Sway bars have downsides. This system shouldn't have those.
Sway bars are cheap and the bushings are the only thing that can wear out. This system probably isn't cheap and will cost a hell of a lot more than bushings do to fix it.
I agree, practice is a huge part of it. Back in the days of type on the old Smith corona very few people owned their own typewriter. Additionally there was no benefit, other than to practice, to type incessantly. Texting is a form of communication, it's totally different. Even typing on a computer is different. If you make a mistake, it'll probably be auto-corrected.
When I learned to type you could try to erase the error with one of those green pencil type ink erasers with a brush on one end. Half the time you tore a hole in the paper. Many years ago I discovered that using white out and then photo copying the original document and carefully aligning it in the typewriter was the cleanest way to make a correction. Of course then came erasing ribbons.
Typing is done for much different reasons now. It used to be a secretary would type notes they or someone else took. Now most people are typing their own thoughts. So the need to not look at the keyboard is greatly reduced. Between that, auto-correct, and the ability to edit, I've seen several people who can type forty or more wpm using only their index and middle fingers on each hand.
Just how hot do you think his wife is? I can't say I've ever heard of a rapist employing an armored personnel carrier to commit rape. Nor needing a RPG to protect protect ones wife.
In theory, sure. In practice, we're not all perfect super drivers who pay proper attention to the road at all times, and very short glances at a control panel in realtively safe moments isn't an extraordinary risk.
No, but after owning a car for a while it should be possible to change the radio station or temperature without looking at the display. This is pretty damn hard to do with touch screens. Physical dials an buttons simply make more sense for most controls like this in a car.
Because you lose power steering and braking, and you could lock the fucking steering column.
I can't say I've every owned a Toyota. But all of the cars that I've owned would not allow you to turn the key back to lock the steering wheel unless the car was in park or neutral.
When a self-driving car enters a school zone and sees the "speed limit 25 when children are present" sign, how does it know whether a person it sees is a child? Does it always brake just to be on the safe side?
I would sure as hell hope it would stop for the person, regardless of whether it's a child or not. Or do you just run over little old ladies if they get in your way while driving through a school zone?
And if no "end school zone" sign exists, does it keep on going 25 until it sees the next speed limit sign miles down the road?
It should, as that is the law. It should also slow down before it crosses the threshold for a lowered speed limit. While most people don't even start to slow down until after passing the lower speed limit sign, legally you are to be doing that speed as soon as you pass the sign.
I remember reading about her after she did the first Tomb Raider movie in Cambodia. She was your typical Hollywood type until she saw how things were in that country. Afterward she donated $1 million of her own money to the UN refugee fund. Take a look at the humanitarian section on the Wiki page about her She's spent a lot of her own money and time trying to make the world a better place.
My wife follows this type of stuff more than I do. But I have a lot of respect for what she and Brad Pit have done. They donate a lot of their own money to these causes rather than asking others to do it. They also go to these places and physically help, which is even more unusual. They have done a lot to help the folks in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina too.
Yeah, except this guy is not a dim wit and my Star Trek fanboy nonsense aside, go take a look at his record. LeVar Burton has been involved in encouraging kids to read and generally expand their knowledge since the 80's. He's not doing this for himself, he genuinely cares about this. He's by no means a a multi-bajillionaire from working in Hollywood but he certainly doesn't need the money (is he even getting anything out of this other than some facetime on the interwebs?).
If he can use some of his geek cache to help kids get an education outside of our broken school system than more power to him. This isn't Madonna or Angelina adopting a kid from Somali because it's suddenly fashionable to do so, this is a guy who has been passionate about kids education since he was young lending his semi-famous name to a good and worthy cause.
I have to agree with you on damn near everything you stated. But I do take exception to your statement regarding Angelina Jolie. She started adopting kids before it was fashionable. Much to her chagrin, she's probably part of the reason that doing so has become fashionable.
Yeah, but it does not really work as a transporter, thus if you wish to get from A to B it is not that impressive.
Sure it does. You invert something or another and it can be used for faster than light propulsion. If done correctly you will arrive at your destination before you left your starting point.
TNG Episode "Emergence" would like to have a word with you.
It's been a long time since I've watched any STTNG episodes. Was it the deflector that created that consciousness? I though it was from all of the data stored in the computer or something.
Hey! I want my transporters, warp drives, and a galaxy full of humans-with-extra-bumps-embodying-a-particular-stereotype, and I want these things NOW!
Why does everyone always forget the deflector dish tech? It's probably the most powerful bit of tech in the newer ST series. Reversing the polarity or rerouting something through the deflector array can do damn near anything short of creating life.
Because this whole discussion is silly. Plenty of nerds are misogynistic jerks. But plenty of non-nerds are as well, and I have seen NO evidence that it is any more common among nerds than among the population in general. In the absence of evidence, associating "nerd culture" with misogynism is just stupid.
First let me say that I agree that this discussion is pretty silly. That being said, "because someone else does it too" is not a valid justification of bad behavior. And frankly with the supposed intellectual superiority that many (not all) profess, it's even less acceptable. I have a lot harder time forgiving someone for doing something wrong that they understood was wrong, than someone who doesn't even know what they did was wrong in the first place.
Throughout my career, I have worked with many engineers, programmers, and other nerds. My experience is that they are the least misogynistic people I have ever met, and they have mostly been polite, professional, and welcoming to their female co-workers.
In general I would agree with you. However the ones who were not professional were so far past appropriate it was cringe inducing as they self rationalized their behavior as being perfectly acceptable.
Have you ever worked with salesmen? Or construction workers? Nerds are saints by comparison.
Yes and yes. While I would agree that proportionally those groups may contain more people who are likely to say something inappropriate. They also tend to accept that they did something wrong when it's pointed out to them and even apologize for being offensive. I've seen many more "nerds" argue this point.
Exactly. Most people are terrible typists so for them a hardware keyboard provides no noticeable benefit. The speed typists tend to forget that they represent a minority of people.
Every time I read a statement like this, I think of this.
I'm speaking from following these types of things for several decades in numerous states and localities. Some areas are better than others.
Where I live currently there is an elementary school that has been long over due to be renovated. When it rains they have to close sections of it off because it leaks so much. Part of the problem has to do with money. Not so much the lack of it, but who's going to benefit from it. The city counsel has decided that they want to tie it to building a new road into an entirely different area. The road will only benefit a small part of the city, but those that live there have influence with the city counsel. Even though they already have land they own that would be fine. Or to simply rebuild it in the same location. But instead new land is going to be purchased and eminent domain is going to be used to build the road. This has been in the discussion stage for several years now.
I've lived in other areas that literally had trailers being used as class rooms 3 years after the school was built.
I think Pennsylvania was one of the worst places I've lived in regards to this type of thing. Particularly in regards to roads. There was an intersection that was a 2-way stop dozens of people were killed there each year. So they did a study to determine if it warranted a traffic light. Obviously it did. So they commissioned another study rather than put a light up. And then another. I followed it after I left the area as I struck me as such an insane thing to keep postponing. After 19 years and 5 studies they finally put up a traffic light. Of course people kept getting killed, year after year, at that intersection.
Then, there's the question of the voters. When the district decides it needs new buildings, it has to go to the voters to get permission to borrow money to build new buildings. If the voters don't pass a bond election, the district has to do things like rent portable buildings.
The voters don't really have the ability to vote on these types of things. City counsel decides. They do hold hearings to listen to what he voters think. But, there is no real recourse if they go against the voters. To make matter worse, the pay for being on the city counsel is very low and those that are on it run unopposed every election.
The federal and state governments, to the best of my knowledge, have zero input into local districts' growth plans.
They provide some percentage of the educational funding. There's been a lot of debate regarding the value of taking federal funding as it only accounts for 5% of our total district budget. By accepting that money they are required to administer the SOL tests. This has made a real mess out of several states school systems.
Bidding that takes place 10 to 15 years past the original analysis? Geez, in what school district do you live? That's certainly not the case in my district in north Texas.
I never said that. I said that from the time of the first analysis. I should have said from the first discussions begin. So from then until the first student sits at a desk in that school takes that long. The studies, planning, bidding, and building are all included in that time-frame.
Using the most optimistic numbers? Again, not in my district. They use not only conservative numbers for growth, but for tax revenue projections as well. We project a 5% property valuation for year 1 after the bond is passed, a 3% increase in valuation for year 2, and 0% increase for years 3 and on.
> What's needed are new designs for healthy, sustainable temporary classrooms.
No. What's needed are more permanent classrooms.
What's needed is better planning to begin with. By the time the "analysis" is done for schools, and road for that matter a ridiculous amount of time will have passed. Then to get approval it has to go through years of bureaucracy. So you end up with a study that projected the next 20 years. But by the time all of the federal, state and local governments get done it goes to the bidding stage By the time the actual building is finished it's already 10 to 15 years past the original analysis. And usually the people in the planning stage took the most optimistic numbers. So you end up with a school that is just about right by the time it is ready. Then it's overcrowded in 1-2 years, with another 20+ year of usability expected.
This myth is very common and probably was spread via a vector of TV sitcoms or badly written police procedurals. Where did you get exposed to that myth?
I was exposed to it back when it was happening in the 1980's, by family members who were on the police force and friends of the family who were. They made it perfectly clear that they almost never got warrants for anything but drugs as it was easier to do and made anything found admissible.
And Reagan. A lawyer friend of mine said most civil liberties went out the window during the "War on Drugs".
You needed a lawyer to tell you this? There was a time when the police had to get a specific warrant to search a house. If they had a warrant to look for a missing kidnapped girl and found an illegal handgun, or a stolen car. There was nothing they could do about it. The search warrant was for the missing girl only. Once the "war on drugs" started most agencies simply got a warrant for drugs as anything they could find was admissible. Even if they weren't looking for drugs or didn't find any. Terrorism is used today in much the same way, It's like a drug warrant being served by senator Joe McCarthy on steroids after a 2 week cocaine bender and backed up by a SWAT team who all have Tourette Syndrome trigger fingers.
The voters are accomplices. They knowingly put criminals into high office. They can no longer feign ignorance, or even stupidity.
I'm one of those voters. I've almost never voted for a major party candidate. Unfortunately I've also never voted for anyone who has won an election either. That being said, I can assure you that many (if not most) of those who you claim are feigning ignorance or stupidity are not feigning. A large majority of voters select their candidates like they would a sports team. It doesn't matter what they say or stand for, as long as they are in "their teams" uniform, they will vote for them. I suppose it's easier than thinking, but it's become a disastrous way to run a country.
We have the design and site. Yucca was killed because Reid runs the senate.
And that's why we should ship all of the waste to his back yard until a better place is found to store it. He can also start repaying the $9 billion that has already been spent on Yucca mountain. There's another $30 billion sitting in a fund for the operation of Yucca mountain paid by (nuclear) consumers to operate Yucca. And the fees that were charged to the nuclear plants to fund this also expired 13 days ago.
Yes, but none of those thousands of year old structures are reinforced concrete. While reinforced concrete is stronger, the iron in the reinforced steel part oxidizes over time, even when in concrete. Our modern reinforced structures will last no where near as long as those older structures have.
There is a disconnect - there is an incredible amount of nuclear waste from our power generation plants and from weapon production. That waste needs to be safely stored for thousands of years. Somehow steel storage tanks don't address the reality of the situation.
I agree. We should use steel and concrete containers.
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FTFY.
As I understood the summary, they are doing nothing to improve handling, it's merely to "increase the pleasure of the driver and passengers."
Sway bars have downsides. This system shouldn't have those.
Sway bars are cheap and the bushings are the only thing that can wear out. This system probably isn't cheap and will cost a hell of a lot more than bushings do to fix it.
I agree, practice is a huge part of it. Back in the days of type on the old Smith corona very few people owned their own typewriter. Additionally there was no benefit, other than to practice, to type incessantly. Texting is a form of communication, it's totally different. Even typing on a computer is different. If you make a mistake, it'll probably be auto-corrected.
When I learned to type you could try to erase the error with one of those green pencil type ink erasers with a brush on one end. Half the time you tore a hole in the paper. Many years ago I discovered that using white out and then photo copying the original document and carefully aligning it in the typewriter was the cleanest way to make a correction. Of course then came erasing ribbons.
Typing is done for much different reasons now. It used to be a secretary would type notes they or someone else took. Now most people are typing their own thoughts. So the need to not look at the keyboard is greatly reduced. Between that, auto-correct, and the ability to edit, I've seen several people who can type forty or more wpm using only their index and middle fingers on each hand.
Just how hot do you think his wife is? I can't say I've ever heard of a rapist employing an armored personnel carrier to commit rape. Nor needing a RPG to protect protect ones wife.
In theory, sure. In practice, we're not all perfect super drivers who pay proper attention to the road at all times, and very short glances at a control panel in realtively safe moments isn't an extraordinary risk.
No, but after owning a car for a while it should be possible to change the radio station or temperature without looking at the display. This is pretty damn hard to do with touch screens. Physical dials an buttons simply make more sense for most controls like this in a car.
Because you lose power steering and braking, and you could lock the fucking steering column.
I can't say I've every owned a Toyota. But all of the cars that I've owned would not allow you to turn the key back to lock the steering wheel unless the car was in park or neutral.
You don't have to run fast, just faster than the other guy.
But unlike a lion, Jason doesn't usually stop at just one.
When a self-driving car enters a school zone and sees the "speed limit 25 when children are present" sign, how does it know whether a person it sees is a child? Does it always brake just to be on the safe side?
I would sure as hell hope it would stop for the person, regardless of whether it's a child or not. Or do you just run over little old ladies if they get in your way while driving through a school zone?
And if no "end school zone" sign exists, does it keep on going 25 until it sees the next speed limit sign miles down the road?
It should, as that is the law. It should also slow down before it crosses the threshold for a lowered speed limit. While most people don't even start to slow down until after passing the lower speed limit sign, legally you are to be doing that speed as soon as you pass the sign.
I find it hard to drive a car without that type of system in it anymore.
I'd say that qualifies as a problem.
I remember reading about her after she did the first Tomb Raider movie in Cambodia. She was your typical Hollywood type until she saw how things were in that country. Afterward she donated $1 million of her own money to the UN refugee fund. Take a look at the humanitarian section on the Wiki page about her She's spent a lot of her own money and time trying to make the world a better place.
My wife follows this type of stuff more than I do. But I have a lot of respect for what she and Brad Pit have done. They donate a lot of their own money to these causes rather than asking others to do it. They also go to these places and physically help, which is even more unusual. They have done a lot to help the folks in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina too.
Seriously guys. If you want me to stop trolling about this then stop forcing me into Beta. It's garbage.
Nobody's forcing you. http://slashdot.org/?nobeta=1
Yeah, except this guy is not a dim wit and my Star Trek fanboy nonsense aside, go take a look at his record. LeVar Burton has been involved in encouraging kids to read and generally expand their knowledge since the 80's. He's not doing this for himself, he genuinely cares about this. He's by no means a a multi-bajillionaire from working in Hollywood but he certainly doesn't need the money (is he even getting anything out of this other than some facetime on the interwebs?).
If he can use some of his geek cache to help kids get an education outside of our broken school system than more power to him. This isn't Madonna or Angelina adopting a kid from Somali because it's suddenly fashionable to do so, this is a guy who has been passionate about kids education since he was young lending his semi-famous name to a good and worthy cause.
I have to agree with you on damn near everything you stated. But I do take exception to your statement regarding Angelina Jolie. She started adopting kids before it was fashionable. Much to her chagrin, she's probably part of the reason that doing so has become fashionable.
Yeah, but it does not really work as a transporter, thus if you wish to get from A to B it is not that impressive.
Sure it does. You invert something or another and it can be used for faster than light propulsion. If done correctly you will arrive at your destination before you left your starting point.
TNG Episode "Emergence" would like to have a word with you.
It's been a long time since I've watched any STTNG episodes. Was it the deflector that created that consciousness? I though it was from all of the data stored in the computer or something.
Hey! I want my transporters, warp drives, and a galaxy full of humans-with-extra-bumps-embodying-a-particular-stereotype, and I want these things NOW!
Why does everyone always forget the deflector dish tech? It's probably the most powerful bit of tech in the newer ST series. Reversing the polarity or rerouting something through the deflector array can do damn near anything short of creating life.
Boy, that escalated quickly.
Because this whole discussion is silly. Plenty of nerds are misogynistic jerks. But plenty of non-nerds are as well, and I have seen NO evidence that it is any more common among nerds than among the population in general. In the absence of evidence, associating "nerd culture" with misogynism is just stupid.
First let me say that I agree that this discussion is pretty silly. That being said, "because someone else does it too" is not a valid justification of bad behavior. And frankly with the supposed intellectual superiority that many (not all) profess, it's even less acceptable. I have a lot harder time forgiving someone for doing something wrong that they understood was wrong, than someone who doesn't even know what they did was wrong in the first place.
Throughout my career, I have worked with many engineers, programmers, and other nerds. My experience is that they are the least misogynistic people I have ever met, and they have mostly been polite, professional, and welcoming to their female co-workers.
In general I would agree with you. However the ones who were not professional were so far past appropriate it was cringe inducing as they self rationalized their behavior as being perfectly acceptable.
Have you ever worked with salesmen? Or construction workers? Nerds are saints by comparison.
Yes and yes. While I would agree that proportionally those groups may contain more people who are likely to say something inappropriate. They also tend to accept that they did something wrong when it's pointed out to them and even apologize for being offensive. I've seen many more "nerds" argue this point.
Exactly. Most people are terrible typists so for them a hardware keyboard provides no noticeable benefit. The speed typists tend to forget that they represent a minority of people.
Every time I read a statement like this, I think of this.
I'm speaking from following these types of things for several decades in numerous states and localities. Some areas are better than others.
Where I live currently there is an elementary school that has been long over due to be renovated. When it rains they have to close sections of it off because it leaks so much. Part of the problem has to do with money. Not so much the lack of it, but who's going to benefit from it. The city counsel has decided that they want to tie it to building a new road into an entirely different area. The road will only benefit a small part of the city, but those that live there have influence with the city counsel. Even though they already have land they own that would be fine. Or to simply rebuild it in the same location. But instead new land is going to be purchased and eminent domain is going to be used to build the road. This has been in the discussion stage for several years now.
I've lived in other areas that literally had trailers being used as class rooms 3 years after the school was built.
I think Pennsylvania was one of the worst places I've lived in regards to this type of thing. Particularly in regards to roads. There was an intersection that was a 2-way stop dozens of people were killed there each year. So they did a study to determine if it warranted a traffic light. Obviously it did. So they commissioned another study rather than put a light up. And then another. I followed it after I left the area as I struck me as such an insane thing to keep postponing. After 19 years and 5 studies they finally put up a traffic light. Of course people kept getting killed, year after year, at that intersection.
Then, there's the question of the voters. When the district decides it needs new buildings, it has to go to the voters to get permission to borrow money to build new buildings. If the voters don't pass a bond election, the district has to do things like rent portable buildings.
The voters don't really have the ability to vote on these types of things. City counsel decides. They do hold hearings to listen to what he voters think. But, there is no real recourse if they go against the voters. To make matter worse, the pay for being on the city counsel is very low and those that are on it run unopposed every election.
The federal and state governments, to the best of my knowledge, have zero input into local districts' growth plans.
They provide some percentage of the educational funding. There's been a lot of debate regarding the value of taking federal funding as it only accounts for 5% of our total district budget. By accepting that money they are required to administer the SOL tests. This has made a real mess out of several states school systems.
Bidding that takes place 10 to 15 years past the original analysis? Geez, in what school district do you live? That's certainly not the case in my district in north Texas.
I never said that. I said that from the time of the first analysis. I should have said from the first discussions begin. So from then until the first student sits at a desk in that school takes that long. The studies, planning, bidding, and building are all included in that time-frame.
Using the most optimistic numbers? Again, not in my district. They use not only conservative numbers for growth, but for tax revenue projections as well. We project a 5% property valuation for year 1 after the bond is passed, a 3% increase in valuation for year 2, and 0% increase for years 3 and on.
Lucky you.
> What's needed are new designs for healthy, sustainable temporary classrooms.
No. What's needed are more permanent classrooms.
What's needed is better planning to begin with. By the time the "analysis" is done for schools, and road for that matter a ridiculous amount of time will have passed. Then to get approval it has to go through years of bureaucracy. So you end up with a study that projected the next 20 years. But by the time all of the federal, state and local governments get done it goes to the bidding stage By the time the actual building is finished it's already 10 to 15 years past the original analysis. And usually the people in the planning stage took the most optimistic numbers. So you end up with a school that is just about right by the time it is ready. Then it's overcrowded in 1-2 years, with another 20+ year of usability expected.
This myth is very common and probably was spread via a vector of TV sitcoms or badly written police procedurals. Where did you get exposed to that myth?
I was exposed to it back when it was happening in the 1980's, by family members who were on the police force and friends of the family who were. They made it perfectly clear that they almost never got warrants for anything but drugs as it was easier to do and made anything found admissible.
And Reagan. A lawyer friend of mine said most civil liberties went out the window during the "War on Drugs".
You needed a lawyer to tell you this? There was a time when the police had to get a specific warrant to search a house. If they had a warrant to look for a missing kidnapped girl and found an illegal handgun, or a stolen car. There was nothing they could do about it. The search warrant was for the missing girl only. Once the "war on drugs" started most agencies simply got a warrant for drugs as anything they could find was admissible. Even if they weren't looking for drugs or didn't find any. Terrorism is used today in much the same way, It's like a drug warrant being served by senator Joe McCarthy on steroids after a 2 week cocaine bender and backed up by a SWAT team who all have Tourette Syndrome trigger fingers.
Key word: Elected... Reelected!
The voters are accomplices. They knowingly put criminals into high office. They can no longer feign ignorance, or even stupidity.
I'm one of those voters. I've almost never voted for a major party candidate. Unfortunately I've also never voted for anyone who has won an election either. That being said, I can assure you that many (if not most) of those who you claim are feigning ignorance or stupidity are not feigning. A large majority of voters select their candidates like they would a sports team. It doesn't matter what they say or stand for, as long as they are in "their teams" uniform, they will vote for them. I suppose it's easier than thinking, but it's become a disastrous way to run a country.
We have the design and site. Yucca was killed because Reid runs the senate.
And that's why we should ship all of the waste to his back yard until a better place is found to store it. He can also start repaying the $9 billion that has already been spent on Yucca mountain. There's another $30 billion sitting in a fund for the operation of Yucca mountain paid by (nuclear) consumers to operate Yucca. And the fees that were charged to the nuclear plants to fund this also expired 13 days ago.
A hundred years is a good estimate of a practical upper limit before a concrete and steel structure has serious problems.
Steel maybe, but we have concrete structures up to 2000 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome
Yes, but none of those thousands of year old structures are reinforced concrete. While reinforced concrete is stronger, the iron in the reinforced steel part oxidizes over time, even when in concrete. Our modern reinforced structures will last no where near as long as those older structures have.
There is a disconnect - there is an incredible amount of nuclear waste from our power generation plants and from weapon production. That waste needs to be safely stored for thousands of years. Somehow steel storage tanks don't address the reality of the situation.
I agree. We should use steel and concrete containers.