Well yes, that's why I mentioned it. However, the point still holds that every make and model of car built in the past twenty years should have - at some point - shown problems that could be put down to cosmic rays flipping bits.
I suspect there's absolutely no chance of a cosmic ray upsetting the ECU, under any circumstances. Particularly if it proves to be immune to a bunch of large spark gaps firing at tens of thousands of volts, hundreds of times a second, and right beside it.
Is there a reason why cars aren't doing the same thing?
Because there's no way that these problems are cause by "cosmic rays". If it *was* a problem, then we'd be hearing about all kinds of random electrical problems in all kinds of vehicles. Cars have had computer-controlled fuel injection and ignition for over twenty years now. Granted, the 68000-based engine management unit in my 1990 Citroen XM has a smaller transistor density than the extremely compact and powerful processors in modern systems, but if cosmic rays were flipping bits then the problem would not be confined to one manufacturer or one model.
... that are actually supported in Linux. Intel cards have very primitive support (good luck if you want TV out, or if you want your laptop screen to come back after going into suspend), and ATI have no functional support at all.
How hard can it be for a manufacturer to get a tiny bit of clue about this?
Stealing an ice-cream van could net you a couple of grand, if you stop and sell in the right area.
You know how the GTA4 engine will draw lots of the same type of car to save memory, so it only needs to buffer one model? I work near a taxi office. A long session on GTA4 session followed by seeing lots of near-identical Skoda Octavias and Mercedes C-classes driving can be unsettling...
GTA's focus on wanton violence and abuse may be dated for London, but it would be highly apt for GTA:Glasgow.
One of the missions in the upcoming GTA:Paisley mission pack is to steal a jeep, set it on fire then crash it into the front of the airport terminal building. Then you have to avoid the irate locals and police, with three "wanted" stars.
I had never heard the term "windpipe" used before for that. "Trachea" is a far more common word. Anyway, surely you've watched an episode of House before?
Right, but in any possible combination of circumstances that *must* have been passed as a red call. Well, unless of course he didn't actually mention that his wife had recent hip surgery and had either a broken or dislocated hip?
I am sorry but that does not sound plausible. An ambulance will always be dispatched for that type of injury, it may be not always be classed as an emergency response and so may be delayed due to higher priority incidents but an ambulance will always arrive.
I checked with an ambulance-driving friend and an A&E doctor friend; the GPP story is apparently a well-known "dead-grandmother-on-roofrack" urban legend. A broken hip is *always* attended, frequently by a rapid-response unit (either car or motorbike) initially. A broken hip soon after hip replacement surgery is *always* a "red call", because there's a good chance it will all get much worse very quickly.
The problem is, the examples you cite are from the Daily Telegraph, an extremist right-wing newpaper that *loves* to spin stories about how bad the NHS is. It's not insignificant that the owner of the publisher of the Torygraph also owns a large private medical insurance company.
HMO? Fee for service? Catastrophic plan? take yer pick.
Except, when you want to switch away from my insurance service, I'll just charge you a massive get-out fee and tell all the other insurers that you are an unacceptable risk.
Welcome to paying $1500 towards my new Jaguar every time you want an aspirin.
A casual acquaintance from high school has been working for the last 25 years cleaning up roadkill for the county, and he's as happy as a pig in slop doing what most people here would consider a shit job. He'd consider any job that involved more math than tallying up how many critters he scraped off the pavement to be the "shit job".
That sounds like a great job. You get a van, you get a brush, you get a shovel and you get some plastic bags. Then you get some of your favourite CDs and a flask of coffee and go sweep up some roadkill. Come 5pm, you aim the pointy end home and you're not mentally exhausted from figuring out how to move the title half a pixel left on the online TPS reports - so you're nice and fresh for implementing your own projects that you've had time to think about all day.
Because ripping out an infrastructure that relies on closed-source proprietary software and replacing it with free, Free software is hard. Really, really hard.
Yes, it's easy to rip out that clunky old Exchange server that has never really worked right, and slap in something running Exim and Courier-IMAP. The tricky bit is all the little edge cases and micro-applications - things that are *really important* that rely on someone running an Excel macro on the right machine at the right time. No, I'm not saying they should keep those - but you've got to make a very compelling case to get rid of them and have someone write an equivalent in $favourite_language.
It's harder than you think. If you don't think it's hard, send in your CV.
Right, so I have to go off and find some drivers, and download them, and figure out how to install them? Why should I do that? In Linux it just works when I plug it in. Why can't Windows be that easy?
If you're getting that kind of latency between your ears and the speakers, you may want to fill the entire area with water or some other medium where the speed of sound is higher.
Sound is slow. Really slow. Sound takes about three milliseconds to travel a metre.
Can you do low-latency multi-track recording with it in Linux? If so, what software do you use?
Yes. I use Ardour, running on Arch Linux with a more-or-less stock kernel (the only changes from stock are to enable the missing AX.25 drivers, but that's utterly unrelated to audio - the point is more that I don't bother with any specific low-latency patches).
I can get a latency of about 4ms. If I wanted it any less, moving my head closer to the speakers would help more;-)
You almost certainly googled around for information on your sound card before purchasing it.
Exactly. That's why I bought an M-Audio Delta 1010LT, because it's specifically extremely well-supported in Linux. I couldn't care less whether or not it's supported in Windows, since the software I want it for isn't available in Windows.
Ya see, there's no way to make my soundcard work in *nix, from what I, and my friend who damn well *lives* in *nix can find.
You don't say what kind of card it is, I notice...
There's no way to make my sound card work in Windows. Well, I could download a couple of gigabytes of Windows updates and a driver, and then download a couple of gigabytes of software updates, and eventually I'd have two of the ten channels working. Or, I could just use Linux, where my Delta 1010LT is supported perfectly.
You'll probably notice that most of these are posted by kdawson or timmeh, who have some really deep-seated issues with the UK. I'm surprised that the "newspaper" article referenced here is from the Grauniad - normally they take an article from the ultra-right tabloids like the Daily Mail and then publish some breathless piece about how awful the UK is, without checking any facts.
I reckon I could sit down right now and invent 100 totally unique ways of exchanging files across the internet.
Forget the Internet. For about 50p you could post a USB memory stick. It would take about a day to get to the recipient if you sent it first-class.
How long would it take to download 4GB of data? How much would it cost? Posting a 4GB USB stick would be comparable, once you've bought the (reusable) memory stick.
Uh, why would you be relying on the tyres? First off, if a car's brakes do not have enough power to overcome the engine, then they do not have enough power to stop the car quickly enough even with the engine behaving itself. Such a car would be illegal to use on public roads. Furthermore - and this might have escaped your attention - the vast majority of cars on the road are front wheel drive. Those big brake discs will stop the engine without the tyres having any effect at all.
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Well yes, that's why I mentioned it. However, the point still holds that every make and model of car built in the past twenty years should have - at some point - shown problems that could be put down to cosmic rays flipping bits.
I suspect there's absolutely no chance of a cosmic ray upsetting the ECU, under any circumstances. Particularly if it proves to be immune to a bunch of large spark gaps firing at tens of thousands of volts, hundreds of times a second, and right beside it.
Is there a reason why cars aren't doing the same thing?
Because there's no way that these problems are cause by "cosmic rays". If it *was* a problem, then we'd be hearing about all kinds of random electrical problems in all kinds of vehicles. Cars have had computer-controlled fuel injection and ignition for over twenty years now. Granted, the 68000-based engine management unit in my 1990 Citroen XM has a smaller transistor density than the extremely compact and powerful processors in modern systems, but if cosmic rays were flipping bits then the problem would not be confined to one manufacturer or one model.
S-Video works fine on the Intel GM965 on my laptop.
Only if you want non-accelerated graphics, which doesn't work so well for playing back video.
... that are actually supported in Linux. Intel cards have very primitive support (good luck if you want TV out, or if you want your laptop screen to come back after going into suspend), and ATI have no functional support at all.
How hard can it be for a manufacturer to get a tiny bit of clue about this?
Dunno about the cars.
Stealing an ice-cream van could net you a couple of grand, if you stop and sell in the right area.
You know how the GTA4 engine will draw lots of the same type of car to save memory, so it only needs to buffer one model? I work near a taxi office. A long session on GTA4 session followed by seeing lots of near-identical Skoda Octavias and Mercedes C-classes driving can be unsettling...
GTA's focus on wanton violence and abuse may be dated for London, but it would be highly apt for GTA:Glasgow.
One of the missions in the upcoming GTA:Paisley mission pack is to steal a jeep, set it on fire then crash it into the front of the airport terminal building. Then you have to avoid the irate locals and police, with three "wanted" stars.
I had never heard the term "windpipe" used before for that. "Trachea" is a far more common word. Anyway, surely you've watched an episode of House before?
I would have thought that most literate people know what a trachea is, at least if they've done high-school 1st year biology...
Those not traveling just worked hard and lived their life.
So, pretty much the same as everyone in the West, then?
Right, but in any possible combination of circumstances that *must* have been passed as a red call. Well, unless of course he didn't actually mention that his wife had recent hip surgery and had either a broken or dislocated hip?
Destroy as in convert matter to energy?
That is, broadly speaking, the way that nuclear fission works. Got it in one.
I am sorry but that does not sound plausible. An ambulance will always be dispatched for that type of injury, it may be not always be classed as an emergency response and so may be delayed due to higher priority incidents but an ambulance will always arrive.
I checked with an ambulance-driving friend and an A&E doctor friend; the GPP story is apparently a well-known "dead-grandmother-on-roofrack" urban legend. A broken hip is *always* attended, frequently by a rapid-response unit (either car or motorbike) initially. A broken hip soon after hip replacement surgery is *always* a "red call", because there's a good chance it will all get much worse very quickly.
The problem is, the examples you cite are from the Daily Telegraph, an extremist right-wing newpaper that *loves* to spin stories about how bad the NHS is. It's not insignificant that the owner of the publisher of the Torygraph also owns a large private medical insurance company.
Up until tonight, I could vote with my dollars.
HMO? Fee for service? Catastrophic plan? take yer pick.
Except, when you want to switch away from my insurance service, I'll just charge you a massive get-out fee and tell all the other insurers that you are an unacceptable risk.
Welcome to paying $1500 towards my new Jaguar every time you want an aspirin.
A casual acquaintance from high school has been working for the last 25 years cleaning up roadkill for the county, and he's as happy as a pig in slop doing what most people here would consider a shit job. He'd consider any job that involved more math than tallying up how many critters he scraped off the pavement to be the "shit job".
That sounds like a great job. You get a van, you get a brush, you get a shovel and you get some plastic bags. Then you get some of your favourite CDs and a flask of coffee and go sweep up some roadkill. Come 5pm, you aim the pointy end home and you're not mentally exhausted from figuring out how to move the title half a pixel left on the online TPS reports - so you're nice and fresh for implementing your own projects that you've had time to think about all day.
That sounds absolutely bloody brilliant.
Because ripping out an infrastructure that relies on closed-source proprietary software and replacing it with free, Free software is hard. Really, really hard.
Yes, it's easy to rip out that clunky old Exchange server that has never really worked right, and slap in something running Exim and Courier-IMAP. The tricky bit is all the little edge cases and micro-applications - things that are *really important* that rely on someone running an Excel macro on the right machine at the right time. No, I'm not saying they should keep those - but you've got to make a very compelling case to get rid of them and have someone write an equivalent in $favourite_language.
It's harder than you think. If you don't think it's hard, send in your CV.
Learn to pick your cause. A guy who killed a child is NOT a cause for YRO.
Yes, but it's a post from timmeh - and you know how much he hates the UK, because we're free.
Right, so I have to go off and find some drivers, and download them, and figure out how to install them? Why should I do that? In Linux it just works when I plug it in. Why can't Windows be that easy?
If you're getting that kind of latency between your ears and the speakers, you may want to fill the entire area with water or some other medium where the speed of sound is higher.
Sound is slow. Really slow. Sound takes about three milliseconds to travel a metre.
Can you do low-latency multi-track recording with it in Linux? If so, what software do you use?
Yes. I use Ardour, running on Arch Linux with a more-or-less stock kernel (the only changes from stock are to enable the missing AX.25 drivers, but that's utterly unrelated to audio - the point is more that I don't bother with any specific low-latency patches).
I can get a latency of about 4ms. If I wanted it any less, moving my head closer to the speakers would help more ;-)
You almost certainly googled around for information on your sound card before purchasing it.
Exactly. That's why I bought an M-Audio Delta 1010LT, because it's specifically extremely well-supported in Linux. I couldn't care less whether or not it's supported in Windows, since the software I want it for isn't available in Windows.
Ya see, there's no way to make my soundcard work in *nix, from what I, and my friend who damn well *lives* in *nix can find.
You don't say what kind of card it is, I notice...
There's no way to make my sound card work in Windows. Well, I could download a couple of gigabytes of Windows updates and a driver, and then download a couple of gigabytes of software updates, and eventually I'd have two of the ten channels working. Or, I could just use Linux, where my Delta 1010LT is supported perfectly.
You'll probably notice that most of these are posted by kdawson or timmeh, who have some really deep-seated issues with the UK. I'm surprised that the "newspaper" article referenced here is from the Grauniad - normally they take an article from the ultra-right tabloids like the Daily Mail and then publish some breathless piece about how awful the UK is, without checking any facts.
I reckon I could sit down right now and invent 100 totally unique ways of exchanging files across the internet.
Forget the Internet. For about 50p you could post a USB memory stick. It would take about a day to get to the recipient if you sent it first-class.
How long would it take to download 4GB of data? How much would it cost? Posting a 4GB USB stick would be comparable, once you've bought the (reusable) memory stick.
Uh, why would you be relying on the tyres? First off, if a car's brakes do not have enough power to overcome the engine, then they do not have enough power to stop the car quickly enough even with the engine behaving itself. Such a car would be illegal to use on public roads. Furthermore - and this might have escaped your attention - the vast majority of cars on the road are front wheel drive. Those big brake discs will stop the engine without the tyres having any effect at all.