When you are testing emissions, you are doing it on a dynamometer - a big rolling drum. The car isn't moving. Thus, there is no reason to steer, and so the steering wheel won't be past 15 degrees either left or right. It's a perfect way to tell if you are testing, or actually driving. When you are on a real road, you are likely to turn the wheel past 15 degrees within the first 15 seconds of motion - pulling out of a parking space, backing out of a driveway, etc.
This isn't a bug - there is no reason for the steering to inform the tuning if the engine whatsoever. This is a deliberate cheat device.
Now we just need to step on the accelerator. Let's change out the majorities in Congress, and pass some legislation that prices in the damage into dirty generation. End all the subsidies, and let each technology stand on their own merits - coal and gas have to pay for their waste spewing up the stacks; wind and solar have to bear the full costs without tax or generation subsidy.
I have a feeling that solar and wind won't slow down.
Yeah, it has far more to do with the laptop or smartphone that you posted your incorrect assessment from than it does anything to do with solar panels. Hint: solar panels don't use rare earths, but your new shiny phone does.
Also, don't be a lazy git - if you want someone to google something, at least provide a damn link. HTML has been around and in wide use for like 25 years now.
The installation jobs are just the tip of the spear. There's all the other jobs that any other energy company would have as well: IT, billing software development, accounting, customer service, marketing, logistics, etc.
I think there's a whole lot of people that wish he was back in the Oval Office rather than the current occupant. Sometimes it takes a full-on landfill fire to realize that the burning dumpster wasn't as bad a crisis as we all thought.
(No, this isn't some attempt to extoll the virtues of GWB. I just called his presidency a dumpster fire. Back off the kneejerk reactions already.)
Wow, you're so fucking wrong that you aren't even in the same time zone as right. Here's the relevant chart, in case you fail at clicking provided links as bad as you fail at using Google:
Energy Source - Mortality Rate (deaths/trillionkWhr) Coal – global average - 100,000 (41% global electricity) Coal – China - 170,000 (75% China’s electricity) Coal – U.S. - 10,000 (32% U.S. electricity) Oil - 36,000 (33% of energy, 8% of electricity) Natural Gas - 4,000 (22% global electricity) Biofuel/Biomass - 24,000 (21% global energy) Solar (rooftop) - 440 ( 1% global electricity) Wind - 150 (2% global electricity) Hydro – global average - 1,400 (16% global electricity) Hydro – U.S. - 5 (6% U.S. electricity) Nuclear – global average - 90 (11% global electricity w/Chern&Fukush) Nuclear – U.S. - 0.1 (19% U.S. electricity)
Would have loved to format that better, but apparently the lameness filter thinks it's too much whitespace.
A BMW 3-series weighs in between 3300 and 4000 pounds, and ships with 250 - 400 HP in the M3. How is more than double the horsepower "not that much" again when the weight is only 10-15% more?
More to the point, the stagnated companies in Detroit were getting their asses kicked by Europe and East Asia, and they decided that maybe forced induction might actually be a good idea. Thus, the Ford EcoBoost series of engines was born - way more power, with way better fuel economy at the same time.
Turbochargers aren't new tech - it's just new that some companies finally got around to using them in combination with some fairly new tech like direct port injection in order to get far more efficient engines. These are tricks that Audi, BMW, and Mercedes were doing a decade ago - it's really nice having a twin-turbo straight-6 that produces 350 horsepower and still gets 28MPG with the air conditioning on.
Who said that those companies are good actors? I was just saying that Samsung is a repeated, proven, bad actor. IP theft. Collusion. Bribery. Price fixing. All proven in court.
But good job using fanboy logic: One company being a shithead doesn't make other companies less shitty somehow. They can all be shitheads at the same time - shitheadism isn't mutually exclusive.
if you look at the select tweets he's mocking, they deserve to be mocked. None of them were of any substance, or had any content beyond threats of violence or ad hominem attack.
This man is an asshole, but let's not pretend that these "commentators" are more than what they actually are.
There is no clause in the law that says he has to appoint anyone suggested by anyone. He could have done his own candidate search and found a Republican that isn't a fucking shill for the telcos.
"It's always been done that way" is poor justification for putting the wrong guy in a position of this kind of power.
That's an interesting idea, and I hope you are right - after all, anything the FCC does can be undone with an act of the Congress. However, it seems that the Congress is unwilling to act on this particular issue. Or, really, any other issue of consequence other than the majority's sacred cows.
You do know there is more than one person in the Republican Party that qualifies to be an FCC Commissioner, right? He didn't "have to" appoint this smarmy telco shill. He could have picked someone else that actually takes a sensible stance on issues instead of just being a corporate whore for VeriCoxCasT&TWarner.
Or, it could come from the people at Uber being complete fucking assholes, and assholery at the top of famous darling corps always eventually gets reported on.
But yeah, I'm sure it's your Google - GM conspiracy. Better adjust the tinfoil hat, buddy.
Singing during a vote on the house floor that your party is losing through complete obstinance and refusal to work together is pretty childish. Ever have the idea that it's a bad bill because of refusal to work together and govern?
This applies to both parties, and applies to both the current effort, and the previous Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The current effort is just partisan trash that is replacing other partisan trash. The problem will never be fixed until the divisive lunacy is shown the door - we're just going to be having a different political party talking 'repeal and replace' for 3 to 9 years depending on how the Senate takes a meat axe to this piece of legislative detritus, and how long our current Dorito-tinted president continues to be the President.
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When you are testing emissions, you are doing it on a dynamometer - a big rolling drum. The car isn't moving. Thus, there is no reason to steer, and so the steering wheel won't be past 15 degrees either left or right. It's a perfect way to tell if you are testing, or actually driving. When you are on a real road, you are likely to turn the wheel past 15 degrees within the first 15 seconds of motion - pulling out of a parking space, backing out of a driveway, etc.
This isn't a bug - there is no reason for the steering to inform the tuning if the engine whatsoever. This is a deliberate cheat device.
Now we just need to step on the accelerator. Let's change out the majorities in Congress, and pass some legislation that prices in the damage into dirty generation. End all the subsidies, and let each technology stand on their own merits - coal and gas have to pay for their waste spewing up the stacks; wind and solar have to bear the full costs without tax or generation subsidy.
I have a feeling that solar and wind won't slow down.
Yeah, because we all know that waiting for perfection is an awesome reason to do nothing.
What a bunch of bollocks.
Should be pretty easy, with everything being made in China these days...
Yeah, it has far more to do with the laptop or smartphone that you posted your incorrect assessment from than it does anything to do with solar panels. Hint: solar panels don't use rare earths, but your new shiny phone does.
Also, don't be a lazy git - if you want someone to google something, at least provide a damn link. HTML has been around and in wide use for like 25 years now.
Not really. Xeon with 24 cores, and you can put 8 of them into a single server.
And that's not even including the Xeon Phi 7290 that can be slapped in using PCI-e, adding 72 more cores.
264 cores per server would get Oracle / Microsoft frothing at the mouth for per-core licensing. 18? Not so much.
Yeah, because nobody runs virtualization on their workstations. Definitely not any kind of cross-platform app developer.
The installation jobs are just the tip of the spear. There's all the other jobs that any other energy company would have as well: IT, billing software development, accounting, customer service, marketing, logistics, etc.
If I hadn't already commented, you'd be getting +1 Informative...
Counterpoint to your post: The Kentucky Coal Museum is going solar to save money.
That's some weapons-grade irony right there.
I think there's a whole lot of people that wish he was back in the Oval Office rather than the current occupant. Sometimes it takes a full-on landfill fire to realize that the burning dumpster wasn't as bad a crisis as we all thought.
(No, this isn't some attempt to extoll the virtues of GWB. I just called his presidency a dumpster fire. Back off the kneejerk reactions already.)
Wow, you're so fucking wrong that you aren't even in the same time zone as right. Here's the relevant chart, in case you fail at clicking provided links as bad as you fail at using Google:
Energy Source - Mortality Rate (deaths/trillionkWhr)
Coal – global average - 100,000 (41% global electricity)
Coal – China - 170,000 (75% China’s electricity)
Coal – U.S. - 10,000 (32% U.S. electricity)
Oil - 36,000 (33% of energy, 8% of electricity)
Natural Gas - 4,000 (22% global electricity)
Biofuel/Biomass - 24,000 (21% global energy)
Solar (rooftop) - 440 ( 1% global electricity)
Wind - 150 (2% global electricity)
Hydro – global average - 1,400 (16% global electricity)
Hydro – U.S. - 5 (6% U.S. electricity)
Nuclear – global average - 90 (11% global electricity w/Chern&Fukush)
Nuclear – U.S. - 0.1 (19% U.S. electricity)
Would have loved to format that better, but apparently the lameness filter thinks it's too much whitespace.
A BMW 3-series weighs in between 3300 and 4000 pounds, and ships with 250 - 400 HP in the M3. How is more than double the horsepower "not that much" again when the weight is only 10-15% more?
More to the point, the stagnated companies in Detroit were getting their asses kicked by Europe and East Asia, and they decided that maybe forced induction might actually be a good idea. Thus, the Ford EcoBoost series of engines was born - way more power, with way better fuel economy at the same time.
Turbochargers aren't new tech - it's just new that some companies finally got around to using them in combination with some fairly new tech like direct port injection in order to get far more efficient engines. These are tricks that Audi, BMW, and Mercedes were doing a decade ago - it's really nice having a twin-turbo straight-6 that produces 350 horsepower and still gets 28MPG with the air conditioning on.
Who said that those companies are good actors? I was just saying that Samsung is a repeated, proven, bad actor. IP theft. Collusion. Bribery. Price fixing. All proven in court.
But good job using fanboy logic: One company being a shithead doesn't make other companies less shitty somehow. They can all be shitheads at the same time - shitheadism isn't mutually exclusive.
This is my shocked face that Samsung would be named in a lawsuit alleging intellectual property theft, baseless or otherwise: :-|
if you look at the select tweets he's mocking, they deserve to be mocked. None of them were of any substance, or had any content beyond threats of violence or ad hominem attack.
This man is an asshole, but let's not pretend that these "commentators" are more than what they actually are.
There is no clause in the law that says he has to appoint anyone suggested by anyone. He could have done his own candidate search and found a Republican that isn't a fucking shill for the telcos.
"It's always been done that way" is poor justification for putting the wrong guy in a position of this kind of power.
That's an interesting idea, and I hope you are right - after all, anything the FCC does can be undone with an act of the Congress. However, it seems that the Congress is unwilling to act on this particular issue. Or, really, any other issue of consequence other than the majority's sacred cows.
You do know there is more than one person in the Republican Party that qualifies to be an FCC Commissioner, right? He didn't "have to" appoint this smarmy telco shill. He could have picked someone else that actually takes a sensible stance on issues instead of just being a corporate whore for VeriCoxCasT&TWarner.
Or, it could come from the people at Uber being complete fucking assholes, and assholery at the top of famous darling corps always eventually gets reported on.
But yeah, I'm sure it's your Google - GM conspiracy. Better adjust the tinfoil hat, buddy.
How does a computer being able to turn the steering wheel prevent me from changing it's oil in the driveway when it's turned off?
Apple did it twice:
MC680x0 -> PowerPC
PowerPC - >x86-64
Oh, you mean the one that I mentioned in my first post?
Try reading, dipshit... if you can.
Singing during a vote on the house floor that your party is losing through complete obstinance and refusal to work together is pretty childish. Ever have the idea that it's a bad bill because of refusal to work together and govern?
This applies to both parties, and applies to both the current effort, and the previous Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The current effort is just partisan trash that is replacing other partisan trash. The problem will never be fixed until the divisive lunacy is shown the door - we're just going to be having a different political party talking 'repeal and replace' for 3 to 9 years depending on how the Senate takes a meat axe to this piece of legislative detritus, and how long our current Dorito-tinted president continues to be the President.