in most models, you actually controlled your speed with the throttle to the gas engine;
Not in Europe, anyway. Here its typically 750RPM when idling, 1500RPM when applying power. No other speeds are really useable because all the gas flow is in resonant pipes.
In reality, most trucks here are similar too - but there is a slight power band and by having 12 to 24 gears, you can stay in a fairly narrow power band.
Incidentlally, the received wisdom is that you improve MPG 10% for each additional gear you have because of being able to stay in a narrower power band (assuming the power band is narrowed to suit the range of gears as well).
(May not apply to petrol engines) (in my country a "gas" engine burns natural gas, and not petrol).
Funny, that. I too did The Great Gatsby for English Lit, and decided that its deeper meaning was that reading books on the theory of programming languages was more fun than many people admit. Hell, even "Perl for Dummies" was not that boring!
Most people dont need to know how do do calculus. It would help a lot if everyone knew what calculus does. Especially PHBs.
I find a lot of people saying "Thats not somehting you can calculate" when they mean "that's not something I can calculate." I can calculate such things, and often do, using differential equations, or simultaneous equations, linear or boolean algebra, or other techniques not commonly learned in school unless you do advanced maths.
I am sure its possible to use calculus to prove (in the mathematical sense) that the way that forex trading, and futures and options speculation are conducted at present makes it certain they end up as Ponzi schemes, even though no one deliberately set out to make them that way. Its jsut that I dont have the time at present. I do not believe that this needs to be the case, only that the preent regulatory regime fails to prevent it.
You need to RTFM. The electrons held in the insulating layer are the stored data.
Tunnelling is the way that electons move though solids by behaving like waves instead of particles. Its like ghosts going through brick walls only smaller. (Or light behaving like waves instead of particles, but bigger).
I forgot to mention: The pool plays extremely boring music, but quite quetly. No Pizza was involved, Italian or American (not even Lamacun - Turkish Pizza, which is quite popular in that area). No swimming was involved, either.
Maybe. While I was swimming in a North London public swimming pool I witnessed the following:
Two groups of hench Russians lined up on opposite sides of the pool, at the point where the water was shoulder depth. One person from each group walked to the centre of the pool.. A brief discussion took place. The two gentlemen withdrew to their own side of the pool. All persons then gradually departed, one at a time. Swimming resumed as normal.
I dont know what was discussed, but I am certain no weapons were carried, and no one was wired.
Maybe you can predict if said program will be running on a EBCDIC
I doubt you could even test that... Are there any EBCDIC machines still running? Have you got an IBM model 026 card punch in your basement? Do you even know the punch code for curly braces?
If you mean by storing binary in floats, storing bit patterns, then you are nuts. If you mean that binary representation of floats is not portable, then dont do it: send the numbers in printable
representation, like sane people do. However, almost all modern hardware does IEEE floating point, and you should not buy hardware thar doesnt if you want meaningful answers to floating point calculations. Of you are reall desperate, I will let you use the software IEEE floating point libraries on your hardware.
You can do CAD on your iPhone. I want 36" screen with really good resolution and a tracker ball. City traders seem to need three "normal" screens, I dont see them switching to their iPhones for trading.
Disclaimer: I use OpenBSD and like playing with the family and the Nintendo Wii, so I am probably not normal.
Two different cars from two different manufacturers look different, and that is not a problem.
Phone users are no longer dumb, and can easily handle changes in menu format.
Android IS a game changer, and the change is that significant numbers of users will soon understan what "locked down" and "rooted" mean. They will learn who is pissing on them, and ask why, and Motorola will be history, unless they change their ways. Carriers who "provide" bloatware may actually have a userbase that loves them, but the userbase that hates them will probably be larger, and more profitable. Manufacturer differentiation is going to be over who ships buggy versions of Android, and then wont ship updates, versus those who keep theirs fresh. In these times of economic hardship, people will want to know why some people's phones get fresh software, while theirs does not. (Thanks, Apple)
Windows has already lost the plot. No business user I know, no matter how non-technical, will ever accept a phone with Windows on it. Once is enough.
Furthermore, it's not a week between power outlets, they're everywhere, they just cost money to use.There are plenty of African countries where you cannot guarantee electricty more than two or three days a week, maximum, and once a week happens. Its not money, its incompetent/corrupt management, and demand growth faster than infrastructure growth. And a lifestype that does not assume that life depends on electricity, or the government.
Symbian went too far with lockdown, and has never recovered. Lets hope that the message will get through to some others.
The obvious answer is to smash Steve Jobs with a hammer, then we can have a choice whether to use Sense or not.
Actually, the person who needs smashing is the scumbag responsible for locking up my Desire, so I have
to root it to remove Sense if I want to. (I like Sense, but I hate the phone being locked down - we
are not forced to have the bonnet of our cars welded shut).
However, Steve Jobs should probably still be hammered for suggesting consumer choice is bad, while not actually going to live in a communist country.
I've never seen a file arrive in native OpenOffice format.
That is because, even where we use OO to produce documents, unless we have prior consent from the recipients, we export to MS format before sending. The majority still believe that Computer==MS.
If anyone can accept ODT, they will generally say so when requesting documents. I hope you do!
In the same sense as the Lada: Some people swear by it, but most swear at it
Popular can mean people like it, or that there are a lot of them about. Often they are the same thing, but they don't have to be. (A lot of people with Blackberries dont like them very much). I love my HTC Desire.
I hate how my mobile phone converts the password to ******, cos when you have to press a key multiple times for a letter within a fixed time, its hard to get it right if you cant see what you are doing - eespecially if the phone is so **** you are not sure how long it takes to respond to a key press, and you are interrupted while entering it.
With Skype you cant tell whether it failed to recognise your password, or just crashed. I cant see what concealing passwords
is the solution to on a phone, apart from an effective way of annoying users. Yuo can easily hide the phone or not enter the password while its visible.
We have this in London, and I personally have had ticekets while asking for directions, waiting to do a U-turn and while waiting to reverse into a parking bay.
You do not want this... It is worse than living in East Germany under the Stazi. (or similar to the "great Terror" after the French revolution)
You make the point well - the main thing we have learned in the last 100 years is that modern teaching methods don't workvery well. We were better at teaching 100 years ago.
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Not in Europe, anyway. Here its typically 750RPM when idling, 1500RPM when applying power. No other speeds are really useable because all the gas flow is in resonant pipes.
In reality, most trucks here are similar too - but there is a slight power band and by having 12 to 24 gears, you can stay in a fairly narrow power band.
Incidentlally, the received wisdom is that you improve MPG 10% for each additional gear you have because of being able to stay in a narrower power band (assuming the power band is narrowed to suit the range of gears as well).
(May not apply to petrol engines) (in my country a "gas" engine burns natural gas, and not petrol).
Funny, that. I too did The Great Gatsby for English Lit, and decided that its deeper meaning was that reading books on the theory of programming languages was more fun than many people admit. Hell, even "Perl for Dummies" was not that boring!
I find a lot of people saying "Thats not somehting you can calculate" when they mean "that's not something I can calculate." I can calculate such things, and often do, using differential equations, or simultaneous equations, linear or boolean algebra, or other techniques not commonly learned in school unless you do advanced maths.
I am sure its possible to use calculus to prove (in the mathematical sense) that the way that forex trading, and futures and options speculation are conducted at present makes it certain they end up as Ponzi schemes, even though no one deliberately set out to make them that way. Its jsut that I dont have the time at present. I do not believe that this needs to be the case, only that the preent regulatory regime fails to prevent it.
Tunnelling is the way that electons move though solids by behaving like waves instead of particles. Its like ghosts going through brick walls only smaller. (Or light behaving like waves instead of particles, but bigger).
I forgot to mention: The pool plays extremely boring music, but quite quetly. No Pizza was involved, Italian or American (not even Lamacun - Turkish Pizza, which is quite popular in that area). No swimming was involved, either.
Two groups of hench Russians lined up on opposite sides of the pool, at the point where the water was shoulder depth. One person from each group walked to the centre of the pool.. A brief discussion took place. The two gentlemen withdrew to their own side of the pool. All persons then gradually departed, one at a time. Swimming resumed as normal.
I dont know what was discussed, but I am certain no weapons were carried, and no one was wired.
No need: C was the assembler of the PDP11, so the PDP11 is the answer you are looking for!
I doubt you could even test that... Are there any EBCDIC machines still running? Have you got an IBM model 026 card punch in your basement? Do you even know the punch code for curly braces?
If you mean by storing binary in floats, storing bit patterns, then you are nuts. If you mean that binary representation of floats is not portable, then dont do it: send the numbers in printable representation, like sane people do. However, almost all modern hardware does IEEE floating point, and you should not buy hardware thar doesnt if you want meaningful answers to floating point calculations. Of you are reall desperate, I will let you use the software IEEE floating point libraries on your hardware.
Nothing new there, then.
Disclaimer: I use OpenBSD and like playing with the family and the Nintendo Wii, so I am probably not normal.
Android IS a game changer, and the change is that significant numbers of users will soon understan what "locked down" and "rooted" mean. They will learn who is pissing on them, and ask why, and Motorola will be history, unless they change their ways. Carriers who "provide" bloatware may actually have a userbase that loves them, but the userbase that hates them will probably be larger, and more profitable. Manufacturer differentiation is going to be over who ships buggy versions of Android, and then wont ship updates, versus those who keep theirs fresh. In these times of economic hardship, people will want to know why some people's phones get fresh software, while theirs does not. (Thanks, Apple)
Windows has already lost the plot. No business user I know, no matter how non-technical, will ever accept a phone with Windows on it. Once is enough.
I presume your CV claims more than 10 years experience of XML!
Symbian went too far with lockdown, and has never recovered. Lets hope that the message will get through to some others.
Actually, the person who needs smashing is the scumbag responsible for locking up my Desire, so I have to root it to remove Sense if I want to. (I like Sense, but I hate the phone being locked down - we are not forced to have the bonnet of our cars welded shut).
However, Steve Jobs should probably still be hammered for suggesting consumer choice is bad, while not actually going to live in a communist country.
Yes, I had one too, And the pulses had to go up hill, in the snow, both ways!
That is because, even where we use OO to produce documents, unless we have prior consent from the recipients, we export to MS format before sending. The majority still believe that Computer==MS.
If anyone can accept ODT, they will generally say so when requesting documents. I hope you do!
Based on my experience of Oracle, OpenOffice would quickly become so buggy that the few remaining users would jump ship.
"Thou shalt not drink Red Bull" - not that I would buy anything that admits to being a load of bull anyway.
In the same sense as the Lada: Some people swear by it, but most swear at it
Popular can mean people like it, or that there are a lot of them about. Often they are the same thing, but they don't have to be. (A lot of people with Blackberries dont like them very much). I love my HTC Desire.
With Skype you cant tell whether it failed to recognise your password, or just crashed. I cant see what concealing passwords is the solution to on a phone, apart from an effective way of annoying users. Yuo can easily hide the phone or not enter the password while its visible.
You do not want this ... It is worse than living in East Germany under the Stazi. (or similar to the "great Terror" after the French revolution)
You make the point well - the main thing we have learned in the last 100 years is that modern teaching methods don't workvery well. We were better at teaching 100 years ago.
buy a Wii, like the rest of us!
You may think so, but if congress wants my vote, they will have to send him to Iraq for stoning to death.
If it can be done with a phone app, then obviously it can be done in other ways by terrorists.
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck ... dont vote for it