The charging system in your references is working via induction - basically a transformer and the energy is transferred through an alternating magnetic field that creates a current in the coil on the car.
The system that's references here appears to use a magnet to spin a magnet on the other side that then spins a generator. I'm not sure exactly how the intensity of the magnetic field would be different because the power is still being transmitted magnetically, but it's going to be at a much lower frequency. The induction charging has a frequency of 40KHz while this would be more like 60Hz.
The number of holes in the Diebold technology was simply incredible. There were ways to compromise the machines themselves, ways to compromise the software that counted the votes, etc.
There was no way to run a recount. A recount consisted of saying "Yup, I added the numbers again and they're the same". There's no trail of ballots after the election to check. The machines just keep a count and when the election is over, they're wiped.
Add to that the other issues of technology obsolescence and the machines needing to be stored for long periods of time between uses. Add in the difficulties of handing out machines to voting personnel who get an hour's worth of training.
E-Voting is a solution looking for a problem. The paper ballots with optical scanning is as much technology as you need.
Many of the system utilities for RSTS/E, a DEC PDP-11 operating system, were written in BASIC-Plus. That included the login utility. The older versions of RSTS/E came with the utilities as BASIC source so you could mess with them.
BASIC-Plus was pretty advanced but it still lacked some critical things like scoping. I don't think it was possible to do recursion in it.
Assume that you make the transfer at 120 km/hr, that means that if you want to have a 5 minute dwell time, you need 10 km of track to make the transfer. You'll need more track for a buffer to slow down in case there's mechanical difficulty or a passenger problem and you need to bring the trains to a halt.
Now, a "tram" is typically a one or maybe two car light rail vehicle. Your HSR trains are typically 10 cars. Are you only loading onto 2 cars at a time? That's workable in rural areas but how do you handle the big cities? Or do you try to form the LRVs into a longer train to load up. Any LRVs that miss the schedule will really screw things up.
A large percentage of my company website is XML that gets translated into HTML via XSLT. On the plus side it works fairly well and getting our non-designer employees to update information in the XML files is straightforward.
On the minus side, we've found it nearly impossible to find web designers who can wrap their head around the idea of making a template page or to write an XSL stylesheet. Typically I wind up with a monstrosity in HTML that then has to have the template ideas teased out of it. It might just be that we can't find sophisticated web designers here in Japan, though.
I wound up learning way too much about XSL and XSLT to implement some of the things that happen in the site and there is a lot of damn strange XSLT code in the stylesheets. However, XSLT may be a monstrosity but I think I prefer it to CSS.
Ten years ago this might have been a viable threat to Linux. Today, however, Linux is worth too much money to too many people for this to be used to wipe it out. At worst, it will mean that cheap hardware will be locked down.
There was a time when converting from DC to AC meant motor-generator sets (meaning exactly what it sounds like - a DC powered motor turning an AC generator) but today we have the technology to convert high voltage DC to AC. High Voltage DC is more efficient over long distances and, as noted, is better for undersea cables. Typically, you use DC for the long haul and then do a conversion, once, to AC and feed it into the high power AC distribution grid for relatively local distribution.
I don't think that's fair at all. This is a VTOL rocket that takes off and lands all in one piece. I don't know if they'll be able to get it to being a Single Stage To Orbit (SSTO) but they're a lot farther along than NASA ever got at that game. The whole vehicle is reusable (like an airplane).
The closest thing to this was the DC-X. DARPA funded it and they got it to the point where it flew for less than 3 minutes and up to 3000 meters (about 10,000 feet). It did not go supersonic.
NASA took over the program and promptly broke the prototype.
Then, NASA and Lockheed Martin poured over a billion dollars into the X-33 project and never got to the point of a finished vehicle.
So, libertarianism to the rescue? Not necessarily. Pragmatism and a desire to actually fly something rather than mess around with paper studies endlessly? I'd say that's more of the driver.
There were some different ways to view PDF's but you couldn't change easily on the fly. Scientific papers tend to be formatted in multiple columns so it's not as though you can just page forward if you put it in landscape mode. You have to read the top of the first column, page forward, and then page back to read the top of the second column. Personally, I didn't like it, others may feel differently.
Our front door is steel, in a concrete wall and opens out. Before you break your leg or get the jack hammer out, though, I'd recommend jumping onto our balcony and breaking the glass in the sliding doors.
Hmmm -- I run our small business on Postgres. It doesn't require very much attention. Maybe I'm just used to it but I've always found Postgres easier to set up than MySQL.
If they can take something out without getting caught, they could be putting something in. Who would bother with suicide bombs if they can slip it into the luggage?
I live in Tokyo. When the Great Sendai Earthquake hit, everybody decided to call home simultaneously.
The phone network was, for all intents and purposes, crashed for two days. We have ISDN at the office, POTS at home and cell phones. None of them worked.
Our internet connection kept chugging along. I could call the US over VOIP but couldn't make a phone call inside of Japan. We run our own e-mail server so that kept going, though the ones run by the big ISPs overloaded.
I finished off my degree while working full-time as a kernel engineer. By the last year, the Gen Ed classes were the ones I looked forward to the most.
I'm not in Nebraska so I don't have any first hand dealings with them. A lot of "publicly owned" or "non-profit" entities seem to be operated for the benefit of the management, not the public. It would be interesting to compare how OPPD works compared to, say, Pacific Gas and Electric (they cover Northern California), which is a for-profit utility owned by stockholders (but regulated as a utility). We used to like to call them Pigs Greed and Extortion.
No, OPPD is owned by the state of Nebraska. From their web page (http://www.oppd.com/AboutUs/Company/22_000593):
On Dec. 2, 1946, the state legislature created the Omaha Public Power District, a political subdivision of the State of Nebraska, which acquired the properties operated by the Nebraska Power Company.
They sell bonds to borrow money as do many other government agencies.
I don't understand why they're so hung up on "Windows" - it's a completely generic name. They should just come up with a new brand. Something that relates to the way you use it. How about:
No kidding. We just got a combo DVR/Blu-Ray player. Takes forever to boot and takes 30 seconds to a minute after inserting a Blu-Ray disc before anything starts to play.
Hmmm...someone must have transposed some numbers. The main article on New Zealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_zealand), under Infrastructure lists it as being lists it as being 69% oil, gas and coal with 31% renewables. I'm inclined to believe the electricity sector page - I'd been looking at both but assumed they were in agreement and got the number from the New Zealand page when I was glancing at it. The numbers per sector on the electricity sector add up properly as well so the main page looks to be in error.
New Zealand phasing out coal is a "good thing". I'd like for all countries to be working in that direction. My recent magazines from the US (I'm an American, living in Japan) seem to show the US heading towards natural gas from shale as the new big thing. Better than coal, but still burning stuff.
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Different type of charging system.
The charging system in your references is working via induction - basically a transformer and the energy is transferred through an alternating magnetic field that creates a current in the coil on the car.
The system that's references here appears to use a magnet to spin a magnet on the other side that then spins a generator. I'm not sure exactly how the intensity of the magnetic field would be different because the power is still being transmitted magnetically, but it's going to be at a much lower frequency. The induction charging has a frequency of 40KHz while this would be more like 60Hz.
Sinclair Computing - corporate motto: A computer in every closet!
The number of holes in the Diebold technology was simply incredible. There were ways to compromise the machines themselves, ways to compromise the software that counted the votes, etc.
There was no way to run a recount. A recount consisted of saying "Yup, I added the numbers again and they're the same". There's no trail of ballots after the election to check. The machines just keep a count and when the election is over, they're wiped.
Add to that the other issues of technology obsolescence and the machines needing to be stored for long periods of time between uses. Add in the difficulties of handing out machines to voting personnel who get an hour's worth of training.
E-Voting is a solution looking for a problem. The paper ballots with optical scanning is as much technology as you need.
He's at Disneyland with Walt in suspended animation
Many of the system utilities for RSTS/E, a DEC PDP-11 operating system, were written in BASIC-Plus. That included the login utility. The older versions of RSTS/E came with the utilities as BASIC source so you could mess with them.
BASIC-Plus was pretty advanced but it still lacked some critical things like scoping. I don't think it was possible to do recursion in it.
Assume that you make the transfer at 120 km/hr, that means that if you want to have a 5 minute dwell time, you need 10 km of track to make the transfer. You'll need more track for a buffer to slow down in case there's mechanical difficulty or a passenger problem and you need to bring the trains to a halt.
Now, a "tram" is typically a one or maybe two car light rail vehicle. Your HSR trains are typically 10 cars. Are you only loading onto 2 cars at a time? That's workable in rural areas but how do you handle the big cities? Or do you try to form the LRVs into a longer train to load up. Any LRVs that miss the schedule will really screw things up.
This sounds neat but it's not really practical.
No, the gap is that there are too many trusted parties and when some idiot on the other side has a security breach it is affecting people everywhere.
A large percentage of my company website is XML that gets translated into HTML via XSLT. On the plus side it works fairly well and getting our non-designer employees to update information in the XML files is straightforward.
On the minus side, we've found it nearly impossible to find web designers who can wrap their head around the idea of making a template page or to write an XSL stylesheet. Typically I wind up with a monstrosity in HTML that then has to have the template ideas teased out of it. It might just be that we can't find sophisticated web designers here in Japan, though.
I wound up learning way too much about XSL and XSLT to implement some of the things that happen in the site and there is a lot of damn strange XSLT code in the stylesheets. However, XSLT may be a monstrosity but I think I prefer it to CSS.
It should be something that the judge has regular discretion to give. Also, major sanctions against the attorneys for bringing frivolous lawsuits.
Ten years ago this might have been a viable threat to Linux. Today, however, Linux is worth too much money to too many people for this to be used to wipe it out. At worst, it will mean that cheap hardware will be locked down.
There was a time when converting from DC to AC meant motor-generator sets (meaning exactly what it sounds like - a DC powered motor turning an AC generator) but today we have the technology to convert high voltage DC to AC. High Voltage DC is more efficient over long distances and, as noted, is better for undersea cables. Typically, you use DC for the long haul and then do a conversion, once, to AC and feed it into the high power AC distribution grid for relatively local distribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
I don't think that's fair at all. This is a VTOL rocket that takes off and lands all in one piece. I don't know if they'll be able to get it to being a Single Stage To Orbit (SSTO) but they're a lot farther along than NASA ever got at that game. The whole vehicle is reusable (like an airplane).
The closest thing to this was the DC-X. DARPA funded it and they got it to the point where it flew for less than 3 minutes and up to 3000 meters (about 10,000 feet). It did not go supersonic.
NASA took over the program and promptly broke the prototype.
Then, NASA and Lockheed Martin poured over a billion dollars into the X-33 project and never got to the point of a finished vehicle.
So, libertarianism to the rescue? Not necessarily. Pragmatism and a desire to actually fly something rather than mess around with paper studies endlessly? I'd say that's more of the driver.
There were some different ways to view PDF's but you couldn't change easily on the fly. Scientific papers tend to be formatted in multiple columns so it's not as though you can just page forward if you put it in landscape mode. You have to read the top of the first column, page forward, and then page back to read the top of the second column. Personally, I didn't like it, others may feel differently.
Seconded - I thought I'd be able to read papers on my Kindle as well but the print is just way too small.
What is this "vim" you guys are talking about? It's called "vi" - if you can say it, you can spell it!
Our front door is steel, in a concrete wall and opens out. Before you break your leg or get the jack hammer out, though, I'd recommend jumping onto our balcony and breaking the glass in the sliding doors.
Hmmm -- I run our small business on Postgres. It doesn't require very much attention. Maybe I'm just used to it but I've always found Postgres easier to set up than MySQL.
If they can take something out without getting caught, they could be putting something in. Who would bother with suicide bombs if they can slip it into the luggage?
I live in Tokyo. When the Great Sendai Earthquake hit, everybody decided to call home simultaneously.
The phone network was, for all intents and purposes, crashed for two days. We have ISDN at the office, POTS at home and cell phones. None of them worked.
Our internet connection kept chugging along. I could call the US over VOIP but couldn't make a phone call inside of Japan. We run our own e-mail server so that kept going, though the ones run by the big ISPs overloaded.
I finished off my degree while working full-time as a kernel engineer. By the last year, the Gen Ed classes were the ones I looked forward to the most.
I'm not in Nebraska so I don't have any first hand dealings with them. A lot of "publicly owned" or "non-profit" entities seem to be operated for the benefit of the management, not the public. It would be interesting to compare how OPPD works compared to, say, Pacific Gas and Electric (they cover Northern California), which is a for-profit utility owned by stockholders (but regulated as a utility). We used to like to call them Pigs Greed and Extortion.
No, OPPD is owned by the state of Nebraska. From their web page (http://www.oppd.com/AboutUs/Company/22_000593):
On Dec. 2, 1946, the state legislature created the Omaha Public Power District, a political subdivision of the State of Nebraska, which acquired the properties operated by the Nebraska Power Company.
They sell bonds to borrow money as do many other government agencies.
I don't understand why they're so hung up on "Windows" - it's a completely generic name. They should just come up with a new brand. Something that relates to the way you use it. How about:
Microsoft Swipe
No kidding. We just got a combo DVR/Blu-Ray player. Takes forever to boot and takes 30 seconds to a minute after inserting a Blu-Ray disc before anything starts to play.
Hmmm...someone must have transposed some numbers. The main article on New Zealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_zealand), under Infrastructure lists it as being lists it as being 69% oil, gas and coal with 31% renewables. I'm inclined to believe the electricity sector page - I'd been looking at both but assumed they were in agreement and got the number from the New Zealand page when I was glancing at it. The numbers per sector on the electricity sector add up properly as well so the main page looks to be in error.
New Zealand phasing out coal is a "good thing". I'd like for all countries to be working in that direction. My recent magazines from the US (I'm an American, living in Japan) seem to show the US heading towards natural gas from shale as the new big thing. Better than coal, but still burning stuff.