I was lead to believe that crumple zones (which British vehicles have been required to have since about the 1970s) improve safety for the occupants of the vehicle by making collisions last longer, therefore reducing the peak deceleration experienced i.e. the force, making the collision more survivable.
Mass-produced vehicle parts can be replaced relatively cheaply. Dead people can't be resurrected.
It's amazing what you can achieve when you stop restricting the flow of exhaust gasses to the point that the engine has to fight against the backpressure of its own waste products.
Could you dump some of the waste heat in the exhaust into a heat-exchanger to reduce the back pressure? Analagous to condenser on a steam turbine?
At last we have concrete proof that a substantial proportion of the adult population are stupid.
I feel so much better for my own prospects, just as long as I and my family can avoid being killed or injured by these ignorant, selfish imbeciles.
Mind you, if this is in America, I suppose it's OK. The roads there are thousands of miles long, as wide as a football pitch, have no corners and are virtually empty. I believe their cars have suspension and steering systems optimised for traveling in straight lines all day long. They don't even have gears and there's cruise control so you might as well point your car at Amarillo, set the cruise control to 55, put your seat back and get a good night's sleep.
The engine is a 6-cylinder boxer type, which seems undersized for the claimed performance. Most supercars have from 8 to 18 cylinders.
Why don't supercars use Wankel rotary engines? Twice the power-to-weight ratio of piston engines, fewer moving parts, more efficient at high speed, intrinsically balanced and low-vibration and can run at much higher RPMs.
Or, failing that, a hybrid electric gas turbine system?
Instead of tens of wedding guests being blown to smithereens by the shrapnel from a missile, they'll be burnt to death by a laser. I'm not sure which is more humane. At least with a missile, there is a short period of time after it's launched to run for cover...
Whether a particular spelling is "correct" according to a dictionary is not definitive. It never can be, because language is an organic, living thing. If somebody is willing to stand their ground, good for them. That's far more interesting than somebody who reflexively changes their spelling the moment a person or machine tells them to.
I never used to get 100% on the daily spelling tests in primary school either. And my teacher was a right-wing bigoted, joyless puritan. She was the only teacher in the school never to go on strike when Maggie Thatcher's thugs started the destruction of the modern, progressive state education system.
A stupid spelling or a stupid rule of grammar can be challenged on its own merits.
You'll be straight on the authorities' list of very-likely-some-kind-of-crimials. Probably a terrorist, drug addict/dealer, paedophile or pirate of Madonna/Boys-R-Us/One Direction/Lady Gaga music.
I think that diversity, with different choices and competing projects and ideas are healthy and desirable for users and the market. Choice is never bad. Monocultures are.
There is nothing to stop Shuttleworth and Canonical doing what they want to do and nothing to stop them from disagreeing with the opinions and actions of others.
Likewise, other people are free to their opinions and their choices.
As long as there is a Free Linux kernel and a healthy free market of competing distributions, all with their unique ideas and strengths, the world will be good.
You will prise Slackware from my cold, dead, fingers though:-)
As long as there is Xlib (or XCB), X protocol to go with the Free Linux kernel, we'll be just fine. I couldn't care less what Ubuntu/Canonical/Shuttleworth gets up to. That's their business. I have a choice. So does everyone else.
Constantly educate them how much work something will be every time they request a new feature. Sometimes they are surprised at how easy things can be done and vice versa.
Explain that the software hasn't changed, so it's not likely to be a software problem.
No, writing a new device driver will not fix a broken input device sending thousands of spurious signals per second and no I will not write one 10 minutes before the device is due to be put on a van to be sent to the customer.
No, it's not "just typing." It has to be designed, implemented and tested. Just because it compiles I will not ship it to the customer.
Use Windows for real work. It's broken. Things that take minutes on a real OS take days or weeks on Windows, and 50% of that is getting fighting with license servers, virus checkers, broken user permissions and missing packages.
Using SAP for configuration control. It's broken by design. Why does it take weeks to do anything with SAP? Why does it go out to lunch for several minutes when you type a value in a box? Why does it randomly forget things you've entered? Why is the UI so crazy?
Fight with documentation in PowerPoint, Excel and Word formats. We have cross-platform tools and open documents for that sort of thing. Why should I have to go hunting on the Windows network for a file in a proprietary format to tell me what versions of things go into a package? Why isn't it in a plain text file in git or on a wiki?
No, I will not fix your broken Windows. Stop it. Buy a real computer and learn to use it.
No, it doesn't run on Windows. Life's too short.
Fight with libraries written in C++ and build scripts written in DOS batch files. Seriously, get with the 1990s.
Visual Basic, C# and.NET applications for configuring kit which can only be developed on WIndows and run under Windows. Oh, what do you mean that version of the development platform and evironment isn't supported any more? Do we have a license for it? Oh, it doesn't run? The environment, the platform or the app? Oh all of them? How much for a new license? Oh you can't get one any more? Right.
Sorry if I confused you, I messed up my quoting of the message I was replying to. It should have been more like:
"For the past few months any war-related threads on Slashdot have been consistently moderated in a pro-al-Qaeda manner. AQ propaganda gets modded up." Thus spoke the crack pipe.
Slashdot Mirror
At least edlin doesn't insert a redundant and erroneous byte order mark at the beginning of your nice, clean text fle...
I was lead to believe that crumple zones (which British vehicles have been required to have since about the 1970s) improve safety for the occupants of the vehicle by making collisions last longer, therefore reducing the peak deceleration experienced i.e. the force, making the collision more survivable.
Mass-produced vehicle parts can be replaced relatively cheaply. Dead people can't be resurrected.
It's amazing what you can achieve when you stop restricting the flow of exhaust gasses to the point that the engine has to fight against the backpressure of its own waste products.
Could you dump some of the waste heat in the exhaust into a heat-exchanger to reduce the back pressure? Analagous to condenser on a steam turbine?
Forgive me if I hesitate. It's incredibly hot in here today.
Yes, foreigners are FAIL no matter who and where in the world you are. Spot on!
At last we have concrete proof that a substantial proportion of the adult population are stupid.
I feel so much better for my own prospects, just as long as I and my family can avoid being killed or injured by these ignorant, selfish imbeciles.
Mind you, if this is in America, I suppose it's OK. The roads there are thousands of miles long, as wide as a football pitch, have no corners and are virtually empty. I believe their cars have suspension and steering systems optimised for traveling in straight lines all day long. They don't even have gears and there's cruise control so you might as well point your car at Amarillo, set the cruise control to 55, put your seat back and get a good night's sleep.
Those that studied their Floyd properly know that pigs could fly. I'm only here to make a buck.
Or just play the DVD on your computer using software that does what you tell it to do.
Arrrr! Shiver me timbers, walk the plank!
Wankel engines don't scale.
Is that so? I'm glad you're here to put me right.
Oh but you just wanted to feel like an auto geek, carry on.
I'll never be a geek. I have too many social skills.
And here's one for the Christians:
Q: Why did the dinosaur cross the road?
A: Because the chicken hadn't been invented yet.
Ah yes, I keep forgetting how stupid rich people are.
It's not 1967 any more.
While we're doing comedy, here's one...
Q: What do you call a cockerel who's lost his voice?
A: A cock-a-doodle-don't.
The engine is a 6-cylinder boxer type, which seems undersized for the claimed performance. Most supercars have from 8 to 18 cylinders.
Why don't supercars use Wankel rotary engines? Twice the power-to-weight ratio of piston engines, fewer moving parts, more efficient at high speed, intrinsically balanced and low-vibration and can run at much higher RPMs.
Or, failing that, a hybrid electric gas turbine system?
What's with the Victorian engine design?
I think you mean "cowadunga.":-)
*sigh*
Instead of tens of wedding guests being blown to smithereens by the shrapnel from a missile, they'll be burnt to death by a laser. I'm not sure which is more humane. At least with a missile, there is a short period of time after it's launched to run for cover...
From the greatest sitcom ever, Father Ted.
That's how they speak in Sout-East England. They drink "miwk" and wear "siwk" and play "footbaw."
Whether a particular spelling is "correct" according to a dictionary is not definitive. It never can be, because language is an organic, living thing. If somebody is willing to stand their ground, good for them. That's far more interesting than somebody who reflexively changes their spelling the moment a person or machine tells them to.
I never used to get 100% on the daily spelling tests in primary school either. And my teacher was a right-wing bigoted, joyless puritan. She was the only teacher in the school never to go on strike when Maggie Thatcher's thugs started the destruction of the modern, progressive state education system.
A stupid spelling or a stupid rule of grammar can be challenged on its own merits.
If only.
Are you nuts?
What sort of people run TOR nodes? Have you been following the news?
You'll be straight on the authorities' list of very-likely-some-kind-of-crimials. Probably a terrorist, drug addict/dealer, paedophile or pirate of Madonna/Boys-R-Us/One Direction/Lady Gaga music.
The entire Human Created climate change theory was created, financed, pushed through science and the mainstream media through the Rothschilds.
The lizard people? David Icke, is that you?
I think that diversity, with different choices and competing projects and ideas are healthy and desirable for users and the market. Choice is never bad. Monocultures are.
There is nothing to stop Shuttleworth and Canonical doing what they want to do and nothing to stop them from disagreeing with the opinions and actions of others.
Likewise, other people are free to their opinions and their choices.
As long as there is a Free Linux kernel and a healthy free market of competing distributions, all with their unique ideas and strengths, the world will be good.
You will prise Slackware from my cold, dead, fingers though :-)
As long as there is Xlib (or XCB), X protocol to go with the Free Linux kernel, we'll be just fine. I couldn't care less what Ubuntu/Canonical/Shuttleworth gets up to. That's their business. I have a choice. So does everyone else.
I'd like to see it ported to WINGs. It's simple, fast, pretty and not married to C++.
Constantly educate them how much work something will be every time they request a new feature. Sometimes they are surprised at how easy things can be done and vice versa.
Explain that the software hasn't changed, so it's not likely to be a software problem.
No, writing a new device driver will not fix a broken input device sending thousands of spurious signals per second and no I will not write one 10 minutes before the device is due to be put on a van to be sent to the customer.
No, it's not "just typing." It has to be designed, implemented and tested. Just because it compiles I will not ship it to the customer.
Use Windows for real work. It's broken. Things that take minutes on a real OS take days or weeks on Windows, and 50% of that is getting fighting with license servers, virus checkers, broken user permissions and missing packages.
Using SAP for configuration control. It's broken by design. Why does it take weeks to do anything with SAP? Why does it go out to lunch for several minutes when you type a value in a box? Why does it randomly forget things you've entered? Why is the UI so crazy?
Fight with documentation in PowerPoint, Excel and Word formats. We have cross-platform tools and open documents for that sort of thing. Why should I have to go hunting on the Windows network for a file in a proprietary format to tell me what versions of things go into a package? Why isn't it in a plain text file in git or on a wiki?
No, I will not fix your broken Windows. Stop it. Buy a real computer and learn to use it.
No, it doesn't run on Windows. Life's too short.
Fight with libraries written in C++ and build scripts written in DOS batch files. Seriously, get with the 1990s.
Visual Basic, C# and .NET applications for configuring kit which can only be developed on WIndows and run under Windows. Oh, what do you mean that version of the development platform and evironment isn't supported any more? Do we have a license for it? Oh, it doesn't run? The environment, the platform or the app? Oh all of them? How much for a new license? Oh you can't get one any more? Right.
Sorry if I confused you, I messed up my quoting of the message I was replying to. It should have been more like:
"For the past few months any war-related threads on Slashdot have been consistently moderated in a pro-al-Qaeda manner. AQ propaganda gets modded up." Thus spoke the crack pipe.
Is that better?
Or did you mistakenly reply to the wrong post?