Air Bus 380 with the fly by wire systems? I'm betting it will keep flying if you are outside it given the thing is basically a metal tube around all the cabling.
Don't all those newfangled fly-by-wire jetliners have composite bodies to save on weight?
You forget that most modern cars these days have literally dozens of microcontrollers and hang everything off the CAN-BUS (including the radio!). There are a lot of points of interconnection to worry about shielding/filtering.
Surely we're not talking about an EM field so strong it could disrupt a "dumb" motor coil though. I mean, at that point I'd almost be more worried about it microwaving the driver!
(Besides, neither the alternator nor the starter going bad would actually stop the car in the short term, unless the sabotage had the side-effect of destroying the battery.)
That might be the best idea. Even some of the relatively new turbodiesels (that are normally computer-controlled) can apparently be converted to mechanical injection
"This is a limited edition, handmade unit by us for the first 1,000" early adopters, says Assaf Biderman, Superpedestrian's founder. "And we're doing this because we want to have an absolute understanding of how each and every unit that comes out of here rides."
Not that I believe they'd actually take that function out of the subsequent models, of course.
Plenty of people live in places with hills steep enough to make them need to get off and push. Battery assist can make the uncyclable hill cyclable
The only "uncyclable" hill is one where the bike tips over backwards. Otherwise, the real problem is that the gearing isn't low enough (or more likely, that the rider isn't strong enough or doesn't know how to shift properly).
I've been known to go an entire day without using the interwebs... from what I can tell, mobile internet on a phone is more than I'm willing to spend
I do exactly the opposite: my cellphone has pretty much only a data plan (5GB of 4G, with unlimited 3G after that, but only 100 voice minutes), so I make all my calls over VoIP. For $30/month, I'm getting a more useful connection than the chumps paying Verizon $100/month get.
I do apparently need to start directing my mobile data through a VPN, though...
I don't think that one is compatible with the mobile version of Firefox yet, unfortunately. (Neither is NoScript, for that matter, although Ghostery apparently is.)
Why? Because previously, the issue was that the car manufacturer was monopolizing all the car sales.
In other words, these rules started out as anti-monopoly consumer protections. It's only 50+ years later, now that the independent dealer industry has evolved into a cartel, that they're seen as bad for the consumer.
Of course, I'm not sure why that was perceived as a problem for cars but not for other consumer goods (i.e., why aren't all "factory outlet" stores, including those for things like clothing, illegal?).
No one I know bothers building anymore, it's a waste of time and money. There has been nothing, and I mean nothing, interesting happening in desktop computing for last fear years. Okay, maybe SSDs, but that is pretty much it. Enthusiast PS building is dying just like the rest.
Yep... I was looking at a Microcenter ad the other day and they were advertising an AMD CPU+motherboard bundle that looked interesting... until I realized that the CPU was only about 15% faster than my 2-year-old one and that the motherboard was the SAME MODEL (except now with USB3 support).
Bullshit electronic nannies are not "basic safety standards!" It's assholes like you that are causing even "basic" economy cars to weigh and cost (even adjusted for inflation) twice as much as they did 10 years ago.
In theory, it would cause the local government to either lower the tax rate or provide additional services, each of which would equalize the (average) value to the <strike>consumers<strike></strike>taxpayers</strike>citizens.
Lumps of stone will last a long time if you don't over-complicate them with things like rebar or chemically reactive mortar.
That's true even for buildings vastly more complex than the pyramids! The Pantheon in Rome is still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, and it's almost 2000 years old.
If you've got an object in the same orbit as Earth, can't you just reduce its tangential velocity a little bit (say, 10% or so) and wait for it to spiral into the Sun? Or would it do something else, like stabilize at a closer orbit or slingshot or something?
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Clearly, you've never tried to type on a laptop while carrying it around in your other hand.
Don't all those newfangled fly-by-wire jetliners have composite bodies to save on weight?
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You forget that most modern cars these days have literally dozens of microcontrollers and hang everything off the CAN-BUS (including the radio!). There are a lot of points of interconnection to worry about shielding/filtering.
That's nothing. Try comparing an original Mini (1,512 lbs at the heaviest) to a modern BMW-made one (2,496 lbs).
Nope, yours has an electronic common-rail injection system.
...But a 2002 Jetta TDI actually could be, if you modified the injection pump.
Surely we're not talking about an EM field so strong it could disrupt a "dumb" motor coil though. I mean, at that point I'd almost be more worried about it microwaving the driver!
(Besides, neither the alternator nor the starter going bad would actually stop the car in the short term, unless the sabotage had the side-effect of destroying the battery.)
Lucky for me, I'm interested in things like the Volvo P1800 or Datsun 240Z that wouldn't have electronic ignition anyway.
That might be the best idea. Even some of the relatively new turbodiesels (that are normally computer-controlled) can apparently be converted to mechanical injection
Allegedly:
Not that I believe they'd actually take that function out of the subsequent models, of course.
Great, now I have to go buy myself an old car with a carburetor. Of course, at this rate, soon it'll be illegal to use it...
The only "uncyclable" hill is one where the bike tips over backwards. Otherwise, the real problem is that the gearing isn't low enough (or more likely, that the rider isn't strong enough or doesn't know how to shift properly).
I do exactly the opposite: my cellphone has pretty much only a data plan (5GB of 4G, with unlimited 3G after that, but only 100 voice minutes), so I make all my calls over VoIP. For $30/month, I'm getting a more useful connection than the chumps paying Verizon $100/month get.
I do apparently need to start directing my mobile data through a VPN, though...
I don't think that one is compatible with the mobile version of Firefox yet, unfortunately. (Neither is NoScript, for that matter, although Ghostery apparently is.)
Why? Because previously, the issue was that the car manufacturer was monopolizing all the car sales.
In other words, these rules started out as anti-monopoly consumer protections. It's only 50+ years later, now that the independent dealer industry has evolved into a cartel, that they're seen as bad for the consumer.
Of course, I'm not sure why that was perceived as a problem for cars but not for other consumer goods (i.e., why aren't all "factory outlet" stores, including those for things like clothing, illegal?).
At the state level, sometimes it does still do good. It's calling your US Senator that is mostly useless.
Yep... I was looking at a Microcenter ad the other day and they were advertising an AMD CPU+motherboard bundle that looked interesting... until I realized that the CPU was only about 15% faster than my 2-year-old one and that the motherboard was the SAME MODEL (except now with USB3 support).
So skip first (and second, and maybe third) gear -- problem solved.
Bullshit electronic nannies are not "basic safety standards!" It's assholes like you that are causing even "basic" economy cars to weigh and cost (even adjusted for inflation) twice as much as they did 10 years ago.
A strong sad?
May 25, 1961.
In theory, it would cause the local government to either lower the tax rate or provide additional services, each of which would equalize the (average) value to the <strike>consumers<strike></strike>taxpayers</strike>citizens.
That's true even for buildings vastly more complex than the pyramids! The Pantheon in Rome is still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, and it's almost 2000 years old.
If you've got an object in the same orbit as Earth, can't you just reduce its tangential velocity a little bit (say, 10% or so) and wait for it to spiral into the Sun? Or would it do something else, like stabilize at a closer orbit or slingshot or something?
So what you're saying is that a literal drop in the ocean isn't good enough to be a figurative drop in the ocean?