I assume you forwarded your mail with the post office? USPS will give out your new address to pretty much anyone who requests it (and pays them). It's what "Address Service Requested" means when you see it printed on an envelope.
I think you fail to understand what a differential does. These cars absolutely have a "hardware" differential. What they do not have is a locking differential. Almost no vehicles have locking differentials except vehicles intended for severe off-road conditions or racing vehicles. The reason is, locking differentials are clunky as hell, and most people would never understand how or why they work and complain when they locked up in turns.
I'm not going to go into a full explanation here, because explaining the operation of a differential is beyond this comment. EDL is a completely valid way to transfer torque through a standard differential to whatever wheel is not spinning. If both wheels spin, the wheel with the highest torque gets to apply that torque without being limited by the low torque wheel.
As to your question if engineers would build a car this way, the answer is obviously yes. I am an engineer, and although I don't design cars, I do understand what these systems actually do. The design concept is sound, and it absolutely provides benefits over a non-locking differential without this system.
There are various other systems to combat this problem. So called "selectable" systems, that are mechanical lockers with some sort of manual actuator to actually perform the lockup. Limited-slip systems, which are clutch based or fluid based. However most vehicles have none of these. I encourage you to do some more reading about differentials to understand why and how these systems do what they do.
The drive reports 240GB of usable space; 224GB is what you have left over after subtracting partitioning and filesystem overhead
Actually, it's what you have left over after the power of 10 to power of 2 conversion. Yes, the manufacturers are lying about this with flash drives as well.
a new user is unlikely to know it does this unless they were familiar with OS 9
Why do you say this? The 'drag to trash' method is still mentioned in the docs, and it's actually mentioned before the keyboard eject key. All the students I knew that used a Macbook knew about and used this method, and I'm guessing not all of them had experience with OS 9.
There are always so many people saying they want NAT, but if addresses are plentiful then it serves absolutely no purpose. I think that most people who see it as necessary are confusing its function with a firewall. You do not need NAT to do the same things your home router does today. You can still block all incoming connections to a computer and allow all outgoing connections. You can still allow specific ports to be opened to specific machines.
Using a public address on your internal network doesn't automatically mean that you need to just allow any traffic in. Use a firewall to "stealth" every port and there will continue to be no evidence that you have a computer there.
However, the Kim family was only rescued after they were spotted walking on a remote road by helicopter.
I know the wikipedia article says that, but it's a perfect example of why wikipedia is not a reliable source. The wife and children were actually spotted at their vehicle as noted in this article. It's a bit lengthy, but the relevant passage is "At about 1:45 p.m. PST on Monday, rescuers were notified that a vehicle and a female waving an umbrella were spotted by a helicopter search crew." As I recall she had only gotten out of the vehicle specifically to try to flag down the helicopter.
The husband left to try to walk to a town, and therefore took much longer to find. If he would have stayed with the vehicle he probably would have survived
It doesn't get around it. Unless you live somewhere enlightened enough to not allow software patents, it probably isn't legal to use without a license for the patented tech.
You don't adjust your compass. There wouldn't be a point, as you would constantly have to readjust. Also, most are suspended in liquid, so you couldn't access it anyway. I believe the previous poster meant to suggest that you (the pilot) can adjust your course for the change. Aviation charts have the lines of magnetic variance printed on them so it becomes a simple addition/subtraction to correct for whatever the local variance is.
It sounds to me like it's pretty much a state by state issue. Here, I am able to get gas without ethanol, but only in the lowest octane rating (87 usually). Mid-grade and premium fuels are required to have ethanol, which is currently mixed at 10%.
As for identifying which fuels contain ethanol, state law here requires labels on the pump indicating if ethanol is mixed in and in what percentage, so what you're getting is very clear.
They add rules stating that line owners have to sell their bandwidth wholesale to anyone for phone companies for a while now
You should check again, all the rules requiring the telcos to share lines are gone now. Pretty much for no other reason than they complained that they weren't making enough money.
Did your math classes never involve any more complex equation than y = mx + b?
This is a true story from my college days. I was taking a business class (intro to economics, I think) to satisfy one of my credit requirements for my engineering degree. At one point in the class, the professor started explaining the characteristics of a line in what I found to be a really roundabout way. I remember trying to follow along, getting frustrated, and actually writing in my notes, "Why the hell wouldn't we use y=mx+b?"
I was so bothered by this that I approached the professor after class, and asked him why he wasn't just teaching the class y=mx+b. He immediately asked me if I was an engineer (this university had a large engineering program) and I replied that I was. He then said, "The business students can't really understand y=mx+b, it's too hard for them."
I was floored. I actually thought he was joking at first, but as we talked it slowly sank in that he really was serious. I had joked along with a lot of other engineers about how easy business classes must be, but I never thought that they would actually turn out to be worse than our jokes!
This is the next generation of managers. People that really are too stupid to understand the simplest of algebra. Next time you find yourself wondering why a corporation is doing something that is absolutely idiotic, just remember that an accredited university probably vouched for the person involved, even though they can't understand something as simple as y=mx+b.
...WMA makes better quality at lower file sizes than ANY other audio codec. Look up the numbers yourself, a 96Kb WMA was closer to a 160Kb MP3...
As someone who works with audio professionally, I can say that statement is pure marketing bullshit. A 96 kbps WMA file may have sounded better than a 96 kbps MP3 file, but both of them still sound like crap compared to a higher bitrate file. An MP3 with almost double the bitrate certainly will win in sound quality.
That statement about WMA having better low bitrate performance than ANY other codec is pretty ridiculous considering the many years of advancements made since then. AAC is probably the only codec that I actually consider usable at 96 kbps, and its performance at even lower bitrates is far, far above that of WMA.
There are only 16 minutes of commercials in a 60-minute show.
Wonder what you're missing...
Probably nothing. He didn't say what type of show he was watching, and your 16 minute time is probably based off of a DVD where episodes are 44 minutes long. (There are a fair amount of shows slipping under that number recently)
What you're missing is that the end credits can often run for a full minute on DVD but on TV will be crammed into a tiny box and/or sped up while they play ads on the rest of the screen. Up to 17 already. What about shortened title sequences? Depending on the show you could gain close to 30 seconds there. Then there's the really big one, syndication. Syndicated shows often are edited for time, specifically so they can show more commercials. Combine all those and 20 minutes turns into a low estimate of commercial time.
Maybe the judge just thinks the lawyer that righthaven sent is an asshole, and he wants him to do as much work as possible. Judges basically get to do whatever they want in their own courtroom anyway. NPR had a story I heard yesterday where the judge refused to accept a motion to dismiss a case... from the prosecution. I didn't even know such a thing would be possible, but apparently judges really do have almost unlimited power in their little domains.
This seems to be a pretty popular opinion, but it's completely unjustified. Your hardware is going to determine your noise level, regardless of being inside or outside the case.
I used to work for a radio network that fed more than 20 stations. We had literally dozens of pro level sound cards, and every single one of them was internal. Some of them were being fed analog signals running through almost 200 feet of cable to get to the server the card was in. Noise levels on all these cards were absolutely rock bottom. As in below -120db. That's low enough that it can't even be represented in 16 bit audio.
Of course, we paid several thousand apiece for those cards, but that's because we needed multiple inputs and outputs on many of them. There are some great 2 channel stereo cards available for under $500 that have about that level of performance. In the end, if you really need great performance from your audio hardware, be prepared to pay for it. And that goes for everything in your audio chain.
I really hope his dream rig has something a little nicer than an audigy. At least one of the cheaper stereo cards from Digigram would be about the minimum I'd want to do any serious recording. Sure, they're a bit more expensive, but if you want truly rock bottom noise levels you need a professional solution (with balanced inputs).
If it's a really severe weather event people aren't going to be outside.
I take it you're not from the midwest. Tornadoes can spring up even in relatively good conditions. For example, I was at a college football game when a tornado touched down only a few miles south of the stadium.
However, that event is a great example of why the GP is full of crap. Tornado sirens went off, and 30,000+ people managed to calmly move to shelter in the nearby basketball facility. Nobody was so much as scratched. There was some concern later when reports came in that spectators weren't sure what to do, but personally I thought it was handled fine. I also thought it was hilarious that when the all clear was given later, everybody just went back and the game continued.
That really should never have happened. As I recall the EAS insert is supposed to be the last device in the chain before the transmitter, thus the satellite feed should have been split off before the EAS signal made it into the feed. This also keeps remote sites from doubling up on EAS messages as all the local cable systems should have their own EAS equipment.
Does CBC Radio really have no ads? Or is it like NPR where they say they don't have any ads, but have just reclassified them as "underwriting?" (Yes, I know there are a few technical differences between underwriting and ads, I used to work for an NPR affiliate.)
TFA is bullshit. The FAA report says that lithium batteries pose a hazard if heated by a fire from another material in the cargo hold. I guess "Heat in Cargo Holds Can Ignite Laptop Batteries" is accurate if you just forget to mention that the heat the FAA is talking about is coming from flames. See my other comment for a link to the actual report.
The summary is basically a complete failure to understand the issue. Actual advisory here.
Basically what this says is, a fire in a cargo compartment could easily heat lithium batteries to the point that they cause explosions and large secondary fires. Also, the fire suppressant commonly used in cargo bays may not control a lithium fire. Thirdly, shorted lithium batteries may get so hot that they ignite other materials around them, even if they don't catch fire themselves. Lithium-Ion batteries are also mentioned, basically restating the above but suggesting that existing fire suppression can more easily control a fire from a lithium-ion cell.
In the end, the recommendation is to change reporting rules so that lithium batteries in cargo must be reported to the pilot in command. Effort should be made to carry them in cargo bays with sufficient fire extinguisher capability. Also mentioned is storing them in containers designed to keep fire or explosion contained, and that existing containers will not do this.
It is even specifically noted that this advisory applies to bulk shipments and does not include batteries brought aboard by passengers.
It states that congress may arm a militia if they feel that it would be necessary to do so. It would be ridiculous to imply that it means that militias would only get their arms from the federal government.
Your setup would also reduce dynamic range to almost nothing. You'd find that listening to something like that gets fatiguing very quickly, plus it'll probably sound like crap. Even speech needs some dynamic range.
A much better solution would be a compressor, which would reduce the impact of very loud sounds and leave quieter sections untouched. Yes, the limiter would also have this effect to a degree, but the usage that you describe is much better suited to the more detailed controls of a compressor. Tweaking the compressor curve and combining that with a slow acting AGC can leave you with quite a bit of dynamic range while still keeping perceived volume to a non ear splitting level.
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I assume you forwarded your mail with the post office? USPS will give out your new address to pretty much anyone who requests it (and pays them). It's what "Address Service Requested" means when you see it printed on an envelope.
I think you fail to understand what a differential does. These cars absolutely have a "hardware" differential. What they do not have is a locking differential. Almost no vehicles have locking differentials except vehicles intended for severe off-road conditions or racing vehicles. The reason is, locking differentials are clunky as hell, and most people would never understand how or why they work and complain when they locked up in turns.
I'm not going to go into a full explanation here, because explaining the operation of a differential is beyond this comment. EDL is a completely valid way to transfer torque through a standard differential to whatever wheel is not spinning. If both wheels spin, the wheel with the highest torque gets to apply that torque without being limited by the low torque wheel.
As to your question if engineers would build a car this way, the answer is obviously yes. I am an engineer, and although I don't design cars, I do understand what these systems actually do. The design concept is sound, and it absolutely provides benefits over a non-locking differential without this system. There are various other systems to combat this problem. So called "selectable" systems, that are mechanical lockers with some sort of manual actuator to actually perform the lockup. Limited-slip systems, which are clutch based or fluid based. However most vehicles have none of these. I encourage you to do some more reading about differentials to understand why and how these systems do what they do.
Or you could just get them on GOG. They're even on sale this weekend for $6 each.
The drive reports 240GB of usable space; 224GB is what you have left over after subtracting partitioning and filesystem overhead
Actually, it's what you have left over after the power of 10 to power of 2 conversion. Yes, the manufacturers are lying about this with flash drives as well.
a new user is unlikely to know it does this unless they were familiar with OS 9
Why do you say this? The 'drag to trash' method is still mentioned in the docs, and it's actually mentioned before the keyboard eject key. All the students I knew that used a Macbook knew about and used this method, and I'm guessing not all of them had experience with OS 9.
I'd rather have NAT for v6 too
Why?
There are always so many people saying they want NAT, but if addresses are plentiful then it serves absolutely no purpose. I think that most people who see it as necessary are confusing its function with a firewall. You do not need NAT to do the same things your home router does today. You can still block all incoming connections to a computer and allow all outgoing connections. You can still allow specific ports to be opened to specific machines.
Using a public address on your internal network doesn't automatically mean that you need to just allow any traffic in. Use a firewall to "stealth" every port and there will continue to be no evidence that you have a computer there.
However, the Kim family was only rescued after they were spotted walking on a remote road by helicopter.
I know the wikipedia article says that, but it's a perfect example of why wikipedia is not a reliable source. The wife and children were actually spotted at their vehicle as noted in this article. It's a bit lengthy, but the relevant passage is "At about 1:45 p.m. PST on Monday, rescuers were notified that a vehicle and a female waving an umbrella were spotted by a helicopter search crew." As I recall she had only gotten out of the vehicle specifically to try to flag down the helicopter.
The husband left to try to walk to a town, and therefore took much longer to find. If he would have stayed with the vehicle he probably would have survived
It doesn't get around it. Unless you live somewhere enlightened enough to not allow software patents, it probably isn't legal to use without a license for the patented tech.
You don't adjust your compass. There wouldn't be a point, as you would constantly have to readjust. Also, most are suspended in liquid, so you couldn't access it anyway. I believe the previous poster meant to suggest that you (the pilot) can adjust your course for the change. Aviation charts have the lines of magnetic variance printed on them so it becomes a simple addition/subtraction to correct for whatever the local variance is.
It sounds to me like it's pretty much a state by state issue. Here, I am able to get gas without ethanol, but only in the lowest octane rating (87 usually). Mid-grade and premium fuels are required to have ethanol, which is currently mixed at 10%.
As for identifying which fuels contain ethanol, state law here requires labels on the pump indicating if ethanol is mixed in and in what percentage, so what you're getting is very clear.
They add rules stating that line owners have to sell their bandwidth wholesale to anyone for phone companies for a while now
You should check again, all the rules requiring the telcos to share lines are gone now. Pretty much for no other reason than they complained that they weren't making enough money.
Did your math classes never involve any more complex equation than y = mx + b?
This is a true story from my college days. I was taking a business class (intro to economics, I think) to satisfy one of my credit requirements for my engineering degree. At one point in the class, the professor started explaining the characteristics of a line in what I found to be a really roundabout way. I remember trying to follow along, getting frustrated, and actually writing in my notes, "Why the hell wouldn't we use y=mx+b?"
I was so bothered by this that I approached the professor after class, and asked him why he wasn't just teaching the class y=mx+b. He immediately asked me if I was an engineer (this university had a large engineering program) and I replied that I was. He then said, "The business students can't really understand y=mx+b, it's too hard for them."
I was floored. I actually thought he was joking at first, but as we talked it slowly sank in that he really was serious. I had joked along with a lot of other engineers about how easy business classes must be, but I never thought that they would actually turn out to be worse than our jokes!
This is the next generation of managers. People that really are too stupid to understand the simplest of algebra. Next time you find yourself wondering why a corporation is doing something that is absolutely idiotic, just remember that an accredited university probably vouched for the person involved, even though they can't understand something as simple as y=mx+b.
...WMA makes better quality at lower file sizes than ANY other audio codec. Look up the numbers yourself, a 96Kb WMA was closer to a 160Kb MP3 ...
As someone who works with audio professionally, I can say that statement is pure marketing bullshit. A 96 kbps WMA file may have sounded better than a 96 kbps MP3 file, but both of them still sound like crap compared to a higher bitrate file. An MP3 with almost double the bitrate certainly will win in sound quality.
That statement about WMA having better low bitrate performance than ANY other codec is pretty ridiculous considering the many years of advancements made since then. AAC is probably the only codec that I actually consider usable at 96 kbps, and its performance at even lower bitrates is far, far above that of WMA.
There are only 16 minutes of commercials in a 60-minute show. Wonder what you're missing...
Probably nothing. He didn't say what type of show he was watching, and your 16 minute time is probably based off of a DVD where episodes are 44 minutes long. (There are a fair amount of shows slipping under that number recently)
What you're missing is that the end credits can often run for a full minute on DVD but on TV will be crammed into a tiny box and/or sped up while they play ads on the rest of the screen. Up to 17 already. What about shortened title sequences? Depending on the show you could gain close to 30 seconds there. Then there's the really big one, syndication. Syndicated shows often are edited for time, specifically so they can show more commercials. Combine all those and 20 minutes turns into a low estimate of commercial time.
Maybe the judge just thinks the lawyer that righthaven sent is an asshole, and he wants him to do as much work as possible. Judges basically get to do whatever they want in their own courtroom anyway. NPR had a story I heard yesterday where the judge refused to accept a motion to dismiss a case... from the prosecution. I didn't even know such a thing would be possible, but apparently judges really do have almost unlimited power in their little domains.
This seems to be a pretty popular opinion, but it's completely unjustified. Your hardware is going to determine your noise level, regardless of being inside or outside the case.
I used to work for a radio network that fed more than 20 stations. We had literally dozens of pro level sound cards, and every single one of them was internal. Some of them were being fed analog signals running through almost 200 feet of cable to get to the server the card was in. Noise levels on all these cards were absolutely rock bottom. As in below -120db. That's low enough that it can't even be represented in 16 bit audio.
Of course, we paid several thousand apiece for those cards, but that's because we needed multiple inputs and outputs on many of them. There are some great 2 channel stereo cards available for under $500 that have about that level of performance. In the end, if you really need great performance from your audio hardware, be prepared to pay for it. And that goes for everything in your audio chain.
I really hope his dream rig has something a little nicer than an audigy. At least one of the cheaper stereo cards from Digigram would be about the minimum I'd want to do any serious recording. Sure, they're a bit more expensive, but if you want truly rock bottom noise levels you need a professional solution (with balanced inputs).
If it's a really severe weather event people aren't going to be outside.
I take it you're not from the midwest. Tornadoes can spring up even in relatively good conditions. For example, I was at a college football game when a tornado touched down only a few miles south of the stadium.
However, that event is a great example of why the GP is full of crap. Tornado sirens went off, and 30,000+ people managed to calmly move to shelter in the nearby basketball facility. Nobody was so much as scratched. There was some concern later when reports came in that spectators weren't sure what to do, but personally I thought it was handled fine. I also thought it was hilarious that when the all clear was given later, everybody just went back and the game continued.
That really should never have happened. As I recall the EAS insert is supposed to be the last device in the chain before the transmitter, thus the satellite feed should have been split off before the EAS signal made it into the feed. This also keeps remote sites from doubling up on EAS messages as all the local cable systems should have their own EAS equipment.
It's a false assumption that people will like us if we just edumacate them and give them jobs.
How about if we just leave them the fuck alone? Would people be okay with that?
Does CBC Radio really have no ads? Or is it like NPR where they say they don't have any ads, but have just reclassified them as "underwriting?" (Yes, I know there are a few technical differences between underwriting and ads, I used to work for an NPR affiliate.)
TFA is bullshit. The FAA report says that lithium batteries pose a hazard if heated by a fire from another material in the cargo hold. I guess "Heat in Cargo Holds Can Ignite Laptop Batteries" is accurate if you just forget to mention that the heat the FAA is talking about is coming from flames. See my other comment for a link to the actual report.
The summary is basically a complete failure to understand the issue. Actual advisory here.
Basically what this says is, a fire in a cargo compartment could easily heat lithium batteries to the point that they cause explosions and large secondary fires. Also, the fire suppressant commonly used in cargo bays may not control a lithium fire. Thirdly, shorted lithium batteries may get so hot that they ignite other materials around them, even if they don't catch fire themselves. Lithium-Ion batteries are also mentioned, basically restating the above but suggesting that existing fire suppression can more easily control a fire from a lithium-ion cell.
In the end, the recommendation is to change reporting rules so that lithium batteries in cargo must be reported to the pilot in command. Effort should be made to carry them in cargo bays with sufficient fire extinguisher capability. Also mentioned is storing them in containers designed to keep fire or explosion contained, and that existing containers will not do this.
It is even specifically noted that this advisory applies to bulk shipments and does not include batteries brought aboard by passengers.
It states that congress may arm a militia if they feel that it would be necessary to do so. It would be ridiculous to imply that it means that militias would only get their arms from the federal government.
Your setup would also reduce dynamic range to almost nothing. You'd find that listening to something like that gets fatiguing very quickly, plus it'll probably sound like crap. Even speech needs some dynamic range.
A much better solution would be a compressor, which would reduce the impact of very loud sounds and leave quieter sections untouched. Yes, the limiter would also have this effect to a degree, but the usage that you describe is much better suited to the more detailed controls of a compressor. Tweaking the compressor curve and combining that with a slow acting AGC can leave you with quite a bit of dynamic range while still keeping perceived volume to a non ear splitting level.