Your speech is certainly free - very free. Hint: "Fetii" isn't a word. I think you mean foetuses (or fetuses, if you insist on using the bastardised version of the language that is American English).
If they can take something as complicated as that and automate it to the point where you just need the equivalent of a dead man switch for the majority of the flight, you can do it for those long stretches of highway/freeway.
Automating the car is a far harder proposition than automating an airliner. The basic reason is simple: an airliner is tiny in comparison to the sky it flies in, therefore there is a large margin of error available. A car on the other hand, is so constrained there is virtually no margin for error. That's why cars crash all the time, despite having the best computer known in the universe controlling them.
Not this one. I do use Dreamweaver on the Mac but it's a total pile of junk. It might have got better in recent versions (I'm still using the MX 2004 version), but it's so buggy and slow it's embarrassing. Real Mac web developers use Coda.
I believe that they are mostly designed in Europe though, by European GM engineers
Well, head of GM Europe and chief stylist/designer (OK, I realise that's not quite the same as engineering) was one Wayne Cherry, native of the USA, until his retirement in 2006 or so. He moved from Detroit to work at Vauxhall in the 1960s and ended up head of GM Europe, then head of design for GM Worldwide towards the end of his career. The fact that GM's US designs have become more European-like in the last 15 years is down to him, though I would observe that's more on the overall design and styling than on the underpinnings and engines. In that regard the US does seem to be somewhat behind Europe.
Douglas Adams (also DNA) used this idea in one of the Dirk Gently books - turning arbitrary data into beautiful audio. Then again he may have nicked it from Brian Eno, who was also talking about something similar in the 70s.
The 7805 isn't a switch-mode power supply, it's a simple series regulator. The voltage that appears across it x the current through it equals its power dissipation, i.e. the power it is merely wasting as heat in order to drop the voltage to 5V. That can be quite considerable - if it's handling 1A and dropping from 12V, it's wasting 12-5 X 1 = 7W, while delivering only 5 X 1 = 5W to the load. That's only 41% efficient. You don't want that sort of figure when your power source is solar.
A true SMPS will do much better, but unfortunately is more complicated than one three-legged IC and a few caps.
I take your point but I think the other main problem is that for every expert there's a passive-aggressive hitler-type who will "guard" articles for no reason other that it makes them feel big. I have been on the receiving end of several of these types, moreso recently, despite now only very occasionally contributing even though there are several topics I can quite rightly claim to be an expert in. A few years ago I contributed heavily to WP and I think I added something of value, but I got very pissed-off with the battles I ended up getting drawn into against my will simply because in practice the concept of 'consensus' is in fact very rarely applied.
Nowadays I just can't be bothered 99% of the time, and I suspect I'm not alone. The system that WP has built for itself actually doesn't serve the best interests of the encyclopaedia, so me feeling is that already WP's best days are behind it.
Recently I happened to look something up and noticed that the article had been vandalised about four days previously. I reverted the change without logging in because it was a quick fix and self-evidently non-controversial. I was reverted almost as soon as I clicked the Save button, and had a rude message dumped on my current IPs "talk page". If that's the way bona fide contributors (even anonymous ones) are treated nowadays then there's no real future for the project. Anyone with a double-digit IQ could see the change I made was reversion of crude vandalism and was made in good faith. Editors like me who once cared about the veracity and quality of WP are staying away in droves.
had a more tolerant attitude towards everything sex-related, and often had more friends from the 'deviant' groups like homosexuals, transsexuals or so on.
There! There! See! That's exactly the sort of thing we god-fearing Christian folk are talking about. We need this filth banned and we need it banned now!! Tolerance and acceptance indeed, the very idea.
I am a British citizen living in Australia. I have a British bank account with a British credit card but registered to my Australian address. All perfectly fine. But I can't and never have been able to download music from the UK iTMS with this card. But neither can I use this card to purchase from the Australian iTMS, even though I can go into any store selling physical CDs and use the same card to buy a CD. Most other online purchases (but not all) accept this card without a murmur. This whole "credit card tied to a physical region of the planet" thing is stupid, broken, and out of step with the reality of more and more people being globally mobile.
It's the same mentality that brought us the ever-baffling wonder of user hostility that is DVD region coding.
My second issue is the power-train. Generally you want as much weight sprung as possible, and electric motors are heavy
But not as heavy as you might think. 20kg/100kW for an in-wheel motor is about the state-of-the-art, and given that it replaces the brake assembly and (part of) the drive shaft it ends up only slightly more than a conventional hub. For example, see:
Since last time I checked out that company, they have a) moved everything to do with this to a much less informative website, and b) gone into administration. That is doubly unfortunate, as I think they had some of the best motor technology out there.
And if you borrow these notes to someone else to learn from them?
As we're discussing education, you don't "borrow to someone", you lend to someone. Borrowing is what the other person is doing. And yes, it does matter.
Since when did Harvey Norman have anything worthwhile to say about electronics design, or energy policy for that matter? I'm not sure of their international reach but here in Australia they're simply known as "the people with the shoutiest ads". e.g.:
"BRING YOUR TRUCK BRING YOUR TRAILER BRING YOUR CASH!!!! HARVEY NORMAN'S HARDLY NORMAL SALE IS NOW ON!!!!!" etc, etc, ad nauseam.
They have a vested interest in shifting as many Plasma TVs as possible, and who cares about the environmental cost, so *obviously* they would say that wouldn't they? Let's hear from someone with valid, objective credentials, please.
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If you shoot someone breaking into your house with you there, it's probably not murder.
Or maybe it is.
Don't forget however that Heinlein was a right-wing whack-job.
A. How do we know whether our kit is vulnerable?
B. How to tell whether we are infected?
C. What to do about it if we are?
I'd guess most people, even geeks, just think of their router as a black box and don't know much about them as long as they keep on working.
... aborted fetii...
Your speech is certainly free - very free. Hint: "Fetii" isn't a word. I think you mean foetuses (or fetuses, if you insist on using the bastardised version of the language that is American English).
If they can take something as complicated as that and automate it to the point where you just need the equivalent of a dead man switch for the majority of the flight, you can do it for those long stretches of highway/freeway.
Automating the car is a far harder proposition than automating an airliner. The basic reason is simple: an airliner is tiny in comparison to the sky it flies in, therefore there is a large margin of error available. A car on the other hand, is so constrained there is virtually no margin for error. That's why cars crash all the time, despite having the best computer known in the universe controlling them.
That sucks
But not for long.
mac users
Not this one. I do use Dreamweaver on the Mac but it's a total pile of junk. It might have got better in recent versions (I'm still using the MX 2004 version), but it's so buggy and slow it's embarrassing. Real Mac web developers use Coda.
I believe that they are mostly designed in Europe though, by European GM engineers
Well, head of GM Europe and chief stylist/designer (OK, I realise that's not quite the same as engineering) was one Wayne Cherry, native of the USA, until his retirement in 2006 or so. He moved from Detroit to work at Vauxhall in the 1960s and ended up head of GM Europe, then head of design for GM Worldwide towards the end of his career. The fact that GM's US designs have become more European-like in the last 15 years is down to him, though I would observe that's more on the overall design and styling than on the underpinnings and engines. In that regard the US does seem to be somewhat behind Europe.
Douglas Adams (also DNA) used this idea in one of the Dirk Gently books - turning arbitrary data into beautiful audio. Then again he may have nicked it from Brian Eno, who was also talking about something similar in the 70s.
For 5V, for example, use a 7805
The 7805 isn't a switch-mode power supply, it's a simple series regulator. The voltage that appears across it x the current through it equals its power dissipation, i.e. the power it is merely wasting as heat in order to drop the voltage to 5V. That can be quite considerable - if it's handling 1A and dropping from 12V, it's wasting 12-5 X 1 = 7W, while delivering only 5 X 1 = 5W to the load. That's only 41% efficient. You don't want that sort of figure when your power source is solar.
A true SMPS will do much better, but unfortunately is more complicated than one three-legged IC and a few caps.
If they applied the same filter to television, most channels would only display white noise.
The question is: would anybody notice?
Yep - what he said. I was aware of the non-sequitur when I posted but it's been a loooong day and I was just too tired to figure it out.
Since when has Jack Straw been very interested in Freedom of Information? Under his Home-secretaryship Britain has become a surveillance state.
Well, duh. Yes, they do. I do. With good reason. And so do many others, e.g.: X-plane's secret
I take your point but I think the other main problem is that for every expert there's a passive-aggressive hitler-type who will "guard" articles for no reason other that it makes them feel big. I have been on the receiving end of several of these types, moreso recently, despite now only very occasionally contributing even though there are several topics I can quite rightly claim to be an expert in. A few years ago I contributed heavily to WP and I think I added something of value, but I got very pissed-off with the battles I ended up getting drawn into against my will simply because in practice the concept of 'consensus' is in fact very rarely applied.
Nowadays I just can't be bothered 99% of the time, and I suspect I'm not alone. The system that WP has built for itself actually doesn't serve the best interests of the encyclopaedia, so me feeling is that already WP's best days are behind it.
Recently I happened to look something up and noticed that the article had been vandalised about four days previously. I reverted the change without logging in because it was a quick fix and self-evidently non-controversial. I was reverted almost as soon as I clicked the Save button, and had a rude message dumped on my current IPs "talk page". If that's the way bona fide contributors (even anonymous ones) are treated nowadays then there's no real future for the project. Anyone with a double-digit IQ could see the change I made was reversion of crude vandalism and was made in good faith. Editors like me who once cared about the veracity and quality of WP are staying away in droves.
I see a brief comment I made was modded -1 redundant. Hilarious, given that it was second post.
MAME. Or are they just trying to claim credit for it?
had a more tolerant attitude towards everything sex-related, and often had more friends from the 'deviant' groups like homosexuals, transsexuals or so on.
There! There! See! That's exactly the sort of thing we god-fearing Christian folk are talking about. We need this filth banned and we need it banned now!! Tolerance and acceptance indeed, the very idea.
This created one huge field of debris that will continue to expand over time
Indeed, we'll soon have rings around our planet. By the time aliens get to read the Voyager plaque, they'll mistake Earth for Saturn.
I am a British citizen living in Australia. I have a British bank account with a British credit card but registered to my Australian address. All perfectly fine. But I can't and never have been able to download music from the UK iTMS with this card. But neither can I use this card to purchase from the Australian iTMS, even though I can go into any store selling physical CDs and use the same card to buy a CD. Most other online purchases (but not all) accept this card without a murmur. This whole "credit card tied to a physical region of the planet" thing is stupid, broken, and out of step with the reality of more and more people being globally mobile.
It's the same mentality that brought us the ever-baffling wonder of user hostility that is DVD region coding.
My second issue is the power-train. Generally you want as much weight sprung as possible, and electric motors are heavy
But not as heavy as you might think. 20kg/100kW for an in-wheel motor is about the state-of-the-art, and given that it replaces the brake assembly and (part of) the drive shaft it ends up only slightly more than a conventional hub. For example, see:
http://www.pmlflightlink.com/motors/hipa_drive.html
Since last time I checked out that company, they have a) moved everything to do with this to a much less informative website, and b) gone into administration. That is doubly unfortunate, as I think they had some of the best motor technology out there.
It was the original Star Wars (1977) edition. It wasn't too bad, but I realised I'd already grown out of it. I was 15.
And if you borrow these notes to someone else to learn from them?
As we're discussing education, you don't "borrow to someone", you lend to someone. Borrowing is what the other person is doing. And yes, it does matter.
but modern Macs use next to nothing in that state and wake near-instantaneously
You say that, but my Intel Macbook lasts about three days on battery in sleep mode. My previous G3 iBook lasted about four weeks.
Since when did Harvey Norman have anything worthwhile to say about electronics design, or energy policy for that matter? I'm not sure of their international reach but here in Australia they're simply known as "the people with the shoutiest ads". e.g.:
"BRING YOUR TRUCK BRING YOUR TRAILER BRING YOUR CASH!!!! HARVEY NORMAN'S HARDLY NORMAL SALE IS NOW ON!!!!!" etc, etc, ad nauseam.
They have a vested interest in shifting as many Plasma TVs as possible, and who cares about the environmental cost, so *obviously* they would say that wouldn't they? Let's hear from someone with valid, objective credentials, please.