Our passat has front/reverse ultrasonic and our SUV a reversing camera but no ultrasonic. I prefer the passat because I get audio feedback while I concentrate on three mirrors, rather than no audio 3 mirrors and a video feed. Nirvana would be a audio connected to 3D object recognition overlaid on video.
Thanks for your well argued response. I totally agree natural selection and adaptation take place. I acknowledge eveolutionary theory requies enormous time frames. I still think there are big issues around irreducable complexity and molecular chirality and more importantly non selective genetic mutations.
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matthew 19:24)
Quoting 1 verse takes it out of context. vs 25,26 'The disciples were staggered. "Then who has any chance at all?" Jesus looked hard at them and said, "No chance at all if you think you can pull it off yourself. Every chance in the world if you trust God to do it."
The point is salvation is by faith, and the rich (aka most of the western world) don't normally need much faith when their needs are met by material wealth. Thus Jesus was saying, if you are rich, the last thing you are probably thinking of is needing a relationship with God. God/Jesus is not anti money (see parable of the talents), he is anti anything that 1: Devaules your personal relationship with Him 2: Creates injustice or inequity with other people.
My day job is an electronic design engineer. I put together hundreds of components to make something perform a function. If I took one of my designs, copied it, but occasionally left out a component, or added a component, or changed the value of a component there will be several outcomes. 1- Total non function 2- Degraded function 3- No Change in function 4- Improved function If I were to assign a probability based on experience, 2 is most likely followed by 3, 1 and 4. I have no doubt that the long term outcome is LOSS of information and function. Evolution just cannot work because most mutations lead to loss of information and degraded function. The chance of beneficial mutation and increased function is overwhelmed by loss of information. I have never seen a convincing counter to this fundamental problem. To me the evidence of design is obvious.
However, the effects of selection are not ignorable in a large population for nearly neutral mutations.
Like what? What about color blindness? How is that selecting? A non beneficial mutation that has no bearing on survivability! I still contest that evolution has no answer to the fact that most mutations must be non beneficial and thus cannot descibe the extreme amount of order present in life on earth.
When you hear Lithium Ion Battery, you need to understand there are many different types of cell. A battery consists of an Anode, Cathode and Electrolyte. In LiIon based batteries, the electrolyte is a Lithium Salt, and the Anode is generally Carbon. In LiPolymer batteries the electrolyte is held in a polymer of Lithium Cobalt or Lithium Maganese (this is the most common format of battery in consumer electronics) In a recent project a for a hand held RF device, we chose LiFePO4. Mainly because it is so robust. Although it does not have the same capacity as LiPoly, you can grossly overcharge it and even drive a nail through it and it wont catch on fire. It also has much longer life over LiPoly.
LiPoly are very sensitive to overcharge, overdischarge, and mechanical damage, thus have a circuit to disconnect the battery when over discharged, thus the 'bricking' effect.
Tesla orginally used 18650 LiIon batteries with I believe had a LiCoO2 cathode, although I now think they are changing to pupose built cells. They would have a more sophisticated battery management that would prevent 'bricking'...... well at least one would hope...
So over time it can degrade due to mutations, and it has done this in the past. However natural selection is strong enough to maintain it.
Thus in a nutshell you describe the bullshit that evolutionary theory is. Evolutionists seem to think any non beneficial mutation results in a non reproducing/ non viable entity. The reality is we are seeing a slow degradation of our genetic code though non beneficial mutation. If I add noise to your genetic code >99% of the time you loose information, but still function fine as a living being. Any beneficial gains from mutation are WAY WAY outweighed by the non reproductive effecting entropy created.
Of the tens of thousands of traffic lights in Australia, I have never come accross a set that is not driven by inductive loops, and in metro areas, connected to a central management system. In fact all these loops feed into systems used by google maps to give traffic flow info. I feel sorry for the USA. Impossible debt, broke states, imperial measurements, MPAA & timed lights
As a primary school kid, I sought out my library encyclopedia on how to make gun power, then went about obtaining the chemicals and actually making gun powder. My dad knew what was going on and turned a blind eye. We mostly tried to make volcanoes and rockets but also copper pipe bombs. Those were the days when you could buy a rifle and ammunition from KMART. I suppose that curiosity about the physical world is what led me toward a career in engineering. Behaviour like that would probably end me in juvanile detention now.
In Australia (and most commonwealth countries) Common Law always trumps contractual agreements.
Even so, my business partner always reads every line of a contract (I'm talking genuine contacts, like trade accounts, NDA's, BtoB agreements, not software EULA's). The notorious ones are courier companies that have clauses like, 'You make available your personal assets for compensation in case we have an accident while carrying your goods'. We send back those contracts with the stupid clauses crossed out. If they don't like it, we don't complete the contract.
Even better would to have meta moderation like slashdot. When you revert an edit, at least two other unrelated parties vote if the edit was unfair. To many negative meta mods and you loose the right to revert.
You forgot to add all the requirements for physical products.
Electrical Safety Testing (Like UL) Electrical Emissions Testing Electrical Susceptibility Testing ROHS Compliance (Reduction of Hazardas Substances) WEEE (Electrical Waste) and the new kid on the block REACH, which basically means you have to document the every chemical used in your product. Thus for every resistor, capapacitor, diode, connector, plastic part, IC, opto part, PCB, wire you are meant to list the 'registered' chemicals used in those parts.
When Steve Jobs was in his gararge, about the only thing he would have to comply with was his developing ego.
Hah, must supress this news story from Australian government; after all, we wouldn't want he taxpayers to think the 38 Billion dollar roll out of the National Broadband Scheme is a waste of money!
1. interstate systems in the US are 75m/hr (120km/hr). So with your system I could go 100mi/hr (160km/hr) and only pay $10 per km? Very nice. I'm sure the other drivers won't mind when I fly past them, weaving through traffic.
2. It sounds like you're ok with rich people speeding as much as they want.. while poor(er) people have to obey the laws or face heavy fines. (do you like how I spinned that? because that's what people will say when it gets put on a ballot)
Well AC, what do you think happens on the Autobahns in Europe? The 7 series BMWs are doing 180kmh while trucks are doing 110. Even for a rich person $1000 to do 100km at 160km/h is a lot of coin.
Speed Limits are arbitary limits which do not take into account - Weather - Vehicle type: are you a sports car or a truck - Driver skill / fatigue
I think most western countries have passed the sweet stop of punative surveilance vs safety 10 years ago. It is now about revenue raising for states that are cash strapped. The cordon system takes this to a new level. In fact I thought of developing a system like this, and thought no, as it doesn't do the public any good.
What would be better is a fine system that is relative to risk. eg Lets say you had a GPS speed tracker (ingnore the big brother issues for this example). You get 'fined' (taxed) 1c for every km you exceed the speed limitby 1-10km/hr. 10c 11-20km/hr. $1 21-30km/hr. $10 31-40 km/hr. $100 41-50km/hr. $1000 51-60km/hr. then add a linear factor for vehicle type. Insurance companies make these type of calculations all the time. There is no reason why government could not calculate the monetary cost of speeding (ie increased accident rate caused by speeding). Of course, this sort of thinking is way outside the box for a goverment and will never happen (and they would balls up the calculation), and we will have to live with $150 fines for exceeding the speed limit by 10% on a downhill slope.
I visit this site everyday, so I must be a nerd. My wife is stuck in Sydney because of this, so to me it is 'Stuff the Matters'.
This is a grounding of the ENTIRE airline which is unprecedented, with NO notice (We only have 3 domestic carriers). Thus if you were in transit somewhere around the world (or on a codeshare flight) with QANTAS, you are now stuck. I think this is newsworthy enough.
The trouble with buying from a Chinese vendor, is you have no control over the quality.
Our company has just tread a very similar path to yours, and this is our solution.
We use an ARM9, in our case Freescale imx28x with 1G of RAM and ROM running linux with QT. QT is nice to deveop in, as you can prototype on most of the GUI on the PC before dealing with the hardware. We are not wedded to this combo, but having the ARM9 allows some flexability. Freescale have a 10 year no obsolecence policy on this family of processors.
Now here is the important bit. The ARM9 is on a custom SODIMM module (we control the IP) that does display control and communications (Ethernet, Bluetooth, GPS, USB, SD/MMC). Any real time stuff the design needs, we offload to a custom microcontroller that we program in straight C, and use I2C to communicate to the ARM9. We treat the ARM9 as the business logic and GUI and abstract that away from the nitty gitty RTOS stuff.
Thus we have a reusable module with a common codebase and build set that we can use in many different designs that require some graphics/touch screen. Eg, Industrial Controllers, RFID systems, etc.
We the people don't want to 'steal', otherwise KMART would have uzis at the door instead of some bored chick. Give the people an easy way to download everything at a reasonable price ($5 new release , $1 for back catalouge), and most of piracy will go away overnight. Making war against the consumer of your product is not a long term business strategy. Unfortunatley, most of the MPAxx's of the world seem to be run by retards.
...Australian shops are so overpriced that it's getting to the point where they're not going to have any customers to track.
Amen to that. We were quoted $8k for 2 Siemens Wall Ovens. UK Retail Price $3.2k What did we do? Paid the $3.2k + $800 costs to import them!
Globalisation is a disruptive force!
(BTW Australians call them shopping centres, not Malls) (BBTW Have seen our supermarkets stocking halloween stuff... go away unwanted American culture)
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Our passat has front/reverse ultrasonic and our SUV a reversing camera but no ultrasonic.
I prefer the passat because I get audio feedback while I concentrate on three mirrors, rather than no audio 3 mirrors and a video feed.
Nirvana would be a audio connected to 3D object recognition overlaid on video.
Thanks for your well argued response.
I totally agree natural selection and adaptation take place.
I acknowledge eveolutionary theory requies enormous time frames.
I still think there are big issues around irreducable complexity and molecular chirality and more importantly non selective genetic mutations.
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
(Matthew 19:24)
Quoting 1 verse takes it out of context. vs 25,26
'The disciples were staggered. "Then who has any chance at all?"
Jesus looked hard at them and said, "No chance at all if you think you can pull it off yourself. Every chance in the world if you trust God to do it."
The point is salvation is by faith, and the rich (aka most of the western world) don't normally need much faith when their needs are met by material wealth. Thus Jesus was saying, if you are rich, the last thing you are probably thinking of is needing a relationship with God.
God/Jesus is not anti money (see parable of the talents), he is anti anything that 1: Devaules your personal relationship with Him 2: Creates injustice or inequity with other people.
My day job is an electronic design engineer. I put together hundreds of components to make something perform a function. If I took one of my designs, copied it, but occasionally left out a component, or added a component, or changed the value of a component there will be several outcomes.
1- Total non function
2- Degraded function
3- No Change in function
4- Improved function
If I were to assign a probability based on experience, 2 is most likely followed by 3, 1 and 4.
I have no doubt that the long term outcome is LOSS of information and function.
Evolution just cannot work because most mutations lead to loss of information and degraded function. The chance of beneficial mutation and increased function is overwhelmed by loss of information. I have never seen a convincing counter to this fundamental problem.
To me the evidence of design is obvious.
What a load of nothing that article was.
However, the effects of selection are not ignorable in a large population for nearly neutral mutations.
Like what? What about color blindness? How is that selecting? A non beneficial mutation that has no bearing on survivability!
I still contest that evolution has no answer to the fact that most mutations must be non beneficial and thus cannot descibe the extreme amount of order present in life on earth.
I find it much easier to believe we were designed, than random mutations that should increase enropy somehow don't.
When you hear Lithium Ion Battery, you need to understand there are many different types of cell.
A battery consists of an Anode, Cathode and Electrolyte.
In LiIon based batteries, the electrolyte is a Lithium Salt, and the Anode is generally Carbon.
In LiPolymer batteries the electrolyte is held in a polymer of Lithium Cobalt or Lithium Maganese (this is the most common format of battery in consumer electronics)
In a recent project a for a hand held RF device, we chose LiFePO4. Mainly because it is so robust. Although it does not have the same capacity as LiPoly, you can grossly overcharge it and even drive a nail through it and it wont catch on fire. It also has much longer life over LiPoly.
LiPoly are very sensitive to overcharge, overdischarge, and mechanical damage, thus have a circuit to disconnect the battery when over discharged, thus the 'bricking' effect.
Tesla orginally used 18650 LiIon batteries with I believe had a LiCoO2 cathode, although I now think they are changing to pupose built cells. They would have a more sophisticated battery management that would prevent 'bricking'...... well at least one would hope...
So over time it can degrade due to mutations, and it has done this in the past. However natural selection is strong enough to maintain it.
Thus in a nutshell you describe the bullshit that evolutionary theory is.
Evolutionists seem to think any non beneficial mutation results in a non reproducing/ non viable entity. The reality is we are seeing a slow degradation of our genetic code though non beneficial mutation. If I add noise to your genetic code >99% of the time you loose information, but still function fine as a living being. Any beneficial gains from mutation are WAY WAY outweighed by the non reproductive effecting entropy created.
Of the tens of thousands of traffic lights in Australia, I have never come accross a set that is not driven by inductive loops, and in metro areas, connected to a central management system. In fact all these loops feed into systems used by google maps to give traffic flow info.
I feel sorry for the USA. Impossible debt, broke states, imperial measurements, MPAA & timed lights
And what the world needs is a compression slider. Slide it down for home theatre and true HiFi, slide it up for ipods and car steroes.
Then again, Chrome doesn't have side tabs (Tree Style Tabs)
Yep. I ditched Chrome back to FF because some glen@chromium.org dude thought it was bloat.
As a primary school kid, I sought out my library encyclopedia on how to make gun power, then went about obtaining the chemicals and actually making gun powder. My dad knew what was going on and turned a blind eye. We mostly tried to make volcanoes and rockets but also copper pipe bombs. Those were the days when you could buy a rifle and ammunition from KMART.
I suppose that curiosity about the physical world is what led me toward a career in engineering. Behaviour like that would probably end me in juvanile detention now.
In Australia (and most commonwealth countries) Common Law always trumps contractual agreements.
Even so, my business partner always reads every line of a contract (I'm talking genuine contacts, like trade accounts, NDA's, BtoB agreements, not software EULA's).
The notorious ones are courier companies that have clauses like, 'You make available your personal assets for compensation in case we have an accident while carrying your goods'. We send back those contracts with the stupid clauses crossed out. If they don't like it, we don't complete the contract.
Even better would to have meta moderation like slashdot. When you revert an edit, at least two other unrelated parties vote if the edit was unfair. To many negative meta mods and you loose the right to revert.
Another vote for Foxit
I remove adobe PDF from any systems I administer and install Foxit
You forgot to add all the requirements for physical products.
Electrical Safety Testing (Like UL)
Electrical Emissions Testing
Electrical Susceptibility Testing
ROHS Compliance (Reduction of Hazardas Substances)
WEEE (Electrical Waste)
and the new kid on the block
REACH, which basically means you have to document the every chemical used in your product. Thus for every resistor, capapacitor, diode, connector, plastic part, IC, opto part, PCB, wire you are meant to list the 'registered' chemicals used in those parts.
When Steve Jobs was in his gararge, about the only thing he would have to comply with was his developing ego.
What about women.
In 20 years of electronics engineering, I have met one female EE, and She has been doing sales for 15 years.
Hah, must supress this news story from Australian government; after all, we wouldn't want he taxpayers to think the 38 Billion dollar roll out of the National Broadband Scheme is a waste of money!
1. interstate systems in the US are 75m/hr (120km/hr). So with your system I could go 100mi/hr (160km/hr) and only pay $10 per km? Very nice. I'm sure the other drivers won't mind when I fly past them, weaving through traffic.
2. It sounds like you're ok with rich people speeding as much as they want.. while poor(er) people have to obey the laws or face heavy fines. (do you like how I spinned that? because that's what people will say when it gets put on a ballot)
Well AC, what do you think happens on the Autobahns in Europe? The 7 series BMWs are doing 180kmh while trucks are doing 110.
Even for a rich person $1000 to do 100km at 160km/h is a lot of coin.
Speed Limits are arbitary limits which do not take into account
- Weather
- Vehicle type: are you a sports car or a truck
- Driver skill / fatigue
I think most western countries have passed the sweet stop of punative surveilance vs safety 10 years ago. It is now about revenue raising for states that are cash strapped. The cordon system takes this to a new level. In fact I thought of developing a system like this, and thought no, as it doesn't do the public any good.
What would be better is a fine system that is relative to risk. eg Lets say you had a GPS speed tracker (ingnore the big brother issues for this example). You get 'fined' (taxed) 1c for every km you exceed the speed limitby 1-10km/hr. 10c 11-20km/hr. $1 21-30km/hr. $10 31-40 km/hr. $100 41-50km/hr. $1000 51-60km/hr. then add a linear factor for vehicle type.
Insurance companies make these type of calculations all the time. There is no reason why government could not calculate the monetary cost of speeding (ie increased accident rate caused by speeding). Of course, this sort of thinking is way outside the box for a goverment and will never happen (and they would balls up the calculation), and we will have to live with $150 fines for exceeding the speed limit by 10% on a downhill slope.
Hey bud.
It's News For Nerds, Stuff that matters.
I visit this site everyday, so I must be a nerd.
My wife is stuck in Sydney because of this, so to me it is 'Stuff the Matters'.
This is a grounding of the ENTIRE airline which is unprecedented, with NO notice (We only have 3 domestic carriers). Thus if you were in transit somewhere around the world (or on a codeshare flight) with QANTAS, you are now stuck.
I think this is newsworthy enough.
The trouble with buying from a Chinese vendor, is you have no control over the quality.
Our company has just tread a very similar path to yours, and this is our solution.
We use an ARM9, in our case Freescale imx28x with 1G of RAM and ROM running linux with QT. QT is nice to deveop in, as you can prototype on most of the GUI on the PC before dealing with the hardware. We are not wedded to this combo, but having the ARM9 allows some flexability. Freescale have a 10 year no obsolecence policy on this family of processors.
Now here is the important bit. The ARM9 is on a custom SODIMM module (we control the IP) that does display control and communications (Ethernet, Bluetooth, GPS, USB, SD/MMC).
Any real time stuff the design needs, we offload to a custom microcontroller that we program in straight C, and use I2C to communicate to the ARM9.
We treat the ARM9 as the business logic and GUI and abstract that away from the nitty gitty RTOS stuff.
Thus we have a reusable module with a common codebase and build set that we can use in many different designs that require some graphics/touch screen.
Eg, Industrial Controllers, RFID systems, etc.
We the people don't want to 'steal', otherwise KMART would have uzis at the door instead of some bored chick.
Give the people an easy way to download everything at a reasonable price ($5 new release , $1 for back catalouge), and most of piracy will go away overnight.
Making war against the consumer of your product is not a long term business strategy.
Unfortunatley, most of the MPAxx's of the world seem to be run by retards.
Oh, by the way, don't forget to toss any modern cellphone you have, Apple/Google/Microsoft/WebOS, what country did they come from again?
Oh, and don't forget to thank the Aussies for creating WiFi that actually makes all that stuff usefull.
...Australian shops are so overpriced that it's getting to the point where they're not going to have any customers to track.
Amen to that.
We were quoted $8k for 2 Siemens Wall Ovens.
UK Retail Price $3.2k
What did we do? Paid the $3.2k + $800 costs to import them!
Globalisation is a disruptive force!
(BTW Australians call them shopping centres, not Malls)
(BBTW Have seen our supermarkets stocking halloween stuff... go away unwanted American culture)