Renault does not use Windows yet. Citroen does. It looks histerical because they have made the speedo and all car display systems digital on a windows driven LCD while the ECU is still some low level embedded shit. As a result you have everything digital with an analogue revs per minute squeezed into the screen border which looks absolutely out of place. Worst dash layout I have seen ever. That is besides the fact that there is a noticeable delay in the update of the speedo so you do not really know your speed while breaking or accelerating. In radar or speed camera infested areas can be quite fun.
Parents who deliberately brainwash their kids by stuffing them round the clock with idiotic cretinous politically correct cartoons should be shot.
In btw, I also have a 2 and a half year old, but he is happy to watch through the window or play instead of being brainwashed. At least for the first 1.5 hours (which is means that he gets bored only when we go to and back from a holiday). And even after the 1.5 he wants company, not to be brainwashed by a bloody DVD.
That is besides the fact that if you give a kid the choice between Wombles and the Blue Planet or The Life of Mammals a normal kid will always chose anything but the cartoon. And I cannot blame them. It is more fun to watch killer whales slaughtering a grey whale calf or monkeys fighting for a female compared to some Wombles.
Major problem - no OGG car devices available whatsof***ever and while many./ readers can DIY 99.9% of the population cant or will not. If I had an option to buy I would not have looked at doing it either. At the same time every major car audio player has an MP3 device (some real, some with conversion to something else in the PC software).
This is a shame as OGG is a much better format. I can distinguish MP3 immediately even if it is encoded at 192. It has a nasty distortion in the high frequency range that makes dogs breakfast of any good electric guitar. Disclaimer - my hearing is better then the average for 99.9 people of the same age and I have worked on an MP3 implementation so I have listened to it until puking for several weeks.
If you have had a burn or freeze above 2nd degree on more then 30% of your hands you will have similar problems. Under 20C you are likely to start experiencing pains in your hands after less then an hour of typing (speaking out of personal experience here).
Cat's dung sounds more like it. CPM had FCBS instead of handles for file operations. For all practical purposes it was a VMS hangover which was horrible to program for and would have never scaled past what CPM was used for (simple 8 bit apps).
One of the reasons DOS won (besides bundling, IBM and Paul Allen's excellent business sense) was Dos 2.x which introduced file handles (idea nicked from Unix). In fact this is where the PC revolution started because it was easy to use and easy to write 3rd party software.
It is obvious you have not suffered from driving a Citroen. It is the flagship of Automotive Windows with Fiat to follow soon. Which is a pity as I used to be a fan of Citroen until I had to suffer one of these Windows driven piles of poo for 2 days during my last holidays.
Good example - Vaio PictureBook C1F or any old laptop with a f00f encumbered Pentium. It is sometimes painfull to watch it update the screen. At the same time OGG at 192 VBR - no problem whatsoever. 10% load and happily trucking along.
In btw, I am currently looking at the same jukebox question from a different perspective - to move the picturebook to the car and plug it into the AUX IN on the car stereo. The only problem I have is the interface - how to make it controllable in a safe manner.
All you need is to put the "device" in question in a standard size internationally approved container and load it on a standard container carrier. There will be nothing suspicious as it will be yet another container amidst 200+ others.
It is the same company that manufactures the Patriot missile and the radar/guidance systems for it. Are you sure that you should believe anything they say about electronics and radar in particular? If you are, would you mind searching for "Patriot" and killed by friendly fire first...
Technetium has a half life of 212000 years. It is a product of radioactive Ruthenium and Palladium decay which in turn are one of the main fission byproducts.
That is off the top of my head (remembering uni chemistry and physics from 10+ years back). If you do a proper search you will find a few others with half lifes on the order of thousands or more years.
If you consider Jeff Murkey to be a buyer think again. Read the linux kernel archives for a background if necessary. Some of his discussions with Alan Cox and a few others are remarkably selfexplanatory. Interestingly enough IIRC Linus never intervened.
I will just ignore him.
In btw, his presence on Slashdot is a waste of valuable electrons.
In btw2: any likeness to userfriendly is unfortunately purely coincidental.
1. You will most likely slide only a section if you nuke it. In fact blowing off sections of it may be a way to deal with it. The difference between an explosion and an eruption is that the eruption can make the entire 35km log 2km high (above water, 50+ long 5+ high at sea floor level) of western section unstable and make it slide at once. In order to achieve the same effect with an explosion you will have to drill up to the lava which is not technologically feasible. Also, there is no need to mess with it. If US Geological survey models are correct (verified by several UK and US universities) the nature will take its course within the next century (it erupts every 20 years or so, last eruption was in 1970 and it has been suspiciously quiet ever since). 800m at start and 15m at Washington DC is the worst case scenario. But even a 2-4 m tsunami hitting the east coast and Florida can cause billions of damage and hundreds of thousands of lives.
2. The island has all in all a small garrizon (several platoons) of Spanish troops on it which sit at Puerto de la Cruz and do not pay any attention to the western slope. That is besides the stellar state of US/Spain relations. The only US installation on it is an unmanned automated network of GPS sites run by US Geological Survey which uses follows any moves in the island surface and reports them back by satellite.
Enjoy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1513342.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3553368.stm
In btw, it is a lovely island. One of the most beautiful places on earth with possibly one of the best wines on earth (compared to it French, Australian, California, etc are horsepiss). Worth to visit while it is still there.
You missed Cumbre Viejo. If it slides as its northern brother did 1.2 million years ago there will be nothing left on the entire US coast. Remember the end of the Deep Impact movie? The same.
In btw, interestingly enough it is all hitting mostly the US:-)
Really? How? Where did you get that figure? Your ass?
Easy, man like many silly people, he is mistaking the cause and the effect.
The cost of Earth Simulator, other climate reasearch projects as well as marine and glaciology research goes to high hundreds of millions. Nearly all of this research shows global warming which makes people complain that it is an industry.
In fact this research would have been there without any global warming threat. There are plenty of other justifications around
Your first problem is that you have created the startup in the wrong country. It is also your second, third, fourth and fifth problem.
As the french say - c'est la vie
Or simply drive a decent car with a decent short throw gearbox. Daihatsu Sirion (SL or higher models) or Honda Civic Type R are good examples. The travel on the gear level and clutch pedal is so small that the engine does not have time to drop the revs down. So you can level the RPMs perfectly without double clutch.
Back on the article subject - Vel Satis is an abomination. It is both keyless entry/ignition and automatic. So if the throttle has gone crazy you can neither downshift nor turn off the engine while leaving the steering unlocked. Also, if I remember correctly the card entry for the engine start is an assisted feed like on an ATM so the onboard computer may in fact deny ejecting the smartcard. It still sticks a bit so you may have a chance taking it out, but I would not try it at 200km/h.
HAVE THOUGHT THAT THE GAS IS FULL THROTTLE SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE BREAKS???
Think again. Try it. Then repost.
Even a lousy lame crap shit anticar like a 1995 1.4 GM/Opel/Vauxhall Astra can happily truck along with the handbrake pulled all the way. It will even accelerate to motorway speeds.
If you are working with EU audience you already must provide a concent form for cookie usage as well as explanation of use. Not a law yet in all member states but getting there.
Go to a Renault dealer and listen to the truckload of bull on the newest coolest features:
1. It is started by smartcard with an actuated reader system like on an ATM (it "eats" the card). So in fact you cannot take it out if the car decides not to spit it out. Same as a broken ATM.
2. Vel Satis has fully automatic transmission which is electronic. No gear lever in any shape or form. If the car decides not to shift into wherever you want to shift you get whatever you bargained for.
To add to this:
3. Renault is famous for its automatic transmission being a permanent problem (ask any car mechanic) while its manual being possibly the most reliable in the world (I know plenty of cases where it did 300000 miles plus). If you bought a Renault automatic you are a certified idiot and methinks you asked for it.
you push up and down to shift (or use the paddles).
These are electronic. So is the actuator on the clutch (automatics of this type have real clutches inside). If they are not fully independent circuits and go through the computer which is bust you are very very toast. Same as this poor chap.
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Renault does not use Windows yet. Citroen does. It looks histerical because they have made the speedo and all car display systems digital on a windows driven LCD while the ECU is still some low level embedded shit. As a result you have everything digital with an analogue revs per minute squeezed into the screen border which looks absolutely out of place. Worst dash layout I have seen ever. That is besides the fact that there is a noticeable delay in the update of the speedo so you do not really know your speed while breaking or accelerating. In radar or speed camera infested areas can be quite fun.
Parents who deliberately brainwash their kids by stuffing them round the clock with idiotic cretinous politically correct cartoons should be shot.
In btw, I also have a 2 and a half year old, but he is happy to watch through the window or play instead of being brainwashed. At least for the first 1.5 hours (which is means that he gets bored only when we go to and back from a holiday). And even after the 1.5 he wants company, not to be brainwashed by a bloody DVD.
That is besides the fact that if you give a kid the choice between Wombles and the Blue Planet or The Life of Mammals a normal kid will always chose anything but the cartoon. And I cannot blame them. It is more fun to watch killer whales slaughtering a grey whale calf or monkeys fighting for a female compared to some Wombles.
This is a shame as OGG is a much better format. I can distinguish MP3 immediately even if it is encoded at 192. It has a nasty distortion in the high frequency range that makes dogs breakfast of any good electric guitar. Disclaimer - my hearing is better then the average for 99.9 people of the same age and I have worked on an MP3 implementation so I have listened to it until puking for several weeks.
If you have had a burn or freeze above 2nd degree on more then 30% of your hands you will have similar problems. Under 20C you are likely to start experiencing pains in your hands after less then an hour of typing (speaking out of personal experience here).
Cat's dung sounds more like it. CPM had FCBS instead of handles for file operations. For all practical purposes it was a VMS hangover which was horrible to program for and would have never scaled past what CPM was used for (simple 8 bit apps).
One of the reasons DOS won (besides bundling, IBM and Paul Allen's excellent business sense) was Dos 2.x which introduced file handles (idea nicked from Unix). In fact this is where the PC revolution started because it was easy to use and easy to write 3rd party software.
It is obvious you have not suffered from driving a Citroen. It is the flagship of Automotive Windows with Fiat to follow soon. Which is a pity as I used to be a fan of Citroen until I had to suffer one of these Windows driven piles of poo for 2 days during my last holidays.
Good example - Vaio PictureBook C1F or any old laptop with a f00f encumbered Pentium. It is sometimes painfull to watch it update the screen. At the same time OGG at 192 VBR - no problem whatsoever. 10% load and happily trucking along.
In btw, I am currently looking at the same jukebox question from a different perspective - to move the picturebook to the car and plug it into the AUX IN on the car stereo. The only problem I have is the interface - how to make it controllable in a safe manner.
When you program a ballistic missilie you need target lattitude, longitude and altitude even if it is not an air burst.
Useless... what a joke...
All you need is to put the "device" in question in a standard size internationally approved container and load it on a standard container carrier. There will be nothing suspicious as it will be yet another container amidst 200+ others.
It is the same company that manufactures the Patriot missile and the radar/guidance systems for it. Are you sure that you should believe anything they say about electronics and radar in particular? If you are, would you mind searching for "Patriot" and killed by friendly fire first...
First, the hull is sectioned so it will take a lot of pokes with the plane.
Second, things like this will be flying at 10km+ if not 20km+ I would like to see the radio controlled plane capable of reaching them.
Third, all that takes to defend them are two radar controlled Gatling guns.
There was. For IBM power PC platform. Average uptime a few hours.
Besides radioactivity, Plutonium is also extremely toxic. In fact Plutonium compounds are one of the most toxic inorganic substances known to man.
Oil won't escape from containment and (supposedly) cause catastrophic global warming... Oil will not. Natural gas and methane from gas-hidrates will.
Wrong.
Technetium has a half life of 212000 years. It is a product of radioactive Ruthenium and Palladium decay which in turn are one of the main fission byproducts.
That is off the top of my head (remembering uni chemistry and physics from 10+ years back). If you do a proper search you will find a few others with half lifes on the order of thousands or more years.
If you consider Jeff Murkey to be a buyer think again. Read the linux kernel archives for a background if necessary. Some of his discussions with Alan Cox and a few others are remarkably selfexplanatory. Interestingly enough IIRC Linus never intervened.
I will just ignore him.
In btw, his presence on Slashdot is a waste of valuable electrons.
In btw2: any likeness to userfriendly is unfortunately purely coincidental.
1. You will most likely slide only a section if you nuke it. In fact blowing off sections of it may be a way to deal with it. The difference between an explosion and an eruption is that the eruption can make the entire 35km log 2km high (above water, 50+ long 5+ high at sea floor level) of western section unstable and make it slide at once. In order to achieve the same effect with an explosion you will have to drill up to the lava which is not technologically feasible.
Also, there is no need to mess with it. If US Geological survey models are correct (verified by several UK and US universities) the nature will take its course within the next century (it erupts every 20 years or so, last eruption was in 1970 and it has been suspiciously quiet ever since). 800m at start and 15m at Washington DC is the worst case scenario. But even a 2-4 m tsunami hitting the east coast and Florida can cause billions of damage and hundreds of thousands of lives.
2. The island has all in all a small garrizon (several platoons) of Spanish troops on it which sit at Puerto de la Cruz and do not pay any attention to the western slope. That is besides the stellar state of US/Spain relations. The only US installation on it is an unmanned automated network of GPS sites run by US Geological Survey which uses follows any moves in the island surface and reports them back by satellite.
Enjoy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1513342.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3553368.stm
In btw, it is a lovely island. One of the most beautiful places on earth with possibly one of the best wines on earth (compared to it French, Australian, California, etc are horsepiss). Worth to visit while it is still there.
You missed Cumbre Viejo. If it slides as its northern brother did 1.2 million years ago there will be nothing left on the entire US coast. Remember the end of the Deep Impact movie? The same.
:-)
In btw, interestingly enough it is all hitting mostly the US
Easy, man like many silly people, he is mistaking the cause and the effect.
The cost of Earth Simulator, other climate reasearch projects as well as marine and glaciology research goes to high hundreds of millions. Nearly all of this research shows global warming which makes people complain that it is an industry.
In fact this research would have been there without any global warming threat. There are plenty of other justifications around
Your first problem is that you have created the startup in the wrong country. It is also your second, third, fourth and fifth problem. As the french say - c'est la vie
Or simply drive a decent car with a decent short throw gearbox. Daihatsu Sirion (SL or higher models) or Honda Civic Type R are good examples. The travel on the gear level and clutch pedal is so small that the engine does not have time to drop the revs down. So you can level the RPMs perfectly without double clutch.
Back on the article subject - Vel Satis is an abomination. It is both keyless entry/ignition and automatic. So if the throttle has gone crazy you can neither downshift nor turn off the engine while leaving the steering unlocked. Also, if I remember correctly the card entry for the engine start is an assisted feed like on an ATM so the onboard computer may in fact deny ejecting the smartcard. It still sticks a bit so you may have a chance taking it out, but I would not try it at 200km/h.
HAVE THOUGHT THAT THE GAS IS FULL THROTTLE SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE BREAKS???
Think again. Try it. Then repost.
Even a lousy lame crap shit anticar like a 1995 1.4 GM/Opel/Vauxhall Astra can happily truck along with the handbrake pulled all the way. It will even accelerate to motorway speeds.
If you are working with EU audience you already must provide a concent form for cookie usage as well as explanation of use. Not a law yet in all member states but getting there.
Go to a Renault dealer and listen to the truckload of bull on the newest coolest features:
1. It is started by smartcard with an actuated reader system like on an ATM (it "eats" the card). So in fact you cannot take it out if the car decides not to spit it out. Same as a broken ATM.
2. Vel Satis has fully automatic transmission which is electronic. No gear lever in any shape or form. If the car decides not to shift into wherever you want to shift you get whatever you bargained for.
To add to this:
3. Renault is famous for its automatic transmission being a permanent problem (ask any car mechanic) while its manual being possibly the most reliable in the world (I know plenty of cases where it did 300000 miles plus). If you bought a Renault automatic you are a certified idiot and methinks you asked for it.
These are electronic. So is the actuator on the clutch (automatics of this type have real clutches inside). If they are not fully independent circuits and go through the computer which is bust you are very very toast. Same as this poor chap.