Lateral acceleration is what you experience in a curve. When you're talking about 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, you're talking about a different beastie. The calculations are:
60*5280/3600 = 0 to 88 ft/sec in 3.9 seconds.
88/3.9 = 22.6 ft/sec/sec
1 g = 32 ft/sec/sec so 22.6/32 =.7 g
The 1.4 g isn't quite right either. 0-140 in 4 seconds... 140*5280/3600 = 205.3 ft/sec
205.3 ft/sec in 4 seconds is 51.3 ft/sec/sec
51.3/32 = 1.6 g
That heavy fellow on the left probably weighs 220 pounds when he's just standing. At 1.6 g, he's feeling 352 pounds pushing him into his seat. Add the 140 mph breeze in his face and he's probably wishing he hit the head before getting on that ride.
Doesn't anyone remember this? Nanotubes seem to catch fire when you take pictures of them with a flash camera. How is putting light inside the tube going to take care of this *small* problem?
I'm thinking "so what?" I don't want a PDA to be anything but a PDA that runs virtually forever on a charge. I'm on my third PDA only because I wore out the first two.
For me that's it - the only reason I'll buy another PDA is when the one I have dies. What I have does exactly what I bought it for - don't need any whizbang, battery-draining geegaws on it.
So maybe that's why Palm is hurting - they've sold their equipment to everyone who's willing to fork a few hundred dollars for an electronic rolodex/calendar/calculator. For everyone else, it's a device that's either too expensive compared to manual methods or they just don't need to be organized - their organic memories are good enough.
This morning's inbox had 5 legit messages and 20 pieces of spam. That's fairly common for me.
OTOH, I seriously doubt AOL's claim of 1 billion. AOL's spam filtering is brain dead. Every Wednesday, I send 40 emails to my clients. I used to use a pacbell pop account to do that but AOL filtered about 1/3 of them thinking they were Spam. They weren't - they were legitimate emails apprising my clients of information they have asked to receive.
To get around AOL's spam filter, I've had to open an AOL account for no reason other than to bypass their spam filter. My weekly emails suggest to my AOL customers that they find a new isp that doesn't deluge them with ads and, incidentally, is easier to reach by email.
Several years ago, HP was sued by a 3rd party printer supplies company. At the time, HP's printer warranties required that you buy replacement supplies from HP and the 3rd party vendor successfully argued that was an unfair business practice.
Does anyone remember who the litigant was and when the suit happened? As I understand it, that suit opened up the 3rd party printer supplier industry.
I hired a graphic artist to design a brochure for our product. When we were down to final tweaks, she brought in her Titanium Mac so I could look at the changes as she made them. It was the first time I had seen Illustrator running on OS X on a Titanium. Watching the glacial screen redraws (she had a lot of filters running) made me think that if there ever was a task that would clearly benefit from multiples of more CPU horsepower it was Illustrator drawing complex images. 64 bits at 2.5 Ghz should help a lot.
You have to have the patience of Job to be a graphic designer. That's Job, not Jobs.
When, How Much, and How Hard?
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When will these devices be available, how much will they cost and how hard are they to use?
They're not worth much if they're not available, need lots of support circuitry or cost 100 times more than what's currently out there.
As a store owner though I certainly wouldn't want a supplier being able to track my inventory without my permission, or perhaps even knowing about it.
Not only would you not want your supplier to know, you especially wouldn't want your competitors to be able to track your inventory. All it would take would be a person walking up and down the aisles carrying a little recorder that captured inventory levels as they moved along. A stroll through your competitor's store and you know to the item what's being stocked.
My father was a teenager in Los Angeles during the 20's. Years ago, he told me that the director of Ben Hur (I think the 1925 version) wanted a scene of a crowd stampeding. Since the crowd was comprised of extras who didn't have a lot of acting experience, the director induced panic by playing a note on a 20 foot long organ pipe. The note was infrasonic and generated a level of unease that the extras couldn't identify but when instructed to run, they willing complied.
...if you're in the UK. In Japan, Korea and Taiwan, you're just poking along if you've got a measly 22mbs link coming into your apartment.
The problem here in the states, and I suspect UK, is that most cable companies and phone companies aren't allowed to go head to head and compete. Most cities limit their cable franchises to one provider and their phone franchises to one provider. In regions where companies compete for customers, rates drop and service goes up.
Try backing your hard drive up over DSL/Cable. Worse, try restoring the contents to a new drive over DSL/Cable. Internet backup would be wonderful if it wasn't so damn slow. Figure in an office where network backup is routine, the wires run 100 to 1000 times faster than dsl/cable.
That tape drive you use to backup your files today won't do you much good if your house goes up in flames and takes the backup tapes with it.
While larger and heavier vehicles absorb collision stress better than those of less mass, it's likely that a larger proportion of lighter vehicles on the road could reduce injuries by simply reducing the collision loads
Which is why I think SUV's are evil. SUV owners frequently mention "my kids/wife will be safer", ignoring the fact that their hurtling behemoth makes the rest of us less safe. The damn things have sparked an arms race in my neck of the woods - everybody wants their kids to be safer and thus, per your observation, they end up making the roads less safe for everyone.
You must be new here, not knowing your own number and all.
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Could have been kids or possibly, the woman, in a last minute cleaning rush before company came in the door, stashed it in the oven and forgot about it.
No, I don't know anyone who would do something that dumb. Er, where did I put the mail?
I run a small business and use email to notify my clients. I send out 50, or so, emails once a week.
Unfortunately, 1/2 my customers use AOL and AOL has a really nasty habit of silently dumping some, but not all, email from other ISP's. So, a couple of days after I had sent out the weekly notice, I would get calls from some of my clients saying they hadn't gotten their weekly status report. Dicking around with Sbcglobal over several months wasn't getting me anywhere so I finally bit the bullet and bought an AOL account just so I could reliably reach my clients.
I'm not happy about it but I don't have the time to sort out AOL-Sbcglobal email incompatibilities. What really is annoying is that it was only my AOL clients that had problems getting their email reliably.
If I was smart, (that's a big if ), I'd stop using email and have my customers go to my website to get their weekly status reports. Then when they complain about how slow AOL's browser is I can steer them to a non-AOL solution and earn a referral fee. The fee isn't worth much but getting more people off of AOL certainly is attractive after all the grief I've had from AOL.
What we need to do, as a country, is to level the playing field. We need tariffs, laws, and fines to discourage firms from outsourcing desirable jobs.
If everyone thinks the way you do, then everyone plays "I got mine - the hell with everyone else." It's exactly that kind of thinking that drove the great depression in the thirties. Every industrial country had its own demagogue spouting exactly the same "save our jobs" solution and the result was that world trade tanked.
The solution to your unemployment is to start thinking about selling something that has value - not whinging about how your job just went overseas. Produce and sell something other people want to buy and you'll do fine.
Your post is a classic example as to why engineering majors should be required to take liberal arts courses like History and Economics.
...when color television was just getting going, my best friend's dad worked as a machinist at the Berkeley Rad Lab. That was the lab that E.O. Lawrence had started just before WWII. One day in the very early 60's a group of physicists invited him to be the group's machinist and moonlight on a project. They were going to build a new color TV tube that was going to beat every other TV then on the market. They figured that since they had worked on particle accelerators for years, they really ought to know a thing or two about TV tubes which are nothing more but scaled down electron accelerators.
They worked nights and weekends on the project and when they finally had something to show, they schlepped the tube around to Motorola, Zenith, Sylvania, GE and one other American Television company. They chose those 5 companies because, combined, the companies dominiated the world television industry. None of the companies was interested. Discouraged, the group sold the rights to the tube to a European outfit. The Europeans gave the tube up as a lost cause because it was too hard to manufacture so the Europeans dumped it on a small Japanese electronics company. The company was Sony and that's how Sony ended up with the Trinitron. The name Trini - meant three for the three color guns and Tron, well because everything being built at Berkeley back then was a "-tron" - Calutron, Bevatron.
The RFID manufacturers are a few steps ahead of you. Used to be that you could go into a dressing room, pull out a big ass magnet and zap the RFID by waving the magnet over it a few times. The induced current in the antenna would fry the circuit and the goods walked out the door.
Lesson learned on the manufacturer's part. Now, the devices have current limiting circuitry that disconnects the chip from the antenna when there's a power surge. When the surge dies down, the chip reattaches and the RFID is back in business. These ain't your Momma's RFIDs any more. The new RFIDs can be sewn into clothing and dried in microwave ovens with no ill effect to the chip.
Hm... speaking of shibboleths, I wonder how many posts it will take before someone seriously handwrings about it being a "Christian" academy adopting Linux...;-)
Imagine how the school's board would have reacted if the instructor had chosen FreeBSD instead.
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Maybe if you told Google to check its Klingon-language archives you might have better luch.
Lateral acceleration is what you experience in a curve. When you're talking about 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, you're talking about a different beastie. The calculations are:
.7 g
60*5280/3600 = 0 to 88 ft/sec in 3.9 seconds.
88/3.9 = 22.6 ft/sec/sec
1 g = 32 ft/sec/sec so 22.6/32 =
The 1.4 g isn't quite right either.
0-140 in 4 seconds...
140*5280/3600 = 205.3 ft/sec
205.3 ft/sec in 4 seconds is 51.3 ft/sec/sec
51.3/32 = 1.6 g
That heavy fellow on the left probably weighs 220 pounds when he's just standing. At 1.6 g, he's feeling 352 pounds pushing him into his seat. Add the 140 mph breeze in his face and he's probably wishing he hit the head before getting on that ride.
Doesn't anyone remember this? Nanotubes seem to catch fire when you take pictures of them with a flash camera. How is putting light inside the tube going to take care of this *small* problem?
I'm thinking "so what?" I don't want a PDA to be anything but a PDA that runs virtually forever on a charge. I'm on my third PDA only because I wore out the first two.
For me that's it - the only reason I'll buy another PDA is when the one I have dies. What I have does exactly what I bought it for - don't need any whizbang, battery-draining geegaws on it.
So maybe that's why Palm is hurting - they've sold their equipment to everyone who's willing to fork a few hundred dollars for an electronic rolodex/calendar/calculator. For everyone else, it's a device that's either too expensive compared to manual methods or they just don't need to be organized - their organic memories are good enough.
Is a G-Net made up of G-Strings?
Only if you're talking about a microbus.
And no, I'm not referring to my Slashdot comments to date.
There goes any hope of self-awareness.
This morning's inbox had 5 legit messages and 20 pieces of spam. That's fairly common for me.
OTOH, I seriously doubt AOL's claim of 1 billion. AOL's spam filtering is brain dead. Every Wednesday, I send 40 emails to my clients. I used to use a pacbell pop account to do that but AOL filtered about 1/3 of them thinking they were Spam. They weren't - they were legitimate emails apprising my clients of information they have asked to receive.
To get around AOL's spam filter, I've had to open an AOL account for no reason other than to bypass their spam filter. My weekly emails suggest to my AOL customers that they find a new isp that doesn't deluge them with ads and, incidentally, is easier to reach by email.
Does anyone remember who the litigant was and when the suit happened? As I understand it, that suit opened up the 3rd party printer supplier industry.
You have to have the patience of Job to be a graphic designer. That's Job, not Jobs.
When will these devices be available, how much will they cost and how hard are they to use?
They're not worth much if they're not available, need lots of support circuitry or cost 100 times more than what's currently out there.
Not only would you not want your supplier to know, you especially wouldn't want your competitors to be able to track your inventory. All it would take would be a person walking up and down the aisles carrying a little recorder that captured inventory levels as they moved along. A stroll through your competitor's store and you know to the item what's being stocked.
My father was a teenager in Los Angeles during the 20's. Years ago, he told me that the director of Ben Hur (I think the 1925 version) wanted a scene of a crowd stampeding. Since the crowd was comprised of extras who didn't have a lot of acting experience, the director induced panic by playing a note on a 20 foot long organ pipe. The note was infrasonic and generated a level of unease that the extras couldn't identify but when instructed to run, they willing complied.
The problem here in the states, and I suspect UK, is that most cable companies and phone companies aren't allowed to go head to head and compete. Most cities limit their cable franchises to one provider and their phone franchises to one provider. In regions where companies compete for customers, rates drop and service goes up.
That tape drive you use to backup your files today won't do you much good if your house goes up in flames and takes the backup tapes with it.
Which is why I think SUV's are evil. SUV owners frequently mention "my kids/wife will be safer", ignoring the fact that their hurtling behemoth makes the rest of us less safe. The damn things have sparked an arms race in my neck of the woods - everybody wants their kids to be safer and thus, per your observation, they end up making the roads less safe for everyone.
Quite the pair of MDs.
You're not 93427. You're 5,250,560.
You must be new here, not knowing your own number and all.
No, I don't know anyone who would do something that dumb. Er, where did I put the mail?
I run a small business and use email to notify my clients. I send out 50, or so, emails once a week.
Unfortunately, 1/2 my customers use AOL and AOL has a really nasty habit of silently dumping some, but not all, email from other ISP's. So, a couple of days after I had sent out the weekly notice, I would get calls from some of my clients saying they hadn't gotten their weekly status report. Dicking around with Sbcglobal over several months wasn't getting me anywhere so I finally bit the bullet and bought an AOL account just so I could reliably reach my clients.
I'm not happy about it but I don't have the time to sort out AOL-Sbcglobal email incompatibilities. What really is annoying is that it was only my AOL clients that had problems getting their email reliably.
If I was smart, (that's a big if ), I'd stop using email and have my customers go to my website to get their weekly status reports. Then when they complain about how slow AOL's browser is I can steer them to a non-AOL solution and earn a referral fee. The fee isn't worth much but getting more people off of AOL certainly is attractive after all the grief I've had from AOL.
If everyone thinks the way you do, then everyone plays "I got mine - the hell with everyone else." It's exactly that kind of thinking that drove the great depression in the thirties. Every industrial country had its own demagogue spouting exactly the same "save our jobs" solution and the result was that world trade tanked.
The solution to your unemployment is to start thinking about selling something that has value - not whinging about how your job just went overseas. Produce and sell something other people want to buy and you'll do fine.
Your post is a classic example as to why engineering majors should be required to take liberal arts courses like History and Economics.
Altogether different stuff.
Petrol is sold by British Petroleum, gasoline is sold by Arco.
Hope that clears up any misunderstanding.
Agree 100% - even if it will cost me karma.
They worked nights and weekends on the project and when they finally had something to show, they schlepped the tube around to Motorola, Zenith, Sylvania, GE and one other American Television company. They chose those 5 companies because, combined, the companies dominiated the world television industry. None of the companies was interested. Discouraged, the group sold the rights to the tube to a European outfit. The Europeans gave the tube up as a lost cause because it was too hard to manufacture so the Europeans dumped it on a small Japanese electronics company. The company was Sony and that's how Sony ended up with the Trinitron. The name Trini - meant three for the three color guns and Tron, well because everything being built at Berkeley back then was a "-tron" - Calutron, Bevatron.
Lesson learned on the manufacturer's part. Now, the devices have current limiting circuitry that disconnects the chip from the antenna when there's a power surge. When the surge dies down, the chip reattaches and the RFID is back in business. These ain't your Momma's RFIDs any more. The new RFIDs can be sewn into clothing and dried in microwave ovens with no ill effect to the chip.
Imagine how the school's board would have reacted if the instructor had chosen FreeBSD instead.