formula 1 is so rule suppressed that the tech isn't that interesting nowadays
On the contrary, I think it's fascinating the smart tricks engineers use to overcome the regulations. Mercedes double-DRS this year comes to mind, and the Red Bull's alternative version of the same concept.
and swapping the whole car at the pits? wtf dudes, just regulate the juice pack. easiest thing to regulate, everybody gets the same packs and that's the only fuel, after that it's a free for all. now THAT I would watch.
Agreed, car swapping sounds a bit crazy. But in terms of regulating the juice pack, that's effectively what we have now - there's no refuelling in the race, so there's serious tactical play going on all the time, trading off the weight of extra fuel with the ability to use the engine at max power for more of the race. And the drivers deciding when they're going to use that power.
These days F1 technology is very much driven by road vehicle manufacturers & environmental concerns.
Don't forget safety. The "most uncompromising cars possible" will tend to fail catastrophically. For example, cars that use underbody aerodynamics to "suck" the car to the ground generate incredible levels of downforce - until they get too close or too far from the ground and the downforce very suddenly disappears. There are very strict regulations on this kind of thing these days.
And of course, cost is becoming a bigger and bigger factor, with regulations designed to level the playing field, at least a little bit.
What is a real shame is that Amazon HAS done very innovative and unique stuff with order assembly (bringing the items together in a multi-item order) in their warehouses
Yup, fair enough - as it was, I was just blown away by the fact that something on as large a scale as Amazon can work like that (granted, not a surprise to anyone versed in the matter).
Nope. A racing driver will test in many conditions, with various fuel loads being one of the main considerations. If they were actually to be so picky, they'd just reduce the fuel level by the weight of the phone.
Maybe it's not impossible - just difficult and thus expensive.
The profit margin in recycling is far, far lower than Apple's battery replacement program.
I completely agree with this - in a "cubicle" style work environment.
But in manual labour, customer service, etc. regular slacking off could have a measurable effect - and creating a structure to allow people short breaks instead could be the answer.
(Think how pissed off you'd get if you had to wait even 20 seconds for a cashier to finish replying on Facebook before serving you.)
What I'll really miss is the character-based graphics - it was a nostalgic reminder of when drawing something on a computer required serious planning and optimisations!
I can put up with the odd crappy article / summary, but THIS... this is a direct insult to Slashdot's readership.
This guy is staring directly out at me from a Slashdot page, while he spouts the kind of sales bullshit that I wouldn't believe even if I knew nothing about HDTVs or electronics.
Christ, whoever approved this must have absolutely no idea what Slashdot's reader demographic consists of.
Forget the interference - in the event of an accident iPads, laptops and even cellphones will be flying around the plane at speeds that will cause serious injury to the passengers inside. I always assumed this was why most airlines will tell you not only to turn off your laptop, but also to STOW it for take-off and landing.
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formula 1 is so rule suppressed that the tech isn't that interesting nowadays
On the contrary, I think it's fascinating the smart tricks engineers use to overcome the regulations. Mercedes double-DRS this year comes to mind, and the Red Bull's alternative version of the same concept.
and swapping the whole car at the pits? wtf dudes, just regulate the juice pack. easiest thing to regulate, everybody gets the same packs and that's the only fuel, after that it's a free for all. now THAT I would watch.
Agreed, car swapping sounds a bit crazy. But in terms of regulating the juice pack, that's effectively what we have now - there's no refuelling in the race, so there's serious tactical play going on all the time, trading off the weight of extra fuel with the ability to use the engine at max power for more of the race. And the drivers deciding when they're going to use that power.
These days F1 technology is very much driven by road vehicle manufacturers & environmental concerns.
Don't forget safety. The "most uncompromising cars possible" will tend to fail catastrophically. For example, cars that use underbody aerodynamics to "suck" the car to the ground generate incredible levels of downforce - until they get too close or too far from the ground and the downforce very suddenly disappears. There are very strict regulations on this kind of thing these days.
And of course, cost is becoming a bigger and bigger factor, with regulations designed to level the playing field, at least a little bit.
Know, they don't
I'm trying to work out if this is a typo, or a clever pun.
Either way, it works!
What is a real shame is that Amazon HAS done very innovative and unique stuff with order assembly (bringing the items together in a multi-item order) in their warehouses
Yup, fair enough - as it was, I was just blown away by the fact that something on as large a scale as Amazon can work like that (granted, not a surprise to anyone versed in the matter).
But yeah, now I want more details!
It's still interesting. And, at least to me, new.
Maybe you should read this: http://xkcd.com/1053/
Maybe they didn't have space.
So instead they prioritised "Lost Apple Products" that still exist!
Nope. A racing driver will test in many conditions, with various fuel loads being one of the main considerations. If they were actually to be so picky, they'd just reduce the fuel level by the weight of the phone.
But only if they're intelligent enough that they can somehow check all these URLs at the speed they can flick through notes.
Hmm... sounds like a great way of performing the most expensive DDoS attack ever!
You can set an electronic metronome to a perfect 126 beats per minute, then play it along with Ringo's solo and the two will stay exactly together.
So... he was playing along to a metronome?
Mightn't be the editors fault this time - the full title, with "Discovery" appears in the RSS feed. Probably an issue with long titles in slashcode?
Maybe it's not impossible - just difficult and thus expensive.
The profit margin in recycling is far, far lower than Apple's battery replacement program.
Do you really think ads are that evil? Even billboard ads?
Sure, on a webpage ads consume some of your bandwidth, battery power, slow down browsing... but billboards are about as passive as you can get.
In some places (outside of the US I believe), you're right - it can't exist.
The term "life assurance" is used instead, indicating that it's covering something that is guaranteed to happen rather than might happen.
Wow, I thought cam-recordings of movies were crap, now you're talking about camera recordings of Youtube!
Even Youtube is better quality than that!
* edge-to-edge-to-edge OLED display without any bezel
How would you hold it?
If the computing power was "almost unlimited" you could crack any password you want since it is essentially unbounded in its parallelism.
Well, almost any password.
Will it really top the loss of life on the day of the earthquake?
So... what you're saying is: Relax, it could be worse.
On a similar note, why bother installing these tsunami warning systems, when there are supervolcanoes out there that would kill far more people!?!?
I completely agree with this - in a "cubicle" style work environment.
But in manual labour, customer service, etc. regular slacking off could have a measurable effect - and creating a structure to allow people short breaks instead could be the answer.
(Think how pissed off you'd get if you had to wait even 20 seconds for a cashier to finish replying on Facebook before serving you.)
What I'll really miss is the character-based graphics - it was a nostalgic reminder of when drawing something on a computer required serious planning and optimisations!
Hmm.. maybe the word order in my original title could have been better... oops.
On the window of a Game store in Ireland: http://i.imgur.com/BQ8iD.jpg
I can put up with the odd crappy article / summary, but THIS... this is a direct insult to Slashdot's readership. This guy is staring directly out at me from a Slashdot page, while he spouts the kind of sales bullshit that I wouldn't believe even if I knew nothing about HDTVs or electronics. Christ, whoever approved this must have absolutely no idea what Slashdot's reader demographic consists of.
Forget the interference - in the event of an accident iPads, laptops and even cellphones will be flying around the plane at speeds that will cause serious injury to the passengers inside. I always assumed this was why most airlines will tell you not only to turn off your laptop, but also to STOW it for take-off and landing.
I'll read any news stories I see about it, mumble and tut to myself.
It actually looks closer to the Playboy bunny.