Dude, you want to eat Indian food. You will have a hot ring the next day, not in 4 days time. OK, I haven't got the faintest idea what governs the rate of progress of food through the gut, but your timing seems way weird- curry was just an example, tomato skins and sweetcorn also prove to be reliable timing indicators. Dunno why you are modded flamebait, people seem interested rather than annoyed.
AS to the whole veggie thing, I'm with the mythical Chinese "eat tree bark when you have to, chicken when you can". Or in my case, rare beef, and bacon.
Some companies do alter the calibration to cope with snow and gravel. I don't know what they do for snow, but for gravel the cycle time is extended and the wheel is allowed to lock.
Most engineering software we use runs in both Windows AND Unix.
Ideas/Hypermesh/Catia/all FEA solvers of interest/Matlab/ADAMS
Most of that list started out as Unix progs, but the Windows ports tend to be faster and are just as stable, comparing my shiny new rather pathetic twin CPU HP w/s with my 3 year old Dell running W2K. Only problem is if you run out of RAM, the HP has 16 gigs.
The only things that don't exist on both platforms, that I use a lot, are Excel and Mathcad. My ancient copy of Mathcad runs under WINE much to my amusement, and there is that weird crossover office thingo, so in theory I could run everything in Unix or Linux.
"I don't agree with that at all. All cars today are so similarly designed, with bits here and there often engineered by the same people, and even come out of the same plant. Durability wise, you'd be hard pressed to find a car that just doesn't keep up with any other."
Check out JD Powers surveys of reliability. They more or less agree with the confidential industry supported surveys. For instance - my 21 year old Toyota is still trundling along. I doubt many 10 year old Hyundais are. Hyundai's quality has improved massively just recently, not really possible if they all started at the same level.
Quality/reliability is split into several phases - 3 MIS (3 months in service) through to five and ten year surveys. Unfortunately most of the low MIS stuff is dominated by paint faults and so on, the really interesting thing is how the mechanical relaibility shapes up over 5 years - that is where the US makes generally catch up.
I'd also disagree about the quality of parts/even when they come from the same supplier/. For instance, I know of one tire where company A paid more, in order to have the higher quality ones (each tire is tested for balance and force uniformity), whereas company B accepted the next 25%. Things lke wheel bearing assemblies are usually custom designed for each application, so similar parts from the same supplier could have different specs and tolerances.
Yes, as I fire up my industry standard FEA mesher, then switch to Mathcad, and then a powerful intuitive 3d CAD system, and a kinematics program, I wonder why the hell I spent $700 on a PC instead of twice that on a Mac that will run none of these things. For oh, about 1 millisecond.
Sure, if I wanted to mess about with photos and surf the web then I could get by with a Mac, but to design suspensions, which is what I am paid to do, I need a PC.
Having said that I probably will buy another Mac some time soon, now the stability issues have been sorted out, and the prices look more reasonable.
a) There's nothing to patent. They used somebody elses engine, fueled on a fuel that's been around for a while, stuck it in a lightweight body and put in a huge electric motor. A patent has to have novelty.
b) If they had invented something worth patenting they've established prior art ( if a big 3 tried to fake prior art it would cost them an arm and a leg). But they haven't so it doesn't matter , see (a)
Excellent project for a school, I don't know how they funded it.
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In Australia we have always been short of technical talent. The company I work for has been trying to recruit 200 engineers for the last couple of years, fortunately the recent collapse of engineering in Europe and to a lesser extent the USA means we'll be filling those jobs pretty quickly.
Personally I'm pretty annoyed that we can't recruit locally, but basically our graduate recruitment program cuts fairly deeply into the available pool of graduates (ie we recruit more thickies than I'd want to). The truth is, you have to be bright and motivated to do well in an engineering course, and when you leave, there are far more superficially attractive options than working for people like me.
As oil prices rise to about $300 (US 2005 $) per barrel, the cost of automotive gasoline in the USA will be roughly equivalent to the high end of what Europeans have been paying for the last decade, with some dodgy factors thrown in to represent the effect on GDP.
Now, as you might have noticed, that is serious money.
At that point maybe the USA consumer will move away from going to pick up the milk in a 2.5 ton SUV. They will start to drive 100 hp diesels.
That, in itself, is likely to be too little too late.
Plan A: But, as the cars get smaller it gets easier to integrate electric vehicles into the fleet. Electric commuter cars are a reasonable solution for a reasonably sized minority of the mileage in cars, and preserve the autonomy that we like.
To power the electric cars we'll burn coal, initially, and then nukes.
Plan B is that we start turning coal into oil.
I think Plan B is better than plan A. In practice we'll do a lot of both. At $300 per barrel many technologies make more sense than dinosaur juice.
Sorry mate, I use UNIX every day, to run really big serious programs costing tens of thousands of dollars per year in licensing. I do it from the GUI. Sure, I occasionally type in real hard to understand commands like 'mdi', or 'dtfile' into the command line, but mostly it is just me and that big old boring HP UNIX GUI. The longest batch file I've ever written has 3 lines.
Elitism such as yours is both misplaced and counter productive. There is no really hard reason why a Knoppix type system, and a bit of fine tuning, would not make a consumer level OS. The problem is not the underlying OS, the problem is at the GUI level, and as such is solvable by scripting at the VB level.
It seems to me that there is a clear progression in stability, even though the complexity of the code is increasing. The rate of progress may not be as fast as we like... but is demosntrably there.
As to your healthcare system, I agree. I don't think it is capitalism so much as a fundamental problem with the American psych that is at fault. So sue me...
You've upset some lame ass mods who have never tried to earn a living by selling their own creations.
Hey losers, my employer pays me to create things which he sells. He only sells them if people find they are useful, and better, in some way, then the competition. If people just take those things instead of paying for them, he won't be able to pay me for the next design.
I mean, are you guys completely fucking stupid or what?
OK I'm running the world's worst OS at work - HP UNIX
We recently got twin cpu boxes as an'upgrade' and have been living with disappointment ever since.
In the many hours that I have spent watching the xload graph and top it is apparent that my main application process is single threaded. HP UNIX seems to be able to be able to correctly run all the other stuff (X and so on) on the other cpu. However, the speed penalty when I try and run two of main apps at once is ridiculous.
One of the biggest problems I face, as a designer of suspensions, is that hardly anybody can do 3d trig. Therefore, when asked to learn about multibody dynamics, there are few engineers available with the knowledge and confidence to do so. On the upside it guarantees that I will earn a hundred bucks an hour for consultancy work.
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fat bastards+time off are healther than fat bastards with no time off
thin bastards + no time off are healthier than fat bastards with time off
Yup, that Venn diagram works.
The optimum is (probably) to be a skinny non-drinking non-smoking chick with heaps of time off.
Dude, you want to eat Indian food. You will have a hot ring the next day, not in 4 days time. OK, I haven't got the faintest idea what governs the rate of progress of food through the gut, but your timing seems way weird- curry was just an example, tomato skins and sweetcorn also prove to be reliable timing indicators. Dunno why you are modded flamebait, people seem interested rather than annoyed.
AS to the whole veggie thing, I'm with the mythical Chinese "eat tree bark when you have to, chicken when you can". Or in my case, rare beef, and bacon.
I said you could beat the ABS. I'll say it again. You can beat the ABS. Now go and read my previous post and pay some fucking attention.
Some companies do alter the calibration to cope with snow and gravel. I don't know what they do for snow, but for gravel the cycle time is extended and the wheel is allowed to lock.
If you practice, in a well deifned event, you will be able to beat the ABS in a straight line stop, if you have any reasonable skill.
The thing is, a straight line stop is NOT what the ABS is designed to improve. It gives you steering control while braking at almost the optimum rate.
Now, you may be able to beta the ABS while steering and braking simultaneously, on a dry road, with some practice.
But, if you add in wet roads, driver inattention, and lack of practice, the ABS is a better bet.
Hah. The people whose lives you risk include the emergency crew who will pull you from the wreck.
The inability to foresee consequences is exactly why human drivers will be eliminated.
Good thing too. If you want to play racing cars do it on the track.
That'd be STEERING tires brakes driver
Steering will get you out of trouble more than anything else.
Most engineering software we use runs in both Windows AND Unix.
Ideas/Hypermesh/Catia/all FEA solvers of interest/Matlab/ADAMS
Most of that list started out as Unix progs, but the Windows ports tend to be faster and are just as stable, comparing my shiny new rather pathetic twin CPU HP w/s with my 3 year old Dell running W2K. Only problem is if you run out of RAM, the HP has 16 gigs.
The only things that don't exist on both platforms, that I use a lot, are Excel and Mathcad. My ancient copy of Mathcad runs under WINE much to my amusement, and there is that weird crossover office thingo, so in theory I could run everything in Unix or Linux.
Sorry, you are wrong in this case. I picked wheel bearings because I am currently involved in designing one. It is being custom designed for our car.
"I don't agree with that at all. All cars today are so similarly designed, with bits here and there often engineered by the same people, and even come out of the same plant. Durability wise, you'd be hard pressed to find a car that just doesn't keep up with any other."
/even when they come from the same supplier/. For instance, I know of one tire where company A paid more, in order to have the higher quality ones (each tire is tested for balance and force uniformity), whereas company B accepted the next 25%. Things lke wheel bearing assemblies are usually custom designed for each application, so similar parts from the same supplier could have different specs and tolerances.
Check out JD Powers surveys of reliability. They more or less agree with the confidential industry supported surveys. For instance - my 21 year old Toyota is still trundling along. I doubt many 10 year old Hyundais are. Hyundai's quality has improved massively just recently, not really possible if they all started at the same level.
Quality/reliability is split into several phases - 3 MIS (3 months in service) through to five and ten year surveys. Unfortunately most of the low MIS stuff is dominated by paint faults and so on, the really interesting thing is how the mechanical relaibility shapes up over 5 years - that is where the US makes generally catch up.
I'd also disagree about the quality of parts
Nobody whose opinion matters will see it here.
Yes, as I fire up my industry standard FEA mesher, then switch to Mathcad, and then a powerful intuitive 3d CAD system, and a kinematics program, I wonder why the hell I spent $700 on a PC instead of twice that on a Mac that will run none of these things. For oh, about 1 millisecond.
Sure, if I wanted to mess about with photos and surf the web then I could get by with a Mac, but to design suspensions, which is what I am paid to do, I need a PC.
Having said that I probably will buy another Mac some time soon, now the stability issues have been sorted out, and the prices look more reasonable.
a) There's nothing to patent. They used somebody elses engine, fueled on a fuel that's been around for a while, stuck it in a lightweight body and put in a huge electric motor. A patent has to have novelty.
b) If they had invented something worth patenting they've established prior art ( if a big 3 tried to fake prior art it would cost them an arm and a leg). But they haven't so it doesn't matter , see (a)
Excellent project for a school, I don't know how they funded it.
In Australia we have always been short of technical talent. The company I work for has been trying to recruit 200 engineers for the last couple of years, fortunately the recent collapse of engineering in Europe and to a lesser extent the USA means we'll be filling those jobs pretty quickly.
Personally I'm pretty annoyed that we can't recruit locally, but basically our graduate recruitment program cuts fairly deeply into the available pool of graduates (ie we recruit more thickies than I'd want to). The truth is, you have to be bright and motivated to do well in an engineering course, and when you leave, there are far more superficially attractive options than working for people like me.
"Basicallt, it appears to me, that we are fucked."
Not at all. Add together the reserves of uranium and coal and, 'we' that is anyone reading this is unfucked.
Our great-grandchildren, maybe.
Here's the plan
As oil prices rise to about $300 (US 2005 $) per barrel, the cost of automotive gasoline in the USA will be roughly equivalent to the high end of what Europeans have been paying for the last decade, with some dodgy factors thrown in to represent the effect on GDP.
Now, as you might have noticed, that is serious money.
At that point maybe the USA consumer will move away from going to pick up the milk in a 2.5 ton SUV. They will start to drive 100 hp diesels.
That, in itself, is likely to be too little too late.
Plan A: But, as the cars get smaller it gets easier to integrate electric vehicles into the fleet. Electric commuter cars are a reasonable solution for a reasonably sized minority of the mileage in cars, and preserve the autonomy that we like.
To power the electric cars we'll burn coal, initially, and then nukes.
Plan B is that we start turning coal into oil.
I think Plan B is better than plan A. In practice we'll do a lot of both. At $300 per barrel many technologies make more sense than dinosaur juice.
Sorry mate, I use UNIX every day, to run really big serious programs costing tens of thousands of dollars per year in licensing. I do it from the GUI. Sure, I occasionally type in real hard to understand commands like 'mdi', or 'dtfile' into the command line, but mostly it is just me and that big old boring HP UNIX GUI. The longest batch file I've ever written has 3 lines.
Elitism such as yours is both misplaced and counter productive. There is no really hard reason why a Knoppix type system, and a bit of fine tuning, would not make a consumer level OS. The problem is not the underlying OS, the problem is at the GUI level, and as such is solvable by scripting at the VB level.
Nah, just bored, very. So tedious ACer, what's your excuse?
Bad example.
W3.1 crashes twice a day
W95 crashed once a day (on average)
w98 SE crashes say once a week
NT4 crashes , hmm, not often enough to bother me
XP, SP2, seems pretty stable to me.
It seems to me that there is a clear progression in stability, even though the complexity of the code is increasing. The rate of progress may not be as fast as we like... but is demosntrably there.
As to your healthcare system, I agree. I don't think it is capitalism so much as a fundamental problem with the American psych that is at fault. So sue me...
You've upset some lame ass mods who have never tried to earn a living by selling their own creations.
Hey losers, my employer pays me to create things which he sells. He only sells them if people find they are useful, and better, in some way, then the competition. If people just take those things instead of paying for them, he won't be able to pay me for the next design.
I mean, are you guys completely fucking stupid or what?
is brilliant. I've never seen it used that way before. You are so fucking cool.
evil but funny.
OK I'm running the world's worst OS at work - HP UNIX
We recently got twin cpu boxes as an'upgrade' and have been living with disappointment ever since.
In the many hours that I have spent watching the xload graph and top it is apparent that my main application process is single threaded. HP UNIX seems to be able to be able to correctly run all the other stuff (X and so on) on the other cpu. However, the speed penalty when I try and run two of main apps at once is ridiculous.
OK, I'm out of my depth here...
Your ideas make sense
Where I work:
They are removing cd drives and floppies from the leased PCs.
No cameras are permitted on site
No cameras in phones permitted.
Users are users, not admins, generally. No access to bios menus.
You can still email small files out, but those are traceable.
Not allowed to use personal email (eg gmail) at work.
They haven't figured out memory sticks yet
Biggest problem I see is the theft of laptops from cars.
One of the biggest problems I face, as a designer of suspensions, is that hardly anybody can do 3d trig. Therefore, when asked to learn about multibody dynamics, there are few engineers available with the knowledge and confidence to do so. On the upside it guarantees that I will earn a hundred bucks an hour for consultancy work.