When the system eventually gets released, it will be trivial to bypass.
The "analog hole" is not limited making 1080p rips of DirecTV feeds, but extends to everything that can be perceived.
Including, incidentally, BAC sensors.
("Why is that steering wheel taped up under the glovebox, with what looks like a rubber hand tied to it?" "Oh. That's just to fool the computer." [...])
and every single one of them will void your warranty on the hardware.
It will?
Where, exactly, is that spelled out in the warranty agreement?
The warranty for my Droid 1 doesn't seem to care a bit about software -- in fact, it goes on at length about exactly how little Motorola gives a shit about how poorly the software on the device behaves.
You're just being vague -- it's no wonder you don't like the results.
JVC has made approximately six million things and named them all "5000", from a vintage U-matic player to an in-dash CD player to a DV camcorder. It is, apparently, their favorite number.
It's not even clear to me, as a human, which 5000-series JVC product you're wanting to know more about. How is Google supposed to figure it out? I -think- you're asking about a gy-5000u DV camcorder, based on the context here and my implied human biases, but it's just a guess.
Quit making Google guess for you, and you'll get better results. Searching for JVC GY-5000U or JVC GY-5000 U both come up with a myriad of reviews and discussions and commentary. There's some sales-related stuff in the results, for sure, but it's not as if you have to trip over them to find what you're looking for.
(Meanwhile, putting "forum" in the search terms pretty much eliminates the sales-related stuff, but also eliminates most other static web sites. *shrug*)
I don't think this is very different at all from how things worked back in the day, unless you count the uncanny pedantry that was a mid-90s DEC-owned Altavista.
I've had a 15.4" 1920x1200 display on my Dell Inspiron laptop for six and a half years. Scaling problems? I haven't seen any in a long, long time -- even XP was behaving pretty well in that regard when I last used it.
7, as you say, is flawless and I've had precisely zero issues with that end of things: It even tends to set things up with reasonable scaling, based on actual display DPI automatically, out-of-the-box, while also automagically configuring things at native resolution (given a proper computer monitor and an HDMI or DVI link, at least).
Nowadays, it feels positively silly to be looking at a 24" desktop display which, at 1920x1080, has fewer pixels than that tiny little laptop panel does.
Further reading suggests that the widget does include a small accumulator. It's all just integrated into one package, and nothing resembling the quart-sized sphere referred elsewhere under this article as a "bomb". The system is based on a Teves Mark IV, with a few additional bits for ASC+T. (link providing a functional overview of at least the latter)
Further reading also suggests that this is a quite common ABS system, even outside the perceived esoteria of BMW.
I'd like to say that Ethernet is pretty robust, though. I run unshielded Cat5 up radio towers with 250 Watt VHF and UHF transmitting antennas in its midst, with nary a packet lost.
The exact specs elude me at the moment, but it's also rated to withstand something like 10kV between any two conductors. And by being balanced, differential twisted-pair, it resists induced noise very well indeed.
It's far better than most alternatives, even without its speed being a consideration.
That it's "nothing special" these days doesn't mean that it isn't particularly immune to outside interference.
Yeah, I too was stupid for a bit and suffered with newness for the second time a few months ago.
IIRC, I found the setting not on my preferences page, but in a link at the bottom of [any random] comments page.
I'd go looking for it again and write up a description for those who are suffering, but I do not want to take a chance at somehow ruining things as they are, for me...
I think it'd be OK. Most of the complaints you speak of are of safety systems operating when they shouldn't be, as in the case of the roll bar that deploys when there is no accident imminent.
If the tank ejaculates prematurely*, then all that is lost is a bit of fuel economy. After all, it doesn't cause a new safety hazard when this happens, as do roll sensors that fire pyrotechnic roll bars ($$$+possible injury), fuel pump cutoffs that require one to crawl into the trunk to reset it before proceeding, and the like.
All it means is that, after a hard turn (in a Chrysler minivan? FFS...), you get to complain to your friends about how your car quifes noisily when abused.
After that, the tank repressurizes by normal means, and everything's the fine.
It, therefore, can be tuned to be far more sensitive than the other systems that you mentioned, since nothing of any great value is lost (other than a bit of accumulated pressure).
Compared to existing systems, let's say it behaves as follows: if crash =.5 then [...]
*: I did want to come up with a better word usement, but it's growing late here and...well...I rather like the way that I wrote that.
Yeah I seriously don't see this ever getting off the ground unless the container is designed to 'not' ever explode but in the even of a crash will only bleed pressure at a low level.
if crash=1 then dump-pressure
(Yep, I'm no programmer. But I don't think it'd take a rocket surgeon to tell the programmers how to make this work, given the myriad of accelerometers and such in modern vehicles.)
About 10 seconds on Google will show you that they are in BMWs
Dearest AC,
I've been looking for several minutes and still haven't found anything.
This link indicates that some BMWs have a device called a hydraulic accumulator which is pressurized and used for braking purposes, but does not indicate that mine does.
I'm very interested in this yet-unseen part on my car.
If you have ABS, you already have something like this in your car. It's a little (1qt) metal sphere with a rubber diaphragm in it. It holds about 3,000PSI of Nitrogen in order to cycle the ABS when it activates.
SCBA tanks are required to be tested every 5 years at 5/3 of their rated pressure. I wonder if the Chrysler tanks will be due similar scrutiny...
In terms of "bladder," it's probably not a misnomer: Similar to an expansion tank on a hot water system, or a pressure tank on a well system, the factory-installed nitrogen will be separated inside the tank from the newly-introduced compressed gas by rubber.
I think I'd rather have the laser burn table that they used to cut out various parts of the Thing-o-Matic (such as the plywood shell), than a machine that prints stuff from plastic.
But then, I like to make big things, instead of little things.:)
In the future, after conventional media and the concept of a reporter both die of attrition (along with any remaining shreds of journalistic integrity), all "news" will be bloggers blogging about rumors found on blogs. And 4chan.
This article is merely an indication that we're still moving along the path to that eventuality.
I hate how searches with a word that has recently been in the news get flooded with crap from the newscycle. I wish I knew a way to tell google's filters that stale results are fine and/or better than fresh ones.
There is, sort of:
Compare this current news-ish search to this other search with the same terms. The former is very much crapfested with redundant articles from today's news, while the latter is not.
It only works for recent news, of course. And I agree: A method to avoid searching news sources and frequently-updated blogs would be very welcome. I mean, FFS: If I wanted to search news articles, I'd be at news.google.com, wouldn't I?
There's this upcoming Boeing airliner made largely from composites (and earlier ones made from them to smaller degree, possibly enough to disrupt the "continuity" of Faraday their cages) - and I don't think it uses some drastically different avionics.
Without even looking, I'd think that the avionics would be drastically different.
The general trend in everything from automobiles to industrial automation to aviation is to eliminate long, individual wires for sensors and other widgets, and replace them with modules that connect together on a robust data bus. (On an aircraft, that'd probably be multiple redundant data buses, with voting to see which one has correct data while recording every incident of bad data so that it can be fixed, instead of one just bus and a checksum, but the point is the same...)
Fly-by-wire doesn't just apply to Toyota throttle controls and airframe control surfaces.:)
It saves on wire, weight, and expense. It makes troubleshooting easier, given proper equipment/software. It eases structural design constraints, since the cabling doesn't consume as much space.
It's about win/win for every application except for car enthusiasts, who hate the relatively closed nature and consequent lack of hackability of such systems (which isn't an issue for large aircraft).
And, back to the topic: The cabling simplicity makes it easier to design a system with greater immunity to EMI/RFI and static discharge: as paths for noise to enter the system are completely eliminated, refining the protections for the remaining bits becomes cheaper, lighter, easier, etc.
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...and on August 29, Skynet gained self-awareness...
(Is it too early in this discussion to start a slippery-slope argument?)
When the system eventually gets released, it will be trivial to bypass.
The "analog hole" is not limited making 1080p rips of DirecTV feeds, but extends to everything that can be perceived.
Including, incidentally, BAC sensors.
("Why is that steering wheel taped up under the glovebox, with what looks like a rubber hand tied to it?" "Oh. That's just to fool the computer." [...])
But the speed of light isn't constant, either.
Its velocity is affected by gravity, and the medium through which it passes.
And who cares if they do or don't lose money on the thing?
SCEA has no constitutionally-protected right to profit.
If they want to sell widgets at a loss, that's their problem: I'm not indebted to them when I buy such a widget.
It will?
Where, exactly, is that spelled out in the warranty agreement?
The warranty for my Droid 1 doesn't seem to care a bit about software -- in fact, it goes on at length about exactly how little Motorola gives a shit about how poorly the software on the device behaves.
HTC's warranty is similarly worded.
Hack away.
You're just being vague -- it's no wonder you don't like the results.
JVC has made approximately six million things and named them all "5000", from a vintage U-matic player to an in-dash CD player to a DV camcorder. It is, apparently, their favorite number.
It's not even clear to me, as a human, which 5000-series JVC product you're wanting to know more about. How is Google supposed to figure it out? I -think- you're asking about a gy-5000u DV camcorder, based on the context here and my implied human biases, but it's just a guess.
Quit making Google guess for you, and you'll get better results. Searching for JVC GY-5000U or JVC GY-5000 U both come up with a myriad of reviews and discussions and commentary. There's some sales-related stuff in the results, for sure, but it's not as if you have to trip over them to find what you're looking for.
(Meanwhile, putting "forum" in the search terms pretty much eliminates the sales-related stuff, but also eliminates most other static web sites. *shrug*)
I don't think this is very different at all from how things worked back in the day, unless you count the uncanny pedantry that was a mid-90s DEC-owned Altavista.
Which, I'd like to point out, I'd been merrily using until this evening. But now, that fun is over.
Whitespace FTW, or something.
So, let's be in the future, already.
I've had a 15.4" 1920x1200 display on my Dell Inspiron laptop for six and a half years. Scaling problems? I haven't seen any in a long, long time -- even XP was behaving pretty well in that regard when I last used it.
7, as you say, is flawless and I've had precisely zero issues with that end of things: It even tends to set things up with reasonable scaling, based on actual display DPI automatically, out-of-the-box, while also automagically configuring things at native resolution (given a proper computer monitor and an HDMI or DVI link, at least).
Nowadays, it feels positively silly to be looking at a 24" desktop display which, at 1920x1080, has fewer pixels than that tiny little laptop panel does.
Further reading suggests that the widget does include a small accumulator. It's all just integrated into one package, and nothing resembling the quart-sized sphere referred elsewhere under this article as a "bomb". The system is based on a Teves Mark IV, with a few additional bits for ASC+T. (link providing a functional overview of at least the latter)
Further reading also suggests that this is a quite common ABS system, even outside the perceived esoteria of BMW.
Right. The ABS pump. The thing with the moving parts, not the thing with the stored energy.
Still waiting.
Thanks for your reply...
I'd like to say that Ethernet is pretty robust, though. I run unshielded Cat5 up radio towers with 250 Watt VHF and UHF transmitting antennas in its midst, with nary a packet lost.
The exact specs elude me at the moment, but it's also rated to withstand something like 10kV between any two conductors. And by being balanced, differential twisted-pair, it resists induced noise very well indeed.
It's far better than most alternatives, even without its speed being a consideration.
That it's "nothing special" these days doesn't mean that it isn't particularly immune to outside interference.
Yeah, I too was stupid for a bit and suffered with newness for the second time a few months ago.
IIRC, I found the setting not on my preferences page, but in a link at the bottom of [any random] comments page.
I'd go looking for it again and write up a description for those who are suffering, but I do not want to take a chance at somehow ruining things as they are, for me...
I think it'd be OK. Most of the complaints you speak of are of safety systems operating when they shouldn't be, as in the case of the roll bar that deploys when there is no accident imminent.
If the tank ejaculates prematurely*, then all that is lost is a bit of fuel economy. After all, it doesn't cause a new safety hazard when this happens, as do roll sensors that fire pyrotechnic roll bars ($$$+possible injury), fuel pump cutoffs that require one to crawl into the trunk to reset it before proceeding, and the like.
All it means is that, after a hard turn (in a Chrysler minivan? FFS...), you get to complain to your friends about how your car quifes noisily when abused.
After that, the tank repressurizes by normal means, and everything's the fine.
It, therefore, can be tuned to be far more sensitive than the other systems that you mentioned, since nothing of any great value is lost (other than a bit of accumulated pressure).
Compared to existing systems, let's say it behaves as follows: if crash = .5 then [...]
*: I did want to come up with a better word usement, but it's growing late here and...well...I rather like the way that I wrote that.
Funny that the "hydro unit" is shaped just like an electric motor: It's the ABS pump.
I know it has a pump. I'm looking for the highly-pressurized quart-sized sphere of nitrogen which is proclaimed to exist.
if crash=1 then dump-pressure
(Yep, I'm no programmer. But I don't think it'd take a rocket surgeon to tell the programmers how to make this work, given the myriad of accelerometers and such in modern vehicles.)
Dearest AC,
I've been looking for several minutes and still haven't found anything.
This link indicates that some BMWs have a device called a hydraulic accumulator which is pressurized and used for braking purposes, but does not indicate that mine does.
I'm very interested in this yet-unseen part on my car.
Really? Where do I find this on my car? I don't see it anywhere.
Nor have I seen it on any of the other ABS-equipped vehicles that I've owned.
Can I have some of what you're smoking, though?
SCBA tanks are required to be tested every 5 years at 5/3 of their rated pressure. I wonder if the Chrysler tanks will be due similar scrutiny...
In terms of "bladder," it's probably not a misnomer: Similar to an expansion tank on a hot water system, or a pressure tank on a well system, the factory-installed nitrogen will be separated inside the tank from the newly-introduced compressed gas by rubber.
FWIW.
Slashdot changed commenting systems again?
*shrug*
I'm still using the old, old one, with real links and no glitz. Works fine, with no Web 2.0 to speak of, just like it has for over a decade....
I think I'd rather have the laser burn table that they used to cut out various parts of the Thing-o-Matic (such as the plywood shell), than a machine that prints stuff from plastic.
But then, I like to make big things, instead of little things. :)
In the future, after conventional media and the concept of a reporter both die of attrition (along with any remaining shreds of journalistic integrity), all "news" will be bloggers blogging about rumors found on blogs. And 4chan.
This article is merely an indication that we're still moving along the path to that eventuality.
I got the joke just fine.
Replace "vacuum" with "operate a big hammer drill and an air compressor," though, and what I said still holds true. ;)
There is, sort of:
Compare this current news-ish search to this other search with the same terms. The former is very much crapfested with redundant articles from today's news, while the latter is not.
It only works for recent news, of course. And I agree: A method to avoid searching news sources and frequently-updated blogs would be very welcome. I mean, FFS: If I wanted to search news articles, I'd be at news.google.com, wouldn't I?
There's this upcoming Boeing airliner made largely from composites (and earlier ones made from them to smaller degree, possibly enough to disrupt the "continuity" of Faraday their cages) - and I don't think it uses some drastically different avionics.
Without even looking, I'd think that the avionics would be drastically different.
The general trend in everything from automobiles to industrial automation to aviation is to eliminate long, individual wires for sensors and other widgets, and replace them with modules that connect together on a robust data bus. (On an aircraft, that'd probably be multiple redundant data buses, with voting to see which one has correct data while recording every incident of bad data so that it can be fixed, instead of one just bus and a checksum, but the point is the same...)
Fly-by-wire doesn't just apply to Toyota throttle controls and airframe control surfaces. :)
It saves on wire, weight, and expense. It makes troubleshooting easier, given proper equipment/software. It eases structural design constraints, since the cabling doesn't consume as much space.
It's about win/win for every application except for car enthusiasts, who hate the relatively closed nature and consequent lack of hackability of such systems (which isn't an issue for large aircraft).
And, back to the topic: The cabling simplicity makes it easier to design a system with greater immunity to EMI/RFI and static discharge: as paths for noise to enter the system are completely eliminated, refining the protections for the remaining bits becomes cheaper, lighter, easier, etc.
And the other point is that the solution is simple, and already implemented in the wiring of a commercial airliner where appropriate.
Dealing with RFI issues in cabling is neither rocket surgery, nor a particularly new problem.