The impact of a crash is absorbed by the frame, not the metal panelling.
Not entirely true. Crumple zones are designed to absorb the energy of an impact rather than transmit it to the passengers.
This design was taken from high performance race cars (like Indy and F1, not so much NASCAR) where the cars appear to disintegrate upon impact.
Dispersion of energy is one of the best protections a passenger can have. This is what an airbag does. The energy of the impact gets disapated into the air filled bag of large volume.
So, a rigid frame may help handling, but it does not help accidents from causing bodily damage.
It amazes me that this discussion is even taking place.
I would have thought that by now, we'd be discussing 128bit or 512bit computers. I mean, I've been working on Dec Alpha chips for 8 years now. A nice, fast, 64 bit processor. (Tru64 kinda sux though).
8 years in computer time is like 800 years in human time. What's up? 64bit processors should be old new now...
This is terrible. Obviously, it is terrible for the team members on board and their families.
But once we are done with the grief and morning for these great people, the space program will be severely hampered from further progress. We need this program to continue, and I'm afraid we've just killed it for twenty years.
It used to be that one needed to secretly get a copy of William Powell's Anarchist's Cookbook ("The best way to build your team's moral is to raid an arms depot").... Now, all this stuff is online. Alas...
But, it sure is fun! (So I've heard. Yeah, that's the ticket!):-)
Yup, I remember reading the article in Scientific America. It was done in a lab where they modified one half of a split photon and the other half exhibited the same modification.
A moving photon behaves as though it has mass and momentum.
Keyword: "behaves"
While this is impressive, this is IMO still all fantasy. Light (photons or waves) is still not fully understood and to say that it behaves like it has mass is not the same as saying it is mass and I've replicated elsewhere.
That's all BS. It doesn't get any hotter than 212 deg. F (plus or minus depending on altitude, barometric pressure, etc).
It's freaking HOT COFFEE. If you spill it, you will get burned. There should be no lawsuit for that. Period. She just paid the stupid tax. Maybe next time she'll put the coffee and cell phone down when she's driving.
Yeah, but who doesn't have broadband these days?:-)
Seriously though, maybe they do have a better low bandwidth codec, but it's like putting a Ferrari engine in a motorhome - you just can't appreciate the engine with all the other crap around it.
Actually, I don't know why the parent got modded down.
The poster is actually correct. Real has been ticking off everyone I know for quite some time now (go ahead - try and find the free player on their site - it's hard!). The player rarely works, and when it does, it stutters. Firewalls? Forget about it...
For one of the premire streaming media tools of the past (and the only one for linux back then), they have really gone down hill.
As much as I would love to support them, it is becoming harder and harder. For them to put DRM restrictions on their player, well, that kind of put them over the edge for me...
I wouldn't be surprised if a time-to-live feature is added to "swapping" devices. I.e., you can swap all you want, but the swapped copy has a limited lifetime and then erases itself. Like those disposable DVD's.
This could be easily done by the folks at TiVo or ReplayTV.
I always worry about pay-as-you-go plans. It introduces randomness into something that, for me, needs to be budgeted for. "Oops, I left that ping running over night..." and the such. Kind of like my car lease (which I'll never do again since I love driving) - I always had to watch the miles...
I think that it will also introduce higher costs/byte because you are really paying for every byte. Where as in a pay-one-price model, sometimes you are the hog and others pay for you and sometimes you aren't.
In any case, neither is perfect, but a fixed price is the way for me.
my sister has been spending the last 4 months recovering from a 90 mph head on collision because some ditz crossed into her lane of traffic
Glad to hear your sister is alive...
No offense, buy 90mph on a road that supports unbarriered two-way traffic seems excessive to me.
To preach a bit... Accidents don't just "happen". They develop. Much of accident avoidance is being able to see the situation evolve. Talking on the phone, smoking, reading, etc. reduce your ability to see impending situations.
I recall an article in AutoWeek where the author was teaching his daughter to drive. He told her to "watch out - that guy is moving over". She was amazed at his fortune telling powers. He was experienced and saw the situation evolving. She didn't (for many reasons, althought mostly due to lack of experience).
Knowing all this, I am still amazed at how much more I "see" when riding my bike compared to when I'm in my "cage", because riding the bike has so many fewer distractions.
I'm not saying that airbags and airjackets are unnecessary, but I think if we could increase driver awareness, accident rates would decrease dramatically.
And remember, you don't know just how bad you drive until you drive with (or against) people who know what they are doing. It's an eye opener and makes you humble.
Ok, done preaching. (Yeah, my commute sucked this morning....):-)
My mistake for not clarifying.... Yes, X-10 uses carrier line signals, but in the context of the original poster re: remotes, the X-10 receivers use RF.
If you put it in the middle of a good-sized -- say five foot span -- delta stunt kite
You typically can't get enought altitude with a stunt kite because the lines on a multiline stunt kite tend to be quite short. You really want a more traditional single line delta.
Check out Into The Wind for a great selection. (I have no affiliation with them...)
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Clearly, what is needed is some squid on a GSXR-1100 to zip by at some insane speed (which those bikes are quite capable of doing in 1st gear!) and generate enough voltage to blow the sensor out of the ground.
Throw in a few rare-earth magnets in his pocket and send the whole system into a tizzy.
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The impact of a crash is absorbed by the frame, not the metal panelling.
Not entirely true. Crumple zones are designed to absorb the energy of an impact rather than transmit it to the passengers.
This design was taken from high performance race cars (like Indy and F1, not so much NASCAR) where the cars appear to disintegrate upon impact.
Dispersion of energy is one of the best protections a passenger can have. This is what an airbag does. The energy of the impact gets disapated into the air filled bag of large volume.
So, a rigid frame may help handling, but it does not help accidents from causing bodily damage.
It amazes me that this discussion is even taking place.
I would have thought that by now, we'd be discussing 128bit or 512bit computers. I mean, I've been working on Dec Alpha chips for 8 years now. A nice, fast, 64 bit processor. (Tru64 kinda sux though).
8 years in computer time is like 800 years in human time. What's up? 64bit processors should be old new now...
This is terrible. Obviously, it is terrible for the team members on board and their families.
But once we are done with the grief and morning for these great people, the space program will be severely hampered from further progress. We need this program to continue, and I'm afraid we've just killed it for twenty years.
Very sad all around.
Finally, proof that I'm not an idiot!!
Besides, that wasn't my point.
It used to be that one needed to secretly get a copy of William Powell's Anarchist's Cookbook ("The best way to build your team's moral is to raid an arms depot").... Now, all this stuff is online. Alas...
:-)
But, it sure is fun! (So I've heard. Yeah, that's the ticket!)
Yup, I remember reading the article in Scientific America. It was done in a lab where they modified one half of a split photon and the other half exhibited the same modification.
I think it was some 10 years ago.
A moving photon behaves as though it has mass and momentum.
Keyword: "behaves"
While this is impressive, this is IMO still all fantasy. Light (photons or waves) is still not fully understood and to say that it behaves like it has mass is not the same as saying it is mass and I've replicated elsewhere.
I want to read about actual matter moving.
How hot was it? How hot is hotter than normal?
That's all BS. It doesn't get any hotter than 212 deg. F (plus or minus depending on altitude, barometric pressure, etc).
It's freaking HOT COFFEE. If you spill it, you will get burned. There should be no lawsuit for that. Period. She just paid the stupid tax. Maybe next time she'll put the coffee and cell phone down when she's driving.
I bet it's the same guy who helped that person win the case against Micky D's when the idiot spilled hot coffee and got burned. Doh! :-)
Heh... actually, they remind me more and more of the X10 site... If you've been there, you know what I mean. :-)
Yeah, but who doesn't have broadband these days? :-)
Seriously though, maybe they do have a better low bandwidth codec, but it's like putting a Ferrari engine in a motorhome - you just can't appreciate the engine with all the other crap around it.
Actually, I don't know why the parent got modded down.
The poster is actually correct. Real has been ticking off everyone I know for quite some time now (go ahead - try and find the free player on their site - it's hard!). The player rarely works, and when it does, it stutters. Firewalls? Forget about it...
For one of the premire streaming media tools of the past (and the only one for linux back then), they have really gone down hill.
As much as I would love to support them, it is becoming harder and harder. For them to put DRM restrictions on their player, well, that kind of put them over the edge for me...
Depends on how you look at it.
I don't know for sure, but I bet if you add up the total bandwidth and figure the percent run over fiber, the amount of fiber is use is huge.
I know we have fiber coming into the worksite. Three of them...
But then again, some statistics are meaningless...
I wouldn't be surprised if a time-to-live feature is added to "swapping" devices. I.e., you can swap all you want, but the swapped copy has a limited lifetime and then erases itself. Like those disposable DVD's.
This could be easily done by the folks at TiVo or ReplayTV.
I always worry about pay-as-you-go plans. It introduces randomness into something that, for me, needs to be budgeted for. "Oops, I left that ping running over night..." and the such. Kind of like my car lease (which I'll never do again since I love driving) - I always had to watch the miles...
I think that it will also introduce higher costs/byte because you are really paying for every byte. Where as in a pay-one-price model, sometimes you are the hog and others pay for you and sometimes you aren't.
In any case, neither is perfect, but a fixed price is the way for me.
Don't worry, politicians fly all the time... Having drones overhead has been fairly safe for many years now. :-)
This way, I can stop struggling with getting flash to work every time I upgrade my broswer. Now, it will never work.
I think to really do this right, they should read it in 1's and 0's.
Sheesh, are people that desperate for a job these days?
Sweet. For Mocrosoft. They'll buy Intertrust and then that will be the end of it.
From the Salon article:
"The Two Towers" -- Part 2 in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy
For the record...
When Tolkien wrote LoTR, it was ONE book, not a trilogy. It was broken into three VOLUMES, not three stories, because of its size.
my sister has been spending the last 4 months recovering from a 90 mph head on collision because some ditz crossed into her lane of traffic
:-)
Glad to hear your sister is alive...
No offense, buy 90mph on a road that supports unbarriered two-way traffic seems excessive to me.
To preach a bit... Accidents don't just "happen". They develop. Much of accident avoidance is being able to see the situation evolve. Talking on the phone, smoking, reading, etc. reduce your ability to see impending situations.
I recall an article in AutoWeek where the author was teaching his daughter to drive. He told her to "watch out - that guy is moving over". She was amazed at his fortune telling powers. He was experienced and saw the situation evolving. She didn't (for many reasons, althought mostly due to lack of experience).
Knowing all this, I am still amazed at how much more I "see" when riding my bike compared to when I'm in my "cage", because riding the bike has so many fewer distractions.
I'm not saying that airbags and airjackets are unnecessary, but I think if we could increase driver awareness, accident rates would decrease dramatically.
And remember, you don't know just how bad you drive until you drive with (or against) people who know what they are doing. It's an eye opener and makes you humble.
Ok, done preaching. (Yeah, my commute sucked this morning....)
My mistake for not clarifying.... Yes, X-10 uses carrier line signals, but in the context of the original poster re: remotes, the X-10 receivers use RF.
And, damn, I hate their website!
X-10 uses RF, not IR. You need a converter (which they sell).
If you put it in the middle of a good-sized -- say five foot span -- delta stunt kite
You typically can't get enought altitude with a stunt kite because the lines on a multiline stunt kite tend to be quite short. You really want a more traditional single line delta.
Check out Into The Wind for a great selection. (I have no affiliation with them...)
Clearly, what is needed is some squid on a GSXR-1100 to zip by at some insane speed (which those bikes are quite capable of doing in 1st gear!) and generate enough voltage to blow the sensor out of the ground.
:-)
Throw in a few rare-earth magnets in his pocket and send the whole system into a tizzy.
Oh, what fun we could have....