity (maybe a couple of KW) but a higher than average reserve capacity. When the site isn't being used the solar/wind can charge a battery bank.
I do miss the older style supplemental sets that they had in the 80s, I seem to remember they had smaller sets where it was a pile of gears and axles, a sets of about 100 assorted [color] pieces, sets of accessories, sets of plates, etc. that you could mail order from the catalog in that was included in the sets that were above $20. That appears to have been replaced by the pick a brick option on their website but there doesn't appear to be a good way to get a pile of new bricks of a specific type like there use to be.
In addition to the Lego Classic line mentioned above you may want to check out the Creator line. They do have specialty pieces, hinges, those triangle wing pieces but they are used in new and interesting ways. The amount of part reuse of late has really surprised me, and is a good thing. Also the difference between when I was little and now is that there is a lot more building with plates instead of bricks. This as well as making generic pieces for side building (SNOT) has greatly added to the detail and complexity that can be achieved. It isn't like it was in the mid 90s through the mid 2000s where they made tons giant pieces that really limited reuse. Also I never had a problem with hinges, and other specialty pieces that allow for lots of reuse and movement as well as the tiles (plates with the smooth top) as while they were limited back in the 80s I always wished they included more like they do now. Also now there is a greater willingness to have Technic parts in non Technic sets which seems to also have only made things better. I think Lego learned their lesson from almost going into bankruptcy then to now being the largest toy company in the world.
Having recently gotten back into Lego (kids) I have been pleasantly surprised by how even the "special" pieces get reused to create interesting designs and details. I will say that the push that some people have made for some more unique but generic parts like additional sizes of the idler gears that are engaged by the driving ring. The justification is that it allows complex gearing in a more compact layout which I can see being useful. Also I wouldn't mind if Lego created some ring gears that weren't the giant original Hailfire droid wheels (too big ), the ones that are used for mining drills/mining wheels, or the ones that are part of the large turntable, as having a clean way to make planetary gear systems seems like it would be good. These would be special pieces but would be very generic and useful.
I'm assuming it was the glorious |6 engine?
Yes, it is the 2.5L m54 engine. I got a kick out of the looks I got from people when I was heading up deer hunting towing my trailer, or head to the processor with a deer tied on top of the trailer. I also like the looks I get when towing my father-in-laws small sail boat with it. The boat is larger than the car, but is fiberglass so boat plus trailer only weighs in at about 1500 lbs. I probably get more looks at the boat launch than any place else. My only complaint is I really miss the high clearance and real 4WD with posi as getting to some places is just too difficult with a low slung rear wheel drive sporty sedan. Also I can't pull stumps with the BMW as I don't have that nice 4-low, and yes I did do crap like that with the Jeep when I had it.
Many drive trucks for the towing or cargo capacity, not for off-roading.
No some drive trucks for their towing or cargo capacity, just like some drive them for off-roading. Most however seem to drive them because the thing that at some point in time in the future they may need to tow or haul something even though they have never hauled or towed anything ever. The other reason seems to be that they have a small dick, I have a friend who seems to suffer from this problem. When I put a hitch on my car (e46 BMW) my neighbors thought I was nuts. My response was you wouldn't have though anything about towing with my Jeep when I had that but my car has more torque and horsepower than that jeep did. Granted the Jeep had a class 3 hitch while my car has a class 1 but then the most I have ever towed was about 1500 lbs so it isn't like that matters. I do however miss the high clearance and real 4 wheel drive with 4-low and posi on both axles that the jeep had but then I am one of the few who owned a SUV/truck and did SUV/truck things with it and mostly drove a car.
No public corporation is going to throw away easy money "just because".
Yes they will. For some reason there are these useless twats called MBAs who think that they are god's gift to management. They tend to run companies and I have seen cases where they wouldn't do something not because it didn't make money, but instead because it didn't make enough money. The company I am at had an opportunity a couple of years ago to make 5% on something with 0 effort and expense (things would be drop shipped from the actual manufacturer or something like that) but didn't do it because they didn't want their average profit to drop below 10%. So because the average profit margin would have dropped, even though total profit and revenue would have been higher, they didn't do it.
If the solution can be oversolved, more than enough satellites to provide position, they will drop the ones that offer the least accurate positions. So in most cases it would drop that one since it would appear that the signal had traveled a couple of miles further. If however it can only really lock on to 3 (2D lock) or 4 (3D lock) satellites you would likely see huge issues with accuracy. With only the minimum ones in view there really wouldn't be any way for the GPS to know one was off without an update so it would miscalculate things. Not having a good lock is very common given that most devices don't use a large high sensitivity antenna let alone a large high sensitivity active antenna so some people may have been affected but it would have likely been those with cheap GPS devices.
I have several GPS devices of varying quality from the cheap cellphone GPS, regular handheld GPS, high sensitivity GPS, to a couple of timing GPS modules and active antennas that can be used for RTK. The cellphone one is the worst of them all with a significant jump in accuracy by going to worse of the 2 handheld devices (old garmin with a non high sensitivity antenna). The cellphone really only gets locks on satellites that are closer to directly overhead than closer to the horizon. On the other end the high end timing module with large active antenna can lock on to all of the ones it sees but since there are accuracy issue when they are really low in the sky I tell it to only lock on to ones that are 10 degrees above the horizon when not using it for RTK, when doing RTK I have it grab everything and then handle it in post processing.
That is true hence the 80s cars suck, but more so if they were American. I think the American ones really exemplified the box on tires style more than any country though as other at least tried to not have sharp corners. Although for some reason people seemed to still like the box on tires look given how many cars like the Scion xB, Kia Soul, and Nissan Cube I see around now.
they look great, they're fun, they're reliable (yes, really), and because I'm very happy every time I drive mine
So is my MG Midget but that doesn't mean it is a $100,000 car. And yes a late '60s little British car can be reliable provided you have modern gaskets and threw away anything that had Lucas Electric written on it. It doesn't mark its territory, leak oil, and with some of the upgrades available they can really perform as they are a very light and low to the ground vehicle. Mine got a supercharger, bored out 60 over, better cam, aluminum head with better flow, header, better distributor, forged alloy pistons, lightened knife edge crank shaft, 4 wheel disk brakes, a 5 speed manual transmission, aluminum doors, boot and bonnet, posi diff, the full frontline spridget suspension upgrade, as well as other things since I did a frame up restoration. It also is an alcohol burner with a 10.5:1 compression ratio, yes that is with a supercharger but the alcohol does wonders for preventing detonation.
But it *was* the early '80s. And they didn't do much in the way of "curvy", "aerodynamic", or "low coefficient of drag" back then.
Which is really sad considering that in previous decades cars didn't look like fucking boxes on tires. 80 cars sucked, especially if they were American cars.
If you could make 7-15% every 1-3 days (min 800% APR) you wouldn't be posting on /. or more likely you are one of those people who believe they have a strategy to win at playing the slot machines or lottery scratch offs.
I meant to type microseconds and the calculation was done using microseconds.
A petabyte of storage isn't really anything when you are talking data center sized storage. It wouldn't even be a gallon jug full of microSD cards.
Damn I wish I hadn't commented elsewhere so I could have spent some mod points on this. That said it looks like they need to update their satellite almanacs as PRN-23 is still showing good while the NANU says otherwise. I would think the satellites are broadcasting an updated almanac now so there won't be any major issues with this then.
Well considering that the time stamp from each satellite is what is used in the calculations, see pseudoranges, and those travel at the speed of light your position could be off by some large, easily 100s of meters, amount.
Well there are corrections that are broadcast from the satellites. If you have a GPS that allows a user to upload a new almanac manually you can get them here instead of waiting for the over the air update. Also there is the WAAS system that broadcasts corrections that take some of the error out of the system. Also this is a huge error, as in off by kilometers off. That said I don't think either of those would be able to correct for something like this. A time off by 13 milliseconds means position could be off by a couple of miles.
Unless by "qualified" you mean "willing to work at 1/2 scale wages".
This is indeed the case and should be simply proved as the Disney employees had to train their H-1B replacements. Personally I feel that the H-1B program serves a useful purpose but that isn't what is is being used for. It should be used for those rare cases where there just isn't a person in the US who can do the job or can't be trained in enough time to do the job. As such the individuals brought in as H-1Bs have truly in demand and rare skills as there isn't a single person in the US who has the necessary skill set or couldn't be trained in time. So given that it seems that these individuals should be the highest compensated person at the company they are working for or doing work for. This is total compensation, including relocation, vehicle, stock options, medical, base pay, bonuses, various stipends, expense accounts, etc. because they are obviously absolutely critical to the company they are performing work for as companies can survive without the various CxO individuals for months, but not long enough to train an American to do one of these jobs. Make that change and we will see just how critical all these H-1Bs if we are still hitting the caps on them each year then I would say that we should then remove the caps.
Sadly I have proposed this to my useless senators as well as my hawkish congress critter but they all seem to hate American workers, especially one of my senators who has been pushing for higher H-1B caps for years now.
Hell even if quantum computers do exist the speed up isn't meaningful (yes it is a substantial reduction in effort but still unfeasible) for modern encryption algorithms. Using AES256 as an example if broken using a quantum computer is as difficult as breaking AES128 on a conventional computer. Or to put things in more perspective to break AES256 would take energy close to the total mass energy of the entire universe running on an ideal conventional computer. Similarly AES256 cracked on an ideal quantum computer would require the entire about energy output of our Sun over it's entire projected lifetime. To make matters worse this assumes an ideal computer which even the best modern machines are many orders of magnitude worse than. These are private key encryption schemes, but if we move to public key schemes like RSA it is easily broken on a quantum computer, but there are already replacements available such as Lattice-based cryptography.
For this I offer up the original Kink Kong (1933). Basically it was the original special effects movie for those who haven't seen it. Now over 80 years later it still holds up fairly well. Granted most of things were brand new and look a little rough but then watch Terminator 2 and the more advance effects there are also a little rough by today's standards. While King Kong may have rough edges today it wasn't really until T2 that we saw a substantial improvement in effects, yes stop motion got better as did rear projection, animatronics, etc. but it wasn't until CGI that there was another giant leap forward.
If you think your 91/30 (most likely) is heavy checkout a Finnish M39, they have a heavier barrel as well as thicker wood for the whole stock, especially the hand guard.
I understood that, I was just making a joke since the quoted part was very generic about an unloaded gun. Although my handgun if it were unloaded would probably make a pretty good club but then it is for protection from apex predators in the wilderness so it is big and heavy as well.