> This kinetic energy is transferred during a > collision, and this is what kills the passengers > of the Yugo, but it doesn't protect the passengers > of the M1 much. If it were two M1s colliding, > probably noone would survive.
You were the first one to get it right in this thread. It's all about what you hit. If you got enough momentum to go through whatever you hit, you are more likely to survive, (assuming no sharp objects penetrate to you.)
If you hit a object with more momentum than yourself, you are not going to accelerate it out of the way, you are going to expereince the acceleration into it's direction of travel (or indirection in the case of a immobile object.)
it is about momentum, and not weight. A electric car with a huge spinning Gyro that weighs a 1000lb's could have more momentum to knock a tank off the road, assuming it had something hard enough to transfer the momentum. (IE the high speed missles they shoot at tanks, with tons of potential energy in the form of explosives)
Thats why I hope super efficient Gyros is the future. have 3 or 4 around your car, so going around a corner you could create the torque by transfering to other gyros, but could set-off a lightning bolt into the ground if they suddenly needed to remove all momentum. You would have the best of all worlds, big momentum to cary you over the bumps, and through the mud holes. but not worry about weight transfer, and high starting resisistance of a tank.
I imagine they have, it would be nice to know if they have slashdot user names, and what they are. Enquiring minds want to know. (and no, named as Anonymous Coward wouldn't help.)
It would at least be interesting if and what questions they submitted, because that is what they wanted to answer. (which I think is proper, but disclosing who they were would be even better.)
My understanding is that they do not recieve the list of blocked numbers, but that they must check their numbers against the list.
Now the method of doing this has not been publisised to my knowlege. But I am guessing that they do not need to download the list, only check numbers against it in some manner.
Of course they could check every number, and use the hits. but without a name associated, the usefullness of that list is marginal to them.
> NOT doing this will lead to horrible fuel mileage
I stand corrected. reprograming your computer to your larger tire size would improve you "reported" fuel mileage (the computer would know you went further) but would do nothing to improve real fuel mileage.
>reprogramming your computer would not effect any of the above.
correction, I mean simply reprogramming the tire size in the computer. of course you could use aftermarket programming, and sacrifise emissions and or engine life for any of the improvements.
> since putting wrong size tires on your vehicle > and NOT doing this will lead to horrible fuel > mileage, acceleration, etc on any modern vehicle > that relies on accurate info to forecast what > will happen next
reprogramming your computer would not effect any of the above. The computer cant change the gear ratio of your lower gears to help accell. Since no modern car worth mentioning monitors weight, adding 10% to the diameter of your tire, would have the same effect as adding a roof rack, and 15% to the weight of the car.
I know my manual transmission truck gets slightly better gas mileage with taller tires. Probably do to the fact I accelerate slower, and keep the engine at a lower RPM, where it is more efficeint.
Where I live, I am rarely less than 2 miles from a private road/drive.
You see that I went 100 MPH 12 miles ago. So what, that was in my driveway. there was a stop sign 2 miles back, and I havent come to a complete stop in over 5. so what I did a couple turn arounds.
sure you might have a steering angle sensor (doubtfull it has any log, even if you do) the compounding error would make it almost useless after a few turns.
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Also, I think we got a fleet of programmers now. who took up computers/programming for the money. People who take on a profesion mostly for money, are not as likely to keep up their knowledge/skills and will likely become even less usefull than a few years ago.
Their is also the issue, that a company who is good at manipulating people into working free OT (IE companys you dont want to work for), are more easily able to manipulate younger people into doing this.
> it's definately over the top for cops to > download it routenly on random traffic stops.
I agree, but I don't think it really goes beyond todays enforcement.
After all cops are pointing their instruments at me every day, recording my speed as evidence for potential tickets, without reason or supeona. whats the difference if the vehicles turns that over, or if they contnue constantly monitoring speed manually as they do today.
Trafic tickets are obviously not "the law" their are regarded as a civil penalty exempt from standard legal innocent until proven guilty, and evidence acquisition requirements.
If speeding was intended to be a criminal penalty, they would need to have reason, before recording evidence against you.
I think the post office should start allowing cheap, maybe $.10 electric postcards. Just put a postcard scanner, and printer at every post office. you pay $.10 to send it, the post office scans it, and re-prints wherever is most convienient. PO box's could be refitted to require no human content. They then give bulk mail people a reduced rate, by giving everyone a email address that costs the $.10 to send, and they print to anyone who hasn't setup a email address. The post office would then pay you half the postage (some %), to supply a real email address to get the messages directly.
soon we all use are federal supplied email address for home coresponance, and the best part is, fraud using this email address is treated the same as mail fraud, a federal crime.
I am interested in how do I get to those? I am a club member, and all they want is a click-through agreement that says A) I plan to join or b) I am a member. Then it sends them to the same list of mirrors available to everyone else, with no logins (beyond anymouse), and no mirrors served by mandrake.
the lead car recieves little or no postive benefit from drafting in F1, and thats what the nascar article was about. The following car also gets more hinderance than help from slip streaming, and generally needs to be completly removed from it to get enough room to pass.
yes, traction controll is now banned (again.)
http://espn.go.com/rpm/f1/2003/0210/1506692.html The rumors got to the point that the FIA, F1's sanctioning body, decided to legalize the three driver aids mentioned above early in the 2001 season. But now, confident that it can police the systems and with threats of severe penalties for cheaters, the FIA has mandated that these driver aids will be banned midway through the 2003 season.
Read the story! F1 has no temoprary teamwork on the track... no positive drafting effects. Thats because they got plenty of power, just not enough traction, which is what you sacrifice in the draft. you use less power, but you don't get the downforce to stick.
Don't get me wrong, I like F1 (more before they eliminate traction controll.) But it just doesn't fit with this type of story.
What I like best about F1 is, it applys more to car development than nascar. I mean the lack of common threads. F1 has fuel injection, used to have traction control, smaller displacement engines, and development of Selective shifting systems. more like most peoples future/present cars. You can learn more about Ferrai's technicall abiltys application to street cars watching F1, than you can learn about Fords abiltys watchin Nascar.
When do you expect to buy a new carberated car that can run well with a restrictor plate, and gear shifts occuring only at 120MPH+
you mean a duplicate? (or a dup. but not dupe, please that confusing.)
because a dupe is:
Dupe \Dupe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Duped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Duping.] [Cf. F. duper, fr. dupe. See Dupe, n.]
To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's
credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.
Ne'er have I duped him with base counterfeits. --
Coleridge.
Dupe \Dupe\, n. [F., prob. from Prov. F. dupe, dube; of unknown
origin; equiv. to F. huppe hoopoe, a foolish bird, easily
caught. Cf. Armor. houp['e]rik hoopoe, a man easily deceived.
Cf. also Gull, Booby.]
One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull;
as, the dupe of a schemer.
I don't think thats the gears, just a guess here, but I think they continue to squirt gas into the engine for cooling and it hits enough heat to ignite along the way.
ya thats what the article was about. SMG is the (then) new system available from bmw in a M3 (I would assume the Z4 now as well.) In the sport shift mode, 200ms shifts, impressive.
Your not even close today. Road and Track January 2002 page 101 has a review of the paddle shift systems. here is the quote: "A blink of the eye appears downright leisurely compared to the 20-millisec shifts of todays Formula 1 gearboxs four times faster than the SMG's quickest."
"System pressures exceed 3000 psi and gearboxs are changed every race."
the article also refrences/recomends "Formula 1 Technolgy" by Peter Wright
Not to mention it might save telemarketing industry.
I have passed up many opertunitys with companys because it is currently a industry not to be trusted (in general) and I am not willing to put forward the effort to seperate the trash.
Now they waste their time/money calling me, and waste my time as well. eventually so few will take the industry serious, that they will no longer profit.
simply by getting rules like the USPO that fruad using that media is the most serious, and best enforced, then that would be welcome way to do business again.
> willing to put a sign in your front yard "This house is gun free!" ?
Good point, now assume that guns are simular to video cammera's. They mostly displace crime. (who in their right mind would rob a defended house over a comprable un-defended house.)
Do you want to be in a country where criminals can cross boarders, and be the country in the middle without Guns?
I think the superbowl is a good example of what commercials become with a PVR, and why they are a huge win for everyone.
for the Superbowl they actually produce new commercial that people enjoy, and are directed at their audience. I WATCH THE COMERCIALS WITH MY PVR. maybe more than once. now when I have seen 80% of the comercials once, and the last 20% do not entertain me, or enform me in any usefull way, I skip them.
Now I do miss some good comercials, because they get hidden when I skip the bad ones. but when comericals start giving value to the consumers, then they don't have to worry about skipping and PVR's.
Now the PVR adds a lot of possibiltys with Video on Demand. That my PVR can keep track of which commericals I have watched, and which ones I liked, and thus anticipate what is best for me to watch. Then everyone wins!!!
> the satellite company can respond cheaply and effectively by just replacing the small number of cards that have been compromised. > Another trick is to disable the cards right before big events.
that is where this pirating can be a advantage to the "injured" company. I never had cable, or satalite, until I was convinced of the great value in getting something for free. I now have the directv equipment, and so go ahead and subscribe. If it weren't for knowing of the pirated versions of the Directv, I would have either gone with the cheaper Dish Sat service, or none at all.
(I am not complaining, I am happy with their service.)
Slashdot Mirror
crap, and I wanted to get mine before it was posted to slashdot.
> This kinetic energy is transferred during a
> collision, and this is what kills the passengers
> of the Yugo, but it doesn't protect the passengers
> of the M1 much. If it were two M1s colliding,
> probably noone would survive.
You were the first one to get it right in this thread. It's all about what you hit. If you got enough momentum to go through whatever you hit, you are more likely to survive, (assuming no sharp objects penetrate to you.)
If you hit a object with more momentum than yourself, you are not going to accelerate it out of the way, you are going to expereince the acceleration into it's direction of travel (or indirection in the case of a immobile object.)
it is about momentum, and not weight. A electric car with a huge spinning Gyro that weighs a 1000lb's could have more momentum to knock a tank off the road, assuming it had something hard enough to transfer the momentum. (IE the high speed missles they shoot at tanks, with tons of potential energy in the form of explosives)
Thats why I hope super efficient Gyros is the future. have 3 or 4 around your car, so going around a corner you could create the torque by transfering to other gyros, but could set-off a lightning bolt into the ground if they suddenly needed to remove all momentum. You would have the best of all worlds, big momentum to cary you over the bumps, and through the mud holes. but not worry about weight transfer, and high starting resisistance of a tank.
I imagine they have, it would be nice to know if they have slashdot user names, and what they are. Enquiring minds want to know. (and no, named as Anonymous Coward wouldn't help.)
It would at least be interesting if and what questions they submitted, because that is what they wanted to answer. (which I think is proper, but disclosing who they were would be even better.)
Air travel is fine, no x-rays, baggage checks... I would highly recomend it. Oh, you don't have a private Jet? :)
My understanding is that they do not recieve the list of blocked numbers, but that they must check their numbers against the list.
Now the method of doing this has not been publisised to my knowlege. But I am guessing that they do not need to download the list, only check numbers against it in some manner.
Of course they could check every number, and use the hits. but without a name associated, the usefullness of that list is marginal to them.
> NOT doing this will lead to horrible fuel mileage
I stand corrected. reprograming your computer to your larger tire size would improve you "reported" fuel mileage (the computer would know you went further) but would do nothing to improve real fuel mileage.
>reprogramming your computer would not effect any of the above.
correction, I mean simply reprogramming the tire size in the computer. of course you could use aftermarket programming, and sacrifise emissions and or engine life for any of the improvements.
> since putting wrong size tires on your vehicle
> and NOT doing this will lead to horrible fuel
> mileage, acceleration, etc on any modern vehicle
> that relies on accurate info to forecast what
> will happen next
reprogramming your computer would not effect any of the above. The computer cant change the gear ratio of your lower gears to help accell. Since no modern car worth mentioning monitors weight, adding 10% to the diameter of your tire, would have the same effect as adding a roof rack, and 15% to the weight of the car.
I know my manual transmission truck gets slightly better gas mileage with taller tires. Probably do to the fact I accelerate slower, and keep the engine at a lower RPM, where it is more efficeint.
I have had this happen on my motorcycle many times. To the point, that I wonder what % of tailgators are police, or ex police, off duty/on.
At least with non-police, I feal I can violate a law or two to get into a safer situation.
You mean if your car had logged GPS?
Where I live, I am rarely less than 2 miles from a private road/drive.
You see that I went 100 MPH 12 miles ago. So what, that was in my driveway. there was a stop sign 2 miles back, and I havent come to a complete stop in over 5. so what I did a couple turn arounds.
sure you might have a steering angle sensor (doubtfull it has any log, even if you do) the compounding error would make it almost useless after a few turns.
Also, I think we got a fleet of programmers now. who took up computers/programming for the money. People who take on a profesion mostly for money, are not as likely to keep up their knowledge/skills and will likely become even less usefull than a few years ago.
Their is also the issue, that a company who is good at manipulating people into working free OT (IE companys you dont want to work for), are more easily able to manipulate younger people into doing this.
> it's definately over the top for cops to
> download it routenly on random traffic stops.
I agree, but I don't think it really goes beyond todays enforcement.
After all cops are pointing their instruments at me every day, recording my speed as evidence for potential tickets, without reason or supeona. whats the difference if the vehicles turns that over, or if they contnue constantly monitoring speed manually as they do today.
Trafic tickets are obviously not "the law" their are regarded as a civil penalty exempt from standard legal innocent until proven guilty, and evidence acquisition requirements.
If speeding was intended to be a criminal penalty, they would need to have reason, before recording evidence against you.
I think the post office should start allowing cheap, maybe $.10 electric postcards. Just put a postcard scanner, and printer at every post office. you pay $.10 to send it, the post office scans it, and re-prints wherever is most convienient. PO box's could be refitted to require no human content. They then give bulk mail people a reduced rate, by giving everyone a email address that costs the $.10 to send, and they print to anyone who hasn't setup a email address. The post office would then pay you half the postage (some %), to supply a real email address to get the messages directly.
soon we all use are federal supplied email address for home coresponance, and the best part is, fraud using this email address is treated the same as mail fraud, a federal crime.
> Club members get their own set of mirrors.
I am interested in how do I get to those? I am a club member, and all they want is a click-through agreement that says A) I plan to join or b) I am a member. Then it sends them to the same list of mirrors available to everyone else, with no logins (beyond anymouse), and no mirrors served by mandrake.
the lead car recieves little or no postive benefit from drafting in F1, and thats what the nascar article was about. The following car also gets more hinderance than help from slip streaming, and generally needs to be completly removed from it to get enough room to pass.
l
yes, traction controll is now banned (again.)
http://espn.go.com/rpm/f1/2003/0210/1506692.htm
The rumors got to the point that the FIA, F1's sanctioning body, decided to legalize the three driver aids mentioned above early in the 2001 season. But now, confident that it can police the systems and with threats of severe penalties for cheaters, the FIA has mandated that these driver aids will be banned midway through the 2003 season.
Read the story!
F1 has no temoprary teamwork on the track... no positive drafting effects. Thats because they got plenty of power, just not enough traction, which is what you sacrifice in the draft. you use less power, but you don't get the downforce to stick.
Don't get me wrong, I like F1 (more before they eliminate traction controll.) But it just doesn't fit with this type of story.
What I like best about F1 is, it applys more to car development than nascar. I mean the lack of common threads. F1 has fuel injection, used to have traction control, smaller displacement engines, and development of Selective shifting systems. more like most peoples future/present cars. You can learn more about Ferrai's technicall abiltys application to street cars watching F1, than you can learn about Fords abiltys watchin Nascar.
When do you expect to buy a new carberated car that can run well with a restrictor plate, and gear shifts occuring only at 120MPH+
you mean a duplicate? (or a dup. but not dupe, please that confusing.)
because a dupe is:
Dupe \Dupe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Duped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Duping.] [Cf. F. duper, fr. dupe. See Dupe, n.]
To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's
credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.
Ne'er have I duped him with base counterfeits. --
Coleridge.
Dupe \Dupe\, n. [F., prob. from Prov. F. dupe, dube; of unknown
origin; equiv. to F. huppe hoopoe, a foolish bird, easily
caught. Cf. Armor. houp['e]rik hoopoe, a man easily deceived.
Cf. also Gull, Booby.]
One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull;
as, the dupe of a schemer.
come now, I want to put a amplifer on every intersection on the way to my work, so I can tell when that officer is heading to his favorite speed trap.
I always wanted a easy way to identify a officer with his radio and radar gun off.
I don't think thats the gears,
just a guess here, but I think they continue to squirt gas into the engine for cooling and it hits enough heat to ignite along the way.
ya thats what the article was about. SMG is the (then) new system available from bmw in a M3 (I would assume the Z4 now as well.) In the sport shift mode, 200ms shifts, impressive.
Your not even close today.
Road and Track January 2002 page 101 has a review of the paddle shift systems. here is the quote:
"A blink of the eye appears downright leisurely compared to the 20-millisec shifts of todays Formula 1 gearboxs four times faster than the SMG's quickest."
"System pressures exceed 3000 psi and gearboxs are changed every race."
the article also refrences/recomends "Formula 1 Technolgy" by Peter Wright
Not to mention it might save telemarketing industry.
I have passed up many opertunitys with companys because it is currently a industry not to be trusted (in general) and I am not willing to put forward the effort to seperate the trash.
Now they waste their time/money calling me, and waste my time as well. eventually so few will take the industry serious, that they will no longer profit.
simply by getting rules like the USPO that fruad using that media is the most serious, and best enforced, then that would be welcome way to do business again.
> willing to put a sign in your front yard "This house is gun free!" ?
Good point, now assume that guns are simular to video cammera's. They mostly displace crime.
(who in their right mind would rob a defended house over a comprable un-defended house.)
Do you want to be in a country where criminals can cross boarders, and be the country in the middle without Guns?
I think the superbowl is a good example of what commercials become with a PVR, and why they are a huge win for everyone.
for the Superbowl they actually produce new commercial that people enjoy, and are directed at their audience. I WATCH THE COMERCIALS WITH MY PVR. maybe more than once.
now when I have seen 80% of the comercials once, and the last 20% do not entertain me, or enform me in any usefull way, I skip them.
Now I do miss some good comercials, because they get hidden when I skip the bad ones. but when comericals start giving value to the consumers, then they don't have to worry about skipping and PVR's.
Now the PVR adds a lot of possibiltys with Video on Demand. That my PVR can keep track of which commericals I have watched, and which ones I liked, and thus anticipate what is best for me to watch. Then everyone wins!!!
> the satellite company can respond cheaply and effectively by just replacing the small number of cards that have been compromised.
> Another trick is to disable the cards right before big events.
that is where this pirating can be a advantage to the "injured" company. I never had cable, or satalite, until I was convinced of the great value in getting something for free. I now have the directv equipment, and so go ahead and subscribe. If it weren't for knowing of the pirated versions of the Directv, I would have either gone with the cheaper Dish Sat service, or none at all.
(I am not complaining, I am happy with their service.)