I've gone to the Panamax site, and it looks good. But I haven't found anything that speaks of low voltage cutoff. Could you point at a particular model?
So your argument is that because it will happen because you think it will?
That's as cogent as the response of the other Anonymous Coward, who may have been you as far as I know, that I have to prove that the machine couldn't possibly win.
Yeah, except the boring oval tracks, which I probably dislike more than you, would be the easiest place to kick the butt of a program controlled car. Because the program doesn't feel the dynamics of the air or the track like a human does.
A boringly smooth road track with an entirely predictable car, like most F1 tracks and cars are becoming, would be the ideal combination for these algorithms. No one passes anyway, so maintaining position until a perfect pit stop occurs is the way to get ahead. Good pit in and out laps win races nowadays. This is where perfection in an algorithm could possibly win, whereas NASCAR is too noisy an environment for it to work.
That being said, I don't watch NASCAR (much), and I am an F1 junkie.
Hamilton is very likely the F1 version of Tiger Woods.
Because it takes realtime intelligence to survive on the track. It's not just knocking people out and getting ahead, it's winning while being watched by officials and your fellow racers, which these algorithms will never be able to do. You need to pick your trick and pick the spot to do it at the same time. The trick and the time change dynamically based on your track position and the cars surrounding you. And if you don't get caught by the officials, your fellow racers will take you out for sure if you are a danger to them.
on a real track, and these algorithms wouldn't stand a chance. Racers know subtle moves and blatent moves that these systems will never be able to learn. Add the fact that real cheating and bending the rules has to occur under the nose of race officials, and that team cars run by algorithms would be banned from any racing venue for being dangerous morons within one or two races, and this would disappear faster than most vaporware.
Implying that these cars could "drive themselves" in any meaningful or safe manner is idiotic. I would like to see what would happen if they put in place some rules based on sane driving.
They were still hanging Catholics in Minnesota about 100 years ago because they weren't the correct flavor of Xian. And let's not forget how many Xians found Native Americans fair game.
A large percentage of the people reading this group of comments have never read nor appreciated history, and will simply spout the latest left wing hate at you.
Many of the current generation would have succeeded in Germany in the late 30s. And have been absolutely sure that they were the good guys.
My uncle, really a cousin, but in my family older cousins were called uncle, as well as 20 others were killed on Iwo Jima. This from a town of 1500 or so at the time. Yes, it was one of those odd things where they let too many people from the same place be in the same dangerous place.
The leaders and soldiers of the Japanese armed forces were vermin that needed to be exterminated. Yes, we had to use harsh methods. Read the history of those last days before and after the bombs were dropped, and you'll see how close a thing it was that they almost did not give up, despite the wishes of Emporer Hirohito to do just that. A very brave individual from Japanese radio managed to save a recording to be broadcast to the populace from discovery by the army. The fact that that recording survived, and was able to be broadcast was what ended the war when it did.
What are you talking about? "Emergency ranges"? You do not have a clue about what you speak.
Almost all emeergency communications, and ALL long range HF emergency communications will be adversely affected by BPL. That includes ham (Amateur Radio), all branches of the military (no matter what country you live in), all US civilian emergency agencies, such as FEMA, across, it is esimated if the whole thing happens, half of the damn world.
FEMA says it may take billions of dollars to replace/augment the HF systems they have in place. Seems a bit silly.
As an electrical engineer who majored in microprocessor based design and minored in RF design, I would say -
1) Reed's ideas aren't even decent vaporware yet. 2) Reed's ideas are going to have problems with the fact that antennas aren't broadbanded enough. And when they are, they are directional (often the wrong ones), and still not very broadbanded. And don't think fractal antennas will work, because they don't work well at all. 3) Most important - his ideas have nothing to do with the HF section of the spectrum.
Nope, not kidding, and not spreading anything except my own experience. I have had nothing but trouble with 2K and XP. I may be the anamoly. Don't know. I have tried different HW, and now 2 versions of the NT meant for the desktop. My experience is that it sucks, And every other person I talk to has your opinion. I can't say you are all lying, as it would make sense.
I also work as a sysadmin, and my experience watching the 2K and 2003 servers we have says they ain't all that great either though. They are set to autoreboot every 2 days. That doesn't say much for them as a server platform. I'm just glad I don't have to deal with them much except to power cycle them when they doorknob.
And again, I'm just speaking from what I see around me, I don;t give a rat's ass whether Windows is good or bad. I was even an alpha tester for 95 way back when. Loved that. New release every Friday!
Since I went to Win2k and thence onward and downward to XP, I have had less and less uptime before lockups, and lots more problems on reboots. My current XP system on a 1.4G Athlon is slower, by a lot, than Win98 was on a Cyrix 333. Windows is NOT getting better.
Every new system that runs Windows that I need to be sure of, which ain't many I'll admit, I now install the same old 98SE copy on. I also install Slack dual boot, so I can back it up easier and faster.;)
The gentleman is correct. I've used Arco in 2 systems that ran for years flawlessly. Except for a drive failure. Which made the peizo alarm become annoying and LEDs change state.
And thanks so much for bring it up, because you reminded me I had one of those tucked away, forgotten, brand new in the box. I will be putting it into service soon.
I use it at work because I want as rock stable OS under me to do sysadmin. And I have to do my time card and trouble ticket system under win. This let's me do it without a second box, and I can cut and paste between them. If I had a choice I'd dump the win TT and timecard apps for unix based, but I don't run the company. I'm happy I can get away with win4lin.
I have to say that after several years using it, starting before 1.0 was released, that the product has always performed well, and, even better, been more stable than native windows. I am currently running 4.0, and have not decided whether I will upgrade.
Slashdot Mirror
I found it - AVM option.
tom
I've gone to the Panamax site, and it looks good. But I haven't found anything that speaks of low voltage cutoff. Could you point at a particular model?
Thanks.
tom
England has been ahead of us all the way. We've watched, criticized, and then let our (US) government do the same, and more.
The 2 parties, in one name or another, that have ruled us for 150+ years need competition.
tom
I have had 2 ethanol bumper stickers custom made -
"Just say no to ethanol fuels
Burning food is just wrong"
"Ethanol - Feed your car
Starve a Child"
It is what it is.
tom
K0TAR
Actually my point was mostly that they wouldn't know when they could get away with NOT sticking to the rules.
So your argument is that because it will happen because you think it will?
That's as cogent as the response of the other Anonymous Coward, who may have been you as far as I know, that I have to prove that the machine couldn't possibly win.
Yeah, except the boring oval tracks, which I probably dislike more than you, would be the easiest place to kick the butt of a program controlled car. Because the program doesn't feel the dynamics of the air or the track like a human does.
A boringly smooth road track with an entirely predictable car, like most F1 tracks and cars are becoming, would be the ideal combination for these algorithms. No one passes anyway, so maintaining position until a perfect pit stop occurs is the way to get ahead. Good pit in and out laps win races nowadays. This is where perfection in an algorithm could possibly win, whereas NASCAR is too noisy an environment for it to work.
That being said, I don't watch NASCAR (much), and I am an F1 junkie.
Hamilton is very likely the F1 version of Tiger Woods.
tom
Because it takes realtime intelligence to survive on the track. It's not just knocking people out and getting ahead, it's winning while being watched by officials and your fellow racers, which these algorithms will never be able to do. You need to pick your trick and pick the spot to do it at the same time. The trick and the time change dynamically based on your track position and the cars surrounding you. And if you don't get caught by the officials, your fellow racers will take you out for sure if you are a danger to them.
tom
on a real track, and these algorithms wouldn't stand a chance. Racers know subtle moves and blatent moves that these systems will never be able to learn. Add the fact that real cheating and bending the rules has to occur under the nose of race officials, and that team cars run by algorithms would be banned from any racing venue for being dangerous morons within one or two races, and this would disappear faster than most vaporware.
Implying that these cars could "drive themselves" in any meaningful or safe manner is idiotic. I would like to see what would happen if they put in place some rules based on sane driving.
tom
autocrosser and road racer
"To much idiocy does not mean too many idiots, but too few idiots." You?
They were still hanging Catholics in Minnesota about 100 years ago because they weren't the correct flavor of Xian. And let's not forget how many Xians found Native Americans fair game.
The most cogent comment I've read, and there have been many since well before slashdot got ahold of the article, was -
"Wow. They invented waveguide."
Which has been around for maybe 7 decades.
That was from rec.radio.amateur.antenna.
73
Tom
You are not being Politically Correct here.
A large percentage of the people reading this group of comments have never read nor appreciated history, and will simply spout the latest left wing hate at you.
Many of the current generation would have succeeded in Germany in the late 30s. And have been absolutely sure that they were the good guys.
It was the 6th there, it was the 5th in the US.
International dateline.
My uncle, really a cousin, but in my family older cousins were called uncle, as well as 20 others were killed on Iwo Jima. This from a town of 1500 or so at the time. Yes, it was one of those odd things where they let too many people from the same place be in the same dangerous place.
The leaders and soldiers of the Japanese armed forces were vermin that needed to be exterminated. Yes, we had to use harsh methods. Read the history of those last days before and after the bombs were dropped, and you'll see how close a thing it was that they almost did not give up, despite the wishes of Emporer Hirohito to do just that. A very brave individual from Japanese radio managed to save a recording to be broadcast to the populace from discovery by the army. The fact that that recording survived, and was able to be broadcast was what ended the war when it did.
The arguments are informative by their nature, those who know what's up, and those who don't have a clue.
tom
K0TAR
What are you talking about? "Emergency ranges"? You do not have a clue about what you speak.
Almost all emeergency communications, and ALL long range HF emergency communications will be adversely affected by BPL. That includes ham (Amateur Radio), all branches of the military (no matter what country you live in), all US civilian emergency agencies, such as FEMA, across, it is esimated if the whole thing happens, half of the damn world.
FEMA says it may take billions of dollars to replace/augment the HF systems they have in place. Seems a bit silly.
tom
K0TAR
As an electrical engineer who majored in microprocessor based design and minored in RF design, I would say -
1) Reed's ideas aren't even decent vaporware yet.
2) Reed's ideas are going to have problems with the fact that antennas aren't broadbanded enough. And when they are, they are directional (often the wrong ones), and still not very broadbanded. And don't think fractal antennas will work, because they don't work well at all.
3) Most important - his ideas have nothing to do with the HF section of the spectrum.
tom
K0TAR
Nope, not kidding, and not spreading anything except my own experience. I have had nothing but trouble with 2K and XP. I may be the anamoly. Don't know. I have tried different HW, and now 2 versions of the NT meant for the desktop. My experience is that it sucks, And every other person I talk to has your opinion. I can't say you are all lying, as it would make sense.
I also work as a sysadmin, and my experience watching the 2K and 2003 servers we have says they ain't all that great either though. They are set to autoreboot every 2 days. That doesn't say much for them as a server platform. I'm just glad I don't have to deal with them much except to power cycle them when they doorknob.
And again, I'm just speaking from what I see around me, I don;t give a rat's ass whether Windows is good or bad. I was even an alpha tester for 95 way back when. Loved that. New release every Friday!
Since I went to Win2k and thence onward and downward to XP, I have had less and less uptime before lockups, and lots more problems on reboots. My current XP system on a 1.4G Athlon is slower, by a lot, than Win98 was on a Cyrix 333. Windows is NOT getting better.
;)
Every new system that runs Windows that I need to be sure of, which ain't many I'll admit, I now install the same old 98SE copy on. I also install Slack dual boot, so I can back it up easier and faster.
My next "PC" will probably be a miniMac.
BTDT.
The gentleman is correct. I've used Arco in 2 systems that ran for years flawlessly. Except for a drive failure. Which made the peizo alarm become annoying and LEDs change state.
And thanks so much for bring it up, because you reminded me I had one of those tucked away, forgotten, brand new in the box. I will be putting it into service soon.
tom
I hate sigs, and refuse to have one.
I use it at work because I want as rock stable OS under me to do sysadmin. And I have to do my time card and trouble ticket system under win. This let's me do it without a second box, and I can cut and paste between them. If I had a choice I'd dump the win TT and timecard apps for unix based, but I don't run the company. I'm happy I can get away with win4lin.
I have to say that after several years using it, starting before 1.0 was released, that the product has always performed well, and, even better, been more stable than native windows. I am currently running 4.0, and have not decided whether I will upgrade.
tom
Anyone who dumps slack for redhat is already 90% of the way to windoze mentally anyway. Glad to see you gone.