So the operator must balance breaking force and make dynamic adjustments to compensate for many variables. During the braking procedure your force balance will change.
Sure. By how much? You are applying force to one with your fingers, and the other with your foot, using different length levers, and possibly even different brake types front and rear. (Disk/drum). You have no way of knowing how much force you're applying, you can only guess and learn through the trial and error of actually skidding with one wheel or the other.
I've not been a biker for 20 years, so I'm not sure how far bike brakes have progressed, but car brakes on mass market cars have improved tremendously. And good braking is more important for bikers than car drivers, so I'd hope they have with bikes too. In this day and age the bike should be calculating the balance of pressure to the front and back brakes. It shouldn't be leaving it to the rider to guess.
No, driving car or motorcycle should not involve physics. At no time during driving or riding is anything measured in Newtons, nor are vector diagrams for forces drawn. No more than for throwing and catching a ball. Like the braking, all the steering and speed bit is a learned skill through instruction, intuition and trial and error. And it too, in time, will be taken over by computer that does do it with real physics.
Whether you enjoy it or not, you should know *exactly* what that magneto does. And how many valves you have, and where your cams are.
Why? That information is completely useless to most drivers/riders. When it works, they are irrelevant. When it doesn't work, they call a mechanic.
No. Should they understand that giving a program administrative access means you're giving it full control of all your private information? Yes.
No. That's like saying that anyone who needs to drive a car need to understand how the choke works. The choke. Remember that? Back in the 1980s and earlier when you learned to drive, you had to learn to use it to start your car when the engine was cold. It altered the fuel/air mix by means of a valve in the carburettor. Everyone had to know what you needed to do with the choke, but only a minority knew what it was doing inside the engine. It became automated and then obsoleted when fuel injection replaced carburettors. In the modern car, the computer (engine management system) performs the same action of making a richer air/fuel mix when the engine is cold. And very few people realise that's happening.
That's the proper use of a computer in a consumer product. To reduce the amount of detail the user has to know about.
Consumers should not be expected to know about types of users. Ideally they shouldn't need to know the concept of user accounts at. The computer should just know who's operating them, and what they should have access to in the same way that a human clerk would. For the moment that may require credentials (bank card/username and pin/password) but biometrics that are more secure than that are probably not so far away.
"Afghanistan has 3.8 billion barrels of oil between Balkh and Jawzjan Province in the north of the country.[40][41] This is an enormous amount for a nation that only consumes 5,000 bbl/day.[42] The U.S. Geological Survey and the Afghan Ministry of Mines and Industry jointly assessed the oil and natural gas resources in northern Afghanistan. The estimated mean volumes of undiscovered petroleum were 1,596 million barrels (Mbbl) of crude oil, 444 billion cubic meters of natural gas, and 562 Mbbl of natural gas liquids. Most of the undiscovered crude oil occurs in the Afghan-Tajik Basin and most of the undiscovered natural gas is located in the Amu Darya Basin. These two basins within Afghanistan encompass areas of approximately 515,000 square kilometers."
Unfortunately:
"In December 2011, Afghanistan signed an oil exploration contract with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) for the development of three oil fields along the Amu Darya river."
Oops! All those American lives lost and China gets the oil.
I came here 15 years ago. A time when Slashdot was a good news source. When Microsoft was the object of hate. And Apple, as an underdog with a Unix OS was generally liked. A time when Google did no evil. A different time.
I was never an OSS, Linux neck beard type. But the Slashdot hive-mind used to be more in tune with my own. Slashdot changed as the editing became worse, and new bees came along with different Goliaths to throw stones at.
But I quite like a good argument, so I'm still happy to be here.
It's hard to tell the difference between mental illness and spam. But given the multiple mentions of a notorious malware masquerading as a virus checker in there, I'll come down on the side of spam for this one. The links to other copies of the same post at the bottom seem to to be naive attempts to make a link farm. Naive because links within the same domain won't count for page rank.
DIaspora is fine if you want to connect up with all your OSS, Linux, neck beard friends. Since few of my friends are like that, I'll stick with Facebook.
OS X isn't just like iOS yet for a single motive: Apple does not have a strong hold over the desktop market.
Right. So you think OSX is going to get a strong hold over the desktop market (what? 80%). And that's when your long standing and long failing prediction of lock-down will happen.
that if they don't decide to merge both platforms.
Yeah right. After all Microsoft has been so successful with trying to unify the UIs on it's mobiles and desktops. (Metro) How could Apple possibly resist making such a fuck up.
What;s happening her is you don't like Apple so you predict they will do stupid things, that will bring about their demise. Your problem is that Apple's smarter than you are.
Because there's health reasons for circumcision which is no more barbaric than plastic surgery, piercings and tattoos...
Those things are only non-barbaric if they are done with the consent of the person they are done to.
Cutting off the end of the penis is usually done to a child too young to give consent. It's a forced mutilation that lasts a lifetime. That's what makes it barbaric.
Of course I know. It's obvious. Small countries do not become superpowers. The other recent superpower, the USSR - vast, and comprising many states. The next superpower, China. A massive country with over a billion people.
Going further back in history, we had Britain as a superpower. But that was when it had an empire - huge amounts of the global map were British.
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It would when you're leaning over the shoulder of a cow-orker and pointing out his mistakes.
P.P.S. Zen and...
P.S. This is the exact topic of one part of The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. One of the most thought provoking books ever written.
So the operator must balance breaking force and make dynamic adjustments to compensate for many variables. During the braking procedure your force balance will change.
Sure. By how much? You are applying force to one with your fingers, and the other with your foot, using different length levers, and possibly even different brake types front and rear. (Disk/drum). You have no way of knowing how much force you're applying, you can only guess and learn through the trial and error of actually skidding with one wheel or the other.
I've not been a biker for 20 years, so I'm not sure how far bike brakes have progressed, but car brakes on mass market cars have improved tremendously. And good braking is more important for bikers than car drivers, so I'd hope they have with bikes too. In this day and age the bike should be calculating the balance of pressure to the front and back brakes. It shouldn't be leaving it to the rider to guess.
No, driving car or motorcycle should not involve physics. At no time during driving or riding is anything measured in Newtons, nor are vector diagrams for forces drawn. No more than for throwing and catching a ball. Like the braking, all the steering and speed bit is a learned skill through instruction, intuition and trial and error. And it too, in time, will be taken over by computer that does do it with real physics.
Whether you enjoy it or not, you should know *exactly* what that magneto does. And how many valves you have, and where your cams are.
Why? That information is completely useless to most drivers/riders. When it works, they are irrelevant. When it doesn't work, they call a mechanic.
No. Should they understand that giving a program administrative access means you're giving it full control of all your private information? Yes.
No. That's like saying that anyone who needs to drive a car need to understand how the choke works. The choke. Remember that? Back in the 1980s and earlier when you learned to drive, you had to learn to use it to start your car when the engine was cold. It altered the fuel/air mix by means of a valve in the carburettor. Everyone had to know what you needed to do with the choke, but only a minority knew what it was doing inside the engine. It became automated and then obsoleted when fuel injection replaced carburettors. In the modern car, the computer (engine management system) performs the same action of making a richer air/fuel mix when the engine is cold. And very few people realise that's happening.
That's the proper use of a computer in a consumer product. To reduce the amount of detail the user has to know about.
Consumers should not be expected to know about types of users. Ideally they shouldn't need to know the concept of user accounts at. The computer should just know who's operating them, and what they should have access to in the same way that a human clerk would. For the moment that may require credentials (bank card/username and pin/password) but biometrics that are more secure than that are probably not so far away.
OIl is finite. The more that's used now, the less will be available in the future.
Bush certainly was.
"Bush stated at the time that this was the end to major combat operations in Iraq."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_Speech
Oops.
This oil:
"Afghanistan has 3.8 billion barrels of oil between Balkh and Jawzjan Province in the north of the country.[40][41] This is an enormous amount for a nation that only consumes 5,000 bbl/day.[42] The U.S. Geological Survey and the Afghan Ministry of Mines and Industry jointly assessed the oil and natural gas resources in northern Afghanistan. The estimated mean volumes of undiscovered petroleum were 1,596 million barrels (Mbbl) of crude oil, 444 billion cubic meters of natural gas, and 562 Mbbl of natural gas liquids. Most of the undiscovered crude oil occurs in the Afghan-Tajik Basin and most of the undiscovered natural gas is located in the Amu Darya Basin. These two basins within Afghanistan encompass areas of approximately 515,000 square kilometers."
Unfortunately:
"In December 2011, Afghanistan signed an oil exploration contract with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) for the development of three oil fields along the Amu Darya river."
Oops! All those American lives lost and China gets the oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Afghanistan
"Misson Accomplished!"
-- GW Bush May 1st 2003
If you're familiar with things like that, your threshold is probably set too low.
A five digit uid? You're older than me. And I'm old.
I came here 15 years ago. A time when Slashdot was a good news source. When Microsoft was the object of hate. And Apple, as an underdog with a Unix OS was generally liked. A time when Google did no evil. A different time.
I was never an OSS, Linux neck beard type. But the Slashdot hive-mind used to be more in tune with my own. Slashdot changed as the editing became worse, and new bees came along with different Goliaths to throw stones at.
But I quite like a good argument, so I'm still happy to be here.
It's hard to tell the difference between mental illness and spam. But given the multiple mentions of a notorious malware masquerading as a virus checker in there, I'll come down on the side of spam for this one. The links to other copies of the same post at the bottom seem to to be naive attempts to make a link farm. Naive because links within the same domain won't count for page rank.
Who's using unencrypted WiFi?
DIaspora is fine if you want to connect up with all your OSS, Linux, neck beard friends. Since few of my friends are like that, I'll stick with Facebook.
Given that I am the one that knows OSX from daily usage, and you don't, the ignorance is all yours.
You seem to think there's some restriction on OSX, that is not there.
You mean this?
http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/
OS X isn't just like iOS yet for a single motive: Apple does not have a strong hold over the desktop market.
Right. So you think OSX is going to get a strong hold over the desktop market (what? 80%). And that's when your long standing and long failing prediction of lock-down will happen.
that if they don't decide to merge both platforms.
Yeah right. After all Microsoft has been so successful with trying to unify the UIs on it's mobiles and desktops. (Metro) How could Apple possibly resist making such a fuck up.
What;s happening her is you don't like Apple so you predict they will do stupid things, that will bring about their demise. Your problem is that Apple's smarter than you are.
I've given up all hope that Apple actually wants it's users to be happy
Apple makes it's users very happy. It's Linux users that are perpetually unhappy with Apple.
No, I mean they haven't "been pushing slowly but steadily in this direction with OS X."
Arbitrary third party software is just as installable on OSX as it always was.
Your prediction is just as wrong as it's always been. It's just stupid.
Are you saying that libertarians are worse than child pornographers?
and since then Apple has been pushing slowly but steadily in this direction with OS X.
But they haven't
Because there's health reasons for circumcision which is no more barbaric than plastic surgery, piercings and tattoos...
Those things are only non-barbaric if they are done with the consent of the person they are done to.
Cutting off the end of the penis is usually done to a child too young to give consent. It's a forced mutilation that lasts a lifetime. That's what makes it barbaric.
Of course I know. It's obvious. Small countries do not become superpowers. The other recent superpower, the USSR - vast, and comprising many states. The next superpower, China. A massive country with over a billion people.
Going further back in history, we had Britain as a superpower. But that was when it had an empire - huge amounts of the global map were British.
Growing beyond its constitutional bounds is a major contribution to our decline currently
Your decline is because it's increasingly a global market, and it's easy for developing nations to undercut you.
In Britain, we used to be the world superpower. Same thing happened to us as the VIctorian era turned to the Edwardian era.