I wear a Casio calculator watch. I guess that makes me one third of a river crab.
Don't feel lonely, so do I. But the battery went out a while back, so I have been wearing my old 1969 Bulova windup watch for the last two months. Still works fine. I did get some batteries, though, I just need to put one in. I wonder if the Casio will still remember the phone number list?
For longwave, you need a better (longer) antenna. You can tune a short one to that band, but it doesn't pick up much when it is a small fraction of a wavelength.
... I too only use a fine grain of salt. However, I've been around the internet enough to now be diagnosed with acute hypertension thanks to my total sodium intake.
Actually, sodium does not cause hypertension. Some reports are wrong, it seems. It might be a problem if you already have it, though.
When you don't have friends, cards are really just a stack of colored paper. That's the problem I've always had with Dungeons and Dragons and multi-player games like that.....
The hobby shop where I was used to sponsor games and let people post notes about D&D games. D&D was the way to find friends. But you had to call the phone numbers, or at least show up, so if you didn't do that it didn't help...
Most arguments are really about the meaning of words, but the people involved don't realize this. Very few are actually about the "state of the world". 8-}
Cars still have the same towing connections. Look under your's, it is a heavy ring set in the front of the axle or "frame"....
Unfortunately I became recently acquainted with mine. The ring is actually in the trunk with the spare tire and jack, to be screwed into place when needed, when pulled onto the flatbed tow truck. Its only installed for the tow to avoid it being damaged during normal driving and bottoming out.
The car can't "ignore" the brake input, since it's a simple hydraulic mechanism....
In that Toyota model, the brake and throttle and shutoff are all electric sensors, only connected to the computer. That is precisely what many of the complaints are about!
I remember reading through that analysis a few months back. It was showed that a single flipped bit could cause the unintended acceleration. What was not shown was how this bit could possibly be flipped. So, it is far from proven that it was a software error.
Read the report that was used at the trial. The imbedded software was excessivly "fragile". The program also made assumptions about what was valid, such that the brake and shutoff could be ignored. As far as the bit flip, that can happen in any computer. If it happens a lot it just crashes, if it happens rarely a PC can be rebooted. If it happens in the Toyota controller it can get stuck and there is no reboot. Bits can flip due to excessive heat or nuclear radiation, or just a bad memory element in RAM. In the 1980's there was an instance of chips with the new (at that time) plastic cases, that had a low level radiation and Many errors. The chips were recalled, but during testing it was found that chips get hit with Cosmic Rays sometimes. The incedence worked out to a PC getting hit about once a year. Modern memory elements are smaller, but there are more of them so the incidence works out about the same even now. For a PC maybe that is ok, but do you really want your car wrecking once a year???
Cars still have the same towing connections. Look under your's, it is a heavy ring set in the front of the axle or "frame". The car doesn't care whether it is being towed by a horse or another car.
Actually, some did use wheels. See the P-38 Lightning in WWII. Civillian planes still use control wheels. But a good control stick like that is much more expensive than a wheel. And they have been tried in cars before, people didn't like them...
Well if that is the case then janitors also make business decisions on a daily basis.
Actually, many of them do. And they might have more effect on the success of the company that many of the managers! Don't underestimate the effect of living conditions.
By the way, the reason some managers are so hated is not because they make decisions detremental to the employees. It is more because they make decisions detremental to the whole Company, including themselves.
I'm a technician that went to college after trade school. I have a BS in Electrical Engineering and MS in Computer Science. I am a Software Engineer and Senior Systems Engineer. Do I qualify, or do I need a PE?
If your answer to an equation contains the square root of -1, this means that your equation is attempting to describe a situation that actually has more "dimensions" than you have written in.
For instance, this appears in radio and AC power calculations where components have a delay effect. The additional "dimension" is Time, in that case.
It also means that you can simplify the equations by rewriting them in a different way. In the example, by using sine functions.
Might be useful if you really hit that square root of -1 sometime...
Well, how do you explain social engineering? Just because something has the word "engineering" in it doesn't mean it goes through the full rigamarole of professional engineering standards.
I think they are talking a different language from mine... But then, some people do.
The question is not "what does it miss" but "what does it catch". Full protection is impossible, the ecology of the network is too dynamic. We use Anti-virus because it is better than not. Whether it should be a user choice or built into the OS, is again another question. But having a choice is a good thing.
A place where the police are tasked to protect all of the citizens all of the time, is commonly called a "Police State". It is generally agreed that no one really wants to live in a police state. So citizens are expected to defend themselves, at least until the police can get there...
Back when I was in school ('70-'80), they taught Metric as well as American units. And they did not teach the more unusual of the american units much at all. They said that we would convert "soon". My second job was helping to convert machine drawings to metric units. But to use metric for those machines ended up with long decimals. Not good, and the machines had to be supported and even new ones built, until the markets would buy new designs.
After a while it got to be way too much trouble, for not enough benefit. The trouble was actually more than the trouble of keeping two types of spare parts.
So now some things are one and some the other, and techs use either as needed. Most people don't bother, but find it interesting that the speedometer in their car is marked with both. 8-)
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I wear a Casio calculator watch. I guess that makes me one third of a river crab.
Don't feel lonely, so do I.
But the battery went out a while back, so I have been wearing my old 1969 Bulova windup watch for the last two months. Still works fine.
I did get some batteries, though, I just need to put one in.
I wonder if the Casio will still remember the phone number list?
For longwave, you need a better (longer) antenna. You can tune a short one to that band, but it doesn't pick up much when it is a small fraction of a wavelength.
... I too only use a fine grain of salt. However, I've been around the internet enough to now be diagnosed with acute hypertension thanks to my total sodium intake.
Actually, sodium does not cause hypertension. Some reports are wrong, it seems. It might be a problem if you already have it, though.
When you don't have friends, cards are really just a stack of colored paper. That's the problem I've always had with Dungeons and Dragons and multi-player games like that. ....
The hobby shop where I was used to sponsor games and let people post notes about D&D games. D&D was the way to find friends. But you had to call the phone numbers, or at least show up, so if you didn't do that it didn't help...
Most arguments are really about the meaning of words, but the people involved don't realize this.
Very few are actually about the "state of the world". 8-}
... I'm certainly not pretending that people were suddenly convinced because of Sputnik that the Earth was round. ...
I was there, then. For an appalling number of people, it actually did change their minds. Of course, some still believe the world is flat... 8-P
Cars still have the same towing connections. Look under your's, it is a heavy ring set in the front of the axle or "frame". ...
Unfortunately I became recently acquainted with mine. The ring is actually in the trunk with the spare tire and jack, to be screwed into place when needed, when pulled onto the flatbed tow truck. Its only installed for the tow to avoid it being damaged during normal driving and bottoming out.
Never seen one like that. What kind of car is it?
Cars will always have a human driver. The manufacturers don't want to get sued for every wreck...
The car can't "ignore" the brake input, since it's a simple hydraulic mechanism. ...
In that Toyota model, the brake and throttle and shutoff are all electric sensors, only connected to the computer.
That is precisely what many of the complaints are about!
I remember reading through that analysis a few months back. It was showed that a single flipped bit could cause the unintended acceleration. What was not shown was how this bit could possibly be flipped. So, it is far from proven that it was a software error.
Read the report that was used at the trial. The imbedded software was excessivly "fragile". The program also made assumptions about what was valid, such that the brake and shutoff could be ignored.
As far as the bit flip, that can happen in any computer. If it happens a lot it just crashes, if it happens rarely a PC can be rebooted. If it happens in the Toyota controller it can get stuck and there is no reboot.
Bits can flip due to excessive heat or nuclear radiation, or just a bad memory element in RAM.
In the 1980's there was an instance of chips with the new (at that time) plastic cases, that had a low level radiation and Many errors. The chips were recalled, but during testing it was found that chips get hit with Cosmic Rays sometimes. The incedence worked out to a PC getting hit about once a year. Modern memory elements are smaller, but there are more of them so the incidence works out about the same even now.
For a PC maybe that is ok, but do you really want your car wrecking once a year???
Cars still have the same towing connections. Look under your's, it is a heavy ring set in the front of the axle or "frame".
The car doesn't care whether it is being towed by a horse or another car.
So why don't jet fighters use a wheel ?
Actually, some did use wheels. See the P-38 Lightning in WWII.
Civillian planes still use control wheels.
But a good control stick like that is much more expensive than a wheel.
And they have been tried in cars before, people didn't like them...
Please don't feed the trolls.
Either of them...
Well if that is the case then janitors also make business decisions on a daily basis.
Actually, many of them do. And they might have more effect on the success of the company that many of the managers!
Don't underestimate the effect of living conditions.
By the way, the reason some managers are so hated is not because they make decisions detremental to the employees. It is more because they make decisions detremental to the whole Company, including themselves.
I'm a technician that went to college after trade school. I have a BS in Electrical Engineering and MS in Computer Science.
I am a Software Engineer and Senior Systems Engineer.
Do I qualify, or do I need a PE?
If your answer to an equation contains the square root of -1, this means that your equation is attempting to describe a situation that actually has more "dimensions" than you have written in.
For instance, this appears in radio and AC power calculations where components have a delay effect. The additional "dimension" is Time, in that case.
It also means that you can simplify the equations by rewriting them in a different way. In the example, by using sine functions.
Might be useful if you really hit that square root of -1 sometime...
Well, how do you explain social engineering? Just because something has the word "engineering" in it doesn't mean it goes through the full rigamarole of professional engineering standards.
I think they are talking a different language from mine... But then, some people do.
Yes, we have a retired physicist living on a farm near me, with his herd of spherical cows.
Umm... I think he is feeding them too much !?! 8-)
The question is not "what does it miss" but "what does it catch". Full protection is impossible, the ecology of the network is too dynamic.
We use Anti-virus because it is better than not.
Whether it should be a user choice or built into the OS, is again another question. But having a choice is a good thing.
A place where the police are tasked to protect all of the citizens all of the time, is commonly called a "Police State".
It is generally agreed that no one really wants to live in a police state. So citizens are expected to defend themselves, at least until the police can get there...
Back when I was in school ('70-'80), they taught Metric as well as American units. And they did not teach the more unusual of the american units much at all.
They said that we would convert "soon". My second job was helping to convert machine drawings to metric units.
But to use metric for those machines ended up with long decimals. Not good, and the machines had to be supported and even new ones built, until the markets would buy new designs.
After a while it got to be way too much trouble, for not enough benefit. The trouble was actually more than the trouble of keeping two types of spare parts.
So now some things are one and some the other, and techs use either as needed. Most people don't bother, but find it interesting that the speedometer in their car is marked with both. 8-)
(By the way, get off of my lawn!)
At least part of the library still works if the power is lost. That might be -really- important some time...
... Lots of very intelligent people, when simply questioned about how they choose or reconcile their beliefs, will get angry. ...
Only when they are very young and inexperianced.
Unfortunatly, some remain "young and inexperianced" no matter how long they live!
ADA++
Actually, it does sound like that!
Although Ada is intended more for critical-mission programs.
The news release of -every- new computer language says it will replace all others. It has not happened yet, maybe next century...