you will be able to as soon as you attach a separate set of pedals to the handlebar so that there will be a way for you to rotate the lower bar in the transmission shown in the video, it won't take any power they say, just speed. So to slow down you'll just rotate the handlebar pedals faster;)
It is a very interesting approach, the problem that may happen (I don't know, just guessing here) is to locking the lower shaft while trying to go full force, isn't the entire premise of friction basically shifted (sorry for the pun) to the device that will stop or let go of the lower shaft, which needs to be stopped for the torque to be transmitted to the wheels for example? So there are these 2 small black gears if you look at the video, these gears are perpendicular to the lower shaft, sitting on it sideways, is that the one that will be locking the shaft or driving it, because then all of that power difference (either goes to the wheels or goes to the shaft) will be at a point of failure right there, how will they stop and start that one, is there a reliance on the electrical motor there to hold against the driving shaft? If there is, then the electrical motor will have to produce as much power and torque as the main driving engine.
But I maybe wrong completely and just misunderstood this thing totally.
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- I would rate that there was no button to be clicked.
God, only one time there was a 0 rating from me, everything else was -3, -2 and -1 and honestly, I did not like a single one of them, how do they come up with these models, did they take the LOTR Orcs or something?
What happened to the walls there? - It wasn't me. What about your crayons here? - It wasn't me. And why that ink is on your hands then? - It wasn't me. What kind of a weak ass defense this? - It wasn't me.
Yeah, and imagine this stupid old technology we are still using today from like 4 BILLION years ago?! The DNA thing, it's way outdated. It's easy to pollute, it's not nearly as efficient as the new quantum computing stuff, now that's stuff. And the Oxygen, oh boy, who is tired of the Oxygen thing? Why can't we move on already to something more modern, this is ridiculous.
Big deal, cash is the easiest thing in the world for the US of A, just print a few more dollars, why not? Cash is EASY. It's the technology that is interesting and hard.
well the details are a bit obscure but I hear that what it is, is billions of tiny droplets of water that are suspended in the air above ground, not sure how that helps with computing though.
I agree, that is logical and that was something even US did over 60 years ago, when 'white collar' crime was actually still prosecuted correctly, by criminal courts. But again, this is corruption, otherwise how can anybody at all explain why the Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and so on management, CEOs, CFOs etc. walk away with millions and even billions of dollars in compensation?
This is corruption, it is all throughout the system, it needs to be flushed somehow and it is not going away on its own.
Governments are really SUPPOSED to be paid for not in empty promises you know?
So if the population accepts the costs of this regulatory activity over the market, then I suppose governments would also have to find the right people to do the job, don't they?
So now imagine what it would cost to maintain a government that was really capable of regulating every industry and every player in every industry.
The costs would not allow anything else to take place. Ever again.
The role of government should not be that of a regulator it should be of a judge and of a punisher. The government does not 'know' what is the correct procedure for securing a drilling operation like this one is. I don't think anyone knows how to do this 100% secure, frankly, I am pretty sure that nobody is drilling those holes in the ocean in a way that is insecure in their minds, how much does a rig cost?
However if a company like BP and their subcontractors, the Transocean and Halliburton knew that they would be judged and they would have to pay the damages, the clean up costs and if they knew that the government would set up a Class Action Lawsuit on behalf of all the people that the government represents to punish the companies involved for destroying the common resource: the ocean, the coasts, the living creatures in the oceans and on the shores, everything. If they knew that the liabilities could be x100 or x1000 the actual damages, well, you would not need regulators from governments. These companies are already doing things that government has no clue about.
Governments have no clue about pretty much anything, the people are incompetent there, just take a look at SEC and the Madoff case. For years they did not do a thing about him and they were even told what was happening by a whistle-blower. Bernanke was saying: everything is great with economy and the economy was right within the housing bubble, he and the rest of them do not understand and do not see anything.
So I submit to you that it is not a job that governments can even do and that governments should do what they truly can: judge and punish severely. But that would require a non-corrupt government, wouldn't it?
But if a government is corrupt, then you cannot trust the regulators, you cannot even trust the government to allow a system where real regulators could even work. The problem it seems, like all other problems, are all about corruption.
Free Market works until a Government gets its dirty little hands into it, aids gigantic Monopolies to form and gives them free (as in booze) money to gamble with.
However governments have a role.
The role of governments is to set who are judges among people, we need judges otherwise everything goes to hell. So we need to be able to use Government in cases like this one for judgment.
We need to judge who screwed up here and by how much and then we need to use one more role of a government: to act on behalf of the people and to set up a gigantic liability Class Action Lawsuit, something like costs to clean up + all other costs x100 at least and then make the company in question actually PAY this money in order to PUNISH them.
You need government to act as a judge and as a punisher for cases where such incredible acts of destruction of common property is happening.
But what did the government do? Took the money from the industry, reduced the liability to a pathetic amount of 75 million dollars.
Government has no clue about this business, just like it has no clue about any business and frankly, that is not what a government should do anyway. How many people exactly would a government have to hire to control all industries and all companies? It is ridiculous how much dead costs would be sunk on that.
Governments should provide judges and punishment for this kind of behavior and then the Free Market would work, the prices of crude and gas should not be subsidized by any government especially subsidized with the costs of cleanup and liability in case of such incidents.
I hope these courses are all about teaching the way to construct programming logic, to think about algorithms, to apply data structures correctly because that can be done in any language (depending on the paradigm that they choose to teach of-course, and it looks they are going with the most common, imperative one, of-course the choice of languages also shows that they are not going into declarative stuff.)
Any one of these language can be used to teach normal structured programming with normal process flows, data structures. Object oriented stuff should not be taught until the students have basic understanding of the principles of programming.
But it is too bad they are not including at least some Assembly and C. Actually they should do an overview of different languages and explain that there are different ways to program, they should explain the differences between paradigms, approaches, languages, they should explain computer organization as in how a machine sees the code, how does the code interact with the memory, processor, peripherals. I think it is important at least to know OF these things, if not actually completely knowing how to use them.
I think before you teach anyone actual programming logic, structures, you explain how a machine executes the commands, so computer organization (state machines, memory, processors) + Assembly, even if only for a few hours this should be done first.
Apples are selling for 4000-5000 dollars a pop? What kind of apples are those, 'magic' ones or did they already print the dollar into oblivion while I was outside for half an hour?
You know, I immediately remembered Asimov's Foundation series, where the First Foundation (the technological one) was built on a planet with limited resources for a reason, that the scientists would have to work out how to survive with the bare minimum and work on miniaturization of everything, the tiny personal nuclear powered energy shields, plasma cutters etc. Is it at all possible that in North Korea the conditions are such, that they would have to figure out such things, how to live with bare minimum resources and in an insane dictatorial political system that does not tolerate anything that's out of the main Party line.
Then again, that very last part of the last sentence is probably the main reason why it is most unlikely that any real scientific breakthroughs are possible in that political system. Too much pressure for scientists to claim any achievement as their own causes too much jealousy and people would not really cooperate for the fear of having their stuff stolen, while others, who are good at getting into power are the ones most likely to steal from the real achievers and then to set them up for some sort of a political treason so that nobody would argue with their claims.
Pretty much I think, this is ultrasound, not microwave or gamma rays.
Of-course on this site, the correct response, that could prompt pointless leg crossing is always to "nuke em from the orbit, it's the only way to be sure".
My experience with Oracle shills is that they tout Oracle as the only true way. Luckily I am not susceptible to advertising, I look at facts. Fact is that Oracle's grid computing will add no more scalability to any particular application than their earlier clustering approach, though it may help with cutting some costs on probably some hardware and energy, good, that should help to offset the crazy licensing costs. I am setting PostgreSQL everywhere I can, and I use more of an app design approach to solve my scalability concerns.
Here is a fact for you: virtualization will not add more processing power, it is just another silver bullet, an easy way out of designing the applications to scale within their context and relying on someone else to do your job.
I avoid Oracle like a plague that it is, an overprice plague.
Scalability is a buzzword that equipment, databases and servers (hardware/software) are sold on. It is as if by adding more weblogic servers to a cluster really makes your application scalable, as if throwing more processors onto a RAID system gives you more parallel ways to read / write the same data etc.
It is all true to an extent and it is all false where it really matters. Applications need to be designed to be scalable and if I learned anything over the past 16 years is that people do not even begin to understand what it means.
The managers and even many 'architects' really think that by throwing some stupid app on a cluster will really solve the scalability issues and so on. But the problem is that it is a very specific problem that can be solved by simply adding cluster nodes without actually properly designing the app. I blame various silver bullets like EJBs, CORBA, RMI, JNDI, BEA, Oracle, IBM and such for promoting this view among the top brass and pulling attention away from working out correct architecture to solve the specific problems that appear in building truly scalable applications.
Application servers and databases are the worst at this, they certainly provide some specific type of scalability solution but because of that, it is almost expected that it does not matter how an app is designed to interact with these, and the design is really on the distant third, fourth, fifth or further place, way behind the deadlines, the politics, the hiring practices etc.
Scalability is like security, it is not a one specific thing it is a way to approach many different issues and problems and even when you think your app is secure in 5 different ways, there is a sixth way in which it is not. Same with scalability: it is not only about multi-threading requests, it is not only about multiple processors for a RAID system, it is about total understanding of how the application is and will be used and adjusting it for various types of usage. Proper design for scalability mixes various approaches, there could be intermediate steps added, back-ground processing added, intermediary storage, separate storage for reading than for saving, various caching mechanisms and synchronization between nodes in a cluster for different caching questions. This could be redefining an algorithm to be less dependent on reading data from slow media. Some things are not supposed to be done in parallel, so certain bottlenecks due to synchronization need to be looked at and solved early on, because these become the Achilles heel - synchronizing on anything at all can defeat a super-fast cluster and make it no better than as a single laptop.
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you will be able to as soon as you attach a separate set of pedals to the handlebar so that there will be a way for you to rotate the lower bar in the transmission shown in the video, it won't take any power they say, just speed. So to slow down you'll just rotate the handlebar pedals faster ;)
It is a very interesting approach, the problem that may happen (I don't know, just guessing here) is to locking the lower shaft while trying to go full force, isn't the entire premise of friction basically shifted (sorry for the pun) to the device that will stop or let go of the lower shaft, which needs to be stopped for the torque to be transmitted to the wheels for example? So there are these 2 small black gears if you look at the video, these gears are perpendicular to the lower shaft, sitting on it sideways, is that the one that will be locking the shaft or driving it, because then all of that power difference (either goes to the wheels or goes to the shaft) will be at a point of failure right there, how will they stop and start that one, is there a reliance on the electrical motor there to hold against the driving shaft? If there is, then the electrical motor will have to produce as much power and torque as the main driving engine.
But I maybe wrong completely and just misunderstood this thing totally.
I thought about it and remembered what the models looked like: Cave Trolls with saggy boobs.
That's it.
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- I would rate that there was no button to be clicked.
God, only one time there was a 0 rating from me, everything else was -3, -2 and -1 and honestly, I did not like a single one of them, how do they come up with these models, did they take the LOTR Orcs or something?
Yeah, I know, I know, it's a killer file system.
I prefer the Shaggy defense myself:
What happened to the walls there? - It wasn't me.
What about your crayons here? - It wasn't me.
And why that ink is on your hands then? - It wasn't me.
What kind of a weak ass defense this? - It wasn't me.
Yeah, and imagine this stupid old technology we are still using today from like 4 BILLION years ago?! The DNA thing, it's way outdated. It's easy to pollute, it's not nearly as efficient as the new quantum computing stuff, now that's stuff. And the Oxygen, oh boy, who is tired of the Oxygen thing? Why can't we move on already to something more modern, this is ridiculous.
Big deal, cash is the easiest thing in the world for the US of A, just print a few more dollars, why not? Cash is EASY. It's the technology that is interesting and hard.
In that case it would make more sense to gift that ticket to the cause of the discontent.
Sarah Palin as a president...
Hmmmm
Would it be possible to get a ticket off this planet in case that happens?
Isn't it ironic, that a guy who accuses another guy of not understanding irony himself does not understand it? Don't you think?
Also here is what's not ironic: a reply from someone who is pointing this obvious ironic situation out. Isn't that pedantic?
However then this someone making fun of himself for himself being pedantic, is that recursive or redundant?
Guess what this comment is not but do not assign it what it is.
They needed 1.21 Gigawatts and the cloud had it, but the Delorean didn't start this time.
well the details are a bit obscure but I hear that what it is, is billions of tiny droplets of water that are suspended in the air above ground, not sure how that helps with computing though.
I agree, that is logical and that was something even US did over 60 years ago, when 'white collar' crime was actually still prosecuted correctly, by criminal courts. But again, this is corruption, otherwise how can anybody at all explain why the Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and so on management, CEOs, CFOs etc. walk away with millions and even billions of dollars in compensation?
This is corruption, it is all throughout the system, it needs to be flushed somehow and it is not going away on its own.
Governments are really SUPPOSED to be paid for not in empty promises you know?
So if the population accepts the costs of this regulatory activity over the market, then I suppose governments would also have to find the right people to do the job, don't they?
So now imagine what it would cost to maintain a government that was really capable of regulating every industry and every player in every industry.
The costs would not allow anything else to take place. Ever again.
The role of government should not be that of a regulator it should be of a judge and of a punisher. The government does not 'know' what is the correct procedure for securing a drilling operation like this one is. I don't think anyone knows how to do this 100% secure, frankly, I am pretty sure that nobody is drilling those holes in the ocean in a way that is insecure in their minds, how much does a rig cost?
However if a company like BP and their subcontractors, the Transocean and Halliburton knew that they would be judged and they would have to pay the damages, the clean up costs and if they knew that the government would set up a Class Action Lawsuit on behalf of all the people that the government represents to punish the companies involved for destroying the common resource: the ocean, the coasts, the living creatures in the oceans and on the shores, everything. If they knew that the liabilities could be x100 or x1000 the actual damages, well, you would not need regulators from governments. These companies are already doing things that government has no clue about.
Governments have no clue about pretty much anything, the people are incompetent there, just take a look at SEC and the Madoff case. For years they did not do a thing about him and they were even told what was happening by a whistle-blower. Bernanke was saying: everything is great with economy and the economy was right within the housing bubble, he and the rest of them do not understand and do not see anything.
So I submit to you that it is not a job that governments can even do and that governments should do what they truly can: judge and punish severely. But that would require a non-corrupt government, wouldn't it?
But if a government is corrupt, then you cannot trust the regulators, you cannot even trust the government to allow a system where real regulators could even work. The problem it seems, like all other problems, are all about corruption.
Free Market works until a Government gets its dirty little hands into it, aids gigantic Monopolies to form and gives them free (as in booze) money to gamble with.
However governments have a role.
The role of governments is to set who are judges among people, we need judges otherwise everything goes to hell. So we need to be able to use Government in cases like this one for judgment.
We need to judge who screwed up here and by how much and then we need to use one more role of a government: to act on behalf of the people and to set up a gigantic liability Class Action Lawsuit, something like costs to clean up + all other costs x100 at least and then make the company in question actually PAY this money in order to PUNISH them.
You need government to act as a judge and as a punisher for cases where such incredible acts of destruction of common property is happening.
But what did the government do? Took the money from the industry, reduced the liability to a pathetic amount of 75 million dollars.
Government has no clue about this business, just like it has no clue about any business and frankly, that is not what a government should do anyway. How many people exactly would a government have to hire to control all industries and all companies? It is ridiculous how much dead costs would be sunk on that.
Governments should provide judges and punishment for this kind of behavior and then the Free Market would work, the prices of crude and gas should not be subsidized by any government especially subsidized with the costs of cleanup and liability in case of such incidents.
I hope these courses are all about teaching the way to construct programming logic, to think about algorithms, to apply data structures correctly because that can be done in any language (depending on the paradigm that they choose to teach of-course, and it looks they are going with the most common, imperative one, of-course the choice of languages also shows that they are not going into declarative stuff.)
Any one of these language can be used to teach normal structured programming with normal process flows, data structures. Object oriented stuff should not be taught until the students have basic understanding of the principles of programming.
But it is too bad they are not including at least some Assembly and C. Actually they should do an overview of different languages and explain that there are different ways to program, they should explain the differences between paradigms, approaches, languages, they should explain computer organization as in how a machine sees the code, how does the code interact with the memory, processor, peripherals. I think it is important at least to know OF these things, if not actually completely knowing how to use them.
I think before you teach anyone actual programming logic, structures, you explain how a machine executes the commands, so computer organization (state machines, memory, processors) + Assembly, even if only for a few hours this should be done first.
Apples are selling for 4000-5000 dollars a pop? What kind of apples are those, 'magic' ones or did they already print the dollar into oblivion while I was outside for half an hour?
You know, I immediately remembered Asimov's Foundation series, where the First Foundation (the technological one) was built on a planet with limited resources for a reason, that the scientists would have to work out how to survive with the bare minimum and work on miniaturization of everything, the tiny personal nuclear powered energy shields, plasma cutters etc. Is it at all possible that in North Korea the conditions are such, that they would have to figure out such things, how to live with bare minimum resources and in an insane dictatorial political system that does not tolerate anything that's out of the main Party line.
Then again, that very last part of the last sentence is probably the main reason why it is most unlikely that any real scientific breakthroughs are possible in that political system. Too much pressure for scientists to claim any achievement as their own causes too much jealousy and people would not really cooperate for the fear of having their stuff stolen, while others, who are good at getting into power are the ones most likely to steal from the real achievers and then to set them up for some sort of a political treason so that nobody would argue with their claims.
No, they would not have a breakthrough greater than what has been achieved already by now.
Pretty much I think, this is ultrasound, not microwave or gamma rays.
Of-course on this site, the correct response, that could prompt pointless leg crossing is always to "nuke em from the orbit, it's the only way to be sure".
My experience with Oracle shills is that they tout Oracle as the only true way. Luckily I am not susceptible to advertising, I look at facts. Fact is that Oracle's grid computing will add no more scalability to any particular application than their earlier clustering approach, though it may help with cutting some costs on probably some hardware and energy, good, that should help to offset the crazy licensing costs. I am setting PostgreSQL everywhere I can, and I use more of an app design approach to solve my scalability concerns.
Here is a fact for you: virtualization will not add more processing power, it is just another silver bullet, an easy way out of designing the applications to scale within their context and relying on someone else to do your job.
I avoid Oracle like a plague that it is, an overprice plague.
Flamebait? Yikes, where are the technically inclined people on this site now, can you HEAR the ultrasound? sigh.
Jesus fucking Christ, why didn't I HEAR about this earlier?
Scalability is a buzzword that equipment, databases and servers (hardware/software) are sold on. It is as if by adding more weblogic servers to a cluster really makes your application scalable, as if throwing more processors onto a RAID system gives you more parallel ways to read / write the same data etc.
It is all true to an extent and it is all false where it really matters. Applications need to be designed to be scalable and if I learned anything over the past 16 years is that people do not even begin to understand what it means.
The managers and even many 'architects' really think that by throwing some stupid app on a cluster will really solve the scalability issues and so on. But the problem is that it is a very specific problem that can be solved by simply adding cluster nodes without actually properly designing the app. I blame various silver bullets like EJBs, CORBA, RMI, JNDI, BEA, Oracle, IBM and such for promoting this view among the top brass and pulling attention away from working out correct architecture to solve the specific problems that appear in building truly scalable applications.
Application servers and databases are the worst at this, they certainly provide some specific type of scalability solution but because of that, it is almost expected that it does not matter how an app is designed to interact with these, and the design is really on the distant third, fourth, fifth or further place, way behind the deadlines, the politics, the hiring practices etc.
Scalability is like security, it is not a one specific thing it is a way to approach many different issues and problems and even when you think your app is secure in 5 different ways, there is a sixth way in which it is not. Same with scalability: it is not only about multi-threading requests, it is not only about multiple processors for a RAID system, it is about total understanding of how the application is and will be used and adjusting it for various types of usage. Proper design for scalability mixes various approaches, there could be intermediate steps added, back-ground processing added, intermediary storage, separate storage for reading than for saving, various caching mechanisms and synchronization between nodes in a cluster for different caching questions. This could be redefining an algorithm to be less dependent on reading data from slow media. Some things are not supposed to be done in parallel, so certain bottlenecks due to synchronization need to be looked at and solved early on, because these become the Achilles heel - synchronizing on anything at all can defeat a super-fast cluster and make it no better than as a single laptop.
It is a design issue.