Have you ever looked at a locomotive? They are diesel electric, and very efficient. Mechanical drivetrains have very high losses compared to batteries.
They're also designed to go for very long distances at a more-or-less constant speed, with the engine running at either full speed or idle. Not only that, but they require a very large, low-revving diesel engine (efficient) turning a very large generator (also efficient), in a vehicle that weighs around 80 tonnes. The principle doesn't really scale to cars, or even trucks.
Having taught English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) to American exchange students - yes, their standard of reading and writing was low enough to put them into a class aimed at people who understand no English at all - I can safely say that the privately educated ones have the lowest standard of education. People who have been privately educated in the US seem to be good at sports and have bits and pieces of "rote" learning, but cannot effectively use language because they simply haven't been taught how.
If you paid for your child to have a private education in a US school, I hope you're not too upset to learn that when they reach university they will be able to read, write and speak English about as well as an average British 11-year-old.
But I'm having a really hard time getting upset over the Iranian government being brought to a crawl by a computer virus. These ARE the same people that have made no bones about wanting to commit genocide against all Jews, and have tortured and murdered millions of their own people.
[citation needed]
In any case, are you saying they don't have a right to defend themselves from Israel's IDF paramilitary terrorists? The notorious war criminal Ariel Sharon said that all Arabs should be exterminated (yes, I know the Iranians are Persians, not Arabs). The present Israeli government seems to be doing a good job of herding the Palestinians into ghettos and taking over chunks of Palestine to expand their lebensraum. Would you like to live beside an expansionist who didn't think you were anything more than an animal?
It looks more like their DNS isn't resolving. Sky Broadband provide domestic broadband, so unless they are running their DNS on a box hanging off someone's home ADSL it seems unlikely that they mean "cut off" as in "disconnected".
I'm sure a programmer or 3d modeler would never do such a crazy thing and just use some good texture...But I can see managers getting picky about such a detail notwithstanding any technical problem.
Surely you'd do the logo (and any surface texture) with a bumpmap?
The thing is, noscript doesn'HEY YOU JUST TYPED AN APOSTROPHE, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)t offer much in the way of proHEY YOU JUST TYPED AN O, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)tection and an awful loHEY YOU JUST TYPED AN O, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)t of annoyance.HEY YOU JUST TYPED A FULL STOP, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)
... where you can say what you like, if you get permission first.
Seriously, guys, look at how we do it in the rest of the world. Learn from the experience of others. When Britain let America run its own affairs, it was a bit like leaving a house full of teenagers alone for a weekend with the keys to the gun cabinet and wine cellar.
Well, that's what *he* says. The police say he hasn't reported it at all. Both the articles say he reported it to the vet that chipped the dog, but don't say that he reported it to the police.
Someone is not telling the whole story.
The police saying that there's "no criminal case to answer" doesn't sound right at all. At a bare minimum they would log the report and close it off as "Advice Given" so they could record a detection.
You are not told in this story WHY the police did not decide that there was no need for action/
Maybe because they haven't been told about it? As several other posters have commented, the police say that they will investigate *if* he reports it to them. They're not psychic.
You could just about squeeze it into 2400bps. It would probably be possible to get that out of existing AFSK modems without needing to go down the route of discriminator taps and such. Using a hardware GMSK modem like the FX589 chip would give you 9600 baud with the option of interoperating with existing D-Star modems, and interfacing an FX589 is going to be easier to implement than a G3RUH modem.
Speex isn't great in this application, because at low bitrates there is a significant delay through the codec and the output stream requires far too much bandwidth to be useful. Consider that digital speech systems like Mototrbo, TETRA, P25 and Iridium typically have less than 6kbps throughput once you've taken FEC into account.
... it doesn't work very well, there aren't any games out for it yet, they're late to market and it looks like a sex toy for a Dalek.
You want *how* much? Nah, I'm going to go and buy a Wii, a 24" LCD TV, three extra Wiimotes, four nunchucks and a bunch of games for that kind of money.
While OpenBSD doesn't have a perfect record for security
OpenBSD has got a *terrible* record for security. The illusion of security is only maintained because every time someone discovers a gaping exploit in OpenBSD, Theo moves the goalposts on what he considers a security hole. Just look at all the descriptions of "errata" for OpenBSD - bugfixes for security holes!
Theo is like that kid who, no matter what game you were playing, would always start making up bullshit rules whenever he started losing. Like, "Tag! You're it!" "No I'm not it, that tag didn't count because I'm uh... I'm near this rock". Don't be that kid. That kid is a dick.
You did some damn fine engineering while keeping secret the things that needed to remain secret.
You know, a funny thing I've noticed is that there are a lot of people in the US who think that *everyone* should have a gun. But when you pressure them a little, it turns out that they don't think that *really* everyone should have a gun. Those damn illegal Mexicans, for example, they shouldn't be allowed guns. Or those Muslims, no guns for them. So really what they want is for only the people they think are the right sort of people to be able to have guns.
Now, consider that a nuclear weapon is really just another kind of gun...
Those who had more testosterone, tended to be more competitive even when it resulted in losing the game.
Okay, and this is "not in their best interests" why, exactly? It's a pretty narrow view that "winning" by making more money is the "good" result. What if you don't give a toss about money, and want to have fun?
Well, it *is* evil because they're pushing their own software on the poeple who would be most likely to switch to Open-Source, but then it's *not* evil because they're helping defuse a politically nasty situation... Aw hell, I can't tell if this is evil or not.
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Driving it was similar to a diesel, in that it had a startup procedure one had to follow
Diesels don't have any particular "starting procedure" beyond "turn key, drive car".
Have you ever looked at a locomotive? They are diesel electric, and very efficient. Mechanical drivetrains have very high losses compared to batteries.
They're also designed to go for very long distances at a more-or-less constant speed, with the engine running at either full speed or idle. Not only that, but they require a very large, low-revving diesel engine (efficient) turning a very large generator (also efficient), in a vehicle that weighs around 80 tonnes. The principle doesn't really scale to cars, or even trucks.
... if you want a hat *now*, go and buy a damn hat. If you're not prepared to buy it, do without.
Having taught English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) to American exchange students - yes, their standard of reading and writing was low enough to put them into a class aimed at people who understand no English at all - I can safely say that the privately educated ones have the lowest standard of education. People who have been privately educated in the US seem to be good at sports and have bits and pieces of "rote" learning, but cannot effectively use language because they simply haven't been taught how.
If you paid for your child to have a private education in a US school, I hope you're not too upset to learn that when they reach university they will be able to read, write and speak English about as well as an average British 11-year-old.
But I'm having a really hard time getting upset over the Iranian government being brought to a crawl by a computer virus. These ARE the same people that have made no bones about wanting to commit genocide against all Jews, and have tortured and murdered millions of their own people.
[citation needed]
In any case, are you saying they don't have a right to defend themselves from Israel's IDF paramilitary terrorists? The notorious war criminal Ariel Sharon said that all Arabs should be exterminated (yes, I know the Iranians are Persians, not Arabs). The present Israeli government seems to be doing a good job of herding the Palestinians into ghettos and taking over chunks of Palestine to expand their lebensraum. Would you like to live beside an expansionist who didn't think you were anything more than an animal?
It looks more like their DNS isn't resolving. Sky Broadband provide domestic broadband, so unless they are running their DNS on a box hanging off someone's home ADSL it seems unlikely that they mean "cut off" as in "disconnected".
I'm sure a programmer or 3d modeler would never do such a crazy thing and just use some good texture...But I can see managers getting picky about such a detail notwithstanding any technical problem.
Surely you'd do the logo (and any surface texture) with a bumpmap?
The thing is, noscript doesn'HEY YOU JUST TYPED AN APOSTROPHE, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)t offer much in the way of proHEY YOU JUST TYPED AN O, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)tection and an awful loHEY YOU JUST TYPED AN O, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)t of annoyance.HEY YOU JUST TYPED A FULL STOP, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ALLOW THIS? (Y/N)
On Windows you'll need to install a driver in order for USBserial to work
Well, they can't support every niche OS out there. Anyone with half a brain is going to be doing their microcontroller development in Linux.
It doesn't need any funny drivers or anything, it Just Plain Works.
... where you can say what you like, if you get permission first.
Seriously, guys, look at how we do it in the rest of the world. Learn from the experience of others. When Britain let America run its own affairs, it was a bit like leaving a house full of teenagers alone for a weekend with the keys to the gun cabinet and wine cellar.
Back to the list. What crosses the line?
So the authorities should disregard information from whistleblowers?
Well, that's what *he* says. The police say he hasn't reported it at all. Both the articles say he reported it to the vet that chipped the dog, but don't say that he reported it to the police.
Someone is not telling the whole story.
The police saying that there's "no criminal case to answer" doesn't sound right at all. At a bare minimum they would log the report and close it off as "Advice Given" so they could record a detection.
If he did report it to them, why doesn't he have a crime number? That's all he'd need to get the information.
You are not told in this story WHY the police did not decide that there was no need for action/
Maybe because they haven't been told about it? As several other posters have commented, the police say that they will investigate *if* he reports it to them. They're not psychic.
You could just about squeeze it into 2400bps. It would probably be possible to get that out of existing AFSK modems without needing to go down the route of discriminator taps and such. Using a hardware GMSK modem like the FX589 chip would give you 9600 baud with the option of interoperating with existing D-Star modems, and interfacing an FX589 is going to be easier to implement than a G3RUH modem.
Speex isn't great in this application, because at low bitrates there is a significant delay through the codec and the output stream requires far too much bandwidth to be useful. Consider that digital speech systems like Mototrbo, TETRA, P25 and Iridium typically have less than 6kbps throughput once you've taken FEC into account.
... it doesn't work very well, there aren't any games out for it yet, they're late to market and it looks like a sex toy for a Dalek.
You want *how* much? Nah, I'm going to go and buy a Wii, a 24" LCD TV, three extra Wiimotes, four nunchucks and a bunch of games for that kind of money.
Whether Assange is being set up in some kind of smear campaign by the U.S. government,
"Whether Assange has set himself up in some kind of smear campaign directed at the U.S. government,"
There, fixed that conspiracy theory for you.
While OpenBSD doesn't have a perfect record for security
OpenBSD has got a *terrible* record for security. The illusion of security is only maintained because every time someone discovers a gaping exploit in OpenBSD, Theo moves the goalposts on what he considers a security hole. Just look at all the descriptions of "errata" for OpenBSD - bugfixes for security holes!
Theo is like that kid who, no matter what game you were playing, would always start making up bullshit rules whenever he started losing. Like, "Tag! You're it!" "No I'm not it, that tag didn't count because I'm uh... I'm near this rock".
Don't be that kid. That kid is a dick.
You did some damn fine engineering while keeping secret the things that needed to remain secret.
You know, a funny thing I've noticed is that there are a lot of people in the US who think that *everyone* should have a gun. But when you pressure them a little, it turns out that they don't think that *really* everyone should have a gun. Those damn illegal Mexicans, for example, they shouldn't be allowed guns. Or those Muslims, no guns for them. So really what they want is for only the people they think are the right sort of people to be able to have guns.
Now, consider that a nuclear weapon is really just another kind of gun...
Those who had more testosterone, tended to be more competitive even when it resulted in losing the game.
Okay, and this is "not in their best interests" why, exactly? It's a pretty narrow view that "winning" by making more money is the "good" result. What if you don't give a toss about money, and want to have fun?
That seems like a bizarre definition of the word impossible.
It doesn't look like it's that hard to play left-handed. Maybe he just sucks at visual puzzles.
... to the land of bad food and poor healthcare? Oh well, I suppose he has his reasons.
Well, it *is* evil because they're pushing their own software on the poeple who would be most likely to switch to Open-Source, but then it's *not* evil because they're helping defuse a politically nasty situation... Aw hell, I can't tell if this is evil or not.