In other news, a majority of young Americans are retarded (in the clinical sense, before political correctness rewrote the DSM) snowflakes, and big government likes them that way because they are easier to control. Wind 'em up, spin 'em around...
Also, we're besties with North Korea and war with Russia is imminent. No wait, that was yesterday's copy. Today we are besties with China, war with Iran is imminent and neither Russia nor China play fair and we are very upset about it.
No, not every project or "creator" deserves "inspiration and a virtual high-five." There are too many fraudulent projects or ones that are simply outright idiotic (like the old one to make a heat exchanger in your fridge or freezer to cool your house).
The real world isn't about participation trophies or a medal for effort and propagating that attitude is a strong indicator of immaturity.
The United States Government is established in a variety of laws, not just the Constitution. The President is obligated to faithfully execute them. Failing to do so would be an impeachable offense.
Really? An impeachable offense? Just because the president fails to execute some laws he does not like? Like Obama failing to enforce drug laws in how many states now?
Exactly. There is a strong argument to be made that the pool from which the prevailing opinion should apply is all eligible voters, not just those who happen to vote. If too many don't care enough about a law to vote, why would we want to have that law?
Furthermore, passing a new law should require well over simple majority, and every law should sunset automatically in a few years (2? 5?). This gets rid of the baggage of stupid, useless and harmful laws from accumulating without end. Add to that the renewal of a law that had sunset should require even higher majority margin because if it was a good law everyone will want to keep it - bad or even neutral why bother keeping it. (which is another argument for keeping initial period short - people will remember what it was like before the law) Once renewed a law could remain on the books longer, perhaps double or 4x the previous valid time.
Fact 1: Your opinion that there is no difference between index cards and computers is ludicrous. Any such opinion that violates basic facts is too stupid to ever be considered.
Fact 2: The government has no authority to transfer costs incurred by a party to some other party.
Opinion 1: If the cost of the system is making lookups possible by local authorities, then local authorities should pay that cost.
"Here, read this, especially the part about the FAA wanting to educate drone users, not punish them"
Sucker. They got you good.
This is the same path followed by the vast majority of regulations - start light, easy and cheap, and of course highlight how it is for the benefit of those being taxed. Then there are only two paths: drop any attempt at the regulation or raise the tax, tighten the rules, increase the enforcement. CB radio, now FRS and GMRS; cars; guns; the various building/construction trades; and on and on and on.
"Unmanned aircraft weighing less than 55 pounds and more than 0.55 pounds (250 grams) on takeoff, including everything that is on board or otherwise attached to the aircraft"
Okay, then if it is hovering (already past takeoff) then I attach the payload I am good?
What if I fly by and hook the payload?
What if it snows or ice forms on my 0.50lb "drone" ?
Stupid regulation by stupid people for stupid people.
I would love to issue an edict that everyone had to pay me $5 every 3 years "because reasons."
We've simply figured out step 2:
1) impose fee by edict 2) be a government entity 3) profit!
Everybody claiming it is "reasonable" or "run at a loss" must still think 1) we live in the age of file clerks and index cards, and 2) the FAA is actually going to do something. Or perhaps said "thinkers" are even more cynical of government efficiency than am I and yet are still wiling to excuse the FAA for it.
"registration is required" was tried with citizens' band radio in the 1970's. It had small fees and large fines and prescribed and prohibited behaviors. It did not work then and it will not work any better now.
Nobody will abuse a time off policy where there are no vacation days and time is taken as needed. If it is abused it can be addressed by the performance review process.
I always understood how that will stop employees from abusing the "as needed" vacation policy.
I never understood what will stop the employer from abusing it. Until now.
You are very correct re. the difference between a RT operating system and not RT. That has nothing to do with Sync specifically or infotainment in general.
Sync does not have any control over engine management, traction control or any other safety critical system (and neither does any other infotainment system). Not sure about Sync, but typically you cannot even update safety critical systems from the infotainment system. An infotainment system may have read-only access to report "interesting" data, but that's all.
There is no need for your infotainment system beyond responding to the UI and performing the tasks you need, just like your phone, etc.
The individual officer(s) involved cannot be immune from civil lawsuits!
The individual officer(s) involved cannot be immune from criminal prosecution!
In addition to facing EXACTLY the same criminal charges that any other individual who performed the same actions would face, the officer(s) should be individually subject to a civil suit just like any other individual. Once a few officers have been bankrupted and are facing garnished wages and liens to settle court judgments then they will suddenly find a way to avoid taking the offensive and illegal actions.
And should those in charge persist, they will find their tacit acceptance and hints (never orders, because that would be wrong) are falling on deaf ears.
How do you "sign your name" is the same thing my "luddite" teacher in 9th grade asked when I was the first person in the school to turn in a paper from a word processor. I "printed" my signature and he didn't like it, but he didn't have to.
He, and now you, are the only ones to ever care.
So who is the luddite? Have you ever used a word processor?
Cursive was invented to optimize writing with a quill. A quill is fragile, so you want to put it down carefully. Even then, it tends to blob at the beginning of a stroke. Cursive minimizes lift up and put down and the number of separate strokes.
Definitely a system-wide approach VS a semi-random collection of various ways to do things all tacked together (which is, frankly, what most Unix and Unixlike systems are, through survival of the fittest).
And you assume that nothing like systemd has ever been tried during that survival contest?
The systemd approach has always failed to survived. Multiple times.
Through "survival of the fittest' that collection has proven to be the fittest. It is just painful that we have to try a failed approach, again.
Henry Spencer: Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it, poorly.
Somebody mentioned a pelican case. That (or similar eg NEMA 4 or 4x) is a good start. But if you cannot get the heat out of the case it doesn't take much power to cook a PC even at -5C exterior temperature and at 30C it takes very little added power.
It sounds like you are talking hundreds of watts. So you need to make it entirely liquid cooled. This means everything that would normally have a fan -- processor, video card, chipset, and power supply. In addition you will likely need a fan in the enclosure to prevent hot spots, and if that isn't enough you'll need to liquid cool those hot spots.
At this point you should be thinking about submerging all the electronics in an oil tank and circulating the oil thru the radiator as your coolant. (Use light mineral oil, because it will get thick at -5C and you may have to heat it so it will flow thru the lines!) Mineral oil submersion will also protect the electronics against condensation.
The radiator will need to be outside the pelican case. It will most likely need a fan at 30C, so you should use an automotive or similar fan with a proper temperature rating range. Also mount the coolant reservoir externally so you can check the level and fill without opening the enclosure.
If not mineral oil, the cooling system will need to be filled with something to provide freeze protection below your lowest low temperature. (Antifreeze, various alcohols, sugar water, etc.)
The pump will likely need to be controlled to run very slowly when temperatures are cold. But -5C should be okay for everything except perhaps fans and mechanical hard disk (so use SSD). For a less power hungry PC or colder temperatures you might need to insulate the case. If the PC must start when cold -5C is probably okay but you may need to provide auxiliary heating to warm it up to maybe 10C before powering the PC (almost certainly required if using mineral oil or at temperatures colder than -40C, but perhaps at -10C or even at -5C depending on your equipment). You can heat the air in the enclosure but heating the liquid in the cooling system is more efficient if it will thermosiphon within the enclosure. You don't want to pump coolant thru the radiator while trying to heat it.
Mount the equipment without penetrating the case. Keep all electric stuff up as high as possible off the bottom of the case. Condensation or leaks will puddle at the bottom and you want to keep the gear out of that puddle.
Make the cooling, power and connectivity lines come out the bottom of the case (to prevent puddles from slowly seeping in) thru liquid-tite cable glands (to keep out bugs and lightly pressured water). A drop tube around the exit (or each exit) will help protect against high pressure water jets except for a direct stream into the end of the tube. You might also like a valve in the bottom of the case. You can open the valve and if liquid runs out you need to take down and service the system. Do not make any other case penetrations.
I find it amusing how people continuously claim to "know" what is and isn't possible based on our infinitesimally short stint into the sciences.
Exactly!
When I see articles like this, and especially with a "[likely] always will be" clincher I like to imagine how the exact same tone could be (and often was) applied prior to previous breakthru advances. Such as traveling several times faster than a horse could run. (Breathing would be impossible at such speeds!) Such as heavier than air flight. (A bird can fly because its body is optimized for flight but no matter what heavier substance you add to the body of a man it only makes him heavier and thus less able to fly.) Such as supersonic flight. (The "sound barrier" isn't called that for nothing!) and etcetera.
Until we really are omniscient any claim which depends on "we didn't know then but now we know" just shows the laughable hubris of the claimant.
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Perhaps they've been watching Man in the High Castle and are trying to learn some history?
After all, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (George Santayana) and there are some things we do not want to repeat.
In other news, a majority of young Americans are retarded (in the clinical sense, before political correctness rewrote the DSM) snowflakes, and big government likes them that way because they are easier to control. Wind 'em up, spin 'em around...
Also, we're besties with North Korea and war with Russia is imminent. No wait, that was yesterday's copy. Today we are besties with China, war with Iran is imminent and neither Russia nor China play fair and we are very upset about it.
No, not every project or "creator" deserves "inspiration and a virtual high-five." There are too many fraudulent projects or ones that are simply outright idiotic (like the old one to make a heat exchanger in your fridge or freezer to cool your house).
The real world isn't about participation trophies or a medal for effort and propagating that attitude is a strong indicator of immaturity.
forget the blinking dot, even if you can figure out where you are on a paper map, that map can't tell you what direction you are going!
The United States Government is established in a variety of laws, not just the Constitution. The President is obligated to faithfully execute them. Failing to do so would be an impeachable offense.
Really? An impeachable offense? Just because the president fails to execute some laws he does not like? Like Obama failing to enforce drug laws in how many states now?
Or just skip down the hall on the way to and back from the restroom...
Exactly. There is a strong argument to be made that the pool from which the prevailing opinion should apply is all eligible voters, not just those who happen to vote. If too many don't care enough about a law to vote, why would we want to have that law?
Furthermore, passing a new law should require well over simple majority, and every law should sunset automatically in a few years (2? 5?). This gets rid of the baggage of stupid, useless and harmful laws from accumulating without end. Add to that the renewal of a law that had sunset should require even higher majority margin because if it was a good law everyone will want to keep it - bad or even neutral why bother keeping it. (which is another argument for keeping initial period short - people will remember what it was like before the law) Once renewed a law could remain on the books longer, perhaps double or 4x the previous valid time.
Fact 1: Your opinion that there is no difference between index cards and computers is ludicrous. Any such opinion that violates basic facts is too stupid to ever be considered.
Fact 2: The government has no authority to transfer costs incurred by a party to some other party.
Opinion 1: If the cost of the system is making lookups possible by local authorities, then local authorities should pay that cost.
"Here, read this, especially the part about the FAA wanting to educate drone users, not punish them"
Sucker. They got you good.
This is the same path followed by the vast majority of regulations - start light, easy and cheap, and of course highlight how it is for the benefit of those being taxed. Then there are only two paths: drop any attempt at the regulation or raise the tax, tighten the rules, increase the enforcement. CB radio, now FRS and GMRS; cars; guns; the various building/construction trades; and on and on and on.
Wow, where do people come up with such crap???
"Unmanned aircraft weighing less than 55 pounds and more
than 0.55 pounds (250 grams) on takeoff, including everything
that is on board or otherwise attached to the aircraft"
Okay, then if it is hovering (already past takeoff) then I attach the payload I am good?
What if I fly by and hook the payload?
What if it snows or ice forms on my 0.50lb "drone" ?
Stupid regulation by stupid people for stupid people.
"maximum take-off weight" is usually the highest weight the aircraft is certified to carry at lift off.
Nothing I own has a "maximum take-off weight" over 0.0lbs therefore nothing is required to be registered.
No.
I would love to issue an edict that everyone had to pay me $5 every 3 years "because reasons."
We've simply figured out step 2:
1) impose fee by edict
2) be a government entity
3) profit!
Everybody claiming it is "reasonable" or "run at a loss" must still think 1) we live in the age of file clerks and index cards, and 2) the FAA is actually going to do something. Or perhaps said "thinkers" are even more cynical of government efficiency than am I and yet are still wiling to excuse the FAA for it.
This will do nothing of any value whatsoever.
"registration is required" was tried with citizens' band radio in the 1970's. It had small fees and large fines and prescribed and prohibited behaviors. It did not work then and it will not work any better now.
Your implication that I am not desirable is offensive. I demand a public apology and if it happens again you shall be banned for life.
For several decades in the western U.S. and Canada I've known the phrase as Rick notes, there's no replacement for displacement.
Because what better excuse to build a humongous satellite with a large laser/dish/array aimed at the earth?
Nobody will abuse a time off policy where there are no vacation days and time is taken as needed. If it is abused it can be addressed by the performance review process.
I always understood how that will stop employees from abusing the "as needed" vacation policy.
I never understood what will stop the employer from abusing it. Until now.
You are very correct re. the difference between a RT operating system and not RT. That has nothing to do with Sync specifically or infotainment in general.
Sync does not have any control over engine management, traction control or any other safety critical system (and neither does any other infotainment system). Not sure about Sync, but typically you cannot even update safety critical systems from the infotainment system. An infotainment system may have read-only access to report "interesting" data, but that's all.
There is no need for your infotainment system beyond responding to the UI and performing the tasks you need, just like your phone, etc.
The individual officer(s) involved cannot be immune from civil lawsuits!
The individual officer(s) involved cannot be immune from criminal prosecution!
In addition to facing EXACTLY the same criminal charges that any other individual who performed the same actions would face, the officer(s) should be individually subject to a civil suit just like any other individual. Once a few officers have been bankrupted and are facing garnished wages and liens to settle court judgments then they will suddenly find a way to avoid taking the offensive and illegal actions.
And should those in charge persist, they will find their tacit acceptance and hints (never orders, because that would be wrong) are falling on deaf ears.
How do you "sign your name" is the same thing my "luddite" teacher in 9th grade asked when I was the first person in the school to turn in a paper from a word processor. I "printed" my signature and he didn't like it, but he didn't have to.
He, and now you, are the only ones to ever care.
So who is the luddite? Have you ever used a word processor?
Cursive was invented to optimize writing with a quill. A quill is fragile, so you want to put it down carefully. Even then, it tends to blob at the beginning of a stroke. Cursive minimizes lift up and put down and the number of separate strokes.
Definitely a system-wide approach VS a semi-random collection of various ways to do things all tacked together (which is, frankly, what most Unix and Unixlike systems are, through survival of the fittest).
And you assume that nothing like systemd has ever been tried during that survival contest?
The systemd approach has always failed to survived. Multiple times.
Through "survival of the fittest' that collection has proven to be the fittest. It is just painful that we have to try a failed approach, again.
Henry Spencer: Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it, poorly.
Somebody mentioned a pelican case. That (or similar eg NEMA 4 or 4x) is a good start. But if you cannot get the heat out of the case it doesn't take much power to cook a PC even at -5C exterior temperature and at 30C it takes very little added power.
It sounds like you are talking hundreds of watts. So you need to make it entirely liquid cooled. This means everything that would normally have a fan -- processor, video card, chipset, and power supply. In addition you will likely need a fan in the enclosure to prevent hot spots, and if that isn't enough you'll need to liquid cool those hot spots.
At this point you should be thinking about submerging all the electronics in an oil tank and circulating the oil thru the radiator as your coolant. (Use light mineral oil, because it will get thick at -5C and you may have to heat it so it will flow thru the lines!) Mineral oil submersion will also protect the electronics against condensation.
The radiator will need to be outside the pelican case. It will most likely need a fan at 30C, so you should use an automotive or similar fan with a proper temperature rating range. Also mount the coolant reservoir externally so you can check the level and fill without opening the enclosure.
If not mineral oil, the cooling system will need to be filled with something to provide freeze protection below your lowest low temperature. (Antifreeze, various alcohols, sugar water, etc.)
The pump will likely need to be controlled to run very slowly when temperatures are cold. But -5C should be okay for everything except perhaps fans and mechanical hard disk (so use SSD). For a less power hungry PC or colder temperatures you might need to insulate the case. If the PC must start when cold -5C is probably okay but you may need to provide auxiliary heating to warm it up to maybe 10C before powering the PC (almost certainly required if using mineral oil or at temperatures colder than -40C, but perhaps at -10C or even at -5C depending on your equipment). You can heat the air in the enclosure but heating the liquid in the cooling system is more efficient if it will thermosiphon within the enclosure. You don't want to pump coolant thru the radiator while trying to heat it.
Mount the equipment without penetrating the case. Keep all electric stuff up as high as possible off the bottom of the case. Condensation or leaks will puddle at the bottom and you want to keep the gear out of that puddle.
Make the cooling, power and connectivity lines come out the bottom of the case (to prevent puddles from slowly seeping in) thru liquid-tite cable glands (to keep out bugs and lightly pressured water). A drop tube around the exit (or each exit) will help protect against high pressure water jets except for a direct stream into the end of the tube. You might also like a valve in the bottom of the case. You can open the valve and if liquid runs out you need to take down and service the system. Do not make any other case penetrations.
I find it amusing how people continuously claim to "know" what is and isn't possible based on our infinitesimally short stint into the sciences.
Exactly!
When I see articles like this, and especially with a "[likely] always will be" clincher I like to imagine how the exact same tone could be (and often was) applied prior to previous breakthru advances. Such as traveling several times faster than a horse could run. (Breathing would be impossible at such speeds!) Such as heavier than air flight. (A bird can fly because its body is optimized for flight but no matter what heavier substance you add to the body of a man it only makes him heavier and thus less able to fly.) Such as supersonic flight. (The "sound barrier" isn't called that for nothing!) and etcetera.
Until we really are omniscient any claim which depends on "we didn't know then but now we know" just shows the laughable hubris of the claimant.