No, the car is rev limited. At approximately 500 RPM past red line, the compuer cuts fuel to the engine to prevent over-reving and blowing up the engine. It doesn't matter if you're in first gear or fifth. The engine will not turn above a certain RPM.
Yes, I'm sure it is rev-limited as well, but the same equipment is also often used to regulate top speed.
I hope that some day we can use something other than money to motivate people.
I hope you also have a scheme in mind where people can use something other than money to obtain food, clothing, and shelter, not to mention hookers and beer.
As prokaryotes, bacteria are much smaller than your eukaryotic cells(think proton to electron... orders of magnitude smaller). They add about 3 pounds to your weight, which is nothing, considering the average person weighs... what, like 130 pounds?
Three pounds of bacteria. Naw, that thought isn't going to stick with me. Gee, thanks.
Of course, on many cars low friction wheels are not going to give you any increase in speed. On my car, the rev limiter kicks in at just over 130.
Actually, it is very likely because of your tires that you're limited to 130 mph, but for a different reason. On many cars these days, the manufacturer chooses to electronically limit the speed of the car based on the speed rating of the stock tires. For many "regular" (i.e. non-sports, non-offroad, etc.) cars today, the popular choice is an H-rated tire, which is rated for 130 mph.
Conservation of energy says you can't just destroy the energy of those sound waves. Most likely you're just sending extra-strength sounds waves somewhere else. Theoretically the extra energy could be converted into heat, or electrical energy, but I doubt that's really practical.
The extra energy is being converted into heat energy, as it strikes and is absorbed by the backs of the ear pieces, the ear padding, etc. Bear in mind that we're talking about a really small amount of energy, here.
Want Microsoft DRM, non-compliance to standards, and who-knows-what in the future too? It's to avoid this that these sanctions are being applied.
Hey, if you don't want those things, you know perfectly well how not to get them - stop using Windows. No one's making you use it, and there's no graven-in-stone "right to use Windows", or at least not to tell Microsoft what to put in and what not to put in. Microsoft sells a product. If you like it, use it. If not, tell them to go jump in a lake.
Hmm. A Mercedes is an overblown, anesthetized, hyperexpensive conveyance that decouples the driver from the road and, ultimately, can't go anywhere that a VW can't go, but the VW is a lot cheaper, more fun, more engaging, easier to work on, easier to modify, etc. Is this what you meant?
Seriously though, it was a very pleasant experience : 2 years of absolute slacking, doing only what I wanted on the money I had made during the bubble, recovering from 5 years of uninterrupted software development death marches that had left me kind of sick, and reflecting on all the mistakes I will never make in the future, either as an employee or as an entrepreneur.
Personally, I'm in favour of a constitutional amendment that insists patents are only valid on commercial products, but that free/oss software is immune from such.
Since when are "commercial" and "free/OSS" (assuming free-as-in-freedom) mutually exclusive? It is entirely possible to sell software commercially under the GPL or other free/OSS license.
Not brain surgery but more sophisticated than a tape head connected to a serial port. Since the speed of the card over the head is expected to have a wide speed range, the reader has to have its own adaptive clock circuitry in it to decode the card, and THEN it's converted to rs-232 or CMOS level signals.
Pardon my ignorance but - why don't they just embed a clock signal on the stripe, on a parallel track or something?
Russia today is as ultra capitalist as you can get (i.e the rich/powerful are in complete control).
By that definition, medieval Europe was "ultra-capitalist" - after all, the Church was rich and powerful, and it was in complete control. "Capitalism" does not mean "control by the rich and powerful". The term "capitalism" implies other things, like a free market, property rights, rule of law, etc. which do not apply especially well to present-day Russia. No, Russia is not socialist anymore, but "anarchy" would be a more accurate term than "capitalism" to describe what exists there now.
Stop thinking about Internet access as something you get from a specific telephone or cable company.
But you do get your internet access from a specific telephone or cable company - the company that spent all the money to lay down the cable and put in the equipment. That company might be forced (via "deregulation" - nice little bit of doublespeak there) to allow other "access providers" to resell their service, but that's all it is.
Maybe 1080i, but there are no displays in the world that really can handle 1080p right now.
Huh? I've got this 1600x1200 display on my notebook here, I bet that could show 1080p video - of course it's only 15"... if you mean there are no large, reasonably priced displays that can handle it, that's easier to agree with.
Microsoft are going to spend money and time devaluing their product to sell it to people who can't afford it at their current price. This from a company that makes a profit of over $1 billion a quarter
Gee, that sounds like sort of a nice thing for a monopoly to do. Abuse of a monopoly, it seems to me, would be more along the lines of "F*ck you. Pay me."
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No, the car is rev limited. At approximately 500 RPM past red line, the compuer cuts fuel to the engine to prevent over-reving and blowing up the engine. It doesn't matter if you're in first gear or fifth. The engine will not turn above a certain RPM.
Yes, I'm sure it is rev-limited as well, but the same equipment is also often used to regulate top speed.
I hope that some day we can use something other than money to motivate people.
I hope you also have a scheme in mind where people can use something other than money to obtain food, clothing, and shelter, not to mention hookers and beer.
As prokaryotes, bacteria are much smaller than your eukaryotic cells(think proton to electron... orders of magnitude smaller). They add about 3 pounds to your weight, which is nothing, considering the average person weighs... what, like 130 pounds?
Three pounds of bacteria. Naw, that thought isn't going to stick with me. Gee, thanks.
Of course, on many cars low friction wheels are not going to give you any increase in speed. On my car, the rev limiter kicks in at just over 130.
Actually, it is very likely because of your tires that you're limited to 130 mph, but for a different reason. On many cars these days, the manufacturer chooses to electronically limit the speed of the car based on the speed rating of the stock tires. For many "regular" (i.e. non-sports, non-offroad, etc.) cars today, the popular choice is an H-rated tire, which is rated for 130 mph.
Conservation of energy says you can't just destroy the energy of those sound waves. Most likely you're just sending extra-strength sounds waves somewhere else. Theoretically the extra energy could be converted into heat, or electrical energy, but I doubt that's really practical.
The extra energy is being converted into heat energy, as it strikes and is absorbed by the backs of the ear pieces, the ear padding, etc. Bear in mind that we're talking about a really small amount of energy, here.
Want Microsoft DRM, non-compliance to standards, and who-knows-what in the future too? It's to avoid this that these sanctions are being applied.
Hey, if you don't want those things, you know perfectly well how not to get them - stop using Windows. No one's making you use it, and there's no graven-in-stone "right to use Windows", or at least not to tell Microsoft what to put in and what not to put in. Microsoft sells a product. If you like it, use it. If not, tell them to go jump in a lake.
New England Speak is a wicked pissah!
Anjoo lef' out Brooklyn?!? Wutthufawk? I mean, fuhhhgeddabowdit!
Contrary to what you might have heard, the vast majority of us would rather have the beer.
Everything causes cancer (not sure who to attribute that saying to)...
Well, Joe Jackson didn't invent it, but he put it to music...
Linux : Apple
Hmm. A Mercedes is an overblown, anesthetized, hyperexpensive conveyance that decouples the driver from the road and, ultimately, can't go anywhere that a VW can't go, but the VW is a lot cheaper, more fun, more engaging, easier to work on, easier to modify, etc. Is this what you meant?
Seriously though, it was a very pleasant experience : 2 years of absolute slacking, doing only what I wanted on the money I had made during the bubble, recovering from 5 years of uninterrupted software development death marches that had left me kind of sick, and reflecting on all the mistakes I will never make in the future, either as an employee or as an entrepreneur.
And what do you do now?
There are 6.5 x 10^10 different types of people in the world...
Um, that's 65 billion people...? Am I missing something? Does everyone on the planet have 10-way multiple personality disorder?
That being said, it's still dangerous because the cab drivers can occasionally be reckless due to long hours worked.
LOL, "occasionally". Sure, if "occasionally" means "only when starting, stopping, accelerating, braking, turning, or changing lanes".
Personally, I'm in favour of a constitutional amendment that insists patents are only valid on commercial products, but that free/oss software is immune from such.
Since when are "commercial" and "free/OSS" (assuming free-as-in-freedom) mutually exclusive? It is entirely possible to sell software commercially under the GPL or other free/OSS license.
Not brain surgery but more sophisticated than a tape head connected to a serial port. Since the speed of the card over the head is expected to have a wide speed range, the reader has to have its own adaptive clock circuitry in it to decode the card, and THEN it's converted to rs-232 or CMOS level signals.
Pardon my ignorance but - why don't they just embed a clock signal on the stripe, on a parallel track or something?
It's times like these I'm glad I live in a country that doesn't put useless royalty on its money.
At times like these, I think we have more important things to worry about than who's on our money, don't you?
Just curious, why this way as opposed to:
(project)/trunk
(project)/tags/(tag)
(project
I.e. keeping all code related to a given project together?
Scientists now believe that advanced colonies of Sea Monkeys [sea-monkeys.com] once inhabited Mars.
We should collect some and toss them in Eric Cartman's fishtank along with some semen.
Remember that kinetic energy is proportial to the square of velocity. The rods wouldn't necessarily have to be all that massive.
Russia today is as ultra capitalist as you can get (i.e the rich/powerful are in complete control).
By that definition, medieval Europe was "ultra-capitalist" - after all, the Church was rich and powerful, and it was in complete control. "Capitalism" does not mean "control by the rich and powerful". The term "capitalism" implies other things, like a free market, property rights, rule of law, etc. which do not apply especially well to present-day Russia. No, Russia is not socialist anymore, but "anarchy" would be a more accurate term than "capitalism" to describe what exists there now.
Stop thinking about Internet access as something you get from a specific telephone or cable company.
But you do get your internet access from a specific telephone or cable company - the company that spent all the money to lay down the cable and put in the equipment. That company might be forced (via "deregulation" - nice little bit of doublespeak there) to allow other "access providers" to resell their service, but that's all it is.
With Geos I could print just about any font, but boy do those dot matrix printers make a racket printing graphics!
Not as much as my TTX daisy-wheel printer, I'll bet. Perfect text, no graphics though.
Maybe 1080i, but there are no displays in the world that really can handle 1080p right now.
Huh? I've got this 1600x1200 display on my notebook here, I bet that could show 1080p video - of course it's only 15"... if you mean there are no large, reasonably priced displays that can handle it, that's easier to agree with.
Microsoft are going to spend money and time devaluing their product to sell it to people who can't afford it at their current price. This from a company that makes a profit of over $1 billion a quarter
Gee, that sounds like sort of a nice thing for a monopoly to do. Abuse of a monopoly, it seems to me, would be more along the lines of "F*ck you. Pay me."
...when you pry it from my cold, dead ear. Best. Phone. Ever.