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Here's another thought excessive speed is not a problem! You cannot rationalise the excessive part, if 55 is safe, is 56 safe... how about 120, 150! The only 100% safe speed is 0mph for every vehicle. So once you set the bike in motion you've accepted there is a risk, now the only decision is how much risk you are prepared to accept? Well that and do you have enough money for the bail bond:-)
Actually you can. Reaction time is lowered the faster you go. Plus, in the US anyway, we have speed limits which means the average vehicle will be within 10mph+/- of that limit. If you are going twice that speed you run the risk of running into the back of a slower moving vehicle which you wouldn't have if you followed the flow of traffic. And, 0mph is not safe, sure it's safer than moving in that the only self inflicted injury would be falling over, but you still have the risk of being hit by another vehicle, of course you have this risk just being outside anyway but it's not 100% safe...
In fact you can use reverse logic in saying that a motorcycle is less dangerous than a car. You can't become trapped in a burning metal box, nor do you run the risk of drowning by, accidently, driving into a lake. You can't be crunched by a steering wheel plowing into your chest, etc...
If people planned an accident it wouldn't be called an accident, more like a purpose.
No Powertrain is deceiving, the motor would then be connected directly to the wheel (direct drive). I would guess then, that there are 2 motors, one for each wheel so twice as much to break down. What happens when one motor fails? The thing will turn in circles and is too heavy to lug around. I have a sub-30 pound mountain bike and instead of damaging a $50 tire I carried it a mile and half home because of a non-fixable flat (yeah, now I carry an extra tube). That was not fun, I couldn't imagine carrying one of these things (IT) around for more than a block. What about snow travel? Has anyone thought of that yet? I can't imagine it would be all that stable on ice which is very common in Minneapolis (where I'm from).
Playing Devils Advocate:
Max speed between 12 and 15/mph, average 15 miles per charge equates to 1 hour of travel time at max speed. This also equates to a 7 mile max bi-way commute. What about parking? You know they won't let you "ride" these in stores, how about carrying anything other than a briefcase? Forget it. Not very practical, IMHO.
There's 2 things going on here, RAM Address and RAM Data. It really boils down to what type of memory they are addressing. The Address doesn't need to be very big since they all have 64MB or less. The Data bus, OTH, dictates how fast the data moves. If the data bus is 64bit but the RAM is only 32bit then you have to interleave, basically 1 read/2 clocks. The Gamecube uses 1 transistor static RAM (24MB, 16MB DRAM) which is some new tech. I haven't read up on 1T-RAM but it sounds impressive because you don't have to read between refreshes since it's static and, theoretically, takes up half the space of static RAM. I would guess the X-box uses DDR, anyone know the data bus on the Pentium? AFAIK Pentiums have a 32bit bus (DIMMs are 32 bit).
In Minnesota, and surrounding states it's pretty rediculous if you actually follow the law. For instance, we (MN) don't tax clothing but it is taxed in Wisconsin (5% I think). If you buy clothes in Minnesota yet live in Wisconsin you need to pay Wisconsin 5% tax on those clothes. It gets even worse, Minnesota's sales tax is 6.5%. If I travel out of state and pay, say, 5% tax on a DVD I'm *supposed* to pay Minnesota the difference (1.5%). This fact alone would be worth an audit on everyone's state tax, fortunately they don't enforce this much because people don't hang on to receipts fore very little thing they buy. I've heard a few stories on businesses getting fried on use tax because of this but not general consumers.
The Internet has spawned thousands of "e-tailers" and this is what frightens states. Before the commercialization of the Internet mail order wasn't a HUGE business so states weren't really "losing" much money on sales taxes, but now...
Also contrary to popular belief, killing millions of innocent people in Germany did nothing to end the cycle of violence and hate.
It certainly did stop the Nazis, sure there's a few stragglers around here and there, but for the most part we freed the Jews. If Hitler had his way he would have eliminated every Jew on the planet, would he have stopped there? Certainly not.
Face it, nobody lives in a Utopian society. There have been and always will be criminals in one form or another.
The only way to stop OBL's terrorism is to become Arab and give up the American way of life. The US won't do that so the threat of more terrorism will always persist. Even if we did then some other country would get pissed off... Stopping violence won't stop hate, it's not that easy, people still hate today because of previous violence. Unless you could wipe everyone's mind of history and start "from scratch" there will always be hatred. Slavery was abolished in the US over a hundred years ago yet the KKK still exist. Hitler was killed 60 years ago yet there are "Neo Nazis" around. If we kill OBL Al-Qaeda will still be around. You don't actually think that if we peacably eliminated Al-Qaeda and the Taliban that some of them would still hate the US do you? All it takes is 1 terrorist to kill thousands... OBL is the head, we chop it off and the body will slowly decay, sure it won't happen overnight, but not doing anything will just allow it to grow more...
We are not fighting an army, we are fighting a few very desperate people.
The problem is we can't go in and "pick out" the few desperate people. If we could do that then we would...
Take away their fear of being eradicated by us, and they will stop terrorizing us. When we stop supporting terrorists of our own, terrorists will leave us alone.
Excuse me? They (OBL/Taliban) *HATE* us (US people and nation), they hate Christians, freedom and Capitalism. Everything the US stands for is against their ideals (poverty, Allah, etc...). When you have irrational thought (hatred) towards another you do anything to affect them in some way (eradication). The primarily provocation to 9/11 was American idealism, why they targetted the WTC. So, unless you want to start torturing women, growing beards, throwing your TV out, smashing your radios, demolishing your house and erecting a non-insulated hut out of cardboard and praising Allah to appease the terrorists they will continue to hate/despise the US. We can't simply overthrow their government by creating civil unrest they are too strong. Religion is a powerful tool that OBL doesn't hesitate to use for his cause, the citizens are uneducated so they don't know what a Lazy-Boy recliner and a 64" HDTV is. Or even how enjoyable watching -put favorite sport here- is with a cold brew in one hand a bowl of popcorn in the other. Put yourself in their shoes (hard to do) and then try to create a plan to band your unarmed, underfed neighbors together to overthrow the well armed government, not gonna happen. So, some body needs to help you do this, which is what we (US, Britain, NA, etc...) are doing. Once they establish a peaceful regime we'll leave them alone, or probably help their government succeed. Granted, we'll try our damndest to create a democratic society which is, IMO, the wrong thing to do, we tend to force American Ideals on everyone which may not be for their best interests. At the very least it'll be a better society than it is today.
Agree?
Sorry for being far off topic but I'm tired of reading and hearing about all this "peacenik" rhetoric. The US was ATTACKED by a foreign entity, we know who was behind it. By doing this they brought war upon themselves and their people. We can't just look the other way we need to defend ourselves. The only way to defend ourselves is to eliminate the threat of future attacks. In eliminating threats we may kill civilians, they forced us to do this, they don't care about their people, we care about our people and, to some extent, their people. If you don't like the fact that the US is defending itself then get the hell out or shut-up!
You can't compare Europe to the US. For one thing some Europian countries ban firearms and have proven this doesn't lower crime. In fact, most of the lower crime countries have concealed carry and have quite stringent penalties for law breakers unlike the US which slaps you on the wrist and sends you back out to commit more crime. I'll be the first to admit that the US needs to tighten law enforcement. A national ID card won't solve a damn thing, sure it may make it a tad more convenient to buy groceries (like a smart VISA/AE) or what have you. But to be effective you would have to force every US citizen to aquire one (which a lot of people refuse to do for privacy concerns). If it's just a voluntary deal then it does absolutely nothing to curb crime, the criminals just won't get a card.
They also allow teenagers to drink alcohol in the streets of Mexico...
A long time ago, in computer years, the Apple//gs (still have one) had a couple of cards available for it that were "RAM drives". AIR, they had a rechargeable battery and kept the RAM refreshed while the power was off. This was way back when RAM was over $50/MB and I think they were limitted to 4MB or 8MB, but back then that would hold tons of pirated software.:) So, this idea is certainly not new...
Not exactly. Coming from the Assembly world sometimes writing more code is actually faster than less code. It depends on the efficiency of the ML code base and/or how efficient the assembler/compiler is.
For example,
a += 4;
may take 10 clock cycles but
a++;
a++;
a++;
a++;
may only take 4 but uses more code.
In essence, you could write a program that uses 4x more code but is faster than the smaller program.
BTW, I have no CS (Computer Science nor Common Sense) background!
They've already screwed up. The Gamecube uses a 3" DVD. Sure it's a console system, but look how many people are buying the PS2 as a DVD player and game system. Nintendo should have used standard DVDs.
Um, Atari made a console called Jaguar back in the early 90s, it was short lived but was the top for its time. There was a CD-ROM for it later but wasn't marketed very well. Most retailers, like Target, didn't pick it up because of previous experience with Atari in the 2600/5200 days so not may places sold 'em. Alien vs. Predator appeared on the Atari (I own it) and was one of the most technically advanced games back then.
Unfortunately, I think their retail ties prevent them from coming back. That's one of the reasons why the Jaguar died. I own one, and play it on occasion still. They screwed many retail outlets back in the 2600/5200 days and they never recovered.
Sam
Ethernet is both Broadband and Baseband.
Broadband is analog (e.g. cable modems).
Baseband is digital (e.g. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line))
Baseband is more popular (10BaseT, 100BaseTX, etc...) because it's easier and cheaper to cable and Cat 5 cable (up to 100Mb/s) can also be used for phone.
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Actually you can. Reaction time is lowered the faster you go. Plus, in the US anyway, we have speed limits which means the average vehicle will be within 10mph+/- of that limit. If you are going twice that speed you run the risk of running into the back of a slower moving vehicle which you wouldn't have if you followed the flow of traffic. And, 0mph is not safe, sure it's safer than moving in that the only self inflicted injury would be falling over, but you still have the risk of being hit by another vehicle, of course you have this risk just being outside anyway but it's not 100% safe...
In fact you can use reverse logic in saying that a motorcycle is less dangerous than a car. You can't become trapped in a burning metal box, nor do you run the risk of drowning by, accidently, driving into a lake. You can't be crunched by a steering wheel plowing into your chest, etc...
If people planned an accident it wouldn't be called an accident, more like a purpose.
No Powertrain is deceiving, the motor would then be connected directly to the wheel (direct drive). I would guess then, that there are 2 motors, one for each wheel so twice as much to break down. What happens when one motor fails? The thing will turn in circles and is too heavy to lug around. I have a sub-30 pound mountain bike and instead of damaging a $50 tire I carried it a mile and half home because of a non-fixable flat (yeah, now I carry an extra tube). That was not fun, I couldn't imagine carrying one of these things (IT) around for more than a block. What about snow travel? Has anyone thought of that yet? I can't imagine it would be all that stable on ice which is very common in Minneapolis (where I'm from).
Playing Devils Advocate:
Max speed between 12 and 15/mph, average 15 miles per charge equates to 1 hour of travel time at max speed. This also equates to a 7 mile max bi-way commute. What about parking? You know they won't let you "ride" these in stores, how about carrying anything other than a briefcase? Forget it. Not very practical, IMHO.
There's 2 things going on here, RAM Address and RAM Data. It really boils down to what type of memory they are addressing. The Address doesn't need to be very big since they all have 64MB or less. The Data bus, OTH, dictates how fast the data moves. If the data bus is 64bit but the RAM is only 32bit then you have to interleave, basically 1 read/2 clocks. The Gamecube uses 1 transistor static RAM (24MB, 16MB DRAM) which is some new tech. I haven't read up on 1T-RAM but it sounds impressive because you don't have to read between refreshes since it's static and, theoretically, takes up half the space of static RAM. I would guess the X-box uses DDR, anyone know the data bus on the Pentium? AFAIK Pentiums have a 32bit bus (DIMMs are 32 bit).
The Internet has spawned thousands of "e-tailers" and this is what frightens states. Before the commercialization of the Internet mail order wasn't a HUGE business so states weren't really "losing" much money on sales taxes, but now...
It certainly did stop the Nazis, sure there's a few stragglers around here and there, but for the most part we freed the Jews. If Hitler had his way he would have eliminated every Jew on the planet, would he have stopped there? Certainly not.
Face it, nobody lives in a Utopian society. There have been and always will be criminals in one form or another.
The only way to stop OBL's terrorism is to become Arab and give up the American way of life. The US won't do that so the threat of more terrorism will always persist. Even if we did then some other country would get pissed off... Stopping violence won't stop hate, it's not that easy, people still hate today because of previous violence. Unless you could wipe everyone's mind of history and start "from scratch" there will always be hatred. Slavery was abolished in the US over a hundred years ago yet the KKK still exist. Hitler was killed 60 years ago yet there are "Neo Nazis" around. If we kill OBL Al-Qaeda will still be around. You don't actually think that if we peacably eliminated Al-Qaeda and the Taliban that some of them would still hate the US do you? All it takes is 1 terrorist to kill thousands... OBL is the head, we chop it off and the body will slowly decay, sure it won't happen overnight, but not doing anything will just allow it to grow more...
The problem is we can't go in and "pick out" the few desperate people. If we could do that then we would...
Take away their fear of being eradicated by us, and they will stop terrorizing us. When we stop supporting terrorists of our own, terrorists will leave us alone.
Excuse me? They (OBL/Taliban) *HATE* us (US people and nation), they hate Christians, freedom and Capitalism. Everything the US stands for is against their ideals (poverty, Allah, etc...). When you have irrational thought (hatred) towards another you do anything to affect them in some way (eradication). The primarily provocation to 9/11 was American idealism, why they targetted the WTC. So, unless you want to start torturing women, growing beards, throwing your TV out, smashing your radios, demolishing your house and erecting a non-insulated hut out of cardboard and praising Allah to appease the terrorists they will continue to hate/despise the US. We can't simply overthrow their government by creating civil unrest they are too strong. Religion is a powerful tool that OBL doesn't hesitate to use for his cause, the citizens are uneducated so they don't know what a Lazy-Boy recliner and a 64" HDTV is. Or even how enjoyable watching -put favorite sport here- is with a cold brew in one hand a bowl of popcorn in the other. Put yourself in their shoes (hard to do) and then try to create a plan to band your unarmed, underfed neighbors together to overthrow the well armed government, not gonna happen. So, some body needs to help you do this, which is what we (US, Britain, NA, etc...) are doing. Once they establish a peaceful regime we'll leave them alone, or probably help their government succeed. Granted, we'll try our damndest to create a democratic society which is, IMO, the wrong thing to do, we tend to force American Ideals on everyone which may not be for their best interests. At the very least it'll be a better society than it is today. Agree?
Sorry for being far off topic but I'm tired of reading and hearing about all this "peacenik" rhetoric. The US was ATTACKED by a foreign entity, we know who was behind it. By doing this they brought war upon themselves and their people. We can't just look the other way we need to defend ourselves. The only way to defend ourselves is to eliminate the threat of future attacks. In eliminating threats we may kill civilians, they forced us to do this, they don't care about their people, we care about our people and, to some extent, their people. If you don't like the fact that the US is defending itself then get the hell out or shut-up!
You can't compare Europe to the US. For one thing some Europian countries ban firearms and have proven this doesn't lower crime. In fact, most of the lower crime countries have concealed carry and have quite stringent penalties for law breakers unlike the US which slaps you on the wrist and sends you back out to commit more crime. I'll be the first to admit that the US needs to tighten law enforcement. A national ID card won't solve a damn thing, sure it may make it a tad more convenient to buy groceries (like a smart VISA/AE) or what have you. But to be effective you would have to force every US citizen to aquire one (which a lot of people refuse to do for privacy concerns). If it's just a voluntary deal then it does absolutely nothing to curb crime, the criminals just won't get a card.
They also allow teenagers to drink alcohol in the streets of Mexico...
A long time ago, in computer years, the Apple //gs (still have one) had a couple of cards available for it that were "RAM drives". AIR, they had a rechargeable battery and kept the RAM refreshed while the power was off. This was way back when RAM was over $50/MB and I think they were limitted to 4MB or 8MB, but back then that would hold tons of pirated software. :) So, this idea is certainly not new...
Not exactly. Coming from the Assembly world sometimes writing more code is actually faster than less code. It depends on the efficiency of the ML code base and/or how efficient the assembler/compiler is.
For example,
a += 4;
may take 10 clock cycles but
a++;
a++;
a++;
a++;
may only take 4 but uses more code.
In essence, you could write a program that uses 4x more code but is faster than the smaller program.
BTW, I have no CS (Computer Science nor Common Sense) background!
Sam
Sam
Unfortunately, I think their retail ties prevent them from coming back. That's one of the reasons why the Jaguar died. I own one, and play it on occasion still. They screwed many retail outlets back in the 2600/5200 days and they never recovered. Sam
Broadband is analog (e.g. cable modems).
Baseband is digital (e.g. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line))
Baseband is more popular (10BaseT, 100BaseTX, etc...) because it's easier and cheaper to cable and Cat 5 cable (up to 100Mb/s) can also be used for phone.
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