Cars are already entirely dependent on software, and have been for about 30 years now. In that time, I've had one instance of the engine management malfunctioning (a hardware failure). The engine management system went into an emergency mode, giving me plenty of time to get off the road before things got dangerous. Cars are already far more reliable than your average desktop.
We can track its orbit very well. The unknown is the amount of air resistance it encounters, i.e. how quickly its orbit will degrade. This resistance is highly variable (because the atmosphere expands and contracts e.g. in response to solar activity) and difficult to predict.
Put a dam across the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, the further West the better. Drain most of the Bay (leaving a few canals for the rivers to flow into) and reclaim the land. This would solve SF's housing problem by providing lots of new land to build on, and it'll shorten the coastline, making it much easier to fortify against the rising sea level.
Japan taxes engine size and emissions. The annual tax on a vehicle with a 4-liter engine, an American pickup, is ¥76,500. Japan is the only developed country in the world with such a tax, so over a 10-year period, it would add up to the equivalent of a 12 percent import tariff.
Incorrect. In the Netherlands, we have an annual tax based on car weight plus a tax on new vehicles based on CO2 emissions. Pretty much every European country has some sort of taxation for cars, some based on engine size (Italy), some based on weight or emissions. All of those are progressive for larger vehicles.
Also, the Japanese tax is applied to domestic cars as well as imports.
The Japanese tax structure is designed to push people towards smaller cars, which the American car companies don't bother making because they're more interested in the domestic market which demands road boats.. This is enough to make American cars impopular in Japan (just as they are impopular in Europe). To add insult to injury, American cars have been crap for decades, and the industry has started to climb out of that hole only a few years ago. This is why Japanese cars are far more popular in America than American cars are in Japan.
What the software world needs are heckling sessions, where users get to pour out their frustrations over the people responsible for them. That includes the developers who leave software littered with bugs and illogical behavior, UI designers who rearrange the whole interface for no good reason and marketers who force user-hostile behavior into programs.
I'm in Europe - the sharp cutoff and upsweep are what's causing the problems. The upsweep illuminates the road and oncoming traffic when you're going through a righthand curve. A hill, bump or slight misalignment puts oncoming traffic within the cutoff.
Current regulations are in the shape of 'no more than 55W (assuming halogen and ignoring more efficient lighting options that would produce far more light at that power level), light bundled in shape X'. As a result, modern headlight systems are usually fine when viewed from straight ahead, but become uncomfortably bright when viewed from an angle (encountering such a vehicle on a curvy road, or cresting a hill). All too often I can't see shit because of that.
All 4 of those are in a zone that has average temperatures above 0 year-round. They experience 0-5 snow days a year. The cost of the occasional closure due to a snowstorm will be less than buying and maintaining an army of snowplows, deicers etc. of the calibre used by airports that see 3 solid months of snow each year.
That's why this area has trouble with snow: it's too rare to bother preparing for.
The occasional door slam I can handle, I suspect it'd be different if there are lots of doors within hearing distance. Those door slams are the worst type: a door slam is supposed to brake the door and close it slowly, with just enough force to overcome the resistance of the lock (if any). It would help to modify the door to prevent metal-on-metal contact, e.g. using a rubber insulation strip on the doorframe.
It sure seems to work that way for me. Although the type of noise is makes a big difference. People talking: absolute murder to my ability to think. Music I've chosen: far less of a problem. Mechanical noise sucks too.
You're missing the non-evil option: the mine could fire the children, hire their parents and pay them enough to feed their family. You know, like people do in civilized society. This would make the cobalt more expensive, but so what? There's a few grams of cobalt in a phone battery, you're not even going to notice a doubling in the price of cobalt.
Because OneDrive has replaced antivirus as the single biggest performance drain on my computer. I regularly find OD pegging one of my cores at 100% load.
"if you let people buy a hobby lathe, they could start turning out hand grenades and rifle barrels
So true. I bought a hobby lathe for use in scale modelling, and (even though I've never owned a gun) I now feel the irresistible urge to turn nothing but gun barrels. I am hackertourist, and I am an addict.
Not all engines are equipped with the chemicals needed for an air start, IIRC. Or there's two tanks that feed all the engines. Either way, they ran out of TEB, there was no engine failure.
The N1 failed through a combination of lack of money, lack of political will and losing the space race.
The plan was to skip building a test stand for the first stage (which would be large and expensive, to cope with 5000 tons of thrust, and take lots of time to buil). Instead, they'd do test flights, fully expecting a number of initial failures. 14 test flights were planned.
After the Apollo 11 landing, the urgency was lost and funding slowed. The last straw was appointing Valentin Glushko as head of the Soviet space program. He was a known opponent of the N-1, favoring his own design.
Do you have to shut down computers opposite to the one that fails to maintain "computing balance"?
The Soviets did that on the N-1 because it allowed them to install the engines without gimbaling hardware, simplifying the design. The F9 does have gimbals, so it doesn't need to shut down the opposing engine.
Does a failing computer fundamentally alter your mission profile to the point that you have to change the computations for ALL other computers?
The rocket is built to contain engine explosions. We don't know if that'll be effective for all engine failures, but they've already had at least one engine failure on a F9 flight without consequences for the mission.
They are the only public facing company making any significant efforts toward a better future.
That is incorrect. - any number of solar panel companies - any number of wind turbine manufacturers - a whole pile of car manufacturers sell hybrids and plugin hybrids. Electric cars are available from at least VW, Audi, Jaguar, Nissan, Renault. - you can buy a house that does not need heating (passive house) from several companies - heat pumps (renewable heating, more or less) are widely available
Harassment is occurring. CNN story. #metoo. Countless other stories published in the past few years. Not all of these stories end with a lawsuit. That doesn't make them lies.
Claiming that harassment isn't an issue (which is what you're doing) is stifling the discussion, and perpetrating the problem.
Or someone self-identifies (by supplying their first name, as you do in informal settings), and suddenly people start behaving differently (and not in a good way) because that first name contained the information that that someone is female.
Proof is necessary if she accuses someone in particular. A discussion of harassment in general is perfectly possible without making a court case out of it. People discuss tons of topics every day without having to offer proof for their assertions, I don't see why this topic has to be held to a different standard.
By holding discussion of this topic to a different standard, you're trying to stifle the discussion. And there's far too much of that going on already. A group of people wants to keep pretending the issue does not exist, and that's the wrong response to an issue as serious as this one.
So, your "solution" is to force all women to police their writings to avoid revealing their first name. Always sign with initials + last name only (oh wait, if you're Russian, that's not enough, the last name has a feminine modifier, so have to lie about last name too), make sure never to let slip they're female. And then have the gall to proclaim "gender doesn't matter"?
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Cars are already entirely dependent on software, and have been for about 30 years now. In that time, I've had one instance of the engine management malfunctioning (a hardware failure). The engine management system went into an emergency mode, giving me plenty of time to get off the road before things got dangerous.
Cars are already far more reliable than your average desktop.
You meant this one, I think...
That's exactly what NASA and at least one commercial space company are doing at the moment.
A can of Mace, a forty-five
is all I'd need to stay alive
but no weapon lies within my sight
(Bill Watterson, A Nauseous Nocturne)
We can track its orbit very well. The unknown is the amount of air resistance it encounters, i.e. how quickly its orbit will degrade. This resistance is highly variable (because the atmosphere expands and contracts e.g. in response to solar activity) and difficult to predict.
Put a dam across the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, the further West the better. Drain most of the Bay (leaving a few canals for the rivers to flow into) and reclaim the land.
This would solve SF's housing problem by providing lots of new land to build on, and it'll shorten the coastline, making it much easier to fortify against the rising sea level.
Japan taxes engine size and emissions. The annual tax on a vehicle with a 4-liter engine, an American pickup, is ¥76,500. Japan is the only developed country in the world with such a tax, so over a 10-year period, it would add up to the equivalent of a 12 percent import tariff.
Incorrect. In the Netherlands, we have an annual tax based on car weight plus a tax on new vehicles based on CO2 emissions. Pretty much every European country has some sort of taxation for cars, some based on engine size (Italy), some based on weight or emissions. All of those are progressive for larger vehicles.
Also, the Japanese tax is applied to domestic cars as well as imports.
The Japanese tax structure is designed to push people towards smaller cars, which the American car companies don't bother making because they're more interested in the domestic market which demands road boats.. This is enough to make American cars impopular in Japan (just as they are impopular in Europe). To add insult to injury, American cars have been crap for decades, and the industry has started to climb out of that hole only a few years ago. This is why Japanese cars are far more popular in America than American cars are in Japan.
What the software world needs are heckling sessions, where users get to pour out their frustrations over the people responsible for them. That includes the developers who leave software littered with bugs and illogical behavior, UI designers who rearrange the whole interface for no good reason and marketers who force user-hostile behavior into programs.
I'm in Europe - the sharp cutoff and upsweep are what's causing the problems.
The upsweep illuminates the road and oncoming traffic when you're going through a righthand curve. A hill, bump or slight misalignment puts oncoming traffic within the cutoff.
Current regulations are in the shape of 'no more than 55W (assuming halogen and ignoring more efficient lighting options that would produce far more light at that power level), light bundled in shape X'.
As a result, modern headlight systems are usually fine when viewed from straight ahead, but become uncomfortably bright when viewed from an angle (encountering such a vehicle on a curvy road, or cresting a hill). All too often I can't see shit because of that.
All 4 of those are in a zone that has average temperatures above 0 year-round. They experience 0-5 snow days a year. The cost of the occasional closure due to a snowstorm will be less than buying and maintaining an army of snowplows, deicers etc. of the calibre used by airports that see 3 solid months of snow each year.
That's why this area has trouble with snow: it's too rare to bother preparing for.
The occasional door slam I can handle, I suspect it'd be different if there are lots of doors within hearing distance.
Those door slams are the worst type: a door slam is supposed to brake the door and close it slowly, with just enough force to overcome the resistance of the lock (if any).
It would help to modify the door to prevent metal-on-metal contact, e.g. using a rubber insulation strip on the doorframe.
It sure seems to work that way for me. Although the type of noise is makes a big difference. People talking: absolute murder to my ability to think. Music I've chosen: far less of a problem. Mechanical noise sucks too.
Closing down these mines or sacking the children
You're missing the non-evil option: the mine could fire the children, hire their parents and pay them enough to feed their family. You know, like people do in civilized society.
This would make the cobalt more expensive, but so what? There's a few grams of cobalt in a phone battery, you're not even going to notice a doubling in the price of cobalt.
Because OneDrive has replaced antivirus as the single biggest performance drain on my computer. I regularly find OD pegging one of my cores at 100% load.
"if you let people buy a hobby lathe, they could start turning out hand grenades and rifle barrels
So true. I bought a hobby lathe for use in scale modelling, and (even though I've never owned a gun) I now feel the irresistible urge to turn nothing but gun barrels. I am hackertourist, and I am an addict.
Not all engines are equipped with the chemicals needed for an air start, IIRC. Or there's two tanks that feed all the engines. Either way, they ran out of TEB, there was no engine failure.
The N1 failed through a combination of lack of money, lack of political will and losing the space race.
The plan was to skip building a test stand for the first stage (which would be large and expensive, to cope with 5000 tons of thrust, and take lots of time to buil). Instead, they'd do test flights, fully expecting a number of initial failures. 14 test flights were planned.
After the Apollo 11 landing, the urgency was lost and funding slowed. The last straw was appointing Valentin Glushko as head of the Soviet space program. He was a known opponent of the N-1, favoring his own design.
Do you have to shut down computers opposite to the one that fails to maintain "computing balance"?
The Soviets did that on the N-1 because it allowed them to install the engines without gimbaling hardware, simplifying the design. The F9 does have gimbals, so it doesn't need to shut down the opposing engine.
Does a failing computer fundamentally alter your mission profile to the point that you have to change the computations for ALL other computers?
So what? That's what computers are really good at.
The rocket is built to contain engine explosions. We don't know if that'll be effective for all engine failures, but they've already had at least one engine failure on a F9 flight without consequences for the mission.
They are the only public facing company making any significant efforts toward a better future.
That is incorrect.
- any number of solar panel companies
- any number of wind turbine manufacturers
- a whole pile of car manufacturers sell hybrids and plugin hybrids. Electric cars are available from at least VW, Audi, Jaguar, Nissan, Renault.
- you can buy a house that does not need heating (passive house) from several companies
- heat pumps (renewable heating, more or less) are widely available
I could go on and on.
Harassment is occurring. CNN story. #metoo. Countless other stories published in the past few years.
Not all of these stories end with a lawsuit. That doesn't make them lies.
Claiming that harassment isn't an issue (which is what you're doing) is stifling the discussion, and perpetrating the problem.
Or someone self-identifies (by supplying their first name, as you do in informal settings), and suddenly people start behaving differently (and not in a good way) because that first name contained the information that that someone is female.
Which one is more likely, you think?
Proof is necessary if she accuses someone in particular. A discussion of harassment in general is perfectly possible without making a court case out of it. People discuss tons of topics every day without having to offer proof for their assertions, I don't see why this topic has to be held to a different standard.
By holding discussion of this topic to a different standard, you're trying to stifle the discussion. And there's far too much of that going on already. A group of people wants to keep pretending the issue does not exist, and that's the wrong response to an issue as serious as this one.
So, your "solution" is to force all women to police their writings to avoid revealing their first name. Always sign with initials + last name only (oh wait, if you're Russian, that's not enough, the last name has a feminine modifier, so have to lie about last name too), make sure never to let slip they're female.
And then have the gall to proclaim "gender doesn't matter"?