I agree manufacturers should work more on functional design instead of focusing on coolness. It's not an easy subject , and looking at a movie of how this one works it doesn't give the appearance of being that flawed. I still have a book that discusses functional design of door handles(some even need instructions on them , such as 'push') and gas cookers(alright, which knob is for which unit again?)
I find it hard to blame and sue a manufacturer for lack of userfriendliness of their interface. I also don't see much signs of negligence. I think if you're a manufacturer and you get the first signs of accidents the first thing you do is start looking at possible malfunctions. And when that shows up nothing you just end up confused and wait.
So in this case they've been recalling the cars for some kind of mod since the beginning of the year. What kind of mod is that anyway?
Well he's talking about one in billions chance. If he can make statistical statements like that maybe he's got some impressive sample base we don't know about.
Nobody knows these people. The Matrix though, everyone knows that. Though there the people in the simulation are somehow more real than the simulation.
Let's call it a joint venture. But I agree NSA will simple join up with Google instead of developing everything in parallel. Eric Schmidt certainly doesn't mind.
torture is used for multiple reasons. Torture is sold with a story of some imminent danger where the tortured person has done very bad things and also has a key that when disclosed will stop this imminent danger. If you think this story represents the reality it is easier to support it. In reality this may apply to very exceptional cases but the bulk is that it's used for general information gathering , for turning people into informants , for terrorizing the population. For general information gathering the torture record is pretty weak.
Why do you think the Guantanamo prisoners have been gradually released over a decade? To obfuscate the fact that there was so little incriminating information against the prisoners.
In fact it may be the most mentally destructive form of torture around. Which it was designed to be. We know it as enhanced interrogation because , well, officials want to call it that way and because the press is lost to journalism.
The weight of cars has increased dramatically in the last 30 years. The extra weight has gone partly into making the car safer. It would be fun if the lives saved by safer cars would be cancelled by the increase in bad air. You suppress a bump here and it pops up again in another place. In practice one would expect that the net effect is still positive. This reminds me of a related problem with diesel. As diesel engines got optimized they started to emit increasing amounts of NOx. Well, maybe the net effect didn't increase, but in any case the engines ran hotter and this increased NOx production.
It does appear that they're concerned a lot more about occasional sex in driving cars than about webbrowsing , gaming and texting while driving which will happen orders of magnitude more often.
We'll need some driveby autorecharge feature but then we'll finally be able to read the headline "Car Drives Around for Months with Dead Driver in it".
They should have given that in meters, so it sounds bigger. So since this smells of 'trying hard to make numbers sound big' , how much hair length does a human have? If you take 100,000 hairs and 15cm it adds up to 15km or 10 miles. So they tested 100 heads. Or the same head 100 times. I wouldn't rank that under 'more than you'd expect'.
Agreed. Intuition is a valid part of scientific endeavour, though not many will agree on that. There should be a lot of freedom in how one constructs a hypothesis. It's still a guess. If it's completely grounded in experiment then it's not a guess.
Well the way car makers keep piling on new safety features like adaptive cruise control and lane assist and whatnot it seems the dominant strategy is to make it safer for you to text-while-driving.
I have no idea. In fact upon further thought the theory looks a bit gibberish and I still don't trust that emdrive for one bit. I'll just wait and see if it's not another cold fusion thing.
Linear in respect to what? Size of a thruster, amount of thrusters, current into the thruster? I assumed that two 2.5kw generators some distance from each other would not interfere:) Maybe they do. Otherwise one would hope for economies of scale to do better than linear. The thrust is a bit better than ion thrusters but you don't have to carry propellant which should make a big difference.
I agree that in principle the speed of light does not have to be the same as the limit speed and that they tend to be confused. Only even the tiniest mass of light particles would easily be measured and experiments have been made that are extremely sensitive to this 'nonzeroness' , mainly because they would strongly affect how electrostatic forces depend on distance. So the mass would have to be ridiculously small. ('ridiculous' differs orders of magnitude from 'extreme' ).
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I agree manufacturers should work more on functional design instead of focusing on coolness. It's not an easy subject , and looking at a movie of how this one works it doesn't give the appearance of being that flawed. I still have a book that discusses functional design of door handles(some even need instructions on them , such as 'push') and gas cookers(alright, which knob is for which unit again?)
I find it hard to blame and sue a manufacturer for lack of userfriendliness of their interface. I also don't see much signs of negligence. I think if you're a manufacturer and you get the first signs of accidents the first thing you do is start looking at possible malfunctions. And when that shows up nothing you just end up confused and wait.
So in this case they've been recalling the cars for some kind of mod since the beginning of the year. What kind of mod is that anyway?
Well he's talking about one in billions chance. If he can make statistical statements like that maybe he's got some impressive sample base we don't know about.
Nobody knows these people. The Matrix though, everyone knows that. Though there the people in the simulation are somehow more real than the simulation.
Almost half of the items in my /. feed are related to Google. That's a bit much.
Simples. After every drive you pressure-clean off all the pedestrians and apply a new layer.
Let's call it a joint venture. But I agree NSA will simple join up with Google instead of developing everything in parallel. Eric Schmidt certainly doesn't mind.
Well Have I ever. Now your post is no longer listed as a reply to mine but to someone else. Apologies.
I wonder if your post has any relationship to mine. Wrong location? In any case I can't figure out what your enlightened criticism is supposed to be.
torture is used for multiple reasons. Torture is sold with a story of some imminent danger where the tortured person has done very bad things and also has a key that when disclosed will stop this imminent danger. If you think this story represents the reality it is easier to support it. In reality this may apply to very exceptional cases but the bulk is that it's used for general information gathering , for turning people into informants , for terrorizing the population. For general information gathering the torture record is pretty weak.
Why do you think the Guantanamo prisoners have been gradually released over a decade? To obfuscate the fact that there was so little incriminating information against the prisoners.
In fact it may be the most mentally destructive form of torture around. Which it was designed to be. We know it as enhanced interrogation because , well, officials want to call it that way and because the press is lost to journalism.
I'm not going to click on that link but fer shure someone had to verify if rule 34 applied..
I hope it doesn't explode.
The weight of cars has increased dramatically in the last 30 years. The extra weight has gone partly into making the car safer. It would be fun if the lives saved by safer cars would be cancelled by the increase in bad air. You suppress a bump here and it pops up again in another place. In practice one would expect that the net effect is still positive.
This reminds me of a related problem with diesel. As diesel engines got optimized they started to emit increasing amounts of NOx. Well, maybe the net effect didn't increase, but in any case the engines ran hotter and this increased NOx production.
It does appear that they're concerned a lot more about occasional sex in driving cars than about webbrowsing , gaming and texting while driving which will happen orders of magnitude more often.
We'll need some driveby autorecharge feature but then we'll finally be able to read the headline "Car Drives Around for Months with Dead Driver in it".
They should have given that in meters, so it sounds bigger. So since this smells of 'trying hard to make numbers sound big' , how much hair length does a human have?
If you take 100,000 hairs and 15cm it adds up to 15km or 10 miles. So they tested 100 heads. Or the same head 100 times. I wouldn't rank that under 'more than you'd expect'.
Agreed. Intuition is a valid part of scientific endeavour, though not many will agree on that. There should be a lot of freedom in how one constructs a hypothesis. It's still a guess. If it's completely grounded in experiment then it's not a guess.
Well the way car makers keep piling on new safety features like adaptive cruise control and lane assist and whatnot it seems the dominant strategy is to make it safer for you to text-while-driving.
I have no idea. In fact upon further thought the theory looks a bit gibberish and I still don't trust that emdrive for one bit. I'll just wait and see if it's not another cold fusion thing.
Actually I did find numbers in the links later on. From 70 to 700 millinewtons of thrust from a 2.5KW device.
Linear in respect to what? Size of a thruster, amount of thrusters, current into the thruster? I assumed that two 2.5kw generators some distance from each other would not interfere :) Maybe they do.
Otherwise one would hope for economies of scale to do better than linear. The thrust is a bit better than ion thrusters but you don't have to carry propellant which should make a big difference.
Bigger engines mean a few percent more efficiency, so you can increase double the amount of miles flown without feeling guilty.
I agree that in principle the speed of light does not have to be the same as the limit speed and that they tend to be confused. Only even the tiniest mass of light particles would easily be measured and experiments have been made that are extremely sensitive to this 'nonzeroness' , mainly because they would strongly affect how electrostatic forces depend on distance. So the mass would have to be ridiculously small. ('ridiculous' differs orders of magnitude from 'extreme' ).
To give a ballpark estimate(yield varies with about a factor 10), with a 5kw system you can lift 100g (one newton) on earth.