There are a LOT of otherwise unemployable people sucking the government tit.
In Sacramento we have a separate government department (general services) just so they have someplace to transfer the 'workers' that should be fired. Once there they just settle in and collect checks. It's an entire city block, 6 stories tall, full of non-workers sitting ass.
It will be paid back. But the currency will be near worthless by then.
It's good to be a fully sovereign nation with your own currency. Not that hyperinflation is good, just better than the alternative.
China's foreign reserves are their banking system reserves. Their banking system is even worse than ours. Loaded with non-performing debt to powerful people they cannot collect from.
When the Shanghai stock exchange continues to run a 70+ average PE ratio, you know the market signals are distorted beyond reason.
What is the true value of China's foreign reserves? What is that value if China crashes the Euro or Dollar? Who has a sword of Damocles hanging over them? (All of us).
I've got the DK2, a G29 wheel, AssetoCorsa and an old M3 seat (no harness though, I chould put one in, knowing where there are a couple gathering dust as they are over NHRA's belt age limit. But that seems pointless to me.)
It heel and toes well, not heel and toeing (if you turn off 'auto-blip') upsets the car's virtual suspension. It has a 'slushbox driver' mode for those who can't drive, so it all depends on how many 'assists' you turn off (I like to leave the ones on that are in the actual cars, use paddle shift for cars that have them, use the H shifter for the old ones). Fully assisted it's pretty gamey, but not down to console level.
It can't be truly real, but it is as close as I will ever be allowed to a Formula car. You can sense the RPM in the sense that it makes good engine noise and has a good physics model of the tires etc. But obviously no Gs or vibration. You can feel the car drift through the wheel, not unrealistic. But obviously no seat of the pants feeling.
The sim includes a 427 AC cobra, I once drove a kit car version of it. They both felt like they were trying to kill me. I never got to hot lap 'old Monza' in one so that's as far as that comparison goes.
I'm liking it. Now if they can just update the software to use DK2's direct mode and not be half broken.
I also had a VFX1 back in the 90s. Frankly that old POS wasn't any pukeyer than the DK2 once I got it running on GHz machines. It was scanning a 60 Hz, but rendering 3 frames per scan at that point.
One final note: Short tracks and 'hill climb' are still pukey as hell. Too much rapid yaw motion without inner ear synch.
One of the interesting problems I worked on using utility models was Florida's gas burn forecasting.
Florida has no significant natural gas storage, so utilities have to tell the pipeline company how much they will be burning ahead of time. The time increases as you go south (as the pipelines run N to S). If they get it wrong (too low) they burn oil, if too high, they flare gas.
Dude, they don't WANT to rebuild until after the mud slides are over. Many of the steeper places that burned will now slide. It's just the natural progression in CA.
Who's fault is it if they carried insufficient fire insurance?
First: You don't understand ratebase. Old utilities where the only business that could turn a profit redecorating the presidents office. So they regularly did. They were guaranteed a regulated rate of return on all legitimate business expenses.
Second: CA is a power pool. Not ratebase and hasn't been for more than a decade.
Would you like to discuss the average SAT scores or HS GPA of those who go into teaching? The average GPA education schools give out to these geniuses on their way to getting doctorates? The failure rate for doctoral candidates in the education schools?
The fact is we aren't even getting what we pay for. If we went to a Finnish model, the first thing we would have to do is fire all the teachers, bulldoze all the education colleges and shoot all the education professors.
My parents are also teachers. Mom ran her own preschool. Dad is a college professor, he deals with the output of public schools and it sucks, even form the 'burbs.
He tried to make a cause of teaching basic science to primary school teachers, basically ran seminars to try to teach 4th grade science to 4th grade teachers. Quit in frustration...idiots. Mostly kind nurturing idiots, but idiots.
Pointers belong in a beginning programming course/self study. OO does not. It isn't that important. It's syntactic sugar and over involved. Until you understand the low level OO will just hide complexity you should understand first.
Besides look at all the C++ people who think the get pointers but don't do them right.
TV uses mostly standard American English. Fire Hydrant would not have been a new word to anybody paying any attention.
I'd go so far as to say TV has mostly squashed local dialects with kids in the last 20 years. Atlanta doesn't even have a drawl anymore. Hick towns still do, but even there it's much more understandable. You can even understand a wisconie, as long as they talk slow.
Is that the worst example you've got? Hell, I took an IQ test once that asked 'who wrote Faust?' That was 40+ years ago.
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There are a LOT of otherwise unemployable people sucking the government tit.
In Sacramento we have a separate government department (general services) just so they have someplace to transfer the 'workers' that should be fired. Once there they just settle in and collect checks. It's an entire city block, 6 stories tall, full of non-workers sitting ass.
It will be paid back. But the currency will be near worthless by then.
It's good to be a fully sovereign nation with your own currency. Not that hyperinflation is good, just better than the alternative.
China's foreign reserves are their banking system reserves. Their banking system is even worse than ours. Loaded with non-performing debt to powerful people they cannot collect from.
When the Shanghai stock exchange continues to run a 70+ average PE ratio, you know the market signals are distorted beyond reason.
What is the true value of China's foreign reserves? What is that value if China crashes the Euro or Dollar? Who has a sword of Damocles hanging over them? (All of us).
We should be scarred of people too lazy to find a job?
That amount a tiny percentage of the population?
No. If they revolt, we shoot them. Simple.
You need an insurance company to tell you the current market value of your house and possessions? How would they know?
FEMA has a long tradition of being useless. Nothing new there.
The whole of CA's foothills are a nightmare to get building permits for. Just permits are $20k+ for a house.
They have no authority to regulate model airplanes ether. Doesn't stop them.
It still remains a VW Thing body stuck to a truck frame. Never seen one on a trail. Only at malls.
'Ignorance of the law is no excuse' is balanced by 'no cop, no law'.
Yes the nation needs toy airplanes if we want another generation of pilots and aerospace engineers.
Ask any military pilot where/when he got 'the flying bug'?
You don't know any cops do you?
They won't do anything that interferes with their on duty naps and donut eating.
You build tolerance. Kids that grow up with it will be fine.
But building tolerance also means whatever you work on to improve the puke factor will seam to work to you.
It's all about content, games that leave up up are much better. Heli sims are better then fixed wing, driving better than Descent, etc.
The VFX1 was released in 1995. It wasn't first.
If you build a time machine you can be there 'right at the beginning'. I'd buy Apple stock instead.
I've got the DK2, a G29 wheel, AssetoCorsa and an old M3 seat (no harness though, I chould put one in, knowing where there are a couple gathering dust as they are over NHRA's belt age limit. But that seems pointless to me.)
It heel and toes well, not heel and toeing (if you turn off 'auto-blip') upsets the car's virtual suspension. It has a 'slushbox driver' mode for those who can't drive, so it all depends on how many 'assists' you turn off (I like to leave the ones on that are in the actual cars, use paddle shift for cars that have them, use the H shifter for the old ones). Fully assisted it's pretty gamey, but not down to console level.
It can't be truly real, but it is as close as I will ever be allowed to a Formula car. You can sense the RPM in the sense that it makes good engine noise and has a good physics model of the tires etc. But obviously no Gs or vibration. You can feel the car drift through the wheel, not unrealistic. But obviously no seat of the pants feeling.
The sim includes a 427 AC cobra, I once drove a kit car version of it. They both felt like they were trying to kill me. I never got to hot lap 'old Monza' in one so that's as far as that comparison goes.
I'm liking it. Now if they can just update the software to use DK2's direct mode and not be half broken.
I also had a VFX1 back in the 90s. Frankly that old POS wasn't any pukeyer than the DK2 once I got it running on GHz machines. It was scanning a 60 Hz, but rendering 3 frames per scan at that point.
One final note: Short tracks and 'hill climb' are still pukey as hell. Too much rapid yaw motion without inner ear synch.
We can write 6502 assembler with javascript macros for the operations, labels for all the addresses.
Apple ][ entry points for I/O.
It will be brilliant.
Just don't redefine the register variables as real.
All the ones that can.
One of the interesting problems I worked on using utility models was Florida's gas burn forecasting.
Florida has no significant natural gas storage, so utilities have to tell the pipeline company how much they will be burning ahead of time. The time increases as you go south (as the pipelines run N to S). If they get it wrong (too low) they burn oil, if too high, they flare gas.
Dude, they don't WANT to rebuild until after the mud slides are over. Many of the steeper places that burned will now slide. It's just the natural progression in CA.
Who's fault is it if they carried insufficient fire insurance?
First: You don't understand ratebase. Old utilities where the only business that could turn a profit redecorating the presidents office. So they regularly did. They were guaranteed a regulated rate of return on all legitimate business expenses.
Second: CA is a power pool. Not ratebase and hasn't been for more than a decade.
'crete liberates CO2 during the production of cement, it absorbs it during curing.
What do you need the dishwasher for?
My dog cleans them well enough.
Bonus: If you have a revolution, you've already got a guillotine.
You can drill out the flow restricter in most low flow shower heads. They are typically right at the attachment point and made of soft metal.
Put the shower head in a vice to avoid hurting yourself if the bit grabs.
Yep. Straight from the floor back into the cabinets.
And later in the cycle when their yields don't match market demands?
The typical answer has been to ship parts with functioning components disabled rather than lower the price of the fully functioning part.
Would you like to discuss the average SAT scores or HS GPA of those who go into teaching? The average GPA education schools give out to these geniuses on their way to getting doctorates? The failure rate for doctoral candidates in the education schools?
The fact is we aren't even getting what we pay for. If we went to a Finnish model, the first thing we would have to do is fire all the teachers, bulldoze all the education colleges and shoot all the education professors.
My parents are also teachers. Mom ran her own preschool. Dad is a college professor, he deals with the output of public schools and it sucks, even form the 'burbs.
He tried to make a cause of teaching basic science to primary school teachers, basically ran seminars to try to teach 4th grade science to 4th grade teachers. Quit in frustration...idiots. Mostly kind nurturing idiots, but idiots.
Pointers belong in a beginning programming course/self study. OO does not. It isn't that important. It's syntactic sugar and over involved. Until you understand the low level OO will just hide complexity you should understand first.
Besides look at all the C++ people who think the get pointers but don't do them right.
Bull.
TV uses mostly standard American English. Fire Hydrant would not have been a new word to anybody paying any attention.
I'd go so far as to say TV has mostly squashed local dialects with kids in the last 20 years. Atlanta doesn't even have a drawl anymore. Hick towns still do, but even there it's much more understandable. You can even understand a wisconie, as long as they talk slow.
Is that the worst example you've got? Hell, I took an IQ test once that asked 'who wrote Faust?' That was 40+ years ago.