In this case the pager system is unlikely to get overloaded when there's a crisis or some other event where everyone is on their mobile phones.
The question isn't one of paging vs SMS. There are many alternatives. If anything they would probably switch to SDS messages over TETRA which is what the rest of the UK Emergency services already use via the Airwave service. But even if they did use the public infrastructure it doesn't mean doom and gloom. 3GPP Release 13 includes message and device level prioritization including device preemption. It's something we tested when we were looking to LTE to replace 2-way radio infrastructure and a completely overloaded tower sending out nothing but busy signals will happily boot off those pesky members of the public in order to deliver your high priority message and give you service.
If they are complaining about the cost of running pagers then they will not at all be happy with the cost of using ASTRO P25, though in the UK they'd be using the Airwave TETRA system.
They should keep the pagers, absolutely. The reason is this:
Pagers use slow transmission protocols that do not need a huge S/N to be properly decoded.
That is not a reason to keep using pagers. In fact every emergency service messaging protocol achieves what you described, including messaging based systems that run on the Airwave network or the proposed public safety LTE extensions.
It would be a blunder of gargantuan proportions to stop using pagers for critical messaging.
That blunder along with your doom scenario hasn't played out in other parts of the world where pagers have been abolished. What would be a real blunder is when the pager network dies as the hardware is well and truly beyond end of life. Keeping old radio equipment operational is an exercise in endless and increasingly expensive frustration.
the motor (magnet circuit and voice coil) is the transducer
definitely.
and the cone is the amplifier
arguably.
Cut the cone out of an old loudspeaker. Notice it still makes sound but at a greatly reduced volume and efficiency?
in this case is what changes electrical energy into pressure
Like the the magnetic coil that applies the force to make something move?
and that includes the radiating surface
That is your own definition. In fact I can't find the radiating surface mentioned in Wikipedia or in my textbook.
since the pressure generated is proportional to the radiating surface
So you're saying a bigger radiating surface would "amplify" the pressure?
and the radiating surface is required for the transformation to take place
Again hold up one of those surface transducers in the air and hear that wonderful transformation having already taken place. Likewise cut the cone out of a speaker (but you need to point the speaker vertically) and listen to that transformation still making sound.
The word transducer doesn't include mention of volume or quality in its definition which makes it independent of its radiating surface. The word amplifier on the other hand... well you get the point.
I'm actually quite surprised they went to the expense of powered breaks.
You can do the same thing with solenoid activated latch on a traditional mechanical hand break.
You're surprised they went to the expense of an electric brake (which can use up to no additional parts depending on the motor controller) but instead you propose a far more expensive mechanism?
Follow the money, they went with powered brakes precisely because alternatives are an additional expense.
I believe you meant screen as audio transducer... At least it keeps the headphone jack!
I think amplifier could be perfectly acceptable use of the word here. The transducer is what would be acting on the back of the screen, and the shape of the screen amplifies the air pressure waves which would otherwise be tiny without the available surface area, but would none the less still be air pressure waves.
I wouldn't be surprised if they even built prototypes and evaluated them internally. That fact that Apple has not even hinted at such a critter probably means that they decided that the product wouldn't be a big hit.
You have to remember Apple is a very new entrant into the market of the technology that enables foldable screens. The company forever shunned OLED while all their competitors adopted it.
There's no doubt Apple are watching this space closely, but it's been very clear over the past 5 years that Apple has become very much a careful follower than a technology leader so their silence may not be an indication that they don't think it's a hit, it may be more that they aren't convinced that the technology is actually ready for market yet.
The exception of course being their bluetooth headphones. Never let careful adaption get in the way of selling Beats by Dr Dre!
Wait what? No sorry a bunch of people wanting to work part time for reduced pay is not the civilised end-result of automation. This is even temporary so workers aren't able to elect to do this beyond 2 years. This was nothing more than a work-life balance related negotiation tactic to not offer the original promised pay increases. It's great virtue signalling because we all know that people desperate for a 6.8% pay increase will jump at the idea of a 27% reduction in pay.
They also took careful aim at their foot there. The logical end game of their shorter weeks which the company can't deny is for a company to automate their work. Expect these people to ultimately lose their jobs when it becomes clear that they weren't providing 37 hours of value in the first place.
Indeed it doesn't. What it does however have is ABS, an electronic system that is designed specifically to inhibit your braking. Government standards are there to protect the likes of you who prefer to sacrifice your own safety over a few dollars, expect these listed to be a standard safety feature even for your cheaper car in the near future.
You are right about one thing, not all cars with this feature cost $40k. Mercedes make cars for less than that with this feature standard. Hell my neighbours crappy Ford Mondeo has the listed features as well, and costs less than half that.
*golfclap*. Did you stumble on Slashdot by accident on your way to "Amish Online"? Seriously I don't understand why people jump on a technology forum to praise the fact that they don't like technology and prefer to keep mechanical clunkers running.
I hope you don't get in an accident. And since I'm sure you genuinely like your car I also hope that it doesn't eventually get banned from the roads.
I know man. We live in a complicated world, but you'll get there eventually.
Did you ever wonder why you don't have friends?
Begging the question, you failed already.
Everybody who makes the mistake of buying this 1060 is going to end up hating Nvidia
... 80% positive 5 star reviews... Look man I feel guilty now, I know you said you feel stupid after reading my post but you didn't tell me that had a stroke while reading it.
Get professional help man. After sending me one link after another that proves my point, you desperately need it.
Well that much is a given in the functional requirements, but then actual injury is not a given of the design.
Can you come up with another system where a computer is in control of brakes, has a system to engage them if it so chooses without any mechanical interlocking mechanism, and is designed to not be fail safe meaning the brakes would be rendered in operative in certain failures?
If you guess the common car then you should give yourself an internet cookie.
If they're going to make new laptops, maybe the freaking morans will fix the keyboards at the same time.
They will do something to get you to stop complaining. Notice how no one mentions the horrible touch bar anymore? Well not to worry, but making the next Mac completely unusable you won't ever worry about sticky keys again!
Waitnolonger. (Also side note, how old is your car that it doesn't have these systems? They've been standard in Mercedes for >20 years now).
And for some real fun you should check out how truck brakes are designed, whereby any failure, not just a computer bug would result in the brakes activating.
Your industrial knowledge points you towards safety but the standard you are pointing to is about active safety interlocking for mitigating an event. If you're looking at a system whereby failure of control automatically leads to an incident you're working in the continuous operation realm, the standards for SIL in this case are typically applied where failure will result in multiple millions of dollars of damage along with killing multiple people. Additionally to apply SIL need to have a determined safe state... in this case the safe state is applying the brakes and applying the SIL standards would not prevent people from kissing the pavement.
You don't need to point to this kind of standard to achieve a safe system. Instead another industrial principle should be applied. Rather than applying safety standards for the mitigation of events, the principles of "Inherently Safer Design" should apply. e.g. Other hire companies: The system which locks the wheel electronically on for example O-bikes is 100% decoupled from the braking system while under normal operation and requires a person to actively push a pin through the wheel against the force of a spring, the result of which reports back to the mobile phone that the hiring period has finished.
who was stupid enough to decide to put the brake controls though computer/software???
Let's flip this around. Here's the functional requirements:
1. You have your toys publicly lying in the street. 2. An interface is required to rent your toys and it needs to electronically work with a mobile phone. 3. This interface should lock the wheels to prevent the toy being used without being hired.
Go forth and design. Let's see if you're as stupid as the rest of those engineers.
Huh, what are you blathering about? For gaming, 1080 means 1080p,
Thanks for telling us you're not a gamer. Any gamer would know the distinction between resolution, and resolution at a locked frame rate. The OP said no serious gamer games at 1080p@60Hz. You countered saying 1080p was popular. Yet it is. You included a metric fuckton of non-serious gamers in your worthless statistics.
Now come back and play with us when you have a 1080p@144Hz display. You know... like those tiny subset of people in your statistics who are actually serious gamers.
TL;DR "clearly the RX 580 is the better card in more of the games that we've tested
According to their own results it can't even maintain vsync lock on a 60Hz (shitty) monitor. Any serious gamer would consider the game unplayable at that point. Man the "Xbox play on my 30fps TV" generation really has destroyed what it means to play games if these numbnuts think this is even remotely an appropriate card for a "gamer".
Not only does the 580 outperform its closest competitor the 1060
And by their own results the 580 is frequently out performed in raw framerate and almost universally outperformed in frame time variance.
it sells for less and has way more VRAM
Yeah but NVIDIA has a green logo, which is just as relevant of a metric since you're ignoring performance.
Frankly, it's hard to believe that Nvidia has the gall to sell a midrange card with 3GB, but they do.
... Man you're just going down a whirlwind of stupidity right now. The only 3GB NVIDIA card currently manufactured is the entry level 1050. Their midrange 3GB card was discontinued early last year when they exclusively started shipping 6GB cards and upgraded their RAM to GDDR5X in the process.
Could be just the card for you.
I have one. It's a great card for a non gaming PC. But since you don't know what the definition of gaming is,... well come back when you're running 1080TIs in SLI watercooled. Then you too can play with the big boys.
They have demonstrated beyond level 3 driving. You're now confusing "can" and "does". You shouldn't mistake words like that, people will call you out on the internet for it.
You're not stupid, but you can't admit when you're wrong.
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In this case the pager system is unlikely to get overloaded when there's a crisis or some other event where everyone is on their mobile phones.
The question isn't one of paging vs SMS. There are many alternatives. If anything they would probably switch to SDS messages over TETRA which is what the rest of the UK Emergency services already use via the Airwave service. But even if they did use the public infrastructure it doesn't mean doom and gloom. 3GPP Release 13 includes message and device level prioritization including device preemption. It's something we tested when we were looking to LTE to replace 2-way radio infrastructure and a completely overloaded tower sending out nothing but busy signals will happily boot off those pesky members of the public in order to deliver your high priority message and give you service.
If they are complaining about the cost of running pagers then they will not at all be happy with the cost of using ASTRO P25, though in the UK they'd be using the Airwave TETRA system.
They should keep the pagers, absolutely. The reason is this:
Pagers use slow transmission protocols that do not need a huge S/N to be properly decoded.
That is not a reason to keep using pagers. In fact every emergency service messaging protocol achieves what you described, including messaging based systems that run on the Airwave network or the proposed public safety LTE extensions.
It would be a blunder of gargantuan proportions to stop using pagers for critical messaging.
That blunder along with your doom scenario hasn't played out in other parts of the world where pagers have been abolished. What would be a real blunder is when the pager network dies as the hardware is well and truly beyond end of life. Keeping old radio equipment operational is an exercise in endless and increasingly expensive frustration.
the motor (magnet circuit and voice coil) is the transducer
definitely.
and the cone is the amplifier
arguably.
Cut the cone out of an old loudspeaker. Notice it still makes sound but at a greatly reduced volume and efficiency?
in this case is what changes electrical energy into pressure
Like the the magnetic coil that applies the force to make something move?
and that includes the radiating surface
That is your own definition. In fact I can't find the radiating surface mentioned in Wikipedia or in my textbook.
since the pressure generated is proportional to the radiating surface
So you're saying a bigger radiating surface would "amplify" the pressure?
and the radiating surface is required for the transformation to take place
Again hold up one of those surface transducers in the air and hear that wonderful transformation having already taken place. Likewise cut the cone out of a speaker (but you need to point the speaker vertically) and listen to that transformation still making sound.
The word transducer doesn't include mention of volume or quality in its definition which makes it independent of its radiating surface. The word amplifier on the other hand ... well you get the point.
I'm actually quite surprised they went to the expense of powered breaks.
You can do the same thing with solenoid activated latch on a traditional mechanical hand break.
You're surprised they went to the expense of an electric brake (which can use up to no additional parts depending on the motor controller) but instead you propose a far more expensive mechanism?
Follow the money, they went with powered brakes precisely because alternatives are an additional expense.
I believe you meant screen as audio transducer... At least it keeps the headphone jack!
I think amplifier could be perfectly acceptable use of the word here. The transducer is what would be acting on the back of the screen, and the shape of the screen amplifies the air pressure waves which would otherwise be tiny without the available surface area, but would none the less still be air pressure waves.
I wouldn't be surprised if they even built prototypes and evaluated them internally. That fact that Apple has not even hinted at such a critter probably means that they decided that the product wouldn't be a big hit.
You have to remember Apple is a very new entrant into the market of the technology that enables foldable screens. The company forever shunned OLED while all their competitors adopted it.
There's no doubt Apple are watching this space closely, but it's been very clear over the past 5 years that Apple has become very much a careful follower than a technology leader so their silence may not be an indication that they don't think it's a hit, it may be more that they aren't convinced that the technology is actually ready for market yet.
The exception of course being their bluetooth headphones. Never let careful adaption get in the way of selling Beats by Dr Dre!
Username checks out.
Wait what? No sorry a bunch of people wanting to work part time for reduced pay is not the civilised end-result of automation. This is even temporary so workers aren't able to elect to do this beyond 2 years. This was nothing more than a work-life balance related negotiation tactic to not offer the original promised pay increases. It's great virtue signalling because we all know that people desperate for a 6.8% pay increase will jump at the idea of a 27% reduction in pay.
They also took careful aim at their foot there. The logical end game of their shorter weeks which the company can't deny is for a company to automate their work. Expect these people to ultimately lose their jobs when it becomes clear that they weren't providing 37 hours of value in the first place.
My car is from 2014 and has none of those.
Indeed it doesn't. What it does however have is ABS, an electronic system that is designed specifically to inhibit your braking. Government standards are there to protect the likes of you who prefer to sacrifice your own safety over a few dollars, expect these listed to be a standard safety feature even for your cheaper car in the near future.
You are right about one thing, not all cars with this feature cost $40k. Mercedes make cars for less than that with this feature standard. Hell my neighbours crappy Ford Mondeo has the listed features as well, and costs less than half that.
*golfclap*. Did you stumble on Slashdot by accident on your way to "Amish Online"? Seriously I don't understand why people jump on a technology forum to praise the fact that they don't like technology and prefer to keep mechanical clunkers running.
I hope you don't get in an accident. And since I'm sure you genuinely like your car I also hope that it doesn't eventually get banned from the roads.
I felt more stupid after reading your post
I know man. We live in a complicated world, but you'll get there eventually.
Did you ever wonder why you don't have friends?
Begging the question, you failed already.
Everybody who makes the mistake of buying this 1060 is going to end up hating Nvidia
... 80% positive 5 star reviews ... Look man I feel guilty now, I know you said you feel stupid after reading my post but you didn't tell me that had a stroke while reading it.
Get professional help man. After sending me one link after another that proves my point, you desperately need it.
Well that much is a given in the functional requirements, but then actual injury is not a given of the design.
Can you come up with another system where a computer is in control of brakes, has a system to engage them if it so chooses without any mechanical interlocking mechanism, and is designed to not be fail safe meaning the brakes would be rendered in operative in certain failures?
If you guess the common car then you should give yourself an internet cookie.
If they're going to make new laptops, maybe the freaking morans will fix the keyboards at the same time.
They will do something to get you to stop complaining. Notice how no one mentions the horrible touch bar anymore? Well not to worry, but making the next Mac completely unusable you won't ever worry about sticky keys again!
I like this kind of articles, they expand my knowledge of things astronomical.
I like these kinds of articles because it reminds us that words like "fluffy" can be used in any field, even astrophysics.
I can't wait until this technology is in cars!
Wait no longer. (Also side note, how old is your car that it doesn't have these systems? They've been standard in Mercedes for >20 years now).
And for some real fun you should check out how truck brakes are designed, whereby any failure, not just a computer bug would result in the brakes activating.
Your industrial knowledge points you towards safety but the standard you are pointing to is about active safety interlocking for mitigating an event. If you're looking at a system whereby failure of control automatically leads to an incident you're working in the continuous operation realm, the standards for SIL in this case are typically applied where failure will result in multiple millions of dollars of damage along with killing multiple people. Additionally to apply SIL need to have a determined safe state ... in this case the safe state is applying the brakes and applying the SIL standards would not prevent people from kissing the pavement.
You don't need to point to this kind of standard to achieve a safe system. Instead another industrial principle should be applied. Rather than applying safety standards for the mitigation of events, the principles of "Inherently Safer Design" should apply. e.g. Other hire companies: The system which locks the wheel electronically on for example O-bikes is 100% decoupled from the braking system while under normal operation and requires a person to actively push a pin through the wheel against the force of a spring, the result of which reports back to the mobile phone that the hiring period has finished.
who was stupid enough to decide to put the brake controls though computer/software???
Let's flip this around. Here's the functional requirements:
1. You have your toys publicly lying in the street.
2. An interface is required to rent your toys and it needs to electronically work with a mobile phone.
3. This interface should lock the wheels to prevent the toy being used without being hired.
Go forth and design. Let's see if you're as stupid as the rest of those engineers.
Huh, what are you blathering about? For gaming, 1080 means 1080p,
Thanks for telling us you're not a gamer. Any gamer would know the distinction between resolution, and resolution at a locked frame rate. The OP said no serious gamer games at 1080p@60Hz. You countered saying 1080p was popular. Yet it is. You included a metric fuckton of non-serious gamers in your worthless statistics.
Now come back and play with us when you have a 1080p@144Hz display. You know ... like those tiny subset of people in your statistics who are actually serious gamers.
TL;DR "clearly the RX 580 is the better card in more of the games that we've tested
According to their own results it can't even maintain vsync lock on a 60Hz (shitty) monitor. Any serious gamer would consider the game unplayable at that point. Man the "Xbox play on my 30fps TV" generation really has destroyed what it means to play games if these numbnuts think this is even remotely an appropriate card for a "gamer".
Not only does the 580 outperform its closest competitor the 1060
And by their own results the 580 is frequently out performed in raw framerate and almost universally outperformed in frame time variance.
it sells for less and has way more VRAM
Yeah but NVIDIA has a green logo, which is just as relevant of a metric since you're ignoring performance.
Frankly, it's hard to believe that Nvidia has the gall to sell a midrange card with 3GB, but they do.
... Man you're just going down a whirlwind of stupidity right now. The only 3GB NVIDIA card currently manufactured is the entry level 1050. Their midrange 3GB card was discontinued early last year when they exclusively started shipping 6GB cards and upgraded their RAM to GDDR5X in the process.
Could be just the card for you.
I have one. It's a great card for a non gaming PC. But since you don't know what the definition of gaming is, ... well come back when you're running 1080TIs in SLI watercooled. Then you too can play with the big boys.
*facepalm*. This is dumb even for you.
Because all 12 year old boys have $10,000 to do whatever they want with.
Yeah this kid is lucky. I had to wait until I was 15 to buy a $10k sound system. He must have had rich parents.
...as they're just using some obscure groups definition of space. ;)
Yeah, what would NASA know anyway.
This story would bring nothing but snarky remarks.
And yet the only remark with a positive moderation isn't snarky at all. You have a crap view of the world. /snark.
As of today 1080 is [steampowered.com] the most popular gamer resolution by far, 60%.
He didn't say 1080. He said "1080p@60hz" a very big distinction when you're talking about what a Radeon 580 is capable of in a modern game.
They have demonstrated beyond level 3 driving. You're now confusing "can" and "does". You shouldn't mistake words like that, people will call you out on the internet for it.
You're not stupid, but you can't admit when you're wrong.
I always admit when I'm wrong.