You're correct - the loops under the road ahead detect a body of congested traffic and attempt to 'smooth' the flow by reducing the speed of the traffic approaching it from behind. I think the hope is that the effect of the back-propagating wave that's produced when people start braking more and more sharply (until they come to a standstill, if it's really bad) having encountered a body of slower moving traffic (lorries overtaking each other at 0.1mph, for example) can be reduced.
I agree, you can see the robot being dragged for a short distance after it 'grabs' the car. However, you can also see the front of the car dip, prior to being grabbed, as the driver applies the brakes sharply to bring the car to rest.
I found when I had a report to write that getting the 'Table of Contents' written first made it easier to start. In effect this broke it down into smaller chunks, which were much easier to get started on, with the advantage that I could write sections out of order if I wished, as I had the framework for the sections to fit in to - a good idea could have a paragraph or two written under a section heading. Always nice when you come to do a section and you find it's already been half-finished!
Wattage on most computer speakers are still measured using a maximum theoretical peak wattage, instead of a useful RMS wattage figure. (Yeah, check out these 400 watt speakers from BenQ for only $29.95. Sure they are.....)
Yeah, I think they redefined it as something called PMPO (Peak Music Power Output), which is something like 4 times the true RMS value. Worse still, it's only maintainable for a few milliseconds before the rising output voltage meets the dropping supply voltage and horrible distortion sets in...yuk.
Pedant. I was referring to the use of a base 10 system, instead of all this '12 inches to the foot, 35 feet to the yard, 10,530 yards to the mile' crap. (see also 14 ounces to the pound, 56 pounds to the stone, 5397 stones to the ton)
...I use is to set the timer in the BIOS to boot the computer at 0900. When I roll in around 0920 it looks like I've already arrived and I'm just away from my desk somewhere.
I find it rather ironic that at least one of the sites mentioned (UK Universities) itself uses links to pages on other sites that are not the front pages. Indeed, some of them are pages it links to are quite far down the directory tree of the other sites! Isn't this the whole point of hypertext?
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Worst. Episode. Ever.
You're correct - the loops under the road ahead detect a body of congested traffic and attempt to 'smooth' the flow by reducing the speed of the traffic approaching it from behind. I think the hope is that the effect of the back-propagating wave that's produced when people start braking more and more sharply (until they come to a standstill, if it's really bad) having encountered a body of slower moving traffic (lorries overtaking each other at 0.1mph, for example) can be reduced.
...and you actually get a slightly different colour through each eye!
I agree, you can see the robot being dragged for a short distance after it 'grabs' the car. However, you can also see the front of the car dip, prior to being grabbed, as the driver applies the brakes sharply to bring the car to rest.
heh. this comes from a country that's an 'also ran' in terms of mobile tech. as you would say - 'get with the programme!'
I found when I had a report to write that getting the 'Table of Contents' written first made it easier to start. In effect this broke it down into smaller chunks, which were much easier to get started on, with the advantage that I could write sections out of order if I wished, as I had the framework for the sections to fit in to - a good idea could have a paragraph or two written under a section heading. Always nice when you come to do a section and you find it's already been half-finished!
I have a stapler on my desk from a company called RAPESCO. Wouldn't a pic of this be ideal?
I believe this is called 'working to rule'...
Pedant. I was referring to the use of a base 10 system, instead of all this '12 inches to the foot, 35 feet to the yard, 10,530 yards to the mile' crap. (see also 14 ounces to the pound, 56 pounds to the stone, 5397 stones to the ton)
...I use is to set the timer in the BIOS to boot the computer at 0900. When I roll in around 0920 it looks like I've already arrived and I'm just away from my desk somewhere.
I find it rather ironic that at least one of the sites mentioned (UK Universities) itself uses links to pages on other sites that are not the front pages. Indeed, some of them are pages it links to are quite far down the directory tree of the other sites! Isn't this the whole point of hypertext?