I could be wrong but IIRC, all ReiserV4 kernel changes outside of Reiser itself are already in the kernel. They made it in right at the last feature freeze.
Also, I believe Linus mentioned at the the time that he was only accepting completely new features from people he trusts, like Hans.
I imagine would be better heads-up displays (HUDs) for vehicles
Normally HUDs have the requirement of 'Focus as Infinity'. This allows you to read them without refocusing your eyes. A flat LCD wouldn't achive this.
As a side effect of of the infitity focus, the size of a displayed image on a HUD doesn't descrease as you get farther away, only the viewable area gets smaller. It is pretty neat to be able to read the small letters on a HUD from across a room, even if you have to read them one at a time.
Actually a 20amp breaker is will trip if asked to give more than about 18amps for longer than 5 minutes.
Ah, no. At least not for comerical grade breakers.
In college I worked calibrating breakers and they were required to 'break' at 135% voltage within roughly 5 to 45 minutes(Exact time range depending on the ampage of the breaker). Of course it is possible thatt different mfgs calibrate them a litte different.
You don't shed a tail and then grow it back further down the trail.
Actually, I believe 'dormant genes' (aka junk DNA) are believed to be a major part of evolution. The idea is that while you may loose the tail, the DNA for the tail may still be there, just inactive.
This not only allows for easier loss of tail, but easier regrowth later if a tail becomes a good idea again. In a world where the most adoptable creatures survive, this is a good idea.
In other words tails can grow back further down the trail.
Actually the 'use of turkey' is because the first and currently only full scale plant is built next to a Butterball plant and designed to process turkey parts.
These are just a few references availabe. The point is that corn production is subsidized and it uses a huge number of natural resources.
Sorry, I can't believe any estimate with a 6X range. This isn't a future projection, the numbers exist. If somebody really wanted to do the work, they could get a much more accurate value. Not to mention neither of the articles quoted give any factual basis for the numbers, they are just stated as fact.
Of course both of the articles are completely unbiased as they both were written by environmentalist.
Farmers may/do loose money on corn, but fuel is hardly their only expense. In fact, it is probably one of the smallest. It just doesn't take that much fuel to do the actual farming. The "1.2 gallons for every bushel" for fertilizer number may be correct, but no way is the total 5 Gallons/Bushel. It just isn't possible, growing corn doesn't account for 20% of this nations oil use.
it takes nearly five gallons of crude oil to produce one bushel of corn
I call bullshit on this one.
There is no way it takes 5 gallons of crude oil to create a bushel of corn. A gallon of crude costs about $.50, while a bushel of corn costs under $2.00. If this was true, every corn farmer in America would have gone broke a long time ago.
Not to mention, it would take 30000 (5 gal/bush * 150 bush/Acre * 40 Acre) gallons of crude to grow a small field of corn.
There was over 9.5 Billion bushels of corn produced in the US in 2001. At 5 gal/bushel the corn industry would have accounted for over 19% of the total oil usage.
So long as the explosive explodes progressivly from one end to the other, you should get a load of energy quickly compressed into a bit of wire left sticking out of the other end, which then radiates your EMP.
Ahh, how is energy from the explosion transfered into the wire?
My EE degree is more then a little rusty, but how is this going to produce anything other then shrapnel?
It is pretty simple to replace the dips with a 17 bit counter and a 555. Setup the clear on the counters to the transmit button, and then just hold it down.
Every US fighter jet designed in the last for 20+ years has been electronically controlled (aka, fly-by-wire)
The F15 and F14 were not fbw, but then thy were designed in the late 60s, with first deployment in the early 70s. The fbw test vehicial first flew in 1972.
Couple of questions though, why use electrical as an interface for hydraulic control surfaces? This doesn't give you anything except computer aided stability. The F15 had this ( I believe ) , but it isn't considered a fbw.
Also, why would fbw require more maintenance then hydrolic? After Flight 800 blew up, they were saying how much it would cost to rewire all of the planes with bad insulation. They can't rewire that often or it wouldn't have been an issue.
Planes that start with A or B are not fighters. (A is for Attach, B is for Bomber, C is for Cargo, F is for Fighter, etc). Some 'black' planes are misnamed for security and funding issues but there is no way a B-52 qualifies as fighter:)
The F-14 is over 30 years old and I believe it is (mostly?) retired due to flight costs. The fly-by-wire F/A-18E is it's replacement.
I personally believe the reason is #1 for a couple of reasons.
My dad was a mechanic back when they got the name, and this is the reason he gave. Second, #1 is the only self inflicted cause of death, as in suicide.
Also, I see no reason why 2 or 3 should even be true. Why would suicide doors pop open easier then normal doors? Design flaw in one mfg's vesion?
Lack of traditional B-pillar does cause some issues, but this isn't even a feature on older suicide doors as seen here.
The thing is, it's pretty hard to 'design with the problem in mind' when you *rely* on electronics for control.
I don't really know what you mean by this.
There is no reason why mechanical linkages would be more reliable then electrical, but the opposite is true. With electrical you have a lack of moving parts, failure recovery, and easy(lightweight and cheap) redundancy.
For example, it is easy to run 2 independent brake wires to each wheel, while it would be expensive to do same with oil pipes. Currently the only redundancy in the car brake system is between the front and the back so that both do not run dry if you have a brake fluid leak.
Redundancy is currently used in our jets to allow for then to survive a shot.
If the electronics go, you've had it. Fighter jets are more expendable than cars/citizen's lives anyway. The military expect a few losses.
Really you only have to have 2 systems that can not fail, brakes and steering. Redundancy on these systems is the key.
It's been this way for 100 years for a reason; it's very ergonomic.
No, it has been this way because it has been this way. Do you keep your feet extended forward when you have the cruise control on? I know I don't.
Many other forms of transportation do not use pedals. Motorcycles are one example but there are others.
The steering, braking, acceleration, hell just about everything is electronically controlled. I'm no electrician, but wouldn't that kind of spell doom for you if there was an electronic failure?
Every US fighter jet has been all electronically controlled(aka, fly-by-wire) for 20+ years. No major problem, you just have to design with the problem in mind.
Also, to echo what many others have said, braking/acceleration on the *steering wheel* is utterly ludicrous. They're very much suited to foot pedals.
Why? Just because it has been this way for 100 years doesn't mean it is correct. Have you ever driven a motorcycle?
Finally, is the hydrogen car the one which only outputs CO2, and no other emissions? I thought I heard that somewhere. Interesting that GM don't seem to give a shit about the emissions (that really is a big reason why new techs are being developed, isn't it?), as they don't mention it on their site.
No. Hydrogen(H2) cars only put out H20. No carbon in fuel means no carbon emission. Of course, generating H2 could generate carbon emissions, but it doesn't have to.
Who says it isn't broken?(Besides all of slashdot) I actually like the idea of hand controls. Comfort level on long trips should be much better.
What I don't like is being forced to keep my hands at 2 and 10 o'clock. 6 is my preferred position, with the right hand on the stick shift, by the radio.
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I could be wrong but IIRC, all ReiserV4 kernel changes outside of Reiser itself are already in the kernel. They made it in right at the last feature freeze.
Also, I believe Linus mentioned at the the time that he was only accepting completely new features from people he trusts, like Hans.
I would bet it's in.
I imagine would be better heads-up displays (HUDs) for vehicles
Normally HUDs have the requirement of 'Focus as Infinity'. This allows you to read them without refocusing your eyes. A flat LCD wouldn't achive this.
As a side effect of of the infitity focus, the size of a displayed image on a HUD doesn't descrease as you get farther away, only the viewable area gets smaller. It is pretty neat to be able to read the small letters on a HUD from across a room, even if you have to read them one at a time.
Actually a 20amp breaker is will trip if asked to give more than about 18amps for longer than 5 minutes.
Ah, no. At least not for comerical grade breakers.
In college I worked calibrating breakers and they were required to 'break' at 135% voltage within roughly 5 to 45 minutes(Exact time range depending on the ampage of the breaker). Of course it is possible thatt different mfgs calibrate them a litte different.
Off topic, but what the hell.
You don't shed a tail and then grow it back further down the trail.
Actually, I believe 'dormant genes' (aka junk DNA) are believed to be a major part of evolution. The idea is that while you may loose the tail, the DNA for the tail may still be there, just inactive.
This not only allows for easier loss of tail, but easier regrowth later if a tail becomes a good idea again. In a world where the most adoptable creatures survive, this is a good idea.
In other words tails can grow back further down the trail.
There is nothing to get over.
Presidents have aways been electected by Electoral College. It is in the constitution. To do anything different would be to steal the election.
BTW, if really want to know about the Electoral College, look here:
http://www.fec.gov/pdf/eleccoll.pdf
According to the article, it already has been in a GAP commercial.
No, It was released for DOS.
Being a DOS release, it interfaces directly with the hardware, something not allowed in Win2k.
Last time I tired to play Duke in MS Windows, video worked, but couldn't get any sound. Duke just isn't the same without sound.
Yes this is a potentially world changing technology.
The Discover article does go into this, but downplays it becaues the plant isn't online yet.
The question is, does it work as good as they say it does?
Actually the 'use of turkey' is because the first and currently only full scale plant is built next to a Butterball plant and designed to process turkey parts.
Sure Pi is rational, but only in an irrational base, which really doesn't help the situation much.
Just remember, there are infinitly more irrational numbers then rational numbers. The odds of any 'natural' number being rational is infinitly small.
These are just a few references availabe. The point is that corn production is subsidized and it uses a huge number of natural resources.
Sorry, I can't believe any estimate with a 6X range. This isn't a future projection, the numbers exist. If somebody really wanted to do the work, they could get a much more accurate value. Not to mention neither of the articles quoted give any factual basis for the numbers, they are just stated as fact.
Of course both of the articles are completely unbiased as they both were written by environmentalist.
Farmers may/do loose money on corn, but fuel is hardly their only expense. In fact, it is probably one of the smallest. It just doesn't take that much fuel to do the actual farming. The "1.2 gallons for every bushel" for fertilizer number may be correct, but no way is the total 5 Gallons/Bushel. It just isn't possible, growing corn doesn't account for 20% of this nations oil use.
it takes nearly five gallons of crude oil to produce one bushel of corn
.50, while a bushel of corn costs under $2.00. If this was true, every corn farmer in America would have gone broke a long time ago.
I call bullshit on this one.
There is no way it takes 5 gallons of crude oil to create a bushel of corn. A gallon of crude costs about $
Not to mention, it would take 30000 (5 gal/bush * 150 bush/Acre * 40 Acre) gallons of crude to grow a small field of corn.
There was over 9.5 Billion bushels of corn produced in the US in 2001. At 5 gal/bushel the corn industry would have accounted for over 19% of the total oil usage.
Sorry, I couldn't help it.
It is just too stupid.
I love how when you change directories; the filename of whatever you're trying to save disappears. Great feature guys.
This was a bug that has been fixed for awhile now. It was never a feature.
The current File Chooser does suck ass. Almost as bad as Swing's File Chooser.
So long as the explosive explodes progressivly from one end to the other, you should get a load of energy quickly compressed into a bit of wire left sticking out of the other end, which then radiates your EMP.
Ahh, how is energy from the explosion transfered into the wire?
My EE degree is more then a little rusty, but how is this going to produce anything other then shrapnel?
And you don't even have to buy one.
It is pretty simple to replace the dips with a 17 bit counter and a 555. Setup the clear on the counters to the transmit button, and then just hold it down.
Damn, this post is DMCA violation.
Sorry that should have been
Every US fighter jet designed in the last for 20+ years has been electronically controlled (aka, fly-by-wire)
The F15 and F14 were not fbw, but then thy were designed in the late 60s, with first deployment in the early 70s. The fbw test vehicial first flew in 1972.
Couple of questions though, why use electrical as an interface for hydraulic control surfaces? This doesn't give you anything except computer aided stability. The F15 had this ( I believe ) , but it isn't considered a fbw.
Also, why would fbw require more maintenance then hydrolic? After Flight 800 blew up, they were saying how much it would cost to rewire all of the planes with bad insulation. They can't rewire that often or it wouldn't have been an issue.
Planes that start with A or B are not fighters. (A is for Attach, B is for Bomber, C is for Cargo, F is for Fighter, etc). Some 'black' planes are misnamed for security and funding issues but there is no way a B-52 qualifies as fighter:)
The F-14 is over 30 years old and I believe it is (mostly?) retired due to flight costs. The fly-by-wire F/A-18E is it's replacement.
Proof on slashdot???? Via a Link????
....
Not that his proves shit but
http://www.hearse.de/know.htm
I personally believe the reason is #1 for a couple of reasons.
My dad was a mechanic back when they got the name, and this is the reason he gave.
Second, #1 is the only self inflicted cause of death, as in suicide.
Also, I see no reason why 2 or 3 should even be true. Why would suicide doors pop open easier then normal doors? Design flaw in one mfg's vesion?
Lack of traditional B-pillar does cause some issues, but this isn't even a feature on older suicide doors as seen here.
The thing is, it's pretty hard to 'design with the problem in mind' when you *rely* on electronics for control.
I don't really know what you mean by this.
There is no reason why mechanical linkages would be more reliable then electrical, but the opposite is true. With electrical you have a lack of moving parts, failure recovery, and easy(lightweight and cheap) redundancy.
For example, it is easy to run 2 independent brake wires to each wheel, while it would be expensive to do same with oil pipes. Currently the only redundancy in the car brake system is between the front and the back so that both do not run dry if you have a brake fluid leak.
Redundancy is currently used in our jets to allow for then to survive a shot.
If the electronics go, you've had it. Fighter jets are more expendable than cars/citizen's lives anyway. The military expect a few losses.
Really you only have to have 2 systems that can not fail, brakes and steering. Redundancy on these systems is the key.
It's been this way for 100 years for a reason; it's very ergonomic.
No, it has been this way because it has been this way. Do you keep your feet extended forward when you have the cruise control on? I know I don't.
Many other forms of transportation do not use pedals. Motorcycles are one example but there are others.
Of course as soon as a virus comes out of these filetypes, people will stop opening them up pretty quickly.
Just like you avoided opening the 5+ gifs/jpgs on every slashdot page. (Sorry if you are using lynks, but that really isn't an option for most.)
This why bind variables should be used. The SQL should be
;
UPDATE forum
SET comment = ?
WHERE messageID = ?
And then use your DBI to set the values of the '?'s. This also helps DB performance, because the DB can cache the compliled SQL to use again.
I'm not sure PHP has preparied statments, but it should.
The steering, braking, acceleration, hell just about everything is electronically controlled. I'm no electrician, but wouldn't that kind of spell doom for you if there was an electronic failure?
Every US fighter jet has been all electronically controlled(aka, fly-by-wire) for 20+ years. No major problem, you just have to design with the problem in mind.
Also, to echo what many others have said, braking/acceleration on the *steering wheel* is utterly ludicrous. They're very much suited to foot pedals.
Why? Just because it has been this way for 100 years doesn't mean it is correct. Have you ever driven a motorcycle?
Finally, is the hydrogen car the one which only outputs CO2, and no other emissions? I thought I heard that somewhere. Interesting that GM don't seem to give a shit about the emissions (that really is a big reason why new techs are being developed, isn't it?), as they don't mention it on their site.
No. Hydrogen(H2) cars only put out H20. No carbon in fuel means no carbon emission. Of course, generating H2 could generate carbon emissions, but it doesn't have to.
Why fix something that isn't broken?
Who says it isn't broken?(Besides all of slashdot) I actually like the idea of hand controls. Comfort level on long trips should be much better.
What I don't like is being forced to keep my hands at 2 and 10 o'clock. 6 is my preferred position, with the right hand on the stick shift, by the radio.
Easy, this is the first drivable version. Last years version just sat there.
Drivable version of show cars take a little longer to make then the other type.