The air intake was exposed on that model, so it was only a couple of seconds. But yes, especially a hot engine that's been running all night running light-weight winter oil (10W - the engine treats it almost the same as #2 diesel when the turbo bearing seal leaks) - I guess I'm just lucky that way:-)
Then again, I've also had the "pleasure" of getting a phone call - "I just put 5 gallons of diesel in the car - what do I do?" "Fill it to the top with gasoline, drive around for an hour, and fill it to the top again." Since it was winter, it was probably #1 diesel and not #2, so it worked with no issues - and the added bonus of extra lubricant for the valve stems - but the exhaust sure smelled funny for a while...
The people stuck looking at the counter would probably say that's not a solution - at least not for them. Besides, I'm saying that the original poster was wrong when they claimed that there were good free solutions available.
It's not free in the FLOSS sense (can't be redistributed without restriction because of patent issues), and for much of the market it's not free in the $$$ sense either (need a license from MPEG-LA).
we are responsible to make sure the banks follow rational lending policies because we are on the hook for all the deposits if they do not.
No - there's a limit to how much is covered per account for deposit insurance. Also, not all types of bank accounts have insurance.
Deposit insurance could be reformed so that it is per person, not per account, to save more on premiums. That would provide more of an incentive for the people depositing their money to look at the real risk, instead of palming it off on the taxpayers.
If the market asset valuation is a temporary anomaly
Only if you define "temporary" as 10 to 20 years...
Housing values aren't coming back any quicker than they did in Japan after their bubble. There's something like 10 - 20 million vacant homes out there (not the less than 2 million "officially" vacant, which represents such a tiny fraction in comparison to the shadow market that it's pitiful).
My index fingers are visibly longer than my ring fingers, thank you very much. You're assuming I leave my hands in one position, instead of wandering all over the keyboard. I don't leave my fingers glued to the home keys. There's no need to.
The whole concept of home keys was to enable people to use a particular finger to push a key, and that way, they'd learn one action. But that's just stupid, and also contributes to RSI. When you play a piano, do you leave your fingers in one position? How about a guitar? Nope. Table tennis? (a great example - I switch hands while playing so I can cover more of the table, and we looked it up in the rules - it's legal). So why should a computer keyboard be any different?
I learned to type the "proper way" in high school in typing class, then developed my way, which works for me, is faster, and has less risk of RSI, since you're not keeping the hands in any one position. The keys aren't going to move, so it's no big deal just to hit them with whatever finger happens to be closest (for example, when I typed the word "happened", I used the middle finger for both "p"s, but the ring finger when I typed the subsequent "p" by itself. In neither case will you have found my hands in the "home keys" positions).
Try it. It's better than dealing with RSI, or needing surgery for carpal tunnel.
Unfortunately, no. The only way to be 100% sure would involve verifying not just the software, but the hardware as well in every possible use-case scenario. That's why programmers have to be alert.
The tests you pointed to were a very SMALL number of tests, on a very SMALL number of cars. The testers admit this, as well as the fact that the people doing the tests were unfamiliar with the vehicles.
If your car has decent tread, the "common case" will be snow or ice, not hydroplaning - and hydroplaning, the simplest thing to do is slip it into neutral.
On glare ice, particularly when covered with a film of water because of a rapid rise in temperature, renders ABS a real hazard. You have to lock all 4 wheels and depend on the occasional salty/gritty/dry patch to slow you down - neither ABS nor pumping the brakes manually will do it. Been there (plenty of times), always recovered, watched everyone with ABS just sail through unable to stop.
At Hewitt Equipment they had a diesel where the governor failed (this is back in the '70s) - it DID disassemble itself. But it takes time to rev up that far. Everyone had time to clear the area first.
So I knew I had a few seconds, so there was no danger unless I slipped.
Mind you, the guy who worked there (and told me about it) also liked to connect the toilet up to the 110 to initiate the newbies (metal mezzanine).
ABS has been shown to result in a 21% increase in single-car accidents because of "run-off-road" incidents where the driver tried to execute a quick lane change rather than stop.
In snowy climes like where I live (the only place ABS will get a real workout if you have decent tread on your tires) ABS is a disaster. Try it on glare ice. On vehicles w/o ABS, you have a chance. Lock the wheels - you're sliding anyways (and only release them when you need to make steering inputs), but at least the occasional patch of grit or sand will help reduce your momentum. ABS won't let you do this. I've driven in ice storms with road surfaces completely covered in ice many times - ON SUMMER TIRES - and I'm still accident-free, while everyone else is spun out. The key isn't your brakes - in those conditions, you have to drive as if your master cylinder has failed (had that happen once... still managed to drive home without incident, because at 35 below in the middle of the night, I'm not going to just sit there) - anticipate, use only the engine to slow down, etc.
The coefficient of friction is at its maximum with 20% slippage. New, cooler material is continuously presented to the asphalt, and eroded away, scrubbing off speed, turning mechanical energy heat. This is not the same as the wheel being locked, and the tire just skidding along. The wheel is still spinning.
The drivers were doing "best-effort", on vehicles they were not familiar with, not "just lock the damn wheels and stop". Big difference.
In single-lane change tests, the ABS-equiped cars uniformly performed 27% worse according to the paper you cite, more often losing control because the ABS couldn't compensate. This translates in real life into a 21% increase in single-car "run-off-road" accidents.
Additionally, on surfaces that were NOT uniform (gravel, snow) ABS always performed worse.
Also, braking on curves was worse than locking all 4 wheels.
The money given to the banks so far would have bought every underwater mortgage in America. Someone did the math BEFORE the bailout, and posted it on seekingalpha.
On dry asphalt with good grip, ABS can actually decrease your braking distance
Who fed you this bullshit? Tests show otherwise. On dry asphalt, locking all 4 wheels is much quicker than ABS. It can spell the difference between an accident and no accident.
ABS is worse than an experienced driver in ALL conditions, including hydroplaning and ice. In theory, ABS should be better - but practice and theory are two different things.
Tests show that ABS increases your stopping distance on snow and gravel. Also, threshold braking (where the wheels are slipping about 20%) gives the maximum stopping force on dry surfaces, and that's above anything ABS can do, since it doesn't allow the wheels to "scrub" the asphalt, and convert tire rubber to heat and particulates.
... it IS called Digital Rights Management. And we all know that "Management" is a code word for "Those who screw you over the most". And "Rights" really means "Restrictions."
Digital Restrictions by Those Who Screw You Over The Most", or DRbTWSYOTM just doesn't have the same cachet.
P.S.: I know someone will find an error in the grammar of this sentence. If you do so, go ahead, and answer me in my own native language: Luxemburgish! Good luck with that!;)
It's Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch), you insensitive clod! (spelling, not grammar:-)
But don't let anyone nag you about your language skills - or your spelling skills. You should see some of my misplaced accents in my written French. It's like "I didn't really write that, did I?"
How many drivers will instinctively reach for the parking brake if the brake pedal fails?
Your parking brake - which only actuates the much smaller braking system on the rear wheels - isn't going to do sh*t for you. Either turn off the engine - but don't turn the key so far as to lock your steering (automatic) or downshift through the gears like crazy (manual).
Your parking brake pawl will snap (automatic transmission) instead of slowing you down. Your parking brake (manual) will hold you im place once you're stopped - but only if you haven't burned through it's adjustment trying to slow down in the first place.
Most important: Drive defensively in the first place - don't get into situations where brake failure means you HAVE to have an accident.
I've had several complete failures, including air-over-hydraulic brake systems on diesels that suddenly failed completely due to a design defect, a runaway diesel (turbo bearing oil seal broke, hot engine oil continued to fuel the engine even with the engine shut-off pulled - stopped, then covered the air intake with my coat to finally choke it before it ran out of oil).
Stuff happens. If you don't panic, you'll probably figure it out before you hit something - unless you didn't give yourself a couple seconds room or were too busy playing with your stupid iPod.
I'll bet it was a Grand Caravan. Faulty transmission sensor would feed current into the cruise control wiring in sub-zero weather. Solution was to disconnect the sensor.
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I'm a touch typist (took typing in high school - do they still teach that?) - but I also don't use the pinkies at all. I found that to be the stupidest thing they could do. Sure, use the pinkies for playing the guitar or the synthesizer, where you need to have 4 fingers on one hand do something at the same time - but not typing.
#1 applies with both manual and automatic transmissions.
With a standard manual transmission wiht spur-cut gears, you need to be able to apply both brakes and gas if you want to be able brake AND downshift w/o having to use the clutch. Ditto for a standard transmission and a roxel (rockwell two-speed rear-end - 5x2 transmission).
Also, on very slippery ice, you don't want the abs to kick in - it will release all 4 wheels and you lose all control - so the best course of action is a small amount of gas and light intermittent taps on the brakes - unless you were smart enough to disconnect the ABS ahead of time.
BTW - Even on dry asphalt, ABS won't stop you as fast as locking the 4 wheels will. ABS is for inexperienced drivers only.
Here in Quebec, Videotron gives up to 50mb/s for home, up to 10gb/s for commercial. Their infrastructure is constantly being upgraded because they also do video-on-demand and voip on the same cable as regular cable tv, so there's already lots of fibre in many neighborhoods. There's one fibre trunk line two houses down.
And unlike many of the US stats that have been used by the ISPs in the states when they try to claim they're doing a good job, that claim broadband for everyone in a 10k sample area if ONE person has it, the Canadian stats aren't the same.
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Then again, I've also had the "pleasure" of getting a phone call - "I just put 5 gallons of diesel in the car - what do I do?" "Fill it to the top with gasoline, drive around for an hour, and fill it to the top again." Since it was winter, it was probably #1 diesel and not #2, so it worked with no issues - and the added bonus of extra lubricant for the valve stems - but the exhaust sure smelled funny for a while ...
The people stuck looking at the counter would probably say that's not a solution - at least not for them. Besides, I'm saying that the original poster was wrong when they claimed that there were good free solutions available.
It's not free in the FLOSS sense (can't be redistributed without restriction because of patent issues), and for much of the market it's not free in the $$$ sense either (need a license from MPEG-LA).
No - there's a limit to how much is covered per account for deposit insurance. Also, not all types of bank accounts have insurance.
Deposit insurance could be reformed so that it is per person, not per account, to save more on premiums. That would provide more of an incentive for the people depositing their money to look at the real risk, instead of palming it off on the taxpayers.
If you're referring to ffmpeg, it's infringing on several patents held by MPEG-LA
Theora? Don't hold your breath. Apple, (one of the members of the MPEG-LA patent pool) won't use it no matter what.
Only if you define "temporary" as 10 to 20 years ...
Housing values aren't coming back any quicker than they did in Japan after their bubble. There's something like 10 - 20 million vacant homes out there (not the less than 2 million "officially" vacant, which represents such a tiny fraction in comparison to the shadow market that it's pitiful).
My index fingers are visibly longer than my ring fingers, thank you very much. You're assuming I leave my hands in one position, instead of wandering all over the keyboard. I don't leave my fingers glued to the home keys. There's no need to.
The whole concept of home keys was to enable people to use a particular finger to push a key, and that way, they'd learn one action. But that's just stupid, and also contributes to RSI. When you play a piano, do you leave your fingers in one position? How about a guitar? Nope. Table tennis? (a great example - I switch hands while playing so I can cover more of the table, and we looked it up in the rules - it's legal). So why should a computer keyboard be any different?
I learned to type the "proper way" in high school in typing class, then developed my way, which works for me, is faster, and has less risk of RSI, since you're not keeping the hands in any one position. The keys aren't going to move, so it's no big deal just to hit them with whatever finger happens to be closest (for example, when I typed the word "happened", I used the middle finger for both "p"s, but the ring finger when I typed the subsequent "p" by itself. In neither case will you have found my hands in the "home keys" positions).
Try it. It's better than dealing with RSI, or needing surgery for carpal tunnel.
Unfortunately, no. The only way to be 100% sure would involve verifying not just the software, but the hardware as well in every possible use-case scenario. That's why programmers have to be alert.
The tests you pointed to were a very SMALL number of tests, on a very SMALL number of cars. The testers admit this, as well as the fact that the people doing the tests were unfamiliar with the vehicles.
If your car has decent tread, the "common case" will be snow or ice, not hydroplaning - and hydroplaning, the simplest thing to do is slip it into neutral.
On glare ice, particularly when covered with a film of water because of a rapid rise in temperature, renders ABS a real hazard. You have to lock all 4 wheels and depend on the occasional salty/gritty/dry patch to slow you down - neither ABS nor pumping the brakes manually will do it. Been there (plenty of times), always recovered, watched everyone with ABS just sail through unable to stop.
Loans at market rates to insolvent businesses ARE a gift. It's like giving someone who's bankrupt a loan at 5%.
Buying their toxic assets for 100 cents on the dollar is also a gift, when they won't even fetch 20 cents on the dollar on the open market.
At Hewitt Equipment they had a diesel where the governor failed (this is back in the '70s) - it DID disassemble itself. But it takes time to rev up that far. Everyone had time to clear the area first.
So I knew I had a few seconds, so there was no danger unless I slipped.
Mind you, the guy who worked there (and told me about it) also liked to connect the toilet up to the 110 to initiate the newbies (metal mezzanine).
ABS has been shown to result in a 21% increase in single-car accidents because of "run-off-road" incidents where the driver tried to execute a quick lane change rather than stop.
In snowy climes like where I live (the only place ABS will get a real workout if you have decent tread on your tires) ABS is a disaster. Try it on glare ice. On vehicles w/o ABS, you have a chance. Lock the wheels - you're sliding anyways (and only release them when you need to make steering inputs), but at least the occasional patch of grit or sand will help reduce your momentum. ABS won't let you do this. I've driven in ice storms with road surfaces completely covered in ice many times - ON SUMMER TIRES - and I'm still accident-free, while everyone else is spun out. The key isn't your brakes - in those conditions, you have to drive as if your master cylinder has failed (had that happen once ... still managed to drive home without incident, because at 35 below in the middle of the night, I'm not going to just sit there) - anticipate, use only the engine to slow down, etc.
Don't be silly.
Nobody is stopping anyone from setting up a web site.
Your ISP has an email server - use the damn thing. Or set up your own. You can rent space on a server cheap.
The bottom 99% of the Internet could disappear tomorrow and you wouldn't notice - except for the massive reduction of spam.
The coefficient of friction is at its maximum with 20% slippage. New, cooler material is continuously presented to the asphalt, and eroded away, scrubbing off speed, turning mechanical energy heat. This is not the same as the wheel being locked, and the tire just skidding along. The wheel is still spinning.
The drivers were doing "best-effort", on vehicles they were not familiar with, not "just lock the damn wheels and stop". Big difference.
In single-lane change tests, the ABS-equiped cars uniformly performed 27% worse according to the paper you cite, more often losing control because the ABS couldn't compensate. This translates in real life into a 21% increase in single-car "run-off-road" accidents.
Additionally, on surfaces that were NOT uniform (gravel, snow) ABS always performed worse.
Also, braking on curves was worse than locking all 4 wheels.
The money given to the banks so far would have bought every underwater mortgage in America. Someone did the math BEFORE the bailout, and posted it on seekingalpha.
Who fed you this bullshit? Tests show otherwise. On dry asphalt, locking all 4 wheels is much quicker than ABS. It can spell the difference between an accident and no accident.
ABS is worse than an experienced driver in ALL conditions, including hydroplaning and ice. In theory, ABS should be better - but practice and theory are two different things.
Tests show that ABS increases your stopping distance on snow and gravel. Also, threshold braking (where the wheels are slipping about 20%) gives the maximum stopping force on dry surfaces, and that's above anything ABS can do, since it doesn't allow the wheels to "scrub" the asphalt, and convert tire rubber to heat and particulates.
Digital Restrictions by Those Who Screw You Over The Most", or DRbTWSYOTM just doesn't have the same cachet.
It's Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch), you insensitive clod! (spelling, not grammar :-)
But don't let anyone nag you about your language skills - or your spelling skills. You should see some of my misplaced accents in my written French. It's like "I didn't really write that, did I?"
Your parking brake - which only actuates the much smaller braking system on the rear wheels - isn't going to do sh*t for you. Either turn off the engine - but don't turn the key so far as to lock your steering (automatic) or downshift through the gears like crazy (manual).
Your parking brake pawl will snap (automatic transmission) instead of slowing you down. Your parking brake (manual) will hold you im place once you're stopped - but only if you haven't burned through it's adjustment trying to slow down in the first place.
Most important: Drive defensively in the first place - don't get into situations where brake failure means you HAVE to have an accident.
I've had several complete failures, including air-over-hydraulic brake systems on diesels that suddenly failed completely due to a design defect, a runaway diesel (turbo bearing oil seal broke, hot engine oil continued to fuel the engine even with the engine shut-off pulled - stopped, then covered the air intake with my coat to finally choke it before it ran out of oil).
Stuff happens. If you don't panic, you'll probably figure it out before you hit something - unless you didn't give yourself a couple seconds room or were too busy playing with your stupid iPod.
I'll bet it was a Grand Caravan. Faulty transmission sensor would feed current into the cruise control wiring in sub-zero weather. Solution was to disconnect the sensor.
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I'm a touch typist (took typing in high school - do they still teach that?) - but I also don't use the pinkies at all. I found that to be the stupidest thing they could do. Sure, use the pinkies for playing the guitar or the synthesizer, where you need to have 4 fingers on one hand do something at the same time - but not typing.
#1 applies with both manual and automatic transmissions.
With a standard manual transmission wiht spur-cut gears, you need to be able to apply both brakes and gas if you want to be able brake AND downshift w/o having to use the clutch. Ditto for a standard transmission and a roxel (rockwell two-speed rear-end - 5x2 transmission).
Also, on very slippery ice, you don't want the abs to kick in - it will release all 4 wheels and you lose all control - so the best course of action is a small amount of gas and light intermittent taps on the brakes - unless you were smart enough to disconnect the ABS ahead of time.
BTW - Even on dry asphalt, ABS won't stop you as fast as locking the 4 wheels will. ABS is for inexperienced drivers only.
Here in Quebec, Videotron gives up to 50mb/s for home, up to 10gb/s for commercial. Their infrastructure is constantly being upgraded because they also do video-on-demand and voip on the same cable as regular cable tv, so there's already lots of fibre in many neighborhoods. There's one fibre trunk line two houses down.
First link from yahoo for canada broadband penetration shows that Canada has historically always led the US.
And unlike many of the US stats that have been used by the ISPs in the states when they try to claim they're doing a good job, that claim broadband for everyone in a 10k sample area if ONE person has it, the Canadian stats aren't the same.