"So, no, the problem is not with the technology itself, but the the limited 24 kwh or less batteriy packs offered by other manufacturers of electrical vehicles."
One of the more pressing problems is a proliferation of incompatible charging connecters and communicsations protocols.
You can't charge a Leaf at anything other than a Leaf charging station and you can't charge a Tesla at anything other than a Tesla one.
You cant even use the same power leads if plugging them into standard household outlets. It's not as if IEC320-C12/C13 haven't been around for 30 years to give an idea of standardisation.
"When a human dies horribly in a gigantic government agency fireball"
There, FIFY
Deaths in private ventures are less likely to have politicians in a frothing rage.
There have been a significant number of deaths on the ground in various space programs in the last 20 years(*), but NASA copped the flak because it was so visible - and the deaths were avoidable from the outset if a hopelessly compromised design hadn't been rammed through.
(*) The two which spring to mind immediately are an entire chinese village which had a Long March land on them, and the entire Brazilian space program ground crew along with most of their designers in a pad explosion (Violating the cardinal safety directive: Don't conduct fuelling exercises with people in the vicinity of the rocket!)
Counterpoint: there is no good reason for the general population to need automatic weapons(*) or carbines(**)
Counterpoint 2: most victims of gun crime are themselves gun owners and in a lot of cases have their own weapons turned against them.
Counterpoint3: you can be just as badly injured by a baseball bat or fists as a gun. It's just a lot less personal with a gun.
(*) If you're involved in feral goat eradication then a semiauto is useful to get rid of them, else the entire flock is over the next ridge by the time you reload.
(**) Carbines (short barrelled rifles) aren't very accurate. They're a specifically military weapon which were developed to be easier to carry.
New Zealand has a near total prohibition on handguns (anything shorter than 22 inches is classified as such, so a shortbarrelled shotgun with pistol grip comes under that classification too) and psych tests are required for "assault" style weapons. Gun onwership is on par with the USA yet gun crime is extremely low. (overall violence levels are not)
Switzerland has even higher levels of gun onwership, with similarly low stats. Handgun ownership levels are low which probably contributes.
The problem with handguns is that they're easily carried and easily used in anger. Longer weapons require some forethought before use.
The correlation should be that levels of violent crime would be higher in such areas.
It's also been argued that Wade vs Roe has had a large influence in the incidence of USA violent crime, by virtue of fewer unwanted children being brought up in deprived environments and turning into Angry Young Men.
The counterpoint is that violent crime levels have fallen _everywhere_ worldwide, outside of war zones, even in the few areas that still used leaded gasoline.
One can argue that as gun control gets tighter, ownership of illegal weapons falls to a camp of sociopaths who are more prone to violence and disregard for safety/human life, so they're more likely to use them in anger.
They may be a tiny minority, but they can have a huge effect on gun crime statistics.
There are a number of disguised zip guns (usually as mobile phones, soimetimes as lighters) which use.22LR circulating in the EU and UK..22LR seems readily available but in the UK you need a permit to even possess ammunition. Not that it stops anyone who wants an illegal handgun from obtaining one.
It's ironic that in this case it is a group of landlords looking to do this.
It _will_ backfire - horribly.
Tenants will bypass your filters, bad press will result in reduced desirability of the properties.
The Internet sees censorship or filters as blockages and finds ways around them.
Bottom line - you will badly hurt goodwill (as a manager you should know the value of this intangible) and probably result in a long term spiral of the company into lower profitability and quality of tenant (those who can afford to rent elsewhere, will do so).
Whoever came up with this idea is the same kind who think that spamming billions of people on their dime (cost shifted advertising) to make a couple of hundred sales is a good idea.
> Recommended viewing distance is about perspective, and how much your eyes have to move. Not the resolution of the screen.
Recommended viewing distances is based on watching TV as a non-immersive experience. Those of us who grew up with TV treat it differently to the generattion who drew up those guidelines.
By those same standards you'd be sitting 3 times the distance of the back row from the screen in most movie theatres.
"Nominal resolution of the human eye is 1 arc-minute (1/60 of a degree)"
FSVO Nominal. My vision is 100/20 when corrected (worse than 4/20 without)
I've had lenses tweaked to give 20/20 as an experiment and it's horrible. The interesting thing is that most people with 20/20 vision can achieve 40/20 or better with corrective lenses but 20/20 is regarded as "good enough for most purposes", not "perfect vision"
If you sit 8-10 feet from any monitor (except when watching movies), you have a far larger desk than I ever will.
My current desktop is just under 5000 pixels wide (4 old-school 17" LCD monitors) and I like it _because_ it's immersive. Moving to a single large monitor with higher resolution would have some benefits for me in terms of reduced complexity and for other people it would give more rreal estate to put stuff.
The producitivty enhacements form going dual monitor or huge monitor are worthwhile.
"Then why have every study done double-blind shown that audiophile claims aren't represented as claimed? People can't tell the difference. When you avoid edge cases (clipping/distortion), the cheap equipment matches the expensive equipment."
As you point out, "valve sound" is only relevant when you reach peaks. It's because valve systems "round off" when they start clipping, vs a sharp knee point on solid state. (this is a combination of thermionic effects and the transformer necessary for valve output.)
Another contributor is the valve output transformer - Iron exhibits hyteresis in magnetic fields which introduces its own sets of unique distortion even at low levels in most amplifiers - this is all part of the "valve sound"
(Outside of edge cases, the biggest contributor to distortion is speakers. There's no such thing as 100% faithful reproduction from the things and whoever manages to produce a distortionless wideband loudspeaker will have the world beating a path to his door)
Audiophiles are an odd bunch anyway. It's far more about mumbo-jumbo than hard facts. A lot of stuff pushed is way out there in kook territory.
It's not a good idea to wander round the City of London wearing a Tshirt or carrying a sign saying "Scientology is an evil cult" - you WILL be arrested.
(It's happened a few times in the past, but this is the most recent example I could find)
If a neural net did this, it woudl still probably screw up less often than humans do.
There are a number of examples of security forces killing an innocent on the basis of misidentification and of course the most glaring example of the other way around involved the World Trade Centre and a couple of 767s.
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"So, no, the problem is not with the technology itself, but the the limited 24 kwh or less batteriy packs offered by other manufacturers of electrical vehicles."
One of the more pressing problems is a proliferation of incompatible charging connecters and communicsations protocols.
You can't charge a Leaf at anything other than a Leaf charging station and you can't charge a Tesla at anything other than a Tesla one.
You cant even use the same power leads if plugging them into standard household outlets. It's not as if IEC320-C12/C13 haven't been around for 30 years to give an idea of standardisation.
"it makes me wonder if companies set up mazes of shell corporations to obscure their IP holdings,"
Until recently (last 20 years), no.
Since then, yes - and the practice is increasingly common.
"True, but they're not above publishing an offshore company's secret information if it's to their advantage."
Patents are not secret, even in your wildest dreams.
"When a human dies horribly in a gigantic government agency fireball"
There, FIFY
Deaths in private ventures are less likely to have politicians in a frothing rage.
There have been a significant number of deaths on the ground in various space programs in the last 20 years(*), but NASA copped the flak because it was so visible - and the deaths were avoidable from the outset if a hopelessly compromised design hadn't been rammed through.
(*) The two which spring to mind immediately are an entire chinese village which had a Long March land on them, and the entire Brazilian space program ground crew along with most of their designers in a pad explosion (Violating the cardinal safety directive: Don't conduct fuelling exercises with people in the vicinity of the rocket!)
Nor am I surprised that the admin password was left at defaults.
Security by obscurity seldom works for long.
"Maybe your criminals are just bad at their "careers" where you're from, but around here, they're pretty damned ruthless, even the stupid ones."
This is a direct result of the american criminal system being built around the concept of retribution(*), not justice.
That attitude is seen in the MPAA/RIAA laws which the USA is attempting to export to other countries.
Counterpoint: there is no good reason for the general population to need automatic weapons(*) or carbines(**)
Counterpoint 2: most victims of gun crime are themselves gun owners and in a lot of cases have their own weapons turned against them.
Counterpoint3: you can be just as badly injured by a baseball bat or fists as a gun. It's just a lot less personal with a gun.
(*) If you're involved in feral goat eradication then a semiauto is useful to get rid of them, else the entire flock is over the next ridge by the time you reload.
(**) Carbines (short barrelled rifles) aren't very accurate. They're a specifically military weapon which were developed to be easier to carry.
New Zealand has a near total prohibition on handguns (anything shorter than 22 inches is classified as such, so a shortbarrelled shotgun with pistol grip comes under that classification too) and psych tests are required for "assault" style weapons. Gun onwership is on par with the USA yet gun crime is extremely low. (overall violence levels are not)
Switzerland has even higher levels of gun onwership, with similarly low stats. Handgun ownership levels are low which probably contributes.
The problem with handguns is that they're easily carried and easily used in anger. Longer weapons require some forethought before use.
The correlation should be that levels of violent crime would be higher in such areas.
It's also been argued that Wade vs Roe has had a large influence in the incidence of USA violent crime, by virtue of fewer unwanted children being brought up in deprived environments and turning into Angry Young Men.
The counterpoint is that violent crime levels have fallen _everywhere_ worldwide, outside of war zones, even in the few areas that still used leaded gasoline.
One can argue that as gun control gets tighter, ownership of illegal weapons falls to a camp of sociopaths who are more prone to violence and disregard for safety/human life, so they're more likely to use them in anger.
They may be a tiny minority, but they can have a huge effect on gun crime statistics.
There are a number of disguised zip guns (usually as mobile phones, soimetimes as lighters) which use .22LR circulating in the EU and UK. .22LR seems readily available but in the UK you need a permit to even possess ammunition. Not that it stops anyone who wants an illegal handgun from obtaining one.
Bear in mind that Heatthrow Terminal 5 cost upwards of $6 billion.
If you can really build something like that for a billion doallars then you're onto something.
Otherwise it's just a Great Big Pyramid scheme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
It's ironic that in this case it is a group of landlords looking to do this.
It _will_ backfire - horribly.
Tenants will bypass your filters, bad press will result in reduced desirability of the properties.
The Internet sees censorship or filters as blockages and finds ways around them.
Bottom line - you will badly hurt goodwill (as a manager you should know the value of this intangible) and probably result in a long term spiral of the company into lower profitability and quality of tenant (those who can afford to rent elsewhere, will do so).
Whoever came up with this idea is the same kind who think that spamming billions of people on their dime (cost shifted advertising) to make a couple of hundred sales is a good idea.
> Recommended viewing distance is about perspective, and how much your eyes have to move. Not the resolution of the screen.
Recommended viewing distances is based on watching TV as a non-immersive experience. Those of us who grew up with TV treat it differently to the generattion who drew up those guidelines.
By those same standards you'd be sitting 3 times the distance of the back row from the screen in most movie theatres.
> However, the kicker is in the definition of "normal". 20/20 is actually "the lower limit of normal or as a screening cutoff"
To give a sense of this:
20/20 will allow you to make out the first 4 lines on an eyechart and have trouble with the 5th line (25% sucess rate)
"Nominal resolution of the human eye is 1 arc-minute (1/60 of a degree)"
FSVO Nominal. My vision is 100/20 when corrected (worse than 4/20 without)
I've had lenses tweaked to give 20/20 as an experiment and it's horrible. The interesting thing is that most people with 20/20 vision can achieve 40/20 or better with corrective lenses but 20/20 is regarded as "good enough for most purposes", not "perfect vision"
If you sit 8-10 feet from any monitor (except when watching movies), you have a far larger desk than I ever will.
My current desktop is just under 5000 pixels wide (4 old-school 17" LCD monitors) and I like it _because_ it's immersive.
Moving to a single large monitor with higher resolution would have some benefits for me in terms of reduced complexity and for other people it would give more rreal estate to put stuff.
The producitivty enhacements form going dual monitor or huge monitor are worthwhile.
"So a point source of light can be resolved down to an infinitely small size? Why isn't that used as the acuity test?"
Not at all. A significant number of the stars you see in the sky turn out to be 2 stars if looked at through a small telescope.
On the other side, trying to resolve a single _dark_ spot on a uniformly bright background is extremely hard.
Eyes are non-linear devices in both their intensity and frequency response - far more so than ears are.
"Then why have every study done double-blind shown that audiophile claims aren't represented as claimed? People can't tell the difference. When you avoid edge cases (clipping/distortion), the cheap equipment matches the expensive equipment."
As you point out, "valve sound" is only relevant when you reach peaks. It's because valve systems "round off" when they start clipping, vs a sharp knee point on solid state. (this is a combination of thermionic effects and the transformer necessary for valve output.)
Another contributor is the valve output transformer - Iron exhibits hyteresis in magnetic fields which introduces its own sets of unique distortion even at low levels in most amplifiers - this is all part of the "valve sound"
(Outside of edge cases, the biggest contributor to distortion is speakers. There's no such thing as 100% faithful reproduction from the things and whoever manages to produce a distortionless wideband loudspeaker will have the world beating a path to his door)
Audiophiles are an odd bunch anyway. It's far more about mumbo-jumbo than hard facts. A lot of stuff pushed is way out there in kook territory.
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CCFL inverters tend to run at 15-20kHz and LEDs are either run continuously or chopped at 1-2kHz
There are fewer than 11,000 residents of the City of London and their votes are far outweighed by the corporate ones.
Correct.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
It's not a good idea to wander round the City of London wearing a Tshirt or carrying a sign saying "Scientology is an evil cult" - you WILL be arrested.
(It's happened a few times in the past, but this is the most recent example I could find)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i...
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/...
Thankfully the UK crown prosecution service has more sense:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/No...'
Lots of links off the bottome of the last article.
The act of suppressing the damaging stuff has the counter effect that it makes finding the people who do the actual damage a LOT harder to track down.
Almost all "normal" people who run across such material feel nauseated and will call in the police.
Given this is a violation of ICANN rules (court order is always required), it would be ironic if the COLP had to pay out damages for illegal activity.
"Reminds me of debugging errors related to digital logic race conditions."
There's only one way to win a logic race condition - eliminate it.
If a neural net did this, it woudl still probably screw up less often than humans do.
There are a number of examples of security forces killing an innocent on the basis of misidentification and of course the most glaring example of the other way around involved the World Trade Centre and a couple of 767s.