I personally can't figure out how one would steer this contraption... much less operate one in close quarters while going very slow (forget the fast stop scenario!).
Not true. Have you felt your ABS kick-in in your car? It basically pumps your brakes a bunch of times per second waiting for a wheel to start moving slower than the others.
In a panic stop this is just not going to float.
As far as the hill goes, I have seen old ABS do exactly what I have said - and if you take one of these fancy smancy Audi's offroad like I convinced my last girlfriend to do, try to stop on a steep hill with gravel. YOU CAN'T DO IT. The "super smart" ABS system simply refuses to hold your car in place (one reason why ABS is rejected by serious 4x4 types like myself).
ABS requires input from other wheels so you know what the vehicle is doing (not what you think it should be dound based on seconds old data that may or may not be accurate).
Spammer John would send out his bazillion emails, get lots of $50 replies.... and "retire."
Nicole would say, "Spammer John made all this cash. She would possibly buy Spammer John's computers, and go into business for herself. As soon as she makes $100K... Spammer Nicole retires... and sells the stuff to Trent... who sends out a zillion emails...
...would be oblivious to the fact that they are controlled down to the smallest detail every day of their life.
What money do you spend, how much do you pay to get to work, can you walk around naked in public, how often do your police write tickets if you park your car in the wrong place, what side of the road are you supposed to drive on, if someone pisses you off are you allowed to kill them.... the list is virtually endless.
Pull your head out of your ass... and get in line for birth control.
Think about why: motor starts, applies torgue to single axle, frame is immediately rotated backwards into the ground.
You cannot have ABS because with one wheel there is no way to tell if the wheel has stopped rotating because the vehicle has stopped or if it is because the brakes have locked up: there are no other wheels to compare to. Also with one wheel, and ABS system would not hold the vehicle at a complete stop on a hill (this was a design challenge for multi-wheeled ABS).
Come to think if it.... how do you handle the situation when you are on a hill at a complete stop and you have to start again?
It is a cool though, but like the supersonic helicopter an impossibility.
I use the API at my current employer - writing cross platform libraries - but at the other job it was MS-only, and there was no point in rewriting CMainFrame et al.
I can name several kludges and shortcomings of every technology you listed.
In 20 years my infant son will look at my code and "think WTF is this antique?"
But back to your point... a company with, say 2 million lines of cobol running on a mainframe that runs almost flawlessly. No major problems. Now, rewrite that code in something more modern, and redeploy on a more contemporary platform.
How long will this take? How much will it cost?
More importantly, how much more bread will it help that regional bakery (for example) sell?
Get over your suprise: companies that have invested millions of dollars in writing millions of lines of bugfree code that has been verified by years of flawless execution which runs on systems with "7 9's" uptime (that would be 99.99999% uptime) are not going to migrate to anything else anytime soon.
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...and launch the premptive strike?
Well, I wasn't referring to the gold standard (an illusion long dropped that CURRENCY was backed with gold).
I was referring to Gold Certificates.
Although I could see why you replied that was (as currency IS little scraps of paper!)
Linking to and/or calling from non GPL'ed code??
??
Use it for manufacturing out there.
If it is gold, melt it into bricks and put it in a vault out there. Sell certificated for that gold here.
Kind of breaks the illusion that we harbor now that you can exchange your little piece of paper for actual gold tho....
Well, I'll believe it when I see it.
I personally can't figure out how one would steer this contraption... much less operate one in close quarters while going very slow (forget the fast stop scenario!).
... and Apple subsequently claimed the code,
can they un-GPL it? Or must the code remain GPL?
Not true. Have you felt your ABS kick-in in your car? It basically pumps your brakes a bunch of times per second waiting for a wheel to start moving slower than the others.
In a panic stop this is just not going to float.
As far as the hill goes, I have seen old ABS do exactly what I have said - and if you take one of these fancy smancy Audi's offroad like I convinced my last girlfriend to do, try to stop on a steep hill with gravel. YOU CAN'T DO IT. The "super smart" ABS system simply refuses to hold your car in place (one reason why ABS is rejected by serious 4x4 types like myself).
ABS requires input from other wheels so you know what the vehicle is doing (not what you think it should be dound based on seconds old data that may or may not be accurate).
Spammer John would send out his bazillion emails, get lots of $50 replies.... and "retire."
Nicole would say, "Spammer John made all this cash. She would possibly buy Spammer John's computers, and go into business for herself. As soon as she makes $100K... Spammer Nicole retires... and sells the stuff to Trent... who sends out a zillion emails...
The point is to raise the cost to them in time and effort - and have a little fun while doing it.
...would be oblivious to the fact that they are controlled down to the smallest detail every day of their life.
What money do you spend, how much do you pay to get to work, can you walk around naked in public, how often do your police write tickets if you park your car in the wrong place, what side of the road are you supposed to drive on, if someone pisses you off are you allowed to kill them.... the list is virtually endless.
Pull your head out of your ass... and get in line for birth control.
You would *have* to have concentric axles.
Think about why: motor starts, applies torgue to single axle, frame is immediately rotated backwards into the ground.
You cannot have ABS because with one wheel there is no way to tell if the wheel has stopped rotating because the vehicle has stopped or if it is because the brakes have locked up: there are no other wheels to compare to. Also with one wheel, and ABS system would not hold the vehicle at a complete stop on a hill (this was a design challenge for multi-wheeled ABS).
Come to think if it.... how do you handle the situation when you are on a hill at a complete stop and you have to start again?
It is a cool though, but like the supersonic helicopter an impossibility.
Well, if a killer is stupid enough to email evidence back to a person that he knows has outed him....
Think through the physics, the outcome you described is impossible.
At most the gyros would be able to keep the device from tilting forward.
Also... think about why ABS would be impossible with only one wheel.
It is harder than you think.
Votes must not be able to be forged. There must be an audit trail of every vote cast, when and where they are cast. Yet voting must be 100% anonymous.
I know what you are thinking... PKI. And you are right - but it is still a nontrivial problem. This is almost as hard as true anonymous eCash.
Additionally, people must (well... should) be able to be sure that the voting system is secure. It MUST be available to public scrutiny.
Open source is the only way.
...20 yards in front of you a bus pulls out in front of you and stops.
You JAM on the brakes.
What happens?
Also, if you consider BC5.0 or its successor (oh that's right there was no successor of its C++ compiler line) then you are on weed.
Don't mention the C++ branded product that was built on top of Pascal please, or I will be force to bitch slap you.
There C++ tools ceased to exist, and lots of people were forced to migrate. Believe me, I didn't want to - but there was no choice.
I use the API at my current employer - writing cross platform libraries - but at the other job it was MS-only, and there was no point in rewriting CMainFrame et al.
Shortly after they release 5.0 they became Imprise and ceased to exist.
The name "Borland" was resurrected again sometime afterward.
So... that was indeed the end of Borland.
I can name several kludges and shortcomings of every technology you listed.
In 20 years my infant son will look at my code and "think WTF is this antique?"
But back to your point... a company with, say 2 million lines of cobol running on a mainframe that runs almost flawlessly. No major problems. Now, rewrite that code in something more modern, and redeploy on a more contemporary platform.
How long will this take? How much will it cost?
More importantly, how much more bread will it help that regional bakery (for example) sell?
I may be wrong, but most (if not all) of the housekeeping performed by JCL is now performed by the operating system.
Get over your suprise: companies that have invested millions of dollars in writing millions of lines of bugfree code that has been verified by years of flawless execution which runs on systems with "7 9's" uptime (that would be 99.99999% uptime) are not going to migrate to anything else anytime soon.
That was the end of Borland. That product stank, and it was obvious that the Borland C++ compiler line was near its end.
So we switched to Visual C++ 5.0.
That was when I was forced to abandon years of OWL prgramming skills and learn MFC. It wasn't a hard transition, but it still pissed me off.
I can only speak for myself but I will never use a Borland product again.
M$ may bite, but atleast they have a lifespan.
...don't expect the manufacturer to step out on that limb with you.
Obviously that fan/heatsink combo was there for a reason. You removed it, you paid the price.
"I added a superior cooling system to the machine, quietened it, IMPROVED it in every way, and they deny my claim?"
Obviously your modified cooling system was quieter, but I suspect it was actually quite inferior.
... the Net.
Or so I was told.