In luxury cars, you can already get a speed-matching cruise control. I'm not sure if that extends to hard braking (although it would make sense to), but such a system would be a perfectly reasonable first step.
A distance sensor for following could certainly detect the sudden acceleration of the leading car and if actually applying the brakes is unreasonable, it could certainly activate the taillights, an alarm/warning light, and disengage the throttle in anticipation of and to buy some time for the driver's decision to apply the brakes.
I rather don't like the portion of Airbus's philosophy wherein the autopilot can pass the buck back to the pilots if some of the instruments are not working as expected, though...
I can't imagine any situation where the available instrumentation would be inferior to the pilot's sensory experience in a small compartment with tiny windows at the end of a long tube that pivots about at the other end other than failure of all of the instruments....
I think it probably has something to do with number of posts, moderations, and karma. I've never been a subscriber, but I get the "browse without ads" option all the time. Ironically, it's more noticeable than the ads (which I rarely bother to turn off).
Now, if it would give me an option to make resizing the window work well (other than tricking it into thinking i'm using a mobile browser), I'd be all over that....
The speed your car is designed for is its most efficient speed (duh), but cars designed to be slower will always be more efficient when driven at their design speeds, because the external losses are quadratic or worse with speed.
You're right, though, that there are other factors to consider than just the "most efficient speed for the car," because maybe the car isn't the most valuable resource.. maybe it's.. your time....
The phrase, "bully pulpit" does not mean what you're using it to mean. In that phrase, (credit to Teddy Roosevelt?), "bully" is a synonym for, "awesome" or "grand."
When you speak from a regular pulpit, everyone in the room listens, typically of the order of 200 people, because a larger room would be too large for the "amplification" technique of "sticking a hollow box over the speaker's head." The presidency is a bully pulpit because when you speak as President, potentially 300 million are listening.
sapphire scrap isn't worth anything. It's just plain old aluminum oxide. Sapphire gemstones, maybe, but it's not like you could melt down a film of sapphire and cast a new gemstone from it, and if you're planning to use it to synthesize new sapphire gemstones, the raw materials are all over the place in easier to obtain forms.
We already have a use for waste that is capable of releasing dangerous levels of radiation for millions of years. That use is, "fuel." We just have to have the political will to use breeders and reprocess the waste to pull out the bits that prevent fission. There's no technical reason why we should have to be worried about storing anything for millions of years.
The sphinx isn't doing so well, and was completely buried in sand for a lot of that time. And the pyramids behind it are little more than enormous piles of rubble. As long as the slop is less than the critical angle for the material in question, it's no surprise that they would last a long time....
It could be legal in the state in which they're consuming it. Many states have "medical marijuana" laws (though, how it could possibly get prescribed for anything by a real doctor, I'm unable to ponder), and actual enforcement* notwithstanding, the federal government doesn't have the authority to regulate intra-state commerce.
*they seem to have the practical power to declare and enforce their declarations despite the limitations of the actual powers delineated in the charter document.
Maybe your mute? you can't speak. sign language (real sign language) is much faster then typing or writing from what I understand.
If true, this is the really interesting part. If signs could be interpreted like typing, but faster, the gloves would replace keyboards in a way that voice-to-text can never do, even if done perfectly.
A new MMO has launched, The Secret World. In the game you have an inventory WINDOW. In help one player asked how you could resize it... hint, it is a window. SAME WAY YOU DO IT IN EVERY OS!
Well, for one thing, that varies:
Windows - Drag any edge OS X - Drag any edge but the top OS X (pre Lion) - Drag the lower right corner Linux - Drag any edge or corner or use hotkey & mouse (Gnome - edges and corners have a small target width)
Next, if a user is extrapolating that something that could be done in various OSs might work in your game, and which is supposed to work in the game, but is unable to do so, perhaps the functionality is broken for that user and they want to confirm that it's not, in fact, user error that is causing the problem before submitting a bug report....
The minivan seems like more of a "fattened up" version of a station wagon than a slimmed down version of a real van. I guess the originals used truck chassis, though to avoid some kind of epa rule?
People drive SUVs because they want to have cars that look outdoorsy to show how much they love the environment.
It makes it more comfortable if you're a touch typist, too, since it means you don't have to take either hand off the home row to use it. For a touch typist, caps lock is useful, but the nature of its use is that it is never needed that often - it only gets used at the endpoints of a long string of capitals.
Control-key combos let you bypass the mouse for certain activities, so a touch typist can get a lot of speed improvement for the overall task (which may or may not include typing actual text) if you map it to a key that is easy to hit without moving the hands too much. The only annoying thing is keyboards with special caps-lock keys designed to make them *harder* to hit to avoid accidentally toggling them, which prevents the remapping from being as useful.
You can easily run your car 30 minutes every so often to top up the battery and charge your personal electronics off of the battery alone. I doubt you would have to run the car more than once over the course of a 9-day power outage.
Rant: People waste a lot of fuel and noise up the neighborhood because pretty much everyone is using generators wrong. They're buying monstrous 5kW beats and using them to run a 50W refrigerator that peaks at 300W, and maybe another kW worth of lighting, and another kW worth of AC. None of those are high continuous loads, so there's no reason why the gen should be sized to the peak of all of them.
The generator should be sized to a bit more than the average (or precisely the average if there are some loads you don't mind paring back to get some buffer if necessary, like the AC, for instance), feeding a bank of batteries that are then used to power everything else. The bank should be deep enough to handle all of the loads at once for their typical duration plus some safety factor.
I think the reason that generators are not sold that way is that a system that uses 20% of the fuel might still only save ten or twenty gallons over the expected storm, and people would compare the cost of the gallons of fuel to the cost of the battery system and think it wasn't worth it, because people don't think about the cost of fuel during an extended event where it is necessary to run the device. In that case, there are only two options - price rises to market levels (fuel becomes expensive during the event), or shortage occurs (additional fuel cannot be purchased at any price).
In other words, the slower your burn your stockpile, the better, because you might not get the chance to refill during an extended outage, yet it looks like all generator systems with battery bank storage are custom jobs - from a quick browsing of a major home improvement retailer's website, it looks like no one is selling a "hybrid" generator kit at all.
I don't know if that works for oppression, but I remember reading somewhere that if you actually did the experiment, the frog would jump out if it is actually possible to do (i.e. the pot is small enough, water level, etc)
What's the public policy analogue of jumping out of the pot, though...
The problem could also be solved by having a pony compressor unit for use when the AC demand is limited to the refrigerator. It shouldn't matter that the refrigerant is delivered to other parts of the house as well if the refrigerant is actually a room temperature liquid that cools by endothermic phase transition.
But yeah, modern refrigerators use what.. 50W average? Unless there's a huge COP (and it can't be more than 15 for a 4C fridge in a 25C room), it's probably less than the lighting or a couple sleeping adults.
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In luxury cars, you can already get a speed-matching cruise control. I'm not sure if that extends to hard braking (although it would make sense to), but such a system would be a perfectly reasonable first step.
A distance sensor for following could certainly detect the sudden acceleration of the leading car and if actually applying the brakes is unreasonable, it could certainly activate the taillights, an alarm/warning light, and disengage the throttle in anticipation of and to buy some time for the driver's decision to apply the brakes.
I rather don't like the portion of Airbus's philosophy wherein the autopilot can pass the buck back to the pilots if some of the instruments are not working as expected, though...
I can't imagine any situation where the available instrumentation would be inferior to the pilot's sensory experience in a small compartment with tiny windows at the end of a long tube that pivots about at the other end other than failure of all of the instruments....
Yeah, but when they change it, they're not going to change it to, "Pay artists to make great music and give it away for free."
In fact, I'm not even sure I can imagine a way they could change it that doesn't deprive me of options of musical experience.
Total annual insolation of the earth is closer to 5 million exajoules, of which at least half makes it to the surface.
An apple designed wikipedia would be even more simplified. In fact, it would probably look something like this.
It wouldn't be editable, though...
I think it probably has something to do with number of posts, moderations, and karma. I've never been a subscriber, but I get the "browse without ads" option all the time. Ironically, it's more noticeable than the ads (which I rarely bother to turn off).
Now, if it would give me an option to make resizing the window work well (other than tricking it into thinking i'm using a mobile browser), I'd be all over that....
The speed your car is designed for is its most efficient speed (duh), but cars designed to be slower will always be more efficient when driven at their design speeds, because the external losses are quadratic or worse with speed.
You're right, though, that there are other factors to consider than just the "most efficient speed for the car," because maybe the car isn't the most valuable resource.. maybe it's.. your time....
The phrase, "bully pulpit" does not mean what you're using it to mean. In that phrase, (credit to Teddy Roosevelt?), "bully" is a synonym for, "awesome" or "grand."
When you speak from a regular pulpit, everyone in the room listens, typically of the order of 200 people, because a larger room would be too large for the "amplification" technique of "sticking a hollow box over the speaker's head." The presidency is a bully pulpit because when you speak as President, potentially 300 million are listening.
sapphire scrap isn't worth anything. It's just plain old aluminum oxide. Sapphire gemstones, maybe, but it's not like you could melt down a film of sapphire and cast a new gemstone from it, and if you're planning to use it to synthesize new sapphire gemstones, the raw materials are all over the place in easier to obtain forms.
We already have a use for waste that is capable of releasing dangerous levels of radiation for millions of years. That use is, "fuel." We just have to have the political will to use breeders and reprocess the waste to pull out the bits that prevent fission. There's no technical reason why we should have to be worried about storing anything for millions of years.
The sphinx isn't doing so well, and was completely buried in sand for a lot of that time. And the pyramids behind it are little more than enormous piles of rubble. As long as the slop is less than the critical angle for the material in question, it's no surprise that they would last a long time....
It could be legal in the state in which they're consuming it. Many states have "medical marijuana" laws (though, how it could possibly get prescribed for anything by a real doctor, I'm unable to ponder), and actual enforcement* notwithstanding, the federal government doesn't have the authority to regulate intra-state commerce.
*they seem to have the practical power to declare and enforce their declarations despite the limitations of the actual powers delineated in the charter document.
Isn't theobromine more prevalent in chocolate and more effective than caffeine?
Maybe your mute? you can't speak. sign language (real sign language) is much faster then typing or writing from what I understand.
If true, this is the really interesting part. If signs could be interpreted like typing, but faster, the gloves would replace keyboards in a way that voice-to-text can never do, even if done perfectly.
Some of those authors are dead. I'd expect that to have an effect on their output....
A new MMO has launched, The Secret World. In the game you have an inventory WINDOW. In help one player asked how you could resize it... hint, it is a window. SAME WAY YOU DO IT IN EVERY OS!
Well, for one thing, that varies:
Windows - Drag any edge
OS X - Drag any edge but the top
OS X (pre Lion) - Drag the lower right corner
Linux - Drag any edge or corner or use hotkey & mouse (Gnome - edges and corners have a small target width)
Next, if a user is extrapolating that something that could be done in various OSs might work in your game, and which is supposed to work in the game, but is unable to do so, perhaps the functionality is broken for that user and they want to confirm that it's not, in fact, user error that is causing the problem before submitting a bug report....
It's in scare quotes, though, which were unnecessary as the title is "Samsung Blames..." rather than "Galaxy Burn Was Caused by..."
The minivan seems like more of a "fattened up" version of a station wagon than a slimmed down version of a real van. I guess the originals used truck chassis, though to avoid some kind of epa rule?
People drive SUVs because they want to have cars that look outdoorsy to show how much they love the environment.
It makes it more comfortable if you're a touch typist, too, since it means you don't have to take either hand off the home row to use it. For a touch typist, caps lock is useful, but the nature of its use is that it is never needed that often - it only gets used at the endpoints of a long string of capitals.
Control-key combos let you bypass the mouse for certain activities, so a touch typist can get a lot of speed improvement for the overall task (which may or may not include typing actual text) if you map it to a key that is easy to hit without moving the hands too much. The only annoying thing is keyboards with special caps-lock keys designed to make them *harder* to hit to avoid accidentally toggling them, which prevents the remapping from being as useful.
You can easily run your car 30 minutes every so often to top up the battery and charge your personal electronics off of the battery alone. I doubt you would have to run the car more than once over the course of a 9-day power outage.
Rant: People waste a lot of fuel and noise up the neighborhood because pretty much everyone is using generators wrong. They're buying monstrous 5kW beats and using them to run a 50W refrigerator that peaks at 300W, and maybe another kW worth of lighting, and another kW worth of AC. None of those are high continuous loads, so there's no reason why the gen should be sized to the peak of all of them.
The generator should be sized to a bit more than the average (or precisely the average if there are some loads you don't mind paring back to get some buffer if necessary, like the AC, for instance), feeding a bank of batteries that are then used to power everything else. The bank should be deep enough to handle all of the loads at once for their typical duration plus some safety factor.
I think the reason that generators are not sold that way is that a system that uses 20% of the fuel might still only save ten or twenty gallons over the expected storm, and people would compare the cost of the gallons of fuel to the cost of the battery system and think it wasn't worth it, because people don't think about the cost of fuel during an extended event where it is necessary to run the device. In that case, there are only two options - price rises to market levels (fuel becomes expensive during the event), or shortage occurs (additional fuel cannot be purchased at any price).
In other words, the slower your burn your stockpile, the better, because you might not get the chance to refill during an extended outage, yet it looks like all generator systems with battery bank storage are custom jobs - from a quick browsing of a major home improvement retailer's website, it looks like no one is selling a "hybrid" generator kit at all.
This will change by 2014 based on the latest ruling form the Supremes.
I don't know if that works for oppression, but I remember reading somewhere that if you actually did the experiment, the frog would jump out if it is actually possible to do (i.e. the pot is small enough, water level, etc)
What's the public policy analogue of jumping out of the pot, though...
If they don't manufacture physical objects, and the companies are "only buying the specs" then how do ARM processors get built?
That's why I said, "bypass" and not "replace"
The problem could also be solved by having a pony compressor unit for use when the AC demand is limited to the refrigerator. It shouldn't matter that the refrigerant is delivered to other parts of the house as well if the refrigerant is actually a room temperature liquid that cools by endothermic phase transition.
But yeah, modern refrigerators use what.. 50W average? Unless there's a huge COP (and it can't be more than 15 for a 4C fridge in a 25C room), it's probably less than the lighting or a couple sleeping adults.
Avoiding DC-DC conversion? I thought they made more use of it to simplify the power supplies themselves, the connectors, and the motherboards.