what's skid steering? braking the left tire while accelerating the right tire and never turning the wheels? if so i don't really see how you'll park it, not to even mention tire wear. i think they said they'd still use tie rods, but they'll drive them with an electric motor.
They said steering would be operated by an electrical motor... Wtf happens when your motor dies? And I'm not talking about the first few years, but like 20yrs/200kmi down the road. Yeah, I know there are aviation/military spec motors, but they don't live forever either and probably get replaced periodically. All it takes to lose steering is a loose/corroded conncetion, possibly inside the motor, and 20 years is a looong time.
Fyi all steering systems on (I belive) all cars have a direct metal-on-metal conncetion between steering wheel and front wheels. This can't fail unles some big chunk of steel breaks, and that's why steering failure is the last thing you have to worry about while driving today. Yes, power steering can fail in the sense that you lose the power assistance, but you can still turn if you force the wheel.
Another thing that puzzles me, they claim it gets rid of steering & brake fluids to be more enviro-friendly. But then they say it still uses conventional (Brembo) calipers. I'll be damned...
Yeah, but what they don't tell you is that if they tried to run the engine at full throttle any more than 5 seconds it'd melt. That's because the cooling system can't do jack and the only cooling they actually got is the engine's own thermal capacity. So they better get to that finish line in 4+ sec, or... kaboom!
It really depends how you measure it. If you measure the distance between the highest point and ground (as they might do to inflate the numbers a bit) I think they got all beat. You know the Vegas Stratosphere tower, right? Didja know there's a rollercoaster on the roof of that thing?
I only went to Vegas once and didn't notice it there, but I saw it after I processed my films. Happened to take a telephoto of the tower from the car on our way home...
To bad they didn't spiral it all the way down, lol
Ok, now go back and read again the original topic. There are people fighting the right to put "You cannot link here" signs on your webpage... see where it's going?
I don't think the analogy falls short, as it's just as wrong to trespass on my property as it is to mess with my property (bandwith/server) without my permission.
spam/telemarketing creates (possibly) unwanted traffic on your email accout/telephone and wastes your time. linking creates (possibly) unwanted traffic on your website and wastes your bandwith. where's the difference?
And if I have a private website on a private server that I don't feel like password-protecting? If I leave my door unlocked you think you have the right to get in?
Most./ers would like others to obtain their explicit permission before emailing or calling them (spam, telemarketing, etc). Also most./ers would like to be able to link to anyone else's wesite without restriction. Wasn't that called hypocrisy?
not sure, but how could they fine you if you tell them: "sorry, i've never driven faster than the posted speed limit. if your device recorded something else it must have been malfunctioning" and have them prove it to a court or something before they make you pay the fine. i doubt it'd be cost-effective for the company to do that.
Also, why would they want to stop this free advertising?
It's not about advertising. The danger is much greater: if these price comparison sites gain enough popularity then most customers would have a powerful tool, the market will become close to ideal, and prices will be forced down. Big retailers don't want customers to have power, they want them weak and exploitable. Walking to 5 different stores is too much of a trouble for average Joe, thus he'll buy from the nearest store and prices can be kept monopolistic that way.
The only leverage the big retailers have is to ask not to be included in those sites, and then average Joe, not seeing any known names will leave, and go to BestBuy instead.
The desktops I've seen have the motherboard on the bottom and the cards would sit upright (you push them down to install them). Thus, assuming the heasink is in the exhaust, it'll sit above the intake -- which is good.
One thing they could've done is to have the heatsink fins curve up/away from the intake, so exhaust air is harder to get sucked right back. But I guess curved fins are more expensive than straight ones...
Soon the chips will get so hot that air cooling would not be enough and they'll have to go watercooled. Not much dust problems any more, but we'll have to take the PC in for water-pump replacement and CompUSA will start selling radiator plug-a-leak...
Seabed turbines, by contrast, are silent and invisible, and fish can swim around them without getting sliced up.
But that doesn't mean they can't swim through them and get sliced up instead, does it? Somehow this sounds kinda like political talk to me... hmm
I'm not quite sure what the problem is. I'd think the tipical finished chip is much lighter than 2 grams so maybe they refer to a whole wafer (which can yield many circuits)? Either way, I'd burn that much fuel just driving to the mall to buy the thing. Chemicals, as long as they are neutralized properly shouldn't be a problem. And water, filter it well and reuse it in a closed cycle.
If you look back into history you'll probably see that every time some nation though they were strong enough to overpower the world they tried to do it sooner or later. History also tends to repeat itself.
There are only two ways we can have a stable wold peace:
1. The whole thing is just one big country (e.g. if someone succeedes in becoming untouchable and dictates world rules). or, 2. The only entity that is strong enough to overpower anyone is a majority of the world nations combined.
Trouble is the US seems happy with aiming for the first alternative, which is exactly what sparks arms races, cold wars, etc. Another thing which worries me is that Americans got used to the idea that they can go to war without suffering any casualties. So they don't really care what the govt is doing. Like in: if we can drop oil prices by going to war then why not? That's very very wrong if you want to have world peace, war should be something you think more than twice before comitting to it. Not the case any longer.
As for the muslims et co. you take care of that as described in (2).
What worries me most is this coutry's persistent desire to build an invincible & untouchable defense/offense. That'd be most destabilizing in a world that wants to live in peace.
Or... were we not supposed to live in peace maybe?
I don't mean to minimize the difficulty in affecting meaningful change in this area (especially in the current media environment dominated by large corporations). However, I do intend to suggest that we have the means to affect change.
Nope, we don't. Only a small percentage of the population (something like 5%) is intelligent enough to understand how the economy and the government work (or don't). For every smart person who can cast an intelligent vote there are 20 who simply can't think by themselves and will vote whatever the TV/radio/newspaper tells them to vote. That way intelligent people are reduced to a powerless stance. They could talk, but noone would listen because they can't talk to 200M (corporations own that right).
In short, I'm inclined to think that the only difference between the US an Iraqi administrations is that one uses physical means to stay in power while the other psychological (mass-media == mass-manipulation). But maybe that's just me, ah well.
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what's skid steering? braking the left tire while accelerating the right tire and never turning the wheels? if so i don't really see how you'll park it, not to even mention tire wear. i think they said they'd still use tie rods, but they'll drive them with an electric motor.
Fyi all steering systems on (I belive) all cars have a direct metal-on-metal conncetion between steering wheel and front wheels. This can't fail unles some big chunk of steel breaks, and that's why steering failure is the last thing you have to worry about while driving today. Yes, power steering can fail in the sense that you lose the power assistance, but you can still turn if you force the wheel.
Another thing that puzzles me, they claim it gets rid of steering & brake fluids to be more enviro-friendly. But then they say it still uses conventional (Brembo) calipers. I'll be damned...
Yeah, but what they don't tell you is that if they tried to run the engine at full throttle any more than 5 seconds it'd melt. That's because the cooling system can't do jack and the only cooling they actually got is the engine's own thermal capacity. So they better get to that finish line in 4+ sec, or... kaboom!
I only went to Vegas once and didn't notice it there, but I saw it after I processed my films. Happened to take a telephoto of the tower from the car on our way home...
To bad they didn't spiral it all the way down, lol
I don't think the analogy falls short, as it's just as wrong to trespass on my property as it is to mess with my property (bandwith/server) without my permission.
huh? ever heard of slashdotting?
spam/telemarketing creates (possibly) unwanted traffic on your email accout/telephone and wastes your time. linking creates (possibly) unwanted traffic on your website and wastes your bandwith. where's the difference?
And if I have a private website on a private server that I don't feel like password-protecting? If I leave my door unlocked you think you have the right to get in?
Most ./ers would like others to obtain their explicit permission before emailing or calling them (spam, telemarketing, etc). Also most ./ers would like to be able to link to anyone else's wesite without restriction. Wasn't that called hypocrisy?
You forget that some cars have their engines in the back seat from the factory though :p
>Just because you don't agree with a law doesn't
>make it ok to break it with impunity - if that
>was the case, nobody would drive the speed limit.
FYI, in most places with ridiculous speed limits a majority of drivers will drive well above the limit in light/medium traffic, even with cops around.
not sure, but how could they fine you if you tell them: "sorry, i've never driven faster than the posted speed limit. if your device recorded something else it must have been malfunctioning" and have them prove it to a court or something before they make you pay the fine. i doubt it'd be cost-effective for the company to do that.
Also, why would they want to stop this free advertising? It's not about advertising. The danger is much greater: if these price comparison sites gain enough popularity then most customers would have a powerful tool, the market will become close to ideal, and prices will be forced down. Big retailers don't want customers to have power, they want them weak and exploitable. Walking to 5 different stores is too much of a trouble for average Joe, thus he'll buy from the nearest store and prices can be kept monopolistic that way. The only leverage the big retailers have is to ask not to be included in those sites, and then average Joe, not seeing any known names will leave, and go to BestBuy instead.
One thing they could've done is to have the heatsink fins curve up/away from the intake, so exhaust air is harder to get sucked right back. But I guess curved fins are more expensive than straight ones...
Soon the chips will get so hot that air cooling would not be enough and they'll have to go watercooled. Not much dust problems any more, but we'll have to take the PC in for water-pump replacement and CompUSA will start selling radiator plug-a-leak...
How do you know which food hasn't been treated with antibiotics?
Seabed turbines, by contrast, are silent and invisible, and fish can swim around them without getting sliced up. But that doesn't mean they can't swim through them and get sliced up instead, does it? Somehow this sounds kinda like political talk to me... hmm
I'm not quite sure what the problem is. I'd think the tipical finished chip is much lighter than 2 grams so maybe they refer to a whole wafer (which can yield many circuits)? Either way, I'd burn that much fuel just driving to the mall to buy the thing. Chemicals, as long as they are neutralized properly shouldn't be a problem. And water, filter it well and reuse it in a closed cycle.
well, unless you're 7 foot tall, 220lb at 22 is pretty bad...
some customers might be smart enough to make that step, but they can't do jack about the fukin idiots who make up the majority.
If you look back into history you'll probably see that every time some nation though they were strong enough to overpower the world they tried to do it sooner or later. History also tends to repeat itself.
There are only two ways we can have a stable wold peace:
1. The whole thing is just one big country (e.g. if someone succeedes in becoming untouchable and dictates world rules).
or,
2. The only entity that is strong enough to overpower anyone is a majority of the world nations combined.
Trouble is the US seems happy with aiming for the first alternative, which is exactly what sparks arms races, cold wars, etc. Another thing which worries me is that Americans got used to the idea that they can go to war without suffering any casualties. So they don't really care what the govt is doing. Like in: if we can drop oil prices by going to war then why not? That's very very wrong if you want to have world peace, war should be something you think more than twice before comitting to it. Not the case any longer.
As for the muslims et co. you take care of that as described in (2).
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What worries me most is this coutry's persistent desire to build an invincible & untouchable defense/offense. That'd be most destabilizing in a world that wants to live in peace. Or... were we not supposed to live in peace maybe?
the truth you speak :thumbup:
Nope, we don't. Only a small percentage of the population (something like 5%) is intelligent enough to understand how the economy and the government work (or don't). For every smart person who can cast an intelligent vote there are 20 who simply can't think by themselves and will vote whatever the TV/radio/newspaper tells them to vote. That way intelligent people are reduced to a powerless stance. They could talk, but noone would listen because they can't talk to 200M (corporations own that right).
In short, I'm inclined to think that the only difference between the US an Iraqi administrations is that one uses physical means to stay in power while the other psychological (mass-media == mass-manipulation). But maybe that's just me, ah well.