For real geek-points adapt the tube from a TV. A friend of mine did this when were 14. Probably the most dangerous thing I have ever seen, although we did make some fairly loud bangs when messing about with electrolysis.
Interesting. I resent having friends at work (which I do). In order to do my job to my standards I/have/ to criticise other people's work, and I have to tell them to start all over again, and get their thinking straight.
I moved out of my old job partly because two of the people I worked with are friends from wayback. In my new job, which I probably got because two of the three people on the management people development commitee are my friends (grin), my informal, actual, job function is to talk to other people about the work that my section (computer aided engineering) is doing.
As to the article in general, it sounds like "whiny whiny whiny" to me.
"Cray has never sold computers that are anything like a normal company would need. "
Um, my employer is a pretty normal engineering and manufacturing company. We had 100 Crays a few years back, tho we are down to a mere 32 now. And to keep the/.ers happy, yes, we have started running our (CFD, non linear dynamics, FEA, etc) programs on Linux clusters instead. It was rather cool to have access to 100 Crays from my desktop, but pointless, since the queue time for the Crays exceeded the solve time on my workstation for my jobs.
" I bet there's a lot of delivery fleet managers who turn over a lot of cars quickly who're thinking do I really need power locks, power windows, rear spoiler, neon lights, chromed door handles, heated seats, power seats, etc. If a company can lock up that market, any sales to individual owners would just be the icing on the cake."
Ah, but a fleet manager is probably getting the 'extras' at cost as an inducement to buy, and as a way of maximising residuals.
As an example, we could spec our internal lease cars fairly freely, but we HAD to have AC. The second hand value of the car with AC was much greater than one without.
The government does not (generally) crash test cars. The manufacturer does, and has to prove (or at least rationalise) that they have tested enough variants to cover the entire production.
One minigripe: I am a bit sus of his comment about radio stations equalisers in the last section. I don't know enough about them to be sure, but the way he describes them working sounds rather odd.
Incidentally this was a problem with pre-recorded cassettes as well. Try recording a CD at 0 dB and -10 dB on a cassette player, you'll never wind the recording level up again!
"do you s4eriously think that a 3D modeling app would be made without an undo function?"
Hmm, check out I-DEAS for an industrial strength 3D package that lacks a genuine undo button. It does have a rollback facility, but that is not the same thing, trust me.
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Depends on the job. When we were building/our/ solar car we worked the normal 40 hours a week for money, and then basically everyday for another 4 hours, and all day Saturday and Sunday.
That's about 84 hours a week.
We did this for three months (longer in some weeks). Obviously we were self motivated, but there is no particular reason why a company couldn't do it.
Here's how I'd do it if I was PHB, and trying to get out of paying any overtime and/or time off as a substitute for the extra time worked:
1) Introduce a free laundry service.
2) All food at work is free.
3) Introduce a shopping service.
4) Work the same hours or longer.
5) Set up an accomodation deal locally so that people could work longer, for fewer days.
6) Make sure that no-one on the team was asked to do anything that was not directly relevant to the task in hand.
I don't see how to get round the contractor/salaried thing tho.
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So far as I know this is an industry wide move. In some ways Toyota and Honda are ahead of the curve, since they already have experience with high voltage DC in production with their hybrid cars.
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Not really, it would be a total rebuild of all the electronics and motors. I guess the wiring might be OK, although 42V may be a bit of a stretch for the insulation (I don't know).
Your other option would be to install a 42V battery and alternator, and a down converter for those parts of the car you want to run at 12V.
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Because the available current drops drastically with temperature. So on a cold morning you can easily need a battery with twice the nominal output.
I disagree about 250A tho, starters draw about 150 tops, that I've seen, pulling the battery down to 8 or 9 V. Crank speed for an engine is typically 150 rpm, and your EEC will drop out at around 5-7 V.
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As other people have pointed out it is a 36V battery, with a 42V alternator.
Your step up box is not a bad idea. A 200W step-up box could be 90% efficient at a reasonable price. Trouble is the unlucky donor is going to watch his 12V system get hammered. It won't be fitted as standard, you will have to buy it as an option, or aftermarket. Reason is that it shouldn't be necessary in the first three years, and after that, tough.
The engine electrical system will run 36V, reducing the size of the starter is a big plus with the 42V system.
Interesting comment about jumper cables, I'll have to suggest it to the EVIL BASTARD department. There is some logic there. 42V might just be enough to kill, in the wrong circumstances.
If you can run XP on a 1 GHz laptop I think any desktop that could be built out of new parts would be fast enough. And I bet even a 64Mb 400 MHz would/boot/ it for crying out loud.
I agree about the editors ability to distort things with their unlimited mod points. If the system is that broke then it should be changed.
I was a mod recently (bfd) and consequently started reading at -1.
I was appalled by the level of moderating I saw. Basically any post that expressed a divergent pinion was modded down, no matter how well argued. I used all 5 points in one thread reviving sensible, if anti-groupthink, comments.
Consequently I have left my reading level at -1. So yes, the mod system is stuffed.
I agree with your comments on Excel vs everything else, but disagree about the changes since 97. Excel 97 is a superb, stable tool. Feature-itis is a bad thing for engineering tools. Having to relearn menus is never popular. I'm not surprised it hasn't changed much.
One thing I'd do: better XY graphs, in particular understanding the difference between many y's for one x, and one y for one x type overlays (I know it works but it feels clunky). Qpro's approach was much better.
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For real geek-points adapt the tube from a TV. A friend of mine did this when were 14. Probably the most dangerous thing I have ever seen, although we did make some fairly loud bangs when messing about with electrolysis.
And that was the sound of the whooshbird going by, as an AC misses the joke.
If you insist on being funny please add a laugh track so that ACs know when to smile. Thank you.
"Needless to say, once you get the drive running, immediately back it up and throw it away."
You mispelt sell it on ebay.
even if it is from an AC
Interesting. I resent having friends at work (which I do). In order to do my job to my standards I /have/ to criticise other people's work, and I have to tell them to start all over again, and get their thinking straight.
I moved out of my old job partly because two of the people I worked with are friends from wayback. In my new job, which I probably got because two of the three people on the management people development commitee are my friends (grin), my informal, actual, job function is to talk to other people about the work that my section (computer aided engineering) is doing.
As to the article in general, it sounds like "whiny whiny whiny" to me.
Just change the spec to 400 miles range
Yes, my graphing calculator is a Libretto running Mathcad and Excel.
"What model would these 100 crays be?"
Dunno. They are the other side of the world, so they're just server names to me.
Crappy old ones at a guess.
"Cray has never sold computers that are anything like a normal company would need. "
/.ers happy, yes, we have started running our (CFD, non linear dynamics, FEA, etc) programs on Linux clusters instead. It was rather cool to have access to 100 Crays from my desktop, but pointless, since the queue time for the Crays exceeded the solve time on my workstation for my jobs.
Um, my employer is a pretty normal engineering and manufacturing company. We had 100 Crays a few years back, tho we are down to a mere 32 now. And to keep the
Yeah those rich bastid T shirt makers in their fancy Rolls Royces. they'll be first up agianst the wall when the revolution comes.
So how many do you think they'll sell? 1000?
" I bet there's a lot of delivery fleet managers who turn over a lot of cars quickly who're thinking do I really need power locks, power windows, rear spoiler, neon lights, chromed door handles, heated seats, power seats, etc. If a company can lock up that market, any sales to individual owners would just be the icing on the cake."
Ah, but a fleet manager is probably getting the 'extras' at cost as an inducement to buy, and as a way of maximising residuals.
As an example, we could spec our internal lease cars fairly freely, but we HAD to have AC. The second hand value of the car with AC was much greater than one without.
The government does not (generally) crash test cars. The manufacturer does, and has to prove (or at least rationalise) that they have tested enough variants to cover the entire production.
Your other points are well made.
Agreed.
One minigripe: I am a bit sus of his comment about radio stations equalisers in the last section. I don't know enough about them to be sure, but the way he describes them working sounds rather odd.
Incidentally this was a problem with pre-recorded cassettes as well. Try recording a CD at 0 dB and -10 dB on a cassette player, you'll never wind the recording level up again!
"do you s4eriously think that a 3D modeling app would be made without an undo function?"
Hmm, check out I-DEAS for an industrial strength 3D package that lacks a genuine undo button. It does have a rollback facility, but that is not the same thing, trust me.
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Depends on the job. When we were building /our/ solar car we worked the normal 40 hours a week for money, and then basically everyday for another 4 hours, and all day Saturday and Sunday.
That's about 84 hours a week.
We did this for three months (longer in some weeks). Obviously we were self motivated, but there is no particular reason why a company couldn't do it.
Here's how I'd do it if I was PHB, and trying to get out of paying any overtime and/or time off as a substitute for the extra time worked:
1) Introduce a free laundry service.
2) All food at work is free.
3) Introduce a shopping service.
4) Work the same hours or longer.
5) Set up an accomodation deal locally so that people could work longer, for fewer days.
6) Make sure that no-one on the team was asked to do anything that was not directly relevant to the task in hand.
I don't see how to get round the contractor/salaried thing tho.
So far as I know this is an industry wide move. In some ways Toyota and Honda are ahead of the curve, since they already have experience with high voltage DC in production with their hybrid cars.
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Not really, it would be a total rebuild of all the electronics and motors. I guess the wiring might be OK, although 42V may be a bit of a stretch for the insulation (I don't know).
Your other option would be to install a 42V battery and alternator, and a down converter for those parts of the car you want to run at 12V.
Because the available current drops drastically with temperature. So on a cold morning you can easily need a battery with twice the nominal output.
I disagree about 250A tho, starters draw about 150 tops, that I've seen, pulling the battery down to 8 or 9 V. Crank speed for an engine is typically 150 rpm, and your EEC will drop out at around 5-7 V.
As other people have pointed out it is a 36V battery, with a 42V alternator.
Your step up box is not a bad idea. A 200W step-up box could be 90% efficient at a reasonable price. Trouble is the unlucky donor is going to watch his 12V system get hammered. It won't be fitted as standard, you will have to buy it as an option, or aftermarket. Reason is that it shouldn't be necessary in the first three years, and after that, tough.
The engine electrical system will run 36V, reducing the size of the starter is a big plus with the 42V system.
Interesting comment about jumper cables, I'll have to suggest it to the EVIL BASTARD department. There is some logic there. 42V might just be enough to kill, in the wrong circumstances.
I hand't heard of the GM/Audi tie-up, sounds odd.
Anyway, in the real world Ford and GM bought those companies in order to make money, not hand it to them.
If you can run XP on a 1 GHz laptop I think any desktop that could be built out of new parts would be fast enough. And I bet even a 64Mb 400 MHz would /boot/ it for crying out loud.
I agree about the editors ability to distort things with their unlimited mod points. If the system is that broke then it should be changed.
I was a mod recently (bfd) and consequently started reading at -1.
I was appalled by the level of moderating I saw. Basically any post that expressed a divergent pinion was modded down, no matter how well argued. I used all 5 points in one thread reviving sensible, if anti-groupthink, comments.
Consequently I have left my reading level at -1. So yes, the mod system is stuffed.
I agree with your comments on Excel vs everything else, but disagree about the changes since 97. Excel 97 is a superb, stable tool. Feature-itis is a bad thing for engineering tools. Having to relearn menus is never popular. I'm not surprised it hasn't changed much.
One thing I'd do: better XY graphs, in particular understanding the difference between many y's for one x, and one y for one x type overlays (I know it works but it feels clunky). Qpro's approach was much better.