Am I the only one who thinks that broadband Internet providers will render the tests sort of useless by prioritizing traffic to the test sites? It seems to me that it is in their interest to make it look like they are providing what they advertise and their previous shenanigans WRT traffic shaping (resets for BT for example) demonstrate their willingness to do so.
I'm quite certain that they save enough to cover the cost of the system. Otherwise they would not do it. That's just a business fact.
Being able to control throttle transitions provides additional opportunities to reduce emissions. It also eliminates the need for extraneous parts to provide extra air/fuel mix on cold startup. The only additional parts needed for cruise control are the buttons to control it. Rev limiter can be implemented in the throttle control vs. cutting ignition. (Cars with fly by wire throttles just level off at max revs rather than bouncing off the rev limiter.) I'm sure there are other benefits like matching revs for smoother shifting, traction control, hill assist and so on.
Pots? That's mid 20th century technology. I'd be very surprised if they didn't use optical encoders.
...This is the second "netbook" I have seen in the last month that is approaching $500. The manufacturers don't seem to understand that a large part of what created the buzz around netbooks was the price.
I think they understand all too well. $200 - $300 (USD) machines were selling well and eating into the bigger profits they would have made on bigger and more expen$ive units. Smaller cheaper netbooks seem unlikely to come from the likes of Asus, Acer, Lenovo, Dell, etc.
Of course the other issue could be the need to run Win7 for whatever reason (pressure from Microsoft, lack of popularity of Linux.) That puts upward pressure on H/W requirements which also puts upward pressure on price.
Our best bet for a small cheap laptop is from some vendor in a related field - like cell phones - who does not have a laptop line to protect.
To be really successful over the long haul you have to be capable of... copying it from somewhere else while presenting it as your own...
That's actually a pretty good analogy of cheating in the corporate world. It can work well if you don't get caught and can cost dearly if you do. I've always found it more beneficial to attribute contributions to the rightful producer which gains their long term support and makes me look like a team player.
The gas pedal getting stuck does not cause sudden acceleration. It causes a fairly consistent speed..
That depends on what the driver (or cruise control) is doing when the pedal sticks.
If the driver is accelerating from a stop or pulling on to a highway and the pedal sticks in the full throttle position, then the vehicle will accelerate.
No embedded system realistically needs more than 1GB internal memory (and generally 256M is plenty).... There's just no market for some huge flash somehow tightly coupled to a CPU.
Don't you think that 640K should be enough for anyone?
If you read the recall, note that it only affects non-drive-by-wire systems. My 2009 Tundra is affected, but out 2008 Camry Hybrid is not. This is a mechanical issue.
Not true. In the US there are two recalls. The first one involved pedal entrapment (by stacked or mislocated floor mats) and involves vehicles that use a drive by wire throttle. Our '06 Tacoma is included in that. The second recall is for a wear problem that leads to sticky gas pedal on vehicles that use a CTS gas pedal. This is exclusive to drive by wire throttles. (Our Tacoma has a gas pedal manufactured by Denso that is not subject to this recall.)
I do not agree. They started business as a niche product with the aim of introducing products at a lower price point that could sell in larger volume. That cannot be done in one huge step. If they succeed with the S model, the next model will be higher volume and lower cost.
Idling is bad for the engine, but I don't see how it wastes time.
Anyway... WRT ice and frost on the windshield, a volunteer fireman's trick is to leave the windshield wipers part way up and use them to hold a large piece of cardboard on the windshield. It not only keeps the frost and ice off the surface, but it also keeps the temperature of the glass a little higher, preventing frost from reforming after it has been removed.
That trick significantly reduces the time needed to get a clear windshield before you drive away.
The starbursts are aesthetically pleasing (stunning) but I suspect they would be detrimental to any scientific use of the images. Their presence is most likely the result of post processing that favors artistic appearance over scientific accuracy. IANAA but I doubt that the images have any scientific relevance.
They sort of work for me. They don't block ads but hide them after the fact. This causes noticeably slower browsing on some sites where the ad servers are slow or ad content bloated.
In the day, Radio Shack was where you went to get your electronic supplies... resistors, transistors, LEDs, capacitors, etc.
Nobody buys them anymore. Radio Shack turned into a seller of overpriced calculators and cellphones.
This nobody needed some 1N5404 diodes to fix the charging system on a 1975 Wheel Horse tractor and found them at Radio Shack. They still have some of that stuff.
9. Firing them is a bit excessive, but some sort of disciplinary action should be taken.
The article says they ignored air traffic control for 90 minutes. I am not a pilot, but it seems that would fall under the category of egregious disregard for their responsibilities.
What are the possible safety consequences of ignoring ATC and other radio communication for that long? Does the ATC pass any safety related information to the cockpit crew?
Perhaps they should not be fired, but I would certainly not expect them to fly a commercial passenger flight again.
I have to wonder if it is small and fast because when writing in assembly it is easier to resist the urge to add features. Todays compilers are pretty good and can produce pretty tight binaries. However, you can write (and debug) a lot more code in a given time using a high level language.
IMO the worst evolutionary result is a critter with sufficient intelligence to develop technology capable of destroying their own species (and probably a lot of others as collateral damage) and with inherited behavioral tendencies to pursue that goal.
I guess if all you want to do is "show up and not goof it up" and make a great living, then IT may not be the place to go. However if one is interested in putting some effort in and addressing challenging problems, I'm sure they will be able to find opportunities. We had the bubble and the bubble burst in the late 90s.
Further, I disagree that IT is a mature field that will not grow faster than the rest of the economy. And food? FOOD? Didn't that peak prior to the industrial revolution?
I'm curious to know if these journals are real respected peer reviewed publications.
It turns out that a lot of the studies being reported in the peer reviewed medical journals are funded by pharmaceutical companies. The studies that don't favor their products are simply not published.
Problems could arise in case the "abuse detection" device malfunctions and falsely report abuse by the consumer.
I had an LG VX4400 Cell Phone from Verizon.. Several months after getting it, it stopped charging through the wall charger. I could still charge it using a car charger. To determine whether it was the charger or battery, I took both to a Verizon kiosk to see if they had another charger or battery I could try. The guy in the kiosk looked at the moisture sensor on the battery (red dots on what looked like paper visible behind a small hole in the battery) and declared that the phone was water damaged. It had not, but there was no convincing him. I suspect that the indicator is that the dots diffuse when wet, but the kiosk droid saw red and was convinced.
So sensors like this have existed for years and the indicators can either be wrong or misinterpreted.
No, I believe that the more people watch Fox, the better things will go for the Dems. It certainly makes me recoil at the thought that I once identified as a Republican.
So basically, this is the US trying to force foreign companies into executing the US political agenda.
No. This is a couple of US senators trying to get the US administration to take a harder line with the Iranian government. This won't actually happen unless the bill is passed by both senate and house and signed by the president. (snowball, hell...)
More likely the sponsors are just presenting it to make there point and know there is no chance it will pass.
Neither/. readers nor newspaper readers are a uniform cross section of the population. However I suspect there is a significant overlap, so commentary by one about the other is relevant.
In any case, printed newspaper readership is declining at an amazing rate while he Internet grows and this is easily explained by a cause and affect relationship.
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Am I the only one who thinks that broadband Internet providers will render the tests sort of useless by prioritizing traffic to the test sites? It seems to me that it is in their interest to make it look like they are providing what they advertise and their previous shenanigans WRT traffic shaping (resets for BT for example) demonstrate their willingness to do so.
I'm quite certain that they save enough to cover the cost of the system. Otherwise they would not do it. That's just a business fact.
Being able to control throttle transitions provides additional opportunities to reduce emissions. It also eliminates the need for extraneous parts to provide extra air/fuel mix on cold startup. The only additional parts needed for cruise control are the buttons to control it. Rev limiter can be implemented in the throttle control vs. cutting ignition. (Cars with fly by wire throttles just level off at max revs rather than bouncing off the rev limiter.) I'm sure there are other benefits like matching revs for smoother shifting, traction control, hill assist and so on.
Pots? That's mid 20th century technology. I'd be very surprised if they didn't use optical encoders.
...This is the second "netbook" I have seen in the last month that is approaching $500. The manufacturers don't seem to understand that a large part of what created the buzz around netbooks was the price.
I think they understand all too well. $200 - $300 (USD) machines were selling well and eating into the bigger profits they would have made on bigger and more expen$ive units. Smaller cheaper netbooks seem unlikely to come from the likes of Asus, Acer, Lenovo, Dell, etc.
Of course the other issue could be the need to run Win7 for whatever reason (pressure from Microsoft, lack of popularity of Linux.) That puts upward pressure on H/W requirements which also puts upward pressure on price.
Our best bet for a small cheap laptop is from some vendor in a related field - like cell phones - who does not have a laptop line to protect.
A titstorm?
I want to see this!
To be really successful over the long haul you have to be capable of ... copying it from somewhere else while presenting it as your own ...
That's actually a pretty good analogy of cheating in the corporate world. It can work well if you don't get caught and can cost dearly if you do. I've always found it more beneficial to attribute contributions to the rightful producer which gains their long term support and makes me look like a team player.
Ubuntu's a little bloaty, ...
I prefer to think of her as "full featured."
The gas pedal getting stuck does not cause sudden acceleration. It causes a fairly consistent speed. .
That depends on what the driver (or cruise control) is doing when the pedal sticks.
If the driver is accelerating from a stop or pulling on to a highway and the pedal sticks in the full throttle position, then the vehicle will accelerate.
No embedded system realistically needs more than 1GB internal memory (and generally 256M is plenty). ... There's just no market for some huge flash somehow tightly coupled to a CPU.
Don't you think that 640K should be enough for anyone?
If you read the recall, note that it only affects non-drive-by-wire systems. My 2009 Tundra is affected, but out 2008 Camry Hybrid is not. This is a mechanical issue.
Not true. In the US there are two recalls. The first one involved pedal entrapment (by stacked or mislocated floor mats) and involves vehicles that use a drive by wire throttle. Our '06 Tacoma is included in that. The second recall is for a wear problem that leads to sticky gas pedal on vehicles that use a CTS gas pedal. This is exclusive to drive by wire throttles. (Our Tacoma has a gas pedal manufactured by Denso that is not subject to this recall.)
Tesla is a niche and it will always be niche.
I do not agree. They started business as a niche product with the aim of introducing products at a lower price point that could sell in larger volume. That cannot be done in one huge step. If they succeed with the S model, the next model will be higher volume and lower cost.
Scams go back even further!
Idling is bad for the engine, but I don't see how it wastes time.
Anyway... WRT ice and frost on the windshield, a volunteer fireman's trick is to leave the windshield wipers part way up and use them to hold a large piece of cardboard on the windshield. It not only keeps the frost and ice off the surface, but it also keeps the temperature of the glass a little higher, preventing frost from reforming after it has been removed.
That trick significantly reduces the time needed to get a clear windshield before you drive away.
The starbursts are aesthetically pleasing (stunning) but I suspect they would be detrimental to any scientific use of the images. Their presence is most likely the result of post processing that favors artistic appearance over scientific accuracy. IANAA but I doubt that the images have any scientific relevance.
They sort of work for me. They don't block ads but hide them after the fact. This causes noticeably slower browsing on some sites where the ad servers are slow or ad content bloated.
Good one.
In the day, Radio Shack was where you went to get your electronic supplies... resistors, transistors, LEDs, capacitors, etc.
Nobody buys them anymore. Radio Shack turned into a seller of overpriced calculators and cellphones.
This nobody needed some 1N5404 diodes to fix the charging system on a 1975 Wheel Horse tractor and found them at Radio Shack. They still have some of that stuff.
9. Firing them is a bit excessive, but some sort of disciplinary action should be taken.
The article says they ignored air traffic control for 90 minutes. I am not a pilot, but it seems that would fall under the category of egregious disregard for their responsibilities.
What are the possible safety consequences of ignoring ATC and other radio communication for that long? Does the ATC pass any safety related information to the cockpit crew?
Perhaps they should not be fired, but I would certainly not expect them to fly a commercial passenger flight again.
I did that with General Motors and put them out of business!
Wait...
I have to wonder if it is small and fast because when writing in assembly it is easier to resist the urge to add features. Todays compilers are pretty good and can produce pretty tight binaries. However, you can write (and debug) a lot more code in a given time using a high level language.
IMO the worst evolutionary result is a critter with sufficient intelligence to develop technology capable of destroying their own species (and probably a lot of others as collateral damage) and with inherited behavioral tendencies to pursue that goal.
I guess if all you want to do is "show up and not goof it up" and make a great living, then IT may not be the place to go. However if one is interested in putting some effort in and addressing challenging problems, I'm sure they will be able to find opportunities. We had the bubble and the bubble burst in the late 90s.
Further, I disagree that IT is a mature field that will not grow faster than the rest of the economy. And food? FOOD? Didn't that peak prior to the industrial revolution?
I'm curious to know if these journals are real respected peer reviewed publications.
It turns out that a lot of the studies being reported in the peer reviewed medical journals are funded by pharmaceutical companies. The studies that don't favor their products are simply not published.
Problems could arise in case the "abuse detection" device malfunctions and falsely report abuse by the consumer.
I had an LG VX4400 Cell Phone from Verizon.. Several months after getting it, it stopped charging through the wall charger. I could still charge it using a car charger. To determine whether it was the charger or battery, I took both to a Verizon kiosk to see if they had another charger or battery I could try. The guy in the kiosk looked at the moisture sensor on the battery (red dots on what looked like paper visible behind a small hole in the battery) and declared that the phone was water damaged. It had not, but there was no convincing him. I suspect that the indicator is that the dots diffuse when wet, but the kiosk droid saw red and was convinced.
So sensors like this have existed for years and the indicators can either be wrong or misinterpreted.
No, I believe that the more people watch Fox, the better things will go for the Dems. It certainly makes me recoil at the thought that I once identified as a Republican.
So basically, this is the US trying to force foreign companies into executing the US political agenda.
No. This is a couple of US senators trying to get the US administration to take a harder line with the Iranian government. This won't actually happen unless the bill is passed by both senate and house and signed by the president. (snowball, hell...)
More likely the sponsors are just presenting it to make there point and know there is no chance it will pass.
Neither a troll nor particularly insightful.
/. readers nor newspaper readers are a uniform cross section of the population. However I suspect there is a significant overlap, so commentary by one about the other is relevant.
Neither
In any case, printed newspaper readership is declining at an amazing rate while he Internet grows and this is easily explained by a cause and affect relationship.