I haven't followed what he's been up to for a very long while, but I do recall he had a rather idi osyncratic opinion on what made humour. He believed for something to be funny it had to be awkward, uncomfortable, embarassing, uncomfortable. And you can see there was a lot of that in Fawlty Towers and it worked. But for me it was enough. I don't want to experience large doses of uncomfortable feelings so he lost me.
So he's not just a bitter old man - maybe somewhat I don't know - but he thinks that is the essence of humour. And it isn't.
Overall, I'm fairly ambivalent on the issue.blockquote> Well I have a concrete example.
My driving style varies: on the one hand I drive fairly defensively and try not to upset other people around me , and I think I'm reasonably good at it, but on the other hand I pass through some quiet open places where sometimes it's just me, the car and the road. There's threshold braking and hard turning involved(no hard acceleration or high speeds with this car) and lots of understeer. I think it's a low risk thing.
I suspect a good racing instructor would see on the graphs(they do that all the time) that they're tidy and I'm in control, and that my general driving is safe, be it slightly too fast, but with insurance and police the data would likely be used against me. Well, if they would consider it worth it of course.
With the police it's a principle thing: they're not just interested in applying the rules where they make a difference, just everywhere. Most speeding tickets are to be harvested in places where people use sound judgement to decide safe speeds are higher than allowed speeds. If the police get your data they can harvest all those places.
If they're good, they're going to identify frequent high-G jerking when she looks up and realizes she's in another lane.
That would be a third derivative. The change in accelleration. The part that upsets the car.
In practice they would look for correlations. It may well be they end up using calculated numbers they don't really understand but that they can correllate well with risks.
You know who drives like that? All those awful oblivious drivers who everyone else is dodging. And the people doing the dodging look like maniacs.
You could use a course in defensive driving. Driving smooth is a good rule. It involves being predictable for those around you and being prepared for whatever is going on around you. If you're dodging a lot you're not driving right.It's the oblivious drivers who do the dodging. And really, smooth isn't slow.
Speeding or accelerating "too fast" are probably some of the *least* dangerous acts in themselves
Please explain to my wife.
I'm reminded regularly of the comparison of driving styles when I notice cars that very calmly and relaxed stick to the same speed, completely ignoring the intersections they're passing.
maybe it lingers, but not enough to deteriorate your driving considerably. A near collision while drunk driving will also cause the person to sober up temporarily however, due to the adrenaline boost. So will an actual collision. Big lot of good that does.
When I see a car that's all over the road then it pretty much looks like drunk driving to me. So then I pass it and see the driver busy texting. So here's the proposal: how much does one have to drink to drive like that? Well use that number to calculate the fine.
Yes, one wonders if they've made an ordinary numbering policy for releases into something more fundamental. On the other hand one could claim that development on Wxwidgets is not as dynamic as on QT.
I like to drive. But if they offered me an autopilot button I'd be interested if I get to choose when to use it. I'd consider traffic jams. Later on I'd consider it when going out so I can drink. I'm still there though to take over. Then maybe when I've very tired. It's gradual, and confidence can grow with experience.
I thought it was that electric cars don't need gearboxes but this limits their topspeed. With some kind of gearbox the car could go much faster. But that's just my thinking.
Not exponential, quadratic I thought. So power goes up by the third power. Twice the speed, 8 times the power. But it's not accurate, otherwise a Veyron could do 500 kph with only 125 bhp.
All speedometers are inaccurate, they all show a higher value than the actual speed. But there actually are cars where you can tweak the speedo to take in account different wheel sizes and maybe it's possible to get a measurement that way that is too low..
A 400+ hp car that is streamlined and only does 132 mph,that is exceptionally slow. Cars with half that bhp can reach that speed. Must be due the lack of a suitable gearbox - as in, no gearbox at all?
AFAIK the protest against Elsevier was not about them wanting to get paid but about monopolies. Monopolies tend to want just a bit more than getting paid.
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I haven't followed what he's been up to for a very long while, but I do recall he had a rather idi osyncratic opinion on what made humour. He believed for something to be funny it had to be awkward, uncomfortable, embarassing, uncomfortable. And you can see there was a lot of that in Fawlty Towers and it worked.
But for me it was enough. I don't want to experience large doses of uncomfortable feelings so he lost me.
So he's not just a bitter old man - maybe somewhat I don't know - but he thinks that is the essence of humour. And it isn't.
That would be a third derivative. The change in accelleration. The part that upsets the car.
In practice they would look for correlations. It may well be they end up using calculated numbers they don't really understand but that they can correllate well with risks.
You could use a course in defensive driving. Driving smooth is a good rule. It involves being predictable for those around you and being prepared for whatever is going on around you.
If you're dodging a lot you're not driving right.It's the oblivious drivers who do the dodging. And really, smooth isn't slow.
Please explain to my wife.
I'm reminded regularly of the comparison of driving styles when I notice cars that very calmly and relaxed stick to the same speed, completely ignoring the intersections they're passing.
maybe it lingers, but not enough to deteriorate your driving considerably. A near collision while drunk driving will also cause the person to sober up temporarily however, due to the adrenaline boost. So will an actual collision. Big lot of good that does.
When I see a car that's all over the road then it pretty much looks like drunk driving to me. So then I pass it and see the driver busy texting. So here's the proposal: how much does one have to drink to drive like that? Well use that number to calculate the fine.
Yes, one wonders if they've made an ordinary numbering policy for releases into something more fundamental. On the other hand one could claim that development on Wxwidgets is not as dynamic as on QT.
Oh were we supposed to think then? Now they tell me.
As long as the bullet has completely left the gun before hitting the kid shooting is not touching so it's ok.
I like to drive. But if they offered me an autopilot button I'd be interested if I get to choose when to use it. I'd consider traffic jams. Later on I'd consider it when going out so I can drink. I'm still there though to take over. Then maybe when I've very tired. It's gradual, and confidence can grow with experience.
Well that was fun. Got more?
and a tank of over 20l is not uncommon with large cars.
I thought it was that electric cars don't need gearboxes but this limits their topspeed.
With some kind of gearbox the car could go much faster. But that's just my thinking.
nice.
I mean 200kph for the Veyron. duh.
Not exponential, quadratic I thought. So power goes up by the third power. Twice the speed, 8 times the power. But it's not accurate, otherwise a Veyron could do 500 kph with only 125 bhp.
All speedometers are inaccurate, they all show a higher value than the actual speed. But there actually are cars where you can tweak the speedo to take in account different wheel sizes and maybe it's possible to get a measurement that way that is too low..
A 400+ hp car that is streamlined and only does 132 mph ,that is exceptionally slow. Cars with half that bhp can reach that speed. Must be due the lack of a suitable gearbox - as in, no gearbox at all?
AFAIK the protest against Elsevier was not about them wanting to get paid but about monopolies. Monopolies tend to want just a bit more than getting paid.
For the NSA actually. Since they're sacking all their sysadmins
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/09/snowden_nsa_to_sack_90_per_cent_sysadmins_keith_alexander/
Because they're trying to fool the competition. It won't help though , she's dead innit.
Anyway, NASA is also allowed to look at their faraway past with the attitudes of today without being hypocrites.
Well, most of the copper has deorbited by now.But as the article says, not all.
Past tense. They put the copper in space 50 years ago.There's nothing hypocritical about it. The situation has changed. Attitudes have cahnged
Agreed.