I learned on a Royal 440, such as this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/1.... A close look at the keyboard shows a zero, but not a one - exactly as I recalled. The fun part was going home where my dad was an early owner of the variable spacing Selectric - I was so accustomed to slamming down the 440 keys that I could barely touch the Selectric keyboard without triggering unexpected keystrokes (fortunately, it also had the self correcting feature).
Interesting to hear. I am a Murkin and grew up with rules as you stated, but much later I started using the British style - it seemed more logical. (Perhaps becoming a programmer had something to do with it). But I came upon on my own, I didn't realize that the Brits were ahead of me.
You cops you passed were probably from the California Highway Patrol, who are tasked with patrolling the freeways. I've had numerous encounters with traffic enforcement cops in different states (hey, it's the way I drove), and I can attest to them being an agency that is far more concerned with traffic safety than with writing tickets. Much more often than not, I've been given warnings instead of tickets. As a 'sporting' driver, I do give them a great deal of respect.
A zipper merge involves two lanes merging into one, where each of the feeder lanes is essentially moving at the same speed. The 'jerk merge' involves cutting into a slow lane from a fast lane, which disrupts the fast lane.
BTW, with the emergency doors, you have to pull them completely inside the cabin, then discard them outside the aircraft...
This depends on the plane. I don't have a placard to show, but the exits that I've chanced to notice specifically instructed you to set the door on one of the seats. I suspect that this may have been in order to avoid damage to the emergency slides - which are not found on all planes.
Cooper instructed the pilot to fly 'low and slow' - that is, low enough to avoid the thin air and slow enough to exit safely. He also chose a 727, which had a ventral airstair - that is, the stair dropped down from below the tail, where there was no risk of being snagged by the jet's tail feathers. And the airstair was a clamshell design, which did not have to be partially retracted before being opened - as the passenger doors do.
The 'Cooper fin' worked only on the airstair. It was a simple vertical paddle sticking out from the side of the jet which would be blown back horizontal when the plane was aloft. This would activate a locking mechanism which was not accessible from inside, but which would release when the plane slowed down upon landing. It did not affect the passenger doors.
[BTW, airplane doors which are designed to be opened in flight are generally easy to close - the air pressure naturally blows them mostly shut].
The testing was carried out by the company founders - CEO (Anna) and the CTO (Sam). Both of them hold MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University (click on their LinkedIn icons).
Interesting post, but how does the Luhn check exclude 90% of the numbers? I can create cards running from '000000001x' to '999999999x' where 'x' is the appropriate check digit, and where the first nine digits guarantee uniqueness.
The item is sold to from the seller to Amazon, and from Amazon to you, so Amazon sold it to you takes profit, and takes responsibility for that sale.
No, that isn't true. If I buy from Amazon, I pay California sales tax because Amazon has a state presence. If I buy from an out of state vendor, there is no tax charged. And California wouldn't stand for that if there was any way that they could leglly classify Amazon as a re-seller.
There are LOTS of things the Tesla have in common with combustion vehicles. Headlights, [...] tyres, [...]
Careful there - the Tesla has tires, not those tyres that certain petrol burning vehicles use to roll about on, and on the wrong side of the road to boot (or to trunk?)
Utter balls. As you said, "...4WD improves traction..." - and acceleration is limited both by available traction and power. Without sufficient traction, power is wasted. And every tire has a traction limit.
And differentials have efficiency loses. The extra traction is effective on a loose surface, and on corners. It has next to no benefit on a dry road in a straight line.
Transmissions also have efficiency losses, but the gearing provides benefits that outweigh the losses. The small loss due to using a differential is more that offset by essentially doubling the grip available to soak up the power. And the extra traction is a benefit in any situation where your available power exceeds tire grip - that is any situation where you are spinning your tires. And, of course, some cars - Tesla 'D's, for example - do not use a front/rear diff.
WTF makes you think that adding power to more wheels doesn't help?
The fact that every top drag car is 2WD. But you could be right and they've all got it wrong...
Damn, I was betting that was coming! But top fuelers also use rather primitive 500 ci V-8s with actual push-rods instead of overhead cams. Fact is, they are built to a formula which limits them to such engines, as well as to rear wheel drive only. They aren't going for absolute records (I think rocket sleds do that), they are going head to head within a racing spec. And they are so damn fast on two wheels that they had to shrink the quarter mile to 1,000 feet. And they have really big, fat tires that can deliver huge amounts of grip.
Remember, 4WD becomes a benefit only if your power exceeds your 2WD grip. As was the case with every classic 'muscle' car.
And BTW - the top fuelers are also willing to give up a bit of power if it results in a net benefit. The superchargers suck up more power than the normally aspirated engine can deliver. ..
Utter balls. As you said, "...4WD improves traction..." - and acceleration is limited both by available traction and power. Without sufficient traction, power is wasted. And every tire has a traction limit.
WTF makes you think that adding power to more wheels doesn't help?
A Cessna 182/172 is in no way comparable to private jet ownership. It's not really a good option for any flight longer than about 500 miles, and your cruise speed is often only around 100mph (ground speed)
Say what? A 182 cruises at around 170 mph - are you 'often' flying into 70 mph headwinds?
No, you do it in your mother's back yard. His father and step-mother (whom he lived with) wouldn't allow it in their home, causing him to shift his efforts to his mom's shed.
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Actually, there is. A group got a 30mm copy and restored the original.
I understand that the 30mm copies were quite rare.
Here's Harmy's version (which I have): http://originaltrilogy.com/top...
That's right - Han shot solo.
I learned on a Royal 440, such as this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/1.... A close look at the keyboard shows a zero, but not a one - exactly as I recalled. The fun part was going home where my dad was an early owner of the variable spacing Selectric - I was so accustomed to slamming down the 440 keys that I could barely touch the Selectric keyboard without triggering unexpected keystrokes (fortunately, it also had the self correcting feature).
Turning it of leaves no ambiguities.
And you can also turn off the grammar checker.
Interesting to hear. I am a Murkin and grew up with rules as you stated, but much later I started using the British style - it seemed more logical. (Perhaps becoming a programmer had something to do with it). But I came upon on my own, I didn't realize that the Brits were ahead of me.
But the other cars stopped far enough along that they would have been part of the accident, had they not been off to the side.
The Tesla saw it with radar, by definition that requires line of site.
No, it does not. Bouncing under the car ahead is hardly 'line of sight'.
You can look over, under, around and even through the windows of some vehicles. Can you figure out which one happened here?
Under - as it was designed to do.
You cops you passed were probably from the California Highway Patrol, who are tasked with patrolling the freeways. I've had numerous encounters with traffic enforcement cops in different states (hey, it's the way I drove), and I can attest to them being an agency that is far more concerned with traffic safety than with writing tickets. Much more often than not, I've been given warnings instead of tickets. As a 'sporting' driver, I do give them a great deal of respect.
You should get your speed up to 70. This works in reverse too.
I call bullshit on that - I just don't believe your car will do 70 in reverse.
A zipper merge involves two lanes merging into one, where each of the feeder lanes is essentially moving at the same speed. The 'jerk merge' involves cutting into a slow lane from a fast lane, which disrupts the fast lane.
BTW, with the emergency doors, you have to pull them completely inside the cabin, then discard them outside the aircraft...
This depends on the plane. I don't have a placard to show, but the exits that I've chanced to notice specifically instructed you to set the door on one of the seats. I suspect that this may have been in order to avoid damage to the emergency slides - which are not found on all planes.
Cooper instructed the pilot to fly 'low and slow' - that is, low enough to avoid the thin air and slow enough to exit safely. He also chose a 727, which had a ventral airstair - that is, the stair dropped down from below the tail, where there was no risk of being snagged by the jet's tail feathers. And the airstair was a clamshell design, which did not have to be partially retracted before being opened - as the passenger doors do.
The 'Cooper fin' worked only on the airstair. It was a simple vertical paddle sticking out from the side of the jet which would be blown back horizontal when the plane was aloft. This would activate a locking mechanism which was not accessible from inside, but which would release when the plane slowed down upon landing. It did not affect the passenger doors.
[BTW, airplane doors which are designed to be opened in flight are generally easy to close - the air pressure naturally blows them mostly shut].
The testing was carried out by the company founders - CEO (Anna) and the CTO (Sam). Both of them hold MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University (click on their LinkedIn icons).
Interesting post, but how does the Luhn check exclude 90% of the numbers? I can create cards running from '000000001x' to '999999999x' where 'x' is the appropriate check digit, and where the first nine digits guarantee uniqueness.
t any rate, if a septic tank explodes, what point is there in finding out who really did take the first shit?
Damn, an AC post worth keeping.
The item is sold to from the seller to Amazon, and from Amazon to you, so Amazon sold it to you takes profit, and takes responsibility for that sale.
No, that isn't true. If I buy from Amazon, I pay California sales tax because Amazon has a state presence. If I buy from an out of state vendor, there is no tax charged. And California wouldn't stand for that if there was any way that they could leglly classify Amazon as a re-seller.
There are LOTS of things the Tesla have in common with combustion vehicles. Headlights, [...] tyres, [...]
Careful there - the Tesla has tires, not those tyres that certain petrol burning vehicles use to roll about on, and on the wrong side of the road to boot (or to trunk?)
. . . and perhaps breaking system
Having the system break is exactly the issue.
But it's a good earworm.
Utter balls. As you said, "...4WD improves traction..." - and acceleration is limited both by available traction and power. Without sufficient traction, power is wasted. And every tire has a traction limit.
And differentials have efficiency loses. The extra traction is effective on a loose surface, and on corners. It has next to no benefit on a dry road in a straight line.
Transmissions also have efficiency losses, but the gearing provides benefits that outweigh the losses. The small loss due to using a differential is more that offset by essentially doubling the grip available to soak up the power. And the extra traction is a benefit in any situation where your available power exceeds tire grip - that is any situation where you are spinning your tires. And, of course, some cars - Tesla 'D's, for example - do not use a front/rear diff.
WTF makes you think that adding power to more wheels doesn't help?
The fact that every top drag car is 2WD. But you could be right and they've all got it wrong...
Damn, I was betting that was coming! But top fuelers also use rather primitive 500 ci V-8s with actual push-rods instead of overhead cams. Fact is, they are built to a formula which limits them to such engines, as well as to rear wheel drive only. They aren't going for absolute records (I think rocket sleds do that), they are going head to head within a racing spec. And they are so damn fast on two wheels that they had to shrink the quarter mile to 1,000 feet. And they have really big, fat tires that can deliver huge amounts of grip.
Remember, 4WD becomes a benefit only if your power exceeds your 2WD grip. As was the case with every classic 'muscle' car.
And BTW - the top fuelers are also willing to give up a bit of power if it results in a net benefit. The superchargers suck up more power than the normally aspirated engine can deliver. . .
Utter balls. As you said, "...4WD improves traction..." - and acceleration is limited both by available traction and power. Without sufficient traction, power is wasted. And every tire has a traction limit.
WTF makes you think that adding power to more wheels doesn't help?
A Cessna 182/172 is in no way comparable to private jet ownership. It's not really a good option for any flight longer than about 500 miles, and your cruise speed is often only around 100mph (ground speed)
Say what? A 182 cruises at around 170 mph - are you 'often' flying into 70 mph headwinds?
No, you do it in your mother's back yard. His father and step-mother (whom he lived with) wouldn't allow it in their home, causing him to shift his efforts to his mom's shed.
And you get free, one way shipping.