... or we'll collectively learn that throwing rocks in the neighbour's window is NOT a life-tainting event that will destroy your life forever?
That won't happen until the vast majority of the US population lose their Taliban-like Puritanical religious fervour. It must be hell over there, knowing you could not just lose your job but be banned from your chosen career forever if you are photographed holding (not even drinking, just holding) an alcoholic drink. The people in the US are the most spied-upon and repressed, after China.
That's exactly what it is - the outer edge of the tyre has a lot less loading than the inner edge. Not only does this make the ride unpleasant but it drastically reduces grip and makes the car handle like a greasy weasel. If you want to know how to get the best out of your suspension, look at how tarmac rally cars are set up. That's going to be about the closest in "performance" suspension to what will be suitable for a daily driver. You'll find it has little camber, very soft springs with a lot of travel, and very stiff damping. On the road, this would give you a soft, comfortable ride with excellent grip on uneven road surfaces. Having really hard suspension means you have no grip at all, on anything but a perfectly glass-smooth racing track.
Is it the American standard where working 40 hours in an air-conditioned building, getting paid extra for overtime, and making a minimum of $15,000 a year is barely acceptable?
You do realise that in the UK and EU, we would consider 40 hours a week, only one week per year holiday (maybe two, if you're very senior) and $15,000pa minimum to be pretty much slave labour?
That reminds me, I've still got three weeks of holiday to use up before December.
I drive a 1988 Citroën CX. The only electronic thing in that is the clock, and I *know* that doesn't work.
I had a Citroën XM from 1989 that used to regularly crash, and display odd messages on the dashboard LCD. Frequently when it was damp and cold outside it would display "ABS HORS SERVICE", which translates from French to "ABS OUT OF SERVICE", even though the ABS was working fine. It also popped up odd messages about oil pressure and brake pressure in German, because of a mismatch between the firmware version in one of the engine ECUS and one of the dashboard ECUs, and periodically set the hydraulic suspension into hard mode (stiffer-than-a-BMW-M3-rattle-your-teeth-out hard) as a safety measure because it had lost contact with the gearbox speed sensor. I was able to download a firmware update and blow it into an EPROM (yes, real EPROM, none of this brickable flash nonnsense) which cured the firmware version mismatches, and cleaned up some earth tags to fix the rest, Technologically it was a little ahead of the curve in the late 80s. The CX I have now and the first XM I owned were built less than a year apart, but in terms of the electronics on board you'd think they were from different centuries.
In order to deal with the massive volume of readers, Slashdot periodically builds a static page
Okay, so that will be why no new comments showed up on any story for a couple of hours, then? Look at the timestamp on the original comment, and look at when your comment was posted. New comments began to show up around 12pm, but for about three hours nothing showed up. I have no idea why it would accept a post, but not actually show up even in my user page.
You can use the ABS sensors to detect a soft tyre. Some Volkswagens can actually have a soft tyre warning added, by a firmware update!
Basically what you do is you measure the output of all four wheel sensors (as the ABS unit does anyway), and see if one is consistently a higher speed than the others. Soft tyre == smaller rolling radius == faster rotation for the same road speed. It won't catch if all your tyres are equally flat.
This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
You can use the ABS sensors to detect a soft tyre. Some Volkswagens can actually have a soft tyre warning added, by a firmware update!
Basically what you do is you measure the output of all four wheel sensors (as the ABS unit does anyway), and see if one is consistently a higher speed than the others. Soft tyre == smaller rolling radius == faster rotation for the same road speed. It won't catch if all your tyres are equally flat.
Thunderbird 2 had a clear, easy-to-use interface, with quick and simple searching and a nice layout. Thunderbird 3 doesn't appear to have a search function - although you can tell it to search, what it does is open up a new tab with all the emails that have anything in the search term in them, or sometimes nothing from the search terms which are presumably included just for fun, or because they looked lonely.
The best bit is when you try to find out if it's possible to disable tabs - you can't! The response from the developers is generally along the lines of "ZOMG LOLWUT TABS ARE MORE AWESOMER Y U WANT RID OF EM??!!11?!!"
Exactly. It's nice to have a really high-end oscilloscope, but if you've blown all your money on that how do you buy a signal generator, or a spectrum analyser?
Incidentally, I used to repair and set up HF and VHF radios with a frequency counter, signal generator and 40MHz 'scope. It puzzles me why people think that oscilloscopes "don't work" above the frequency written on the front - they work just fine, although the accuracy drops off. If you're peaking up the filters in a VHF lowband receiver (around 80MHz) you don't need to see an accurate waveform (you rarely need that at RF anyway) or an accurate voltage. You just need to see if you've got more or less when you tweak each coil.
These days I just take them into work and use one of the venerable Marconi 2955s on them.
And now, our buddies in the UK are decentralizing their healthcare because the quality of their socialized healthcare sucks.
No, it's being decentralised because the current lot of far-right fruitcakes have figured out that it's their best chance at selling off what was left after the previous lot of far-right fruitcakes sold off public assets.
Unfortunately, we appear to be moving towards the same third-world system as the US has, where you have to pay for all your healthcare in cash up front.
The Prius is still larger, comes standard with lots of electronic stuff and a good sound system. The Fiesta still considers anything much more than power mirrors an option.
The Prius doesn't really come with that much, in base spec trim, and even the low-end Fiesta has a decent sound system. If you get a fully-loaded Fiesta it's still cheaper than an equivalent Prius.
Even at that, the Fiesta is *still* going to be cheaper to run than the petrol-hungry Prius.
A base-spec Toyota Prius is £19855. A Ford Fiesta 1.4TDCi is £9595. So, yes, the Prius is more expensive. It's also more expensive to service, and at 45mpg is well and truly in gas-guzzler territory.
I liked the idea that the operators of a nursing home in Germany had, where they put a fake bus stop at the end of the road. They looked after a lot of Alzheimer's patients, who would wander off and try to make their way home. Of course, they'd get as far as the bus stop, and wait for a bus - so if you noticed someone was missing you knew the first place to look.
It's a bigger problem than people realise. I used to work near a nursing home, where one of my minion's grandmother stayed. About once a week she'd wander off and walk the six or seven miles back to her old house, assuming that minion or I didn't notice and set off in the car to retrieve her. The nursing home never learned from the experience.
This is probably a beautiful photograph that I will never see because I choose not to use the technology required.
Okay, so I need to go and buy a copy of Microsoft Windows to view it. Then I find I need to buy a new computer, because my existing one isn't compatible with Windows (the graphics card, sound card and network card aren't supported). Oh, and then I need to go and buy some expensive training courses to learn how to use Microsoft Windows, because I've never actually had to use it before.
Or, they could just use something that runs on more than one operating system.
Assume IE 6 earns them 1 million dollars a day. If they stop using IE6. They start losing 1 million dollars a day. Thats the reality of the situation.
Except it's nothing like reality. They *only* lose 1 million dollars a day if they stop using IE6 *and then don't use anything else*.
Here's a car analogy. Using a Mercedes Vito van makes me a certain quantity of thousands of pounds per year (I'm British, we don't disclose ages or wages). So, if I stop using a Merc, I stop earning money, right? Wrong. If I stop using a Mercedes Vito, I start using a Citroën Berlingo, or a Ford Transit, or some similar van.
No what's "wrong" is that I am being forced to pay a $950 Fine because I exercised my Pro-Choice right not to buy hospital insurance.
No, what's wrong is the half-assed way that the US has implemented an attempt at socialised healthcare by requiring everyone to buy insurance from privately-owned companies. Congratulations, you've got the worst of both worlds.
If you don't want socialised healthcare and you don't want to buy insurance, then don't come crying to me because you broke your arm and you can't sign a cheque before they even put you in an ambulance. Oh, and enjoy paying more than most people pay for a house for getting a broken arm set.
If the light is red and you drive past it, how can you in any way claim to be innocent? Bear in mind that red light cameras don't tend to trip below about 5mph, so "I just pulled into the junction to let the ambulance past" won't fly.
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... or we'll collectively learn that throwing rocks in the neighbour's window is NOT a life-tainting event that will destroy your life forever?
That won't happen until the vast majority of the US population lose their Taliban-like Puritanical religious fervour. It must be hell over there, knowing you could not just lose your job but be banned from your chosen career forever if you are photographed holding (not even drinking, just holding) an alcoholic drink. The people in the US are the most spied-upon and repressed, after China.
That's exactly what it is - the outer edge of the tyre has a lot less loading than the inner edge. Not only does this make the ride unpleasant but it drastically reduces grip and makes the car handle like a greasy weasel. If you want to know how to get the best out of your suspension, look at how tarmac rally cars are set up. That's going to be about the closest in "performance" suspension to what will be suitable for a daily driver. You'll find it has little camber, very soft springs with a lot of travel, and very stiff damping. On the road, this would give you a soft, comfortable ride with excellent grip on uneven road surfaces. Having really hard suspension means you have no grip at all, on anything but a perfectly glass-smooth racing track.
Life is too short. Get someone else to do it, under the disguise of valuable field experience.
Is it the American standard where working 40 hours in an air-conditioned building, getting paid extra for overtime, and making a minimum of $15,000 a year is barely acceptable?
You do realise that in the UK and EU, we would consider 40 hours a week, only one week per year holiday (maybe two, if you're very senior) and $15,000pa minimum to be pretty much slave labour?
That reminds me, I've still got three weeks of holiday to use up before December.
I drive a 1988 Citroën CX. The only electronic thing in that is the clock, and I *know* that doesn't work.
I had a Citroën XM from 1989 that used to regularly crash, and display odd messages on the dashboard LCD. Frequently when it was damp and cold outside it would display "ABS HORS SERVICE", which translates from French to "ABS OUT OF SERVICE", even though the ABS was working fine. It also popped up odd messages about oil pressure and brake pressure in German, because of a mismatch between the firmware version in one of the engine ECUS and one of the dashboard ECUs, and periodically set the hydraulic suspension into hard mode (stiffer-than-a-BMW-M3-rattle-your-teeth-out hard) as a safety measure because it had lost contact with the gearbox speed sensor. I was able to download a firmware update and blow it into an EPROM (yes, real EPROM, none of this brickable flash nonnsense) which cured the firmware version mismatches, and cleaned up some earth tags to fix the rest, Technologically it was a little ahead of the curve in the late 80s. The CX I have now and the first XM I owned were built less than a year apart, but in terms of the electronics on board you'd think they were from different centuries.
Here in the north of Scotland, it gets dark about 10pm. Around the solstice it gets dark around 11:30pm-12am, and is daylight again by about 2:30am.
In order to deal with the massive volume of readers, Slashdot periodically builds a static page
Okay, so that will be why no new comments showed up on any story for a couple of hours, then? Look at the timestamp on the original comment, and look at when your comment was posted. New comments began to show up around 12pm, but for about three hours nothing showed up. I have no idea why it would accept a post, but not actually show up even in my user page.
... just don't compile it with "--enable-become-skynet" and you'll be fine.
You can use the ABS sensors to detect a soft tyre. Some Volkswagens can actually have a soft tyre warning added, by a firmware update!
Basically what you do is you measure the output of all four wheel sensors (as the ABS unit does anyway), and see if one is consistently a higher speed than the others. Soft tyre == smaller rolling radius == faster rotation for the same road speed. It won't catch if all your tyres are equally flat.
This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
So why isn't it showing up?
You can use the ABS sensors to detect a soft tyre. Some Volkswagens can actually have a soft tyre warning added, by a firmware update!
Basically what you do is you measure the output of all four wheel sensors (as the ABS unit does anyway), and see if one is consistently a higher speed than the others. Soft tyre == smaller rolling radius == faster rotation for the same road speed. It won't catch if all your tyres are equally flat.
That was one couple who both had "learning difficulties". They were barely capable of taking care of themselves, never mind a baby.
Also, the article is from the Daily Torygraph, a fanatically right-wing paper. Anything printed in it should be taken with a very large grain of salt.
"We have proof, when PI is expended out to (some number), there is a message"
"Five trillion digits ought to be enough for anybody - God"
Thunderbird 2 had a clear, easy-to-use interface, with quick and simple searching and a nice layout. Thunderbird 3 doesn't appear to have a search function - although you can tell it to search, what it does is open up a new tab with all the emails that have anything in the search term in them, or sometimes nothing from the search terms which are presumably included just for fun, or because they looked lonely.
The best bit is when you try to find out if it's possible to disable tabs - you can't! The response from the developers is generally along the lines of "ZOMG LOLWUT TABS ARE MORE AWESOMER Y U WANT RID OF EM??!!11?!!"
Exactly. It's nice to have a really high-end oscilloscope, but if you've blown all your money on that how do you buy a signal generator, or a spectrum analyser?
Incidentally, I used to repair and set up HF and VHF radios with a frequency counter, signal generator and 40MHz 'scope. It puzzles me why people think that oscilloscopes "don't work" above the frequency written on the front - they work just fine, although the accuracy drops off. If you're peaking up the filters in a VHF lowband receiver (around 80MHz) you don't need to see an accurate waveform (you rarely need that at RF anyway) or an accurate voltage. You just need to see if you've got more or less when you tweak each coil.
These days I just take them into work and use one of the venerable Marconi 2955s on them.
Which has got a video, then a big screed of ads, and finally an article well below the fold - by which point, I've lost interest.
Why do people seem to be really fired up with enthusiasm for driving traffic away from their sites with annoying flashy shit?
How about some sort of web page with a description, instead of having to sit through a tedious video?
And now, our buddies in the UK are decentralizing their healthcare because the quality of their socialized healthcare sucks.
No, it's being decentralised because the current lot of far-right fruitcakes have figured out that it's their best chance at selling off what was left after the previous lot of far-right fruitcakes sold off public assets.
Unfortunately, we appear to be moving towards the same third-world system as the US has, where you have to pay for all your healthcare in cash up front.
The Prius is still larger, comes standard with lots of electronic stuff and a good sound system. The Fiesta still considers anything much more than power mirrors an option.
The Prius doesn't really come with that much, in base spec trim, and even the low-end Fiesta has a decent sound system. If you get a fully-loaded Fiesta it's still cheaper than an equivalent Prius.
Even at that, the Fiesta is *still* going to be cheaper to run than the petrol-hungry Prius.
A base-spec Toyota Prius is £19855. A Ford Fiesta 1.4TDCi is £9595. So, yes, the Prius is more expensive. It's also more expensive to service, and at 45mpg is well and truly in gas-guzzler territory.
I liked the idea that the operators of a nursing home in Germany had, where they put a fake bus stop at the end of the road. They looked after a lot of Alzheimer's patients, who would wander off and try to make their way home. Of course, they'd get as far as the bus stop, and wait for a bus - so if you noticed someone was missing you knew the first place to look.
It's a bigger problem than people realise. I used to work near a nursing home, where one of my minion's grandmother stayed. About once a week she'd wander off and walk the six or seven miles back to her old house, assuming that minion or I didn't notice and set off in the car to retrieve her. The nursing home never learned from the experience.
This is probably a beautiful photograph that I will never see because I choose not to use the technology required .
Okay, so I need to go and buy a copy of Microsoft Windows to view it. Then I find I need to buy a new computer, because my existing one isn't compatible with Windows (the graphics card, sound card and network card aren't supported). Oh, and then I need to go and buy some expensive training courses to learn how to use Microsoft Windows, because I've never actually had to use it before.
Or, they could just use something that runs on more than one operating system.
Assume IE 6 earns them 1 million dollars a day. If they stop using IE6. They start losing 1 million dollars a day. Thats the reality of the situation.
Except it's nothing like reality. They *only* lose 1 million dollars a day if they stop using IE6 *and then don't use anything else*.
Here's a car analogy. Using a Mercedes Vito van makes me a certain quantity of thousands of pounds per year (I'm British, we don't disclose ages or wages). So, if I stop using a Merc, I stop earning money, right? Wrong. If I stop using a Mercedes Vito, I start using a Citroën Berlingo, or a Ford Transit, or some similar van.
It's really a pretty simple idea.
No what's "wrong" is that I am being forced to pay a $950 Fine because I exercised my Pro-Choice right not to buy hospital insurance.
No, what's wrong is the half-assed way that the US has implemented an attempt at socialised healthcare by requiring everyone to buy insurance from privately-owned companies. Congratulations, you've got the worst of both worlds.
If you don't want socialised healthcare and you don't want to buy insurance, then don't come crying to me because you broke your arm and you can't sign a cheque before they even put you in an ambulance. Oh, and enjoy paying more than most people pay for a house for getting a broken arm set.
As the article specified, they DO catch "rolling stops"
If you're rolling, you haven't stopped. If the light is red, you must stop. It's not a hard concept to grasp.
If the light is red and you drive past it, how can you in any way claim to be innocent? Bear in mind that red light cameras don't tend to trip below about 5mph, so "I just pulled into the junction to let the ambulance past" won't fly.