Obviously you've never had a BlackBerry, where 10 wrong login attempts will cause the device to wipe itself out. And all memory contents are - afiak - encrypted even if you manage to take the damned thing apart and connect directly to the flash chips.
Of course! Only the prettiest and the healthiest Core 2 Duo's are hand picked by the Intel engineers in bunny suits and lovingly put down on the MacBook motherboards.
This, of course, is in contrast to the Core 2 Duo's that goes into the Dell laptop - they're from the bottom of the barrel and they are shoveled into the sockets by some off-shored child labor getting paid 25 cents an hour, not getting that TLC that the Apple counterparts get. No wonder the Core 2 Duo's in Dells are so dysfunctional!
Willy willy can also cause havoc. Another problem is all those cattle guards in the Outback as well. On the flip side, though, I think outback tends to be _sunny_.:)
I wish you guys the best in your journey ahead! UNSW, for those that don't know, has one of the most advanced photovoltaic research labs in the world and probably still holds all the records for getting the highest efficiency out of Si-cells.
System operation (Please read the AIX 5.2 documentation before attempting to use this system)
To power up the system, press the power button on the front panel.
To reboot the system, run the 'reboot' command as root.
To shutdown the system run the 'shutdown -F' command as root.
To power up after shutdown, press the power button on the front panel.
Heh, not even user manuals have instructions like that anymore
Why don't they just have people use ELinks / Lynx? ELinks with frame and table support works with most websites out there and it's very, very useable. It also runs on minimal hardware.
With mod_gzip / Content-Encoding headers, absolutely everything's taken care of. So you move this into servers and it all of sudden becomes a killer app that's gonna kill everything else that's out there?
Yes, there are some safety concerns with the solar cars, but the biggest safety concern stems from the simple law of physics - conservation of momentum - the solar cars are just not heavy enough. However, the same safety concerns apply also to any motorcycles on the road, or the those Smart cars.
Solar cars already travel in a convoy consisting of a lead and chase vehicle with amber warning lights. With extensive driver training, good route planning, and some common sense, I think they can be safely raced.
DC Brushless Motors can turn backwards as well. These motors require an external motor controller unit and by sending signals to different phases, you can not only go backwards, but you can also set it to run at an arbitrary speed of your choice. Certain DC Brushless Motors also allow you to change torque (at a cost of max speed) by changing the spacing between the rotor and stator.
I think it's little too much to ask the government to do something like that efficiently...:)
Politics aside, it's not fair to compare batteries to bills. Bills are basically the same, but batteries are not. Each car would have differing requirements in terms of pack voltage, peak current output, and total capacity. We can make the packs into smaller standardized cells (again, someone needs to standardize it which will be major pain) but then you may have cell and current inbalance problems which can be deadly in such a high capacity battery pack.
There is no transmission because the motors are all direct drive - ie, they're attached directly to each of the 8 wheels. They are probably using DC Brushless Motor which requires an external motor controller, but does allow you to electronically control both the speed and torque (by changing the spacing between rotor and stator)
With electric motors, you get high torque at low speeds and you don't need to keep the engine/motor running at the ideal rpm. So you don't really need to worry about transmission since all it would do is basically introduce mechanical losses into the system.
It looks like all the wheels have their own separate motors (And as an aside, it looks like they're all direct-drive too, so we're probably looking at DC Brushless Motors). My guess is that they have 8 wheels because they need the outputs of all 8 motors to get the car to perform the way they wanted to.
Maybe the motors weren't available in more powerful configurations, it's somehow infeasible to get higher output motors.
Problem here is that batteries rely on chemical reactions and they become less and less efficient as you use it. It's more noticeable in certain chemicals (ie, Ni-Cad) than others (Li-Ion).
So, unless the charge station periodically takes out the old batteries and replaces them with brand new ones (which will cost a bundle of money, something they'll have to somehow pass on) people will start to see less and less mileage out from their "newly" replaced batteries. Would you be willing to trade in your brand new set of batteries and possibly get something that's close to dying?
So people who vote for a candidate that they believe in are bunch of ignorant fools? That you should only vote for someone who has reasonable chance of winning, preferably for a guy that you also conveniently choose to support?
Throwing away the vote is also a valid choice. If Kerry wants people to vote for him instead of Nader, then he has to convince them to vote for him for his vision and merits, not with this backhanded threat and insult. By the way, if this would make you feel better, I'm unfortunately (or fortunately) a Canadian citizen, so my views in this matter will not have any impact on the upcoming election.
Going back to the original question, do you really believe that if Kerry was to be elected, that he would scrap away the US-VISIT program and reduce the background checks for Visas and allow people to come in and out of America freely? For some reason, many people seems to have this image of Evil Bush(tm) sitting around with his crack team of war-mongering, privacy-breaching buddies to come up with MostAwesomeEvilPlanEver(tm)... Sorry to burst your bubble, but I really don't think that's the case.
Political parties, like any other organization, has to react to external stimulus. Even if Gore was president, programs like US-VISIT would still be implemented because of the events that preceded it...
A prof at my university wrote one of the more known microelectronic circuits book - he gave a (signed) copy of the book to all the students in his class. I've also heard of another prof who gave back profits he made (~$5 or so) to everyone in the class who had bought new copies of his textbook. So, not every prof who writes their own textbook is a bastard.
Do you really think that's bad? Just wait until you get into more specialized subjects in upper year courses.
I'm in computer engineering and books I buy start at $120~$130 a copy. As you get higher up, books become thinner and smaller. I was talking to a prof and he said he had a textbook in his grad years that cost over $1 per page.
I really don't understand the reason behind textbooks in some of the courses. For instance, for operating system courses, something like Lion's Commentary on Unix ($30) would cover much more than most "Computer Operating System" texts that sell for more than $100. In physics, entire first and second year textbooks can probably be replaced with The Feynman Lectures on Physics and students will be better off for it financially and intellectually as well. But we're stuck with these textbooks...
Well, for some people, price difference between a camera that costs $999 (With a starter lens) and a camera that costs $1500 with just the body is big enough to go for the cheaper one. What can you get with 10D, D100, or even more expensive siblings?
Since Digital Rebel has same sensor as Canon 10D, and since they can both use same line lenses, buying 10D just because it's more "professional" - essentially more buttons - is just plain stupid. At the end, the only thing that matters in photo quality technically (ie, non photographer related) is just the lens and the film. Well, Digital Rebel has same lens, and essentially the same film as the higher priced sibling.
I've seen some wonderful pictures come out of lowly Rebels and (gasp) cheap point and shoot cameras. Saying cheap cameras are POS means you're just a snob.
Er, why does GSM vs. CDMA argument come in here? US does have GSM network, and at the end, both CDMA and GSM basically does the exactly same thing. What does GSM allow that CDMA doesn't?
Heck, CDMA may be better for financial transaction purposes like this - it's more secure and harder to clone. Also, if I remember correctly, South Korea is dominated by CDMA.
Yeah, I like the idea behind it, but it does look like political stunt.
Who was it that said "A billion here, a billin there, and pretty soon, you're talking real money"? Well, they are proposing to give 50 million for the first year and 200 million for the second. To put that into perspective, the Apollo program cost $25 billion, in 1960s dollar terms and this is proposing going much further than Apollo program ever did - heck, it takes a long time just to GET to Mars even if everything working properly.
Maybe it just means that the people who actually did sign the NDA and looked at the code are not technically familiar with the Linux Kernel. My understanding was that it was mostly members of the media and stock analysts who signed the contract and looked at the code. I remember reading one guy (analyst? can't remember) who looked at the code and wrote that every other line seemed copied - he obviously has no programming experience.
Otherwise, it may mean that infringing code actually does not exist or is insignificant. Take your pick.
Adding some more information - Copyright Act from the Copyright Board of Canada's website seems to make it pretty clear. Reading it, though, does open up a new can of worms. You could argue that copying an MP3 file from p2p network for private use also does not constitute infringement, though I've rather leave it to the courts to decide.:p
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Obviously you've never had a BlackBerry, where 10 wrong login attempts will cause the device to wipe itself out. And all memory contents are - afiak - encrypted even if you manage to take the damned thing apart and connect directly to the flash chips.
Of course! Only the prettiest and the healthiest Core 2 Duo's are hand picked by the Intel engineers in bunny suits and lovingly put down on the MacBook motherboards.
This, of course, is in contrast to the Core 2 Duo's that goes into the Dell laptop - they're from the bottom of the barrel and they are shoveled into the sockets by some off-shored child labor getting paid 25 cents an hour, not getting that TLC that the Apple counterparts get. No wonder the Core 2 Duo's in Dells are so dysfunctional!
Willy willy can also cause havoc. Another problem is all those cattle guards in the Outback as well. On the flip side, though, I think outback tends to be _sunny_. :)
The article title had me excited for a second - as a (ex-)member of the University of Waterloo's Midnight Sun Solar Race Car Team that broke the world record for the longest distance traveled on a solar car, I thought they were trying to erase us from the record books. I guess the distance record will be safe for next little while longer. :)
I wish you guys the best in your journey ahead! UNSW, for those that don't know, has one of the most advanced photovoltaic research labs in the world and probably still holds all the records for getting the highest efficiency out of Si-cells.
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System operation (Please read the AIX 5.2 documentation before attempting to use this system)
To power up the system, press the power button on the front panel.
To reboot the system, run the 'reboot' command as root.
To shutdown the system run the 'shutdown -F' command as root.
To power up after shutdown, press the power button on the front panel.
Heh, not even user manuals have instructions like that anymore
Why don't they just have people use ELinks / Lynx? ELinks with frame and table support works with most websites out there and it's very, very useable. It also runs on minimal hardware.
With mod_gzip / Content-Encoding headers, absolutely everything's taken care of. So you move this into servers and it all of sudden becomes a killer app that's gonna kill everything else that's out there?
It was a University of Toronto student who was involved in the unfortunate accident.
Yes, there are some safety concerns with the solar cars, but the biggest safety concern stems from the simple law of physics - conservation of momentum - the solar cars are just not heavy enough. However, the same safety concerns apply also to any motorcycles on the road, or the those Smart cars.
Solar cars already travel in a convoy consisting of a lead and chase vehicle with amber warning lights. With extensive driver training, good route planning, and some common sense, I think they can be safely raced.
DC Brushless Motors can turn backwards as well. These motors require an external motor controller unit and by sending signals to different phases, you can not only go backwards, but you can also set it to run at an arbitrary speed of your choice. Certain DC Brushless Motors also allow you to change torque (at a cost of max speed) by changing the spacing between the rotor and stator.
I think it's little too much to ask the government to do something like that efficiently... :)
Politics aside, it's not fair to compare batteries to bills. Bills are basically the same, but batteries are not. Each car would have differing requirements in terms of pack voltage, peak current output, and total capacity. We can make the packs into smaller standardized cells (again, someone needs to standardize it which will be major pain) but then you may have cell and current inbalance problems which can be deadly in such a high capacity battery pack.
There is no transmission because the motors are all direct drive - ie, they're attached directly to each of the 8 wheels. They are probably using DC Brushless Motor which requires an external motor controller, but does allow you to electronically control both the speed and torque (by changing the spacing between rotor and stator)
With electric motors, you get high torque at low speeds and you don't need to keep the engine/motor running at the ideal rpm. So you don't really need to worry about transmission since all it would do is basically introduce mechanical losses into the system.
It looks like all the wheels have their own separate motors (And as an aside, it looks like they're all direct-drive too, so we're probably looking at DC Brushless Motors). My guess is that they have 8 wheels because they need the outputs of all 8 motors to get the car to perform the way they wanted to.
Maybe the motors weren't available in more powerful configurations, it's somehow infeasible to get higher output motors.
Problem here is that batteries rely on chemical reactions and they become less and less efficient as you use it. It's more noticeable in certain chemicals (ie, Ni-Cad) than others (Li-Ion).
So, unless the charge station periodically takes out the old batteries and replaces them with brand new ones (which will cost a bundle of money, something they'll have to somehow pass on) people will start to see less and less mileage out from their "newly" replaced batteries. Would you be willing to trade in your brand new set of batteries and possibly get something that's close to dying?
So people who vote for a candidate that they believe in are bunch of ignorant fools? That you should only vote for someone who has reasonable chance of winning, preferably for a guy that you also conveniently choose to support?
Throwing away the vote is also a valid choice. If Kerry wants people to vote for him instead of Nader, then he has to convince them to vote for him for his vision and merits, not with this backhanded threat and insult. By the way, if this would make you feel better, I'm unfortunately (or fortunately) a Canadian citizen, so my views in this matter will not have any impact on the upcoming election.
Going back to the original question, do you really believe that if Kerry was to be elected, that he would scrap away the US-VISIT program and reduce the background checks for Visas and allow people to come in and out of America freely? For some reason, many people seems to have this image of Evil Bush(tm) sitting around with his crack team of war-mongering, privacy-breaching buddies to come up with MostAwesomeEvilPlanEver(tm)... Sorry to burst your bubble, but I really don't think that's the case.
Political parties, like any other organization, has to react to external stimulus. Even if Gore was president, programs like US-VISIT would still be implemented because of the events that preceded it...
This makes sense if you assume that Democrats are that much different from Republicans.
Kerry, Bush, Kerry, Busy... I dunno, if you squint just right, they don't look all that much different from one another...
A prof at my university wrote one of the more known microelectronic circuits book - he gave a (signed) copy of the book to all the students in his class. I've also heard of another prof who gave back profits he made (~$5 or so) to everyone in the class who had bought new copies of his textbook. So, not every prof who writes their own textbook is a bastard.
Do you really think that's bad? Just wait until you get into more specialized subjects in upper year courses.
I'm in computer engineering and books I buy start at $120~$130 a copy. As you get higher up, books become thinner and smaller. I was talking to a prof and he said he had a textbook in his grad years that cost over $1 per page.
I really don't understand the reason behind textbooks in some of the courses. For instance, for operating system courses, something like Lion's Commentary on Unix ($30) would cover much more than most "Computer Operating System" texts that sell for more than $100. In physics, entire first and second year textbooks can probably be replaced with The Feynman Lectures on Physics and students will be better off for it financially and intellectually as well. But we're stuck with these textbooks...
D'oh!
I will fully read the post before I reply...
I will fully read the post before I reply...
I will...
Yeah, this will happen...
Over Steve Jobs' cold, dead body when hell freezes over.
Well, for some people, price difference between a camera that costs $999 (With a starter lens) and a camera that costs $1500 with just the body is big enough to go for the cheaper one. What can you get with 10D, D100, or even more expensive siblings?
Since Digital Rebel has same sensor as Canon 10D, and since they can both use same line lenses, buying 10D just because it's more "professional" - essentially more buttons - is just plain stupid. At the end, the only thing that matters in photo quality technically (ie, non photographer related) is just the lens and the film. Well, Digital Rebel has same lens, and essentially the same film as the higher priced sibling.
I've seen some wonderful pictures come out of lowly Rebels and (gasp) cheap point and shoot cameras. Saying cheap cameras are POS means you're just a snob.
Er, why does GSM vs. CDMA argument come in here? US does have GSM network, and at the end, both CDMA and GSM basically does the exactly same thing. What does GSM allow that CDMA doesn't?
Heck, CDMA may be better for financial transaction purposes like this - it's more secure and harder to clone. Also, if I remember correctly, South Korea is dominated by CDMA.
Before you say something like that, think it through - are you prepared to pay extra $50, $100 per CPU (or however much extra it'll cost Intel)?
You can't have it both ways.
Most of Intel's fabs are located in USA (with couple outside, notably in Israel and Ireland). So techncially speaking, they are mostly made in US.
They are *packaged* and *tested* in Malaysia, Costa Rica, and other countries, but the actual core of the chips are manufactured in US.
Yeah, I like the idea behind it, but it does look like political stunt.
Who was it that said "A billion here, a billin there, and pretty soon, you're talking real money"? Well, they are proposing to give 50 million for the first year and 200 million for the second. To put that into perspective, the Apollo program cost $25 billion, in 1960s dollar terms and this is proposing going much further than Apollo program ever did - heck, it takes a long time just to GET to Mars even if everything working properly.
Maybe it just means that the people who actually did sign the NDA and looked at the code are not technically familiar with the Linux Kernel. My understanding was that it was mostly members of the media and stock analysts who signed the contract and looked at the code. I remember reading one guy (analyst? can't remember) who looked at the code and wrote that every other line seemed copied - he obviously has no programming experience.
Otherwise, it may mean that infringing code actually does not exist or is insignificant. Take your pick.
Adding some more information - Copyright Act from the Copyright Board of Canada's website seems to make it pretty clear. Reading it, though, does open up a new can of worms. You could argue that copying an MP3 file from p2p network for private use also does not constitute infringement, though I've rather leave it to the courts to decide. :p