Something that's prety much completely overlooked in these discussions of "auto ticketing for over the limit" is that setting one speed limit for all vehicles ignores the differences between vehicles that are based on physics and manufacturing quality.
In my Z3, I can (safely) take corners at speeds far in excess of the posted "recommended" limits. Indeed, I frequently don't actually need to slow down for the corners. That's because the car's center of gravity is extremely low, the wide tires provide huge contact patches, and the car is almost perfectly balanced (50/50 front/rear). Add to the mix the outstanding OEM suspension, and it is completely safe to take the corner above the recommended speed.
In my sisters Ford Excursion, however, a speed below the posted recommended limit is necessary to keep the behemoth between the lines. It has a high center of gravity, a terrible contact patch/weight ratio, and bad front/rear balance. Plus, being made by Ford, the suspension feels like a pair of overstretched rubber bands. The posted recommended limit is too high for that thing.
Impossible, but I'd like to see speed limits take into account the physics that control how safe a vehicle is at speed. Much more frightening to me than a sports car travelling at 100 mph (not me:-> ) is the overloaded minivan going 85.
That'll probably arrive right after the IQ requirement for driver's licenses.
CREWMAN: "Captain, the reactor is beginning to overheat, but we can't fix it yet. It may go critical before we regain control."
CAPTAIN: "What?"
CREWMAN: "Well, sir, every system on the ship just BSOD'd and we're waiting for the reactor control computers to reboot."
CAPTAIN: "Abandon Ship!"
At least this is the Swedish Navy, so we can assume non-nuclear power.
We've used forking RedHat here for quite a while, but things just keep getting more and more forked up. If this doesn't forking stop soon, we're going to switch to some other, less forked-up distro.
- Look, I took the liberty of examining SCO's case, and I discovered that the only reason that it had been sitting in court in the first place was that it had been nailed there.
- Well of course it was nailed there. Otherwise it would muscle up to those bars and voom.
- Look matey, this case wouldn't go voom if I put four thousand volts through it. It's bleeding demised.
- It's not. It's pining.
- It's not pining, it's passed on. This case is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late legal case. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. When they get nailed in court, it will be pushing up the daisies. It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-case.
French military uniforms and rifles for sale.
Uniforms: Reversable (Axis on one side, Allies on the other)
Rifles: Never fired, only dropped once.
SCADA software certainly can...
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In a former life (:-> ) I was employed by a large multi-national that worked with utilities. Some of our software used SCADA protocols to remotely switch breakers - not household breakers, these switches control significant segments of the US power grid.
All the software and documentation contained numerous warnings, because if a utility employee manually switched of a segment to make repairs, and switch was remotely turned on, someone could be killed.
There are numerous other software applications that control (potentially) deadly devices - robots, industrial equipment, etc. Failure of the software, or problems with operator headspace, create a potential for death when working with almost any software that controls physical entities.
One sentence killed the authority of the article...
Similarly, weather develops from the mixing of oxygen, carbon dioxide, water, and other... molecules
What? Weather is all about energy, and is powered by the sun. Highs and lows are all about temperature, not the balance of elements. Mixing of elements has little to do with weather.
My main concern in turning to Wikipedia for information is that I don't know the source, and thus, my level of confidence in the accuracy and completeness of any given entry is low. Since there's no way to determine this, I'm wary of considering Wikipedia entries autoritative. In addition, there's really no one to "stand behind" the encyclopedia. That means that if there is an entry that's in error, there's likely no consequence.
An example of this from my professional work is that as a tech writer, I frequently turn to 'ner resources to find quick answers to questions. However, I always refer to the Chicago Manual of Style for authroitative answers to grammar questions, where I believe that my answer itself will be in question. CMS is an accepted standard, that the University of Chicago Press stands behind. CMS undergoes extensive review and editing before publication. If there's an error or oversight, I expect them to correct it in the next version, and to lose credibility (and thus sales) if they do not.
Certainly the idea of a free online encyclopedia is good, but without any way to gauge the authority of the sources, it's just not a sufficient reference.
Anyone else have one of these? It was like a giant calculator, with a non_qwerty keyboard and a three line LCD display... I think it had 1K of memory (upgradable to 2K) It came with BASIC, and I used to take it to math class and write programs to solve the equasions.
I loved that thing
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Something that's prety much completely overlooked in these discussions of "auto ticketing for over the limit" is that setting one speed limit for all vehicles ignores the differences between vehicles that are based on physics and manufacturing quality.
:-> ) is the overloaded minivan going 85.
In my Z3, I can (safely) take corners at speeds far in excess of the posted "recommended" limits. Indeed, I frequently don't actually need to slow down for the corners. That's because the car's center of gravity is extremely low, the wide tires provide huge contact patches, and the car is almost perfectly balanced (50/50 front/rear). Add to the mix the outstanding OEM suspension, and it is completely safe to take the corner above the recommended speed.
In my sisters Ford Excursion, however, a speed below the posted recommended limit is necessary to keep the behemoth between the lines. It has a high center of gravity, a terrible contact patch/weight ratio, and bad front/rear balance. Plus, being made by Ford, the suspension feels like a pair of overstretched rubber bands. The posted recommended limit is too high for that thing.
Impossible, but I'd like to see speed limits take into account the physics that control how safe a vehicle is at speed. Much more frightening to me than a sports car travelling at 100 mph (not me
That'll probably arrive right after the IQ requirement for driver's licenses.
Dan D
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CREWMAN: "Captain, the reactor is beginning to overheat, but we can't fix it yet. It may go critical before we regain control." CAPTAIN: "What?" CREWMAN: "Well, sir, every system on the ship just BSOD'd and we're waiting for the reactor control computers to reboot." CAPTAIN: "Abandon Ship!" At least this is the Swedish Navy, so we can assume non-nuclear power.
glued itself to the bomb!
We've used forking RedHat here for quite a while, but things just keep getting more and more forked up. If this doesn't forking stop soon, we're going to switch to some other, less forked-up distro.
- Look, I took the liberty of examining SCO's case, and I discovered that the only reason that it had been sitting in court in the first place was that it had been nailed there.
- Well of course it was nailed there. Otherwise it would muscle up to those bars and voom.
- Look matey, this case wouldn't go voom if I put four thousand volts through it. It's bleeding demised.
- It's not. It's pining.
- It's not pining, it's passed on. This case is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late legal case. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. When they get nailed in court, it will be pushing up the daisies. It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-case.
(with apologies to MP)
French military uniforms and rifles for sale. Uniforms: Reversable (Axis on one side, Allies on the other) Rifles: Never fired, only dropped once.
In a former life ( :-> ) I was employed by a large multi-national that worked with utilities. Some of our software used SCADA protocols to remotely switch breakers - not household breakers, these switches control significant segments of the US power grid.
All the software and documentation contained numerous warnings, because if a utility employee manually switched of a segment to make repairs, and switch was remotely turned on, someone could be killed.
There are numerous other software applications that control (potentially) deadly devices - robots, industrial equipment, etc. Failure of the software, or problems with operator headspace, create a potential for death when working with almost any software that controls physical entities.
If the defendant loses, can they pay SCO with exploding $20's? :-)
blueZ3
One sentence killed the authority of the article...
Similarly, weather develops from the mixing of oxygen, carbon dioxide, water, and other... molecules
What? Weather is all about energy, and is powered by the sun. Highs and lows are all about temperature, not the balance of elements. Mixing of elements has little to do with weather.
Sheesh!
D
My main concern in turning to Wikipedia for information is that I don't know the source, and thus, my level of confidence in the accuracy and completeness of any given entry is low. Since there's no way to determine this, I'm wary of considering Wikipedia entries autoritative. In addition, there's really no one to "stand behind" the encyclopedia. That means that if there is an entry that's in error, there's likely no consequence. An example of this from my professional work is that as a tech writer, I frequently turn to 'ner resources to find quick answers to questions. However, I always refer to the Chicago Manual of Style for authroitative answers to grammar questions, where I believe that my answer itself will be in question. CMS is an accepted standard, that the University of Chicago Press stands behind. CMS undergoes extensive review and editing before publication. If there's an error or oversight, I expect them to correct it in the next version, and to lose credibility (and thus sales) if they do not. Certainly the idea of a free online encyclopedia is good, but without any way to gauge the authority of the sources, it's just not a sufficient reference.
Anyone else have one of these? It was like a giant calculator, with a non_qwerty keyboard and a three line LCD display... I think it had 1K of memory (upgradable to 2K) It came with BASIC, and I used to take it to math class and write programs to solve the equasions. I loved that thing