Quite substantial ones, actually. Frame-based designs wont' crumple the frame, but everything around it will crumple inwards. The same parts that crumple on any vehicle -- engine bay, and rear end.
Non-frame based designs have all the normal crumple zones one would expect, as they are car-like unibody designs.
I'm not entirely sure how a post insulting other posters and making gross assumptions gets moderated "Informative", but FYI, I did read the article. I've also seen crash studies of the Smart cars (the European version, not these "federalized" ones that are sold by a 3rd party, not the original manaufacturer).
They are not designed for high speed highway use, they are urban cars where a 75mph crash isn't likely to happen. The vehicle may survive them, but its a fallacy to think that a driver may be safer in them.
And in my case, I was replying to the points the parent was making, not the article, specifically around the point that a roll cage design is not inherantly safe, which was the parents point.
If you want to survive an accident, being in a roll cage that bounces away is not the way to do it.
There's a reason race car drivers have full harnesses and things like HANS devices... because the roll cage that keeps the car from crushing them also signficantly impacts the ability for the crush zones to absorb energy.
These things would be terrifying in an accident...
I have a 2000lbs race-prepped 911 with cage, race seats, full harnesses and an engine in the rear and being T-boned by an SUV scares me to death in it.
4. HR people who don't know what they want/need. The other day someone posted a "need" for a C# developer with more than five years experience.
You're assuming they meant they want five years of C# experience. Having been involved in a number of job listings, while its easy to poke fun at a listing like that, its accurate. They need a developer who knows C#. They need a developer with at least five years experience.
As anyone on here probably knows, professional software development experience is about how much experience you have solving real business problems with software engineering, not about how long you've been using a tool. Ten years of C or one year of C, if you've got twenty years of programming experience, you're going to be a good engineer.
The stoplight technology is there as a pollution/gas saving measure. I noticed parked in traffic there most people seem to shut their engines off until its close to turning green again.
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Um, why would I buy a game I'm not going to use? If ID isn't releasing games I want on a platform I own, then they should go out of business.
If it turns out the market doesn't care about OpenGL for games, the people have spoken. If that means MS wins, well they played their cards right, I suppose.
But why the hell would I spend $50 just to make a statement no one will hear and, frankly, no one outside the set of people who do that would care about?
Its funny, I was thinking the same thing driving into work today.
It seems like its gotten quite a bit worse just in the last few months. Weird compression artifacts, I was getting some clicking on one of the channels I was listening to on the drive. Weird stuff.
See, its much safer to critisize sophomoric, contentious or unfounded statements in posts unrelated to Microsoft. I did it the IE/Mozilla vulnerability post yesterday where there was a childish dig at IE that was unrelated to the article in question, and I got modded as a troll, not informative.
Did you look at the other exploit? That one is more serious, IMHO.
It reminds me of why it used to be that everyone would always lock the keyboard in xterm before typing in any passwords. Strangely modern terminals in Linux don't seem to have that option any more.
I mean choose to post the submission with the unnecessary and immature dig at Internet Explorer in it.
I know most of the people on/. don't remember when/. had a bit of editorial credibility back seven or eight years ago, but there once was a time that people didn't joke about the enormous spin in story posting on here.
Why further continue the public's view of the open source community's immaturity by adding such a silly editorial comment to an otherwise reasonable story submission?
If the URL in the bar says citibank.com, and its yellow, and I didn't do some jackass thing like ignore the certificate name mismatch, it sure does mean that.
We do all support each other. But broadband internet access is not a right, its not even a privlidge. Its a service you can easily live without.
Not one of those prices you listed is remotely accurate. Long before they reached that level, foreign sources would become more economical, and supplies would even out.
The majority of the US lives in places where access to these sort of services is easy. Most of the remainder live in places where there are other alternatives and trade-offs that can be made.
The people who do not fall into those groups have to live with the consquences of the choices they made.
And being a homeowner, I'd be perfectly happy if prices in my precious city suddenly skyrocket. In fact, thats pretty much what they've been doing.
The thing that bothers me about these arguements is the "people living in rural areas have a right to inexpensive broadband".
Thats a load of crap. They pay a fraction of what those of us who choose to live near cities pay for basic cost of living. We pay more for the convenience of stores nearby, modern information infrastructure and things like that.
$100 a month for satellite isn't a lot of money when you're not paying $350,000 for a small condo.
I get internet for half that, but my house payment is four times what a house in a rural location is.
No, thats not actually why DeBeers is so keen to do that.
Diamond is one of the most common gemstones in the world. It would have virtually no value if a) DeBeers hadn't pulled the greatest marketing spinjob in history convincing people today that diamond rings are a centuries old wedding tradition, not a decades old one and b) they didn't warehouse them.
DeBeers has warehouses of bins, floor to ceiling of diamonds they keep off the market to artificially inflate their value. By controlling access to virtually all the mines that are econimical to exploit, they ensure competitors with access to diamond deposits will not flood the market with cheap ones.
Some of us don't have power brakes and power steering.
But I can shut my engine off on the highway, and turn it back on and blow flames out my exhaust!
In all seriousness, though, something is fishy about that story. A defect making the car keep speeding up is one thing, but two defects making the brakes not disable cruise, plus a defect making the brakes ineffective on the gas (most if not all DBW cars cut the throttle cruise or not if the brakes are applied), plus a defect where the brakes wouldn't stop the car even with the gas on is a hell of a lot of defects.
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Quite substantial ones, actually. Frame-based designs wont' crumple the frame, but everything around it will crumple inwards. The same parts that crumple on any vehicle -- engine bay, and rear end.
Non-frame based designs have all the normal crumple zones one would expect, as they are car-like unibody designs.
I'm not entirely sure how a post insulting other posters and making gross assumptions gets moderated "Informative", but FYI, I did read the article. I've also seen crash studies of the Smart cars (the European version, not these "federalized" ones that are sold by a 3rd party, not the original manaufacturer).
They are not designed for high speed highway use, they are urban cars where a 75mph crash isn't likely to happen. The vehicle may survive them, but its a fallacy to think that a driver may be safer in them.
And in my case, I was replying to the points the parent was making, not the article, specifically around the point that a roll cage design is not inherantly safe, which was the parents point.
If you want to survive an accident, being in a roll cage that bounces away is not the way to do it.
There's a reason race car drivers have full harnesses and things like HANS devices... because the roll cage that keeps the car from crushing them also signficantly impacts the ability for the crush zones to absorb energy.
These things would be terrifying in an accident...
I have a 2000lbs race-prepped 911 with cage, race seats, full harnesses and an engine in the rear and being T-boned by an SUV scares me to death in it.
Mine used to do that, until the exterminator came.
4. HR people who don't know what they want/need. The other day someone posted a "need" for a C# developer with more than five years experience.
You're assuming they meant they want five years of C# experience. Having been involved in a number of job listings, while its easy to poke fun at a listing like that, its accurate. They need a developer who knows C#. They need a developer with at least five years experience.
As anyone on here probably knows, professional software development experience is about how much experience you have solving real business problems with software engineering, not about how long you've been using a tool. Ten years of C or one year of C, if you've got twenty years of programming experience, you're going to be a good engineer.
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Someone had to ask first.
The stoplight technology is there as a pollution/gas saving measure. I noticed parked in traffic there most people seem to shut their engines off until its close to turning green again.
Um, why would I buy a game I'm not going to use? If ID isn't releasing games I want on a platform I own, then they should go out of business.
If it turns out the market doesn't care about OpenGL for games, the people have spoken. If that means MS wins, well they played their cards right, I suppose.
But why the hell would I spend $50 just to make a statement no one will hear and, frankly, no one outside the set of people who do that would care about?
What, and its better when you hear "gravimetric radio frequency energy" on Friday evenings?
You should go read up on Orion.
It doesn't involve a reactor, it involves thousands of nuclear bombs. Getting thousands of tons to orbit is the sole point of it.
Its funny, I was thinking the same thing driving into work today.
It seems like its gotten quite a bit worse just in the last few months. Weird compression artifacts, I was getting some clicking on one of the channels I was listening to on the drive. Weird stuff.
See, its much safer to critisize sophomoric, contentious or unfounded statements in posts unrelated to Microsoft. I did it the IE/Mozilla vulnerability post yesterday where there was a childish dig at IE that was unrelated to the article in question, and I got modded as a troll, not informative.
Guess I should've picked my battles better!
Informative? RTFA. There are two security problems. The other one IS serious.
Us geezers sometimes like to toss a banana into the monkey cage just to see them go nuts and start flinging feces. ;-)
Did you look at the other exploit? That one is more serious, IMHO.
It reminds me of why it used to be that everyone would always lock the keyboard in xterm before typing in any passwords. Strangely modern terminals in Linux don't seem to have that option any more.
This is just another example of that problem.
I mean choose to post the submission with the unnecessary and immature dig at Internet Explorer in it.
/. don't remember when /. had a bit of editorial credibility back seven or eight years ago, but there once was a time that people didn't joke about the enormous spin in story posting on here.
I know most of the people on
The Mozilla etc problem seems equally serious.
/. choose to post it?
Why further continue the public's view of the open source community's immaturity by adding such a silly editorial comment to an otherwise reasonable story submission?
And why did
If the URL in the bar says citibank.com, and its yellow, and I didn't do some jackass thing like ignore the certificate name mismatch, it sure does mean that.
We do all support each other. But broadband internet access is not a right, its not even a privlidge. Its a service you can easily live without.
Not one of those prices you listed is remotely accurate. Long before they reached that level, foreign sources would become more economical, and supplies would even out.
The majority of the US lives in places where access to these sort of services is easy. Most of the remainder live in places where there are other alternatives and trade-offs that can be made.
The people who do not fall into those groups have to live with the consquences of the choices they made.
And being a homeowner, I'd be perfectly happy if prices in my precious city suddenly skyrocket. In fact, thats pretty much what they've been doing.
The thing that bothers me about these arguements is the "people living in rural areas have a right to inexpensive broadband".
Thats a load of crap. They pay a fraction of what those of us who choose to live near cities pay for basic cost of living. We pay more for the convenience of stores nearby, modern information infrastructure and things like that.
$100 a month for satellite isn't a lot of money when you're not paying $350,000 for a small condo.
I get internet for half that, but my house payment is four times what a house in a rural location is.
$100 internet? Boo frickin hoo.
No, thats not actually why DeBeers is so keen to do that.
Diamond is one of the most common gemstones in the world. It would have virtually no value if a) DeBeers hadn't pulled the greatest marketing spinjob in history convincing people today that diamond rings are a centuries old wedding tradition, not a decades old one and b) they didn't warehouse them.
DeBeers has warehouses of bins, floor to ceiling of diamonds they keep off the market to artificially inflate their value. By controlling access to virtually all the mines that are econimical to exploit, they ensure competitors with access to diamond deposits will not flood the market with cheap ones.
And of course even Mt Ranier is only really a threat to the outlaying towns around Tacoma.
$2500 TV
$200 DVD player
$250 screen
$500 receiver
$1000 speakers
$500 furniture
$1000 couch.
Total: $5950
Movies around here, $9.50
626 movies.
Thats the best way to watch movies for so little money as long as you want to watch one movie a day for almost two years.
Some of us don't have power brakes and power steering.
But I can shut my engine off on the highway, and turn it back on and blow flames out my exhaust!
In all seriousness, though, something is fishy about that story. A defect making the car keep speeding up is one thing, but two defects making the brakes not disable cruise, plus a defect making the brakes ineffective on the gas (most if not all DBW cars cut the throttle cruise or not if the brakes are applied), plus a defect where the brakes wouldn't stop the car even with the gas on is a hell of a lot of defects.
Smells PEBCAK to me.
Um, you do realize that Mojave Aerospace Ventures, LLC is the company that flew SpaceShipOne right? Scaled just built it under contract for them.
And all of the rest either have nothing serious to show, or a solution that has none of the safety or elegance of Scaled/Mojave Aerospace's solution.