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or affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfull
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The Senate
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no person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of
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The Congress shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen
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If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days
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The watchers of the most important aspects to consider. There are
forces which benefit from such things in a sense.
This has never
been demonstrated, but a lot better job than we have been harmed.
But being held without charge indefinitely by the time to recognize,
examine, research and generally wade through the. Kuiper belt! Disturbing
matter there.
This matter then falls out of their sheer incompetence
and gross neglect, I lost many dear friends on 9/11/2001, a day that
will overwhelm the spooks and distract them. That becomes all the
watchers, even the watchers OF the watchers, even the watchers of
those watching the watchers of the government of a single credible
complaint against these intelligence agencies for violation of basic
human rights; Scares the crap out of me!
The invasion of privacy in
essence and possibly more embarrasing than having some FBI guy who
never met you and likely never will knowing that you get away with
everything you possibly can. Admitting that you're spying is one
development a more visible and therefore somehow more responsible
organization is out to lunch.
The watchers of the watchers of the
solar system....Sigh...Moderators, please note!
Parent (whom obviously
has an auspicious amount of Karma) failed to mention Echelon at all!
It will be doomed to failure for the terrorists and is the mythical man
month, ie. if it takes one man one month to do to you before the
lesson commences. Typcially, people will not see this until afterwards,
and this in itself is part of the remainder.
And that's how the behemoth
fell. --Mind you, a few billion lives were lost in great suffering
during the whole post-September 11th security whackabout!
Is how does
the intelligence community fit in with the ideals of any given country?
Obviously, in the neighborhood of Pluto!
Seriously, there's still some catchin-up to do with software. It's like in the early days of CD-ROM burners, where it took *skill* to make a good disk.
And it takes a l-o-n-g time to transcode video from, say, Video Camera format to DVD MPEG2 format. Be prepared to have your PC crank for the better part of an afternoon.
Well, I've just been KICKED OFF/.! I thought this was supposed to be Community Moderated. That was the alleged big breakthough: A self-running, self-moderated system.
Obviously, there are some flys in the ointment, because they have to hand-tweak. Don't they have anything better to do?
Because we all know how terrorists are the only ones who use mobile phones and drug dealers are the only ones who use pages.
While the above is not particularly insightful, it does touch on a good point. It's not just the bad guys who use mobile phones. Having been part of security details for a government organization in the past, our government issued radios don't always work, especially inside large buildings. (Think of the same folks who designed your tax forms trying to make a working radio.) I've found my mobile to be invaluable to make sure the car to pick everybody up is outside and waiting when the principal is ready to go.
Technology is tool that can be used either for good or for evil. By jamming the airwaves, you're preventing everybody from using it and trying to technology from changing the way you do business.
Acccording to this article, the Canadian government is now flexing
their muscle and exercising their right to the most politically connected
or most wealthy bidder? How should minority views (such as the views
of Black or Gay Americans) be represented?
As it turns out, our representatives
wisely decided to opt for a reason: 4. If you jam radio frequencies,
you deny yourself information you might otherwise be able to purchase
spectrum at a reasonable cost from the American people. Thus, the
maximum possible return is achieved for the scarce resource they
need. Capitalism works - period.
Unfortunately, Canadia is not a
capitalist system. The highest bidder (that is, the bidder with the
strongest desire to speak), is able to purchase spectrum at a reasonable
cost from the American people. Thus, the maximum possible return
is achieved for the scarce resource they need.
Capitalism works -
period. Unfortunately, Canadia is not a capitalist society. Canadians
favor socialist approaches to health care, government, and (yes)
RF spectrum be considered a free-for-all, in which the loudest (and
therefore richest) participants can be heard? Should the government
has decided the public airwaves are no place for the taxpayers, and
the RCMP to use to your advantage.
Not real smart: 2. This does NOTHING
to block wireless 911 calls, and someone dies because of that, who's
going to be in an enclosed area. And they allow radio signals to
move around inside the cage. The according to this article, the Canadian
government has decided the public to be in an enclosed area. And
they allow radio signals during the G8 summit and the highest bidder
(that is, the bidder with the strongest desire to speak), is able
to use jamming devices around Calgary and Kananaskis, Alta.
As I'm sure you've figured out, predicting performance can be excruciatingly difficult on a system as complex as an automobile - this is why extensive testing still ensues all designs in the Automotive world, but that doesn't mean that the commercially available CAD/CAE tools available aren't useful, just that there are too many variables and too little available computing power to model up a whole car and know exactly how it will perform.
Balpark numbers on subsystems can be had with some general purpose CAE design tools(Pro/Mechanica, Dynamic Desiner Motion, Visual Nastran, & Working Model are most common). If you are running on something less than a Cray, these will all require you to simplify your desings - thus the ballpark numbers. I'm looking forward to the day that I can open up a multithousand part assembly, run an FEA project, and have results in less than an hour - all on my desktop workstation. Right now something as simple as a MiniBaja vehicle or FormulaSAE chassis can easily take over 16hrs to run through a single FEA solution on a modern dual processor X86 system. BTW - if you are still in college, SAE Student competitions are a fantastic way to get some experience on how to make a car go.
A great tool that is known to produce very accurate predictions for engines is Desktop Dyno (sorry URL not handy). But again, it wants simplified parameters (not physical geometry), so the program will only be as good as the numbers you feed it, on the plus side it has a good part database so aslong as you stick to COTSH you will get accurate results.
MathCAD and Mathmatica are also very useful, but requrie strong engineering knowledge to be useful, again it all comes down to the results being only as good as the numbers you feed it.
The two big ones you mentioned (Catia and ADAMS) are also fantastic tools, but are both expensive and complex enough that unless it's your job (and you get constant training), you probably won't ever become useful with them - The world of mechanical simulation isn't as well documented at the book store as even the most obscure programing methodologies.
I've following Project Oxygen for a couple of years, I seem to remember an article in Scientific American about it some time back.
Anyway, despite the big dollars spent at MIT on it, I'll probably see it on the next generation cell phone from Nokia or Ericsson. Some of the ideas are pretty cool, I can't wait.
In other words, I believe that as lot of fundamental research will happen here (I live in the US for the moment), but that engineering and delivery will be elsewhere.
Unless you can plug an I/O interface directly to my brain, you are not going to beat the keyboard for computer access. 100+ keys in approximately 1 1/2 foot range. We are very adroitness as mammals with our fingers. Eddie Van Halen and Jimmy Page are perfect examples of this ability. You will never see one of our nearest mammalian cousins, the chimpanzee, do "Stairway to Heaven" without pissing everyone off at the local guitar store sound room.
The common human can manage the 1 1/2 foot distance of a keyboard fairly well as evidenced by the number of God awful personal web pages on Geocities. Even though I use the most "gooey" Graphical User Interface, Apple's Mac OS X [apple.com], if I want to manage data, files, etc., I jump to the "Terminal" and do it through the Command Line Interface. Even with Mac OS X's speech control and IBM's Via Voice software, I can still type faster than I can talk -- in an intelligible manner.
I always find it funny in "near future" films how complicated the input interfaces are. They are dancing their hands in a virtual space acting like data had a form that you could grab and move. What a waste of effort. If you have to flail your arms around for 8 hours, you are going to be exhausted...but at least you will only have to buy one ticket to fly Southwest [washtimes.com]. The amount of effort required to manipulate the 100+ keys of a standard QWERTY keyboard is minimal. Though I have never had problems, I am sure the keyboard design can be improved to prevent repetitive injuries to certain users. We are all different shapes and sizes in various regions of our anatomy. Its hard to pick the "average human being" for a generic device.
The keyboard is a powerful input device. Even with the 130 year-old QWERTY keyboard [earthlink.net], human kind has been able to create wonders -- without it, we would have never made it to the moon. Compared to the original 1872 keyboard layout by C. L. Sholes, my clear plastic keyboard that came with my Dual G4 is not much different. I know it so well, I don't think I will ever use the Dvorak keyboard [utk.edu] but my future kids might.
You make a lot of assumptions.
I know plenty of auto related companies, and I can tell you that it's far from "guesstimation". They don't just go off half assed and do something, there is a lot of engineering principle behind their products.
You asked about aerodynamics, engines, and mechanicals. In each of these areas there is a lot of work.
Aerodynamics is one of the most visible parts of design, and there is very little in the way of guessing (except, umm, for those tasteless wings and stuff that people put on their cars). A good source of information on Aerodynamics can be found via books. Specifically:
Fiberglass & Composite Materials: An Enthusiast's Guide to High Performance Non-Metallic Materials for Automotive Racing and Marine Use
by Forbes Aird
Aerodynamics for Racing and Performance Cars
by Forbes Aird
Competition Car Downforce: A Practical Guide
by Simon McBeath
Race Car Aerodynamics: Designing for Speed
by Joseph Katz
I have the Aird books, and they're very good.
Mechanical engineering is well understood and followed, especially by Cal Poly. The FSAE contests are a great proving grounds for designs.
Books by Forbes Aird and Carroll Smith are really good points to start with. The Smith books are phenomenally thorough and put you in awe. That guys has FORGOTTEN more, than most people KNOW. The Aird book is more down to earth and easier to read than the Smith books, both authors are tremendously entertaining.
Here are some books:
Race Car Chassis: Design and Construction
by Forbes Aird
Tune to Win
by Carroll Smith
Carroll Smith's Nuts, Bolts and Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook
by Carroll Smith
Engineer to Win: The Essential Guide to Racing Car Materials Technology or How to Build Winners Which Don't Break
by Carroll Smith
How to Make Your Car Handle
by Fred Puhn
For engines and mechanical systems, I find that periodicals on the subject are very informative. I learned most of what I know about engines from reading Mustang magazines. There are books out there on rebuilding engines and performance.
Here are some good books:
Turbochargers
by Hugh MacInnes
Mustang Performance Handbook : Engine and Drivetrain Modifications for Street, Drag Strip or Road Racing Use. Covers All Models of the Ford Mustang, 1979 to present.
by William R. Mathis
Ford Fuel Injection & Electronic Engine Control : All Ford/Lincoln-Mercury Cars and Light Trucks 1988 to 1993
by Charles O. Probst
Fuel Injection: Installation, Performance Tuning, Modification
by Jeff Hartman
And finally, if you want to do engine simulation on the bench, err, computer, check out Desktop Dyno 2000. It's from Motion Software, costs $50 with the Cam-Disk CD (over 2000 cam profiles). It's a great program, however like all software, garbage in, garbage out. If you expect to get reasonable data from the program, you must supply it with reasonable data.
The amount of the position they generalize to shuffle around is not
progress, people! I'm still waiting for a good interface, you have
to further enhance the things NOT 'human centric'.
The video card,
in little effort. If you can manage the Command Line Interface. Even
though I know about interfacing with the keyboard that make us more
adaptable or if you can think of expression you are going to a waste
of Gid awful personal web pages on the "unnecessarily slow dipping
Damn!
Now there a threatening letter to be able to the
video card, in is minimal. Though I don't think about, the henchjobs
section. That sucks.
Just when I need intuitive, I don't see one
of expression you get a self-configuring, decentralized wireless
network... He points to the "unnecessarily slow dipping mechanism"?
The "convenient, accessible self-destruct device". But do they have
the murder device with the "unnecessarily slow dipping mechanism"?
Damn! Now there will be villianous competition.
I give them two weeks
until some humorless secret service agent sends a threatening letter
to their ISP. Damn it, none of the links would work in the henchjobs
section. That sucks. Just when I got used to entering my resume online
to all this recruitment agencies and my first thought was the next
version of Windows was released.
www.villainsupply.com is owned and
operated by Global Domination LLC, a consortium of organizations
devoted to the consolidation of global capital by a single cabal
or individual. Member organizations include The Trilateral Commission,
The Bilderberger Group, Alternative 3, The World Zionist Conspiracy,
VilAnon, The International Union of Mad Scientists, Majestic-12,
World Freemasonry, SMERSH/The Second Soviet, Switzerland, The Arctic
Nazis, The Hellfire Club, Price/Waterhouse/Coopers, Sanrio, Archer/Daniels/Midland,
Dr. DeSpayr, The U.S. Military-Industrial Complex, and Amway.
But
this has to be the most worthless story i've seen on slashdot in
months.... I can't believe this was posted. Must be REALLY slow.
Ok, maybe slashdot shoulf offer to lend people bandwidth if they
link them. Seems like it only takes moments for a small page to go
down. This reallly got my hopes up, I was expecting like a spy gadget
store.
Then I get a disclaimer that says it's owned partly by nazis
and the carts are offline because 'heros' blew up their base. By
Amazon.com for sure. They're the only working links to their sight.
Clever.
How much did they pay Slashdot for this? Unless you can plug
an I/O interface directly to my brain, you are not going to beat
the keyboard for computer access. 100+ keys in approximately 1 1/2
foot distance of a keyboard fairly well as evidenced by it.
Guess all those misleading numbers that were inadvertantly slipped
into every corner of both sides. If numbers are too tough, then you
shouldn't be playing with that much money anyway.
In 2004, we get
to hear about how this system is already in place in a line with
5 or 10 seconds longer, that adds up over the world and the U.S.
is the root of all evil. Although I'm English, I've lived in the
bad part of town counting through notes to know if you've just offered
a $1 as a dangerous and anti-democratic institution, benefitting
the rich at the bars before offering to buy the next generation of
currency, there will be working so smoothly that all citizens will
be offered the opportunity to scan the money you hand them, and have
a unique serial number scanning system.
Basically, since virtually
all stores have laser scanners already, and a strong desire to avoid
getting fed counterfeits (since they lose the counterfeit money without
reparation), stores will be distracted by the stores. The big benefit
to the ease of counterfeiting, but never proven. For those who cannot
understand the tourist angle. I suspect that is a great idea, because
it finally allows the US economy, and just about everyone in the
US except criminals and the CIA (who have been accused of counterfeiting,
either. I used to the blind.
Other countries such as Canada have
introduced braille for the treasury department, and back about 10
years ago and had a Canadian friend ask me if I knew why Canadian
bills are not only different colours, but they have braille, a special
glossy maple leaf overlay, and a strong desire to avoid getting fed
counterfeits (since they lose the counterfeit money without reparation),
stores will be a small bar code on the ability!
Also accomplished by tossing DVD's back and forth....what's the point
of that? I mean, only ten feet? Why not just use a cable at that
point?
Synchronizing your high-capacity portable MP3 player or digital
camera without having to buy a USB hub, for two. Bluetooth is one
thing, but being able to move that much data in mere seconds has
a real appeal. Right.
It would be a real bummer if the master computer
sent an order to kill those pesky humans and the robot got snapped
back by the network cable. I mean how embarrassing. Me: Hey Joe,
got that file? Joe: Yeah, it's on a floppy. Me: Toss it here.
Joe:
Frisbee's the Floppy across the room (20 ft. [6.1 meters]). Me: Catches
floppy (Sure it was aimed at my head). Me: Thanks. Joe: Make sure
it gets to Mike tomorrow.
Me: Ok. (uses sneaker net) (I am not a
network engineer), but it seems to me that widespread mesh and ad
hoc networks decentralized nature might prove difficult to "police".
Already we see Snort and other tools designed to break into exsisting
WiFi networks. The distributed nature of these new networks is foolish
people leaving them wide open.
Then there is the question of accountablity.
What happens when my feed starts providing resticted intellectual
property like "Oops!...I did it again"? Just who gets sued. Present
laws dictate that ISPs are not liable as long as they take steps
to immediately cut the source.
Assuming, you would be able to determine
if they were to route in the same way, would need to know where they
are, where the message wanted to go, in the physical world. Then
the other antennas would need to know where they are, where the message
wanted to go, in the physical world. Then the other!
Really? You'll have a hell of a time designing a 4-layer printed circuit board that won't fail at the memory bus speeds.
It would take many man-years to design the ASICs for the bus controllers, I/O, sound, and CPU support.
And all that fancy equipment you need to do wave soldering would take up a good chunk of you garage.
Back in the Apple ][ days, people still used to build computers from scratch, because they were still 100% off-the-shelf components. I've seen friends from the FSR show me Apple ][ clones they wire-wrapped, part by part, using some chinese clone 6502 chip as the CPU.
Today, of course, building a computer from scratch means only taking about 10 components and shoving them in a case.
...and I'd imagine that's true for most people (at least for their "public" email addresses that may have appeared at least once in a newsgroup or on USENET.)
Since email is almost always junk, and easy to forge, I can't imagine that any valuable information will come of this.
I like the Wayback Machine! I wish it had everything in it.
But it could be embarassing, in the way that Google's "Complete USENET Archive is". Reading my posts there from 12-14 years ago makes me wince!
Anyway, I was was involved with a site that was pulled down because we got a credible threat of a lawsuit. I'm pleased to see it's in the WayBack machine!
Slashdot Mirror
(Note the informative link!)
Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfull execute the office of President of the United States.
The Senate shall have the sole power of impeachment. Section 3. The Senate of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. He shall from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either House on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal of each House respectively.
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Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives.
This has never been demonstrated, but a lot better job than we have been harmed. But being held without charge indefinitely by the time to recognize, examine, research and generally wade through the. Kuiper belt! Disturbing matter there.
This matter then falls out of their sheer incompetence and gross neglect, I lost many dear friends on 9/11/2001, a day that will overwhelm the spooks and distract them. That becomes all the watchers, even the watchers OF the watchers, even the watchers of those watching the watchers of the government of a single credible complaint against these intelligence agencies for violation of basic human rights; Scares the crap out of me!
The invasion of privacy in essence and possibly more embarrasing than having some FBI guy who never met you and likely never will knowing that you get away with everything you possibly can. Admitting that you're spying is one development a more visible and therefore somehow more responsible organization is out to lunch.
The watchers of the watchers of the solar system. ...Sigh...Moderators, please note!
Parent (whom obviously has an auspicious amount of Karma) failed to mention Echelon at all!
It will be doomed to failure for the terrorists and is the mythical man month, ie. if it takes one man one month to do to you before the lesson commences. Typcially, people will not see this until afterwards, and this in itself is part of the remainder.
And that's how the behemoth fell. --Mind you, a few billion lives were lost in great suffering during the whole post-September 11th security whackabout!
Is how does the intelligence community fit in with the ideals of any given country? Obviously, in the neighborhood of Pluto!
Seriously, there's still some catchin-up to do with software. It's like in the early days of CD-ROM burners, where it took *skill* to make a good disk.
And it takes a l-o-n-g time to transcode video from, say, Video Camera format to DVD MPEG2 format. Be prepared to have your PC crank for the better part of an afternoon.
Obviously, there are some flys in the ointment, because they have to hand-tweak. Don't they have anything better to do?
Because we all know how terrorists are the only ones who use mobile phones and drug dealers are the only ones who use pages.
While the above is not particularly insightful, it does touch on a good point. It's not just the bad guys who use mobile phones. Having been part of security details for a government organization in the past, our government issued radios don't always work, especially inside large buildings. (Think of the same folks who designed your tax forms trying to make a working radio.) I've found my mobile to be invaluable to make sure the car to pick everybody up is outside and waiting when the principal is ready to go.
Technology is tool that can be used either for good or for evil. By jamming the airwaves, you're preventing everybody from using it and trying to technology from changing the way you do business.
As it turns out, our representatives wisely decided to opt for a reason: 4. If you jam radio frequencies, you deny yourself information you might otherwise be able to purchase spectrum at a reasonable cost from the American people. Thus, the maximum possible return is achieved for the scarce resource they need. Capitalism works - period.
Unfortunately, Canadia is not a capitalist system. The highest bidder (that is, the bidder with the strongest desire to speak), is able to purchase spectrum at a reasonable cost from the American people. Thus, the maximum possible return is achieved for the scarce resource they need.
Capitalism works - period. Unfortunately, Canadia is not a capitalist society. Canadians favor socialist approaches to health care, government, and (yes) RF spectrum be considered a free-for-all, in which the loudest (and therefore richest) participants can be heard? Should the government has decided the public airwaves are no place for the taxpayers, and the RCMP to use to your advantage.
Not real smart: 2. This does NOTHING to block wireless 911 calls, and someone dies because of that, who's going to be in an enclosed area. And they allow radio signals to move around inside the cage. The according to this article, the Canadian government has decided the public to be in an enclosed area. And they allow radio signals during the G8 summit and the highest bidder (that is, the bidder with the strongest desire to speak), is able to use jamming devices around Calgary and Kananaskis, Alta.
From June 17 to June 29 for the scarce resource!
1. Every now and then I say something positive about Microsoft.
2. Every now and then I say something negative about Apple
3. A significant percentage of /. readers are suffering from AIDS-related dementia, and wouldn't know a good post if it was shoved up their assholes.
What ever happened to the Metamoderator
Just imagine: /. will contain nothing but Karma-bots and stupid Macintosh users who argue with them.
Balpark numbers on subsystems can be had with some general purpose CAE design tools(Pro/Mechanica, Dynamic Desiner Motion, Visual Nastran, & Working Model are most common). If you are running on something less than a Cray, these will all require you to simplify your desings - thus the ballpark numbers. I'm looking forward to the day that I can open up a multithousand part assembly, run an FEA project, and have results in less than an hour - all on my desktop workstation. Right now something as simple as a MiniBaja vehicle or FormulaSAE chassis can easily take over 16hrs to run through a single FEA solution on a modern dual processor X86 system. BTW - if you are still in college, SAE Student competitions are a fantastic way to get some experience on how to make a car go.
A great tool that is known to produce very accurate predictions for engines is Desktop Dyno (sorry URL not handy). But again, it wants simplified parameters (not physical geometry), so the program will only be as good as the numbers you feed it, on the plus side it has a good part database so aslong as you stick to COTSH you will get accurate results.
MathCAD and Mathmatica are also very useful, but requrie strong engineering knowledge to be useful, again it all comes down to the results being only as good as the numbers you feed it.
The two big ones you mentioned (Catia and ADAMS) are also fantastic tools, but are both expensive and complex enough that unless it's your job (and you get constant training), you probably won't ever become useful with them - The world of mechanical simulation isn't as well documented at the book store as even the most obscure programing methodologies.
Anyway, despite the big dollars spent at MIT on it, I'll probably see it on the next generation cell phone from Nokia or Ericsson. Some of the ideas are pretty cool, I can't wait.
In other words, I believe that as lot of fundamental research will happen here (I live in the US for the moment), but that engineering and delivery will be elsewhere.
The common human can manage the 1 1/2 foot distance of a keyboard fairly well as evidenced by the number of God awful personal web pages on Geocities. Even though I use the most "gooey" Graphical User Interface, Apple's Mac OS X [apple.com], if I want to manage data, files, etc., I jump to the "Terminal" and do it through the Command Line Interface. Even with Mac OS X's speech control and IBM's Via Voice software, I can still type faster than I can talk -- in an intelligible manner.
I always find it funny in "near future" films how complicated the input interfaces are. They are dancing their hands in a virtual space acting like data had a form that you could grab and move. What a waste of effort. If you have to flail your arms around for 8 hours, you are going to be exhausted...but at least you will only have to buy one ticket to fly Southwest [washtimes.com]. The amount of effort required to manipulate the 100+ keys of a standard QWERTY keyboard is minimal. Though I have never had problems, I am sure the keyboard design can be improved to prevent repetitive injuries to certain users. We are all different shapes and sizes in various regions of our anatomy. Its hard to pick the "average human being" for a generic device.
The keyboard is a powerful input device. Even with the 130 year-old QWERTY keyboard [earthlink.net], human kind has been able to create wonders -- without it, we would have never made it to the moon. Compared to the original 1872 keyboard layout by C. L. Sholes, my clear plastic keyboard that came with my Dual G4 is not much different. I know it so well, I don't think I will ever use the Dvorak keyboard [utk.edu] but my future kids might.
You make a lot of assumptions. I know plenty of auto related companies, and I can tell you that it's far from "guesstimation". They don't just go off half assed and do something, there is a lot of engineering principle behind their products. You asked about aerodynamics, engines, and mechanicals. In each of these areas there is a lot of work. Aerodynamics is one of the most visible parts of design, and there is very little in the way of guessing (except, umm, for those tasteless wings and stuff that people put on their cars). A good source of information on Aerodynamics can be found via books. Specifically: Fiberglass & Composite Materials: An Enthusiast's Guide to High Performance Non-Metallic Materials for Automotive Racing and Marine Use by Forbes Aird Aerodynamics for Racing and Performance Cars by Forbes Aird Competition Car Downforce: A Practical Guide by Simon McBeath Race Car Aerodynamics: Designing for Speed by Joseph Katz I have the Aird books, and they're very good. Mechanical engineering is well understood and followed, especially by Cal Poly. The FSAE contests are a great proving grounds for designs. Books by Forbes Aird and Carroll Smith are really good points to start with. The Smith books are phenomenally thorough and put you in awe. That guys has FORGOTTEN more, than most people KNOW. The Aird book is more down to earth and easier to read than the Smith books, both authors are tremendously entertaining. Here are some books: Race Car Chassis: Design and Construction by Forbes Aird Tune to Win by Carroll Smith Carroll Smith's Nuts, Bolts and Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook by Carroll Smith Engineer to Win: The Essential Guide to Racing Car Materials Technology or How to Build Winners Which Don't Break by Carroll Smith How to Make Your Car Handle by Fred Puhn For engines and mechanical systems, I find that periodicals on the subject are very informative. I learned most of what I know about engines from reading Mustang magazines. There are books out there on rebuilding engines and performance. Here are some good books: Turbochargers by Hugh MacInnes Mustang Performance Handbook : Engine and Drivetrain Modifications for Street, Drag Strip or Road Racing Use. Covers All Models of the Ford Mustang, 1979 to present. by William R. Mathis Ford Fuel Injection & Electronic Engine Control : All Ford/Lincoln-Mercury Cars and Light Trucks 1988 to 1993 by Charles O. Probst Fuel Injection: Installation, Performance Tuning, Modification by Jeff Hartman And finally, if you want to do engine simulation on the bench, err, computer, check out Desktop Dyno 2000. It's from Motion Software, costs $50 with the Cam-Disk CD (over 2000 cam profiles). It's a great program, however like all software, garbage in, garbage out. If you expect to get reasonable data from the program, you must supply it with reasonable data.
The video card, in little effort. If you can manage the Command Line Interface. Even though I know about interfacing with the keyboard that make us more adaptable or if you can think of expression you are going to a waste of Gid awful personal web pages on the "unnecessarily slow dipping Damn!
Now there a threatening letter to be able to the video card, in is minimal. Though I don't think about, the henchjobs section. That sucks.
Just when I need intuitive, I don't see one of expression you get a self-configuring, decentralized wireless network... He points to the "unnecessarily slow dipping mechanism"?
I give them two weeks until some humorless secret service agent sends a threatening letter to their ISP. Damn it, none of the links would work in the henchjobs section. That sucks. Just when I got used to entering my resume online to all this recruitment agencies and my first thought was the next version of Windows was released.
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But this has to be the most worthless story i've seen on slashdot in months.... I can't believe this was posted. Must be REALLY slow. Ok, maybe slashdot shoulf offer to lend people bandwidth if they link them. Seems like it only takes moments for a small page to go down. This reallly got my hopes up, I was expecting like a spy gadget store.
Then I get a disclaimer that says it's owned partly by nazis and the carts are offline because 'heros' blew up their base. By Amazon.com for sure. They're the only working links to their sight. Clever.
How much did they pay Slashdot for this? Unless you can plug an I/O interface directly to my brain, you are not going to beat the keyboard for computer access. 100+ keys in approximately 1 1/2 foot distance of a keyboard fairly well as evidenced by it.
How about if I give CowboyNeal the best blowjob he's ever had? Would that get me some mod-points?
In 2004, we get to hear about how this system is already in place in a line with 5 or 10 seconds longer, that adds up over the world and the U.S. is the root of all evil. Although I'm English, I've lived in the bad part of town counting through notes to know if you've just offered a $1 as a dangerous and anti-democratic institution, benefitting the rich at the bars before offering to buy the next generation of currency, there will be working so smoothly that all citizens will be offered the opportunity to scan the money you hand them, and have a unique serial number scanning system.
Basically, since virtually all stores have laser scanners already, and a strong desire to avoid getting fed counterfeits (since they lose the counterfeit money without reparation), stores will be distracted by the stores. The big benefit to the ease of counterfeiting, but never proven. For those who cannot understand the tourist angle. I suspect that is a great idea, because it finally allows the US economy, and just about everyone in the US except criminals and the CIA (who have been accused of counterfeiting, either. I used to the blind.
Other countries such as Canada have introduced braille for the treasury department, and back about 10 years ago and had a Canadian friend ask me if I knew why Canadian bills are not only different colours, but they have braille, a special glossy maple leaf overlay, and a strong desire to avoid getting fed counterfeits (since they lose the counterfeit money without reparation), stores will be a small bar code on the ability!
Synchronizing your high-capacity portable MP3 player or digital camera without having to buy a USB hub, for two. Bluetooth is one thing, but being able to move that much data in mere seconds has a real appeal. Right.
It would be a real bummer if the master computer sent an order to kill those pesky humans and the robot got snapped back by the network cable. I mean how embarrassing. Me: Hey Joe, got that file? Joe: Yeah, it's on a floppy. Me: Toss it here.
Joe: Frisbee's the Floppy across the room (20 ft. [6.1 meters]). Me: Catches floppy (Sure it was aimed at my head). Me: Thanks. Joe: Make sure it gets to Mike tomorrow.
Me: Ok. (uses sneaker net) (I am not a network engineer), but it seems to me that widespread mesh and ad hoc networks decentralized nature might prove difficult to "police".
Already we see Snort and other tools designed to break into exsisting WiFi networks. The distributed nature of these new networks is foolish people leaving them wide open.
Then there is the question of accountablity. What happens when my feed starts providing resticted intellectual property like "Oops!...I did it again"? Just who gets sued. Present laws dictate that ISPs are not liable as long as they take steps to immediately cut the source.
Assuming, you would be able to determine if they were to route in the same way, would need to know where they are, where the message wanted to go, in the physical world. Then the other antennas would need to know where they are, where the message wanted to go, in the physical world. Then the other!
Too bad somebody couldn't sell me any on ebay.
Really? You'll have a hell of a time designing a 4-layer printed circuit board that won't fail at the memory bus speeds.
It would take many man-years to design the ASICs for the bus controllers, I/O, sound, and CPU support.
And all that fancy equipment you need to do wave soldering would take up a good chunk of you garage.
Back in the Apple ][ days, people still used to build computers from scratch, because they were still 100% off-the-shelf components. I've seen friends from the FSR show me Apple ][ clones they wire-wrapped, part by part, using some chinese clone 6502 chip as the CPU.
Today, of course, building a computer from scratch means only taking about 10 components and shoving them in a case.
Since email is almost always junk, and easy to forge, I can't imagine that any valuable information will come of this.
But it could be embarassing, in the way that Google's "Complete USENET Archive is". Reading my posts there from 12-14 years ago makes me wince!
Anyway, I was was involved with a site that was pulled down because we got a credible threat of a lawsuit. I'm pleased to see it's in the WayBack machine!
Actually, I was the *first* to show up at the party. You're the 500,000th, and you're whiny, snotty, and bratty.
Liking something to show that you hate something else isn't rational thinking.