electric vehicles have NO transmission. the engine is mounted in the wheel.
Mounted in the wheel? You're thinking electric rovers for Mars. Some concept electric cars had this, production version generally do not as of yet.
Electrics generally do not need multiple gears because of the high RPM range of the electric motor. The Tesla was going to have a two speed, but I believe they ended up with one.
Both the Volt and Tesla have the motor where you would expect, and a transmission to transfer the power to the wheels though a gearbox.
They are working on in wheel motors, but there is still a lot of research and development to do before it becomes viable.
Airbuses also have tiny little bathrooms that you have to be a member of Cirque du Soleil to contortion yourself to actually use the damn thing if you are any more than 5'8". Hate those bathrooms.
Running out of gas does not kill power steering. As long as your transmission is still engaged and you're still moving forward, the engine is still turning over and the accessory belts are still moving (i.e. power steering pump is still active).
Not true at all.
I've been in a situation where the engine is off, still in drive, and going downhill (I was actually accelerating). I quickly lost both power steering and power brakes as I used them. Everything gets manual very quickly.
Discrete time zones for relatively large areas are just more practical in general.
Yes, let's all give a hearty thank you to that wonderful Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming, inventor of time zones and bringer of logic to the world. He also invented inline skates!
It's for the culturally and geographically ignorant American audience - they even say "Paris, France" for fuck's sake.
Well if you just said 'Paris', you would confuse it with Paris, Ontario, Canada which is much closer to the US geographically. London, Ontario same argument.
They don't want to open source it because they don't believe in open source. It's that simple. Hopefully this will kill the last of the NVIDIA apologists.
Why does it matter to most people if they open source their driver or not?
I'm pretty sure it's in the Bible somewhere. Are you willing to embed within the law which recognizes gay marriage that Clergy from any religion which forbids Homosexuality cannot be compelled to sanction such a union?
I'm not willing to embed within any law religious dogma.
Marriages were around long before the bible, Koran, whatever, and marriages are performed outside the church system both legally (by a town clerk or ship captain for example) and culturally. The definition of marriage is not controlled by any religious group, however that group should and is able to determine who is to be married within their own belief system.
Sigh... you missed my point. AC did nothing but crap on interesting work of others then tried to show how smart he was by telling them what they should have done without actually having a clue himself of how to do anything. I simply shot back a little of what he was dishing.
Wow - what a complainer. Sure it's not that novel, but still cool and you just have to shit all over it. He built his own microcontroller system - that's not that trivial.
As for your suggestions:
1) a stabilizer would either drain the batteries or freeze up with the low temperatures. Adding complexity with little benefit does not make it better
2) might be interesting. IR might just show that the earth is warmer than space. Ooooo now there's science!
3) sure, put lasers on a balloon that can fly into airline flight paths. Now that's safe.
4) real time image analysis. You do realize what the computing capabilities of a microcontroller are, don't you?
5) why implement the complexity of a wireless grid? Just launch several balloons all time stamped and you can process the data later. Again, needless complexity doesn't make it better, it just makes the probability of failure much higher and drives up the cost exponentially.
6) something useful? How about a big floating sign saying ACs don't have a freaking clue what they are talking about?
I'm not familiar with the specifics, but the lag can be more than 17ms. I'm not too familiar with the source on consoles these days either, but I know 1080p is rare.. are they 60fps?
Now I do not doubt that some cheaper TVs or early HDTVs would have this problem, and would end up throwing out every second frame to do 30fps. I highly doubt any tv would display less than 30 though. If you read this link: http://hdtvlag.googlepages.com/ , those tests used s-video - there obviously has to be an additional delay as it takes the analog source from s-video and recreates the digital signal. Those tests did not use an HDMI which most hi-def users would actually use. He didn't characterize HDlag, he characterized the lag of upsampling from analog.
However if you have a good quality HDTV, and use the HDMI inputs so its digital source to digital output, any delay would be barely perceptible if at all.
When a company breaks the law, the *ONLY* response should be the market disfavoring their products and they go out of business
Oops we ignored the nuclear safety laws and not only do our workers all have cancer, and the core went critical, killing everyone around for a few miles, but the people wont buy our power any more!
The interpolation introduces lag because it delays the picture display while creating the artificial frames.
So on a 1080p/60 source each frame is 16.7ms apart. Are you saying that you can tell when there is a 17ms lag on the video? I highly doubt that since a really good reaction time is about 10x that.
Even on a 30 fps source, and you assume a really crappy tv that lags two frames behind to interpolate, you are still looking at about 65ms, but most interpolation lags are way smaller than that.
No country should recognize stand alone software patents. It's the stupidest concept ever. Software as a part of an overall invention, sure, but not algorithms or concepts.
The higher number of Hz in a HDTV specs doesn't make it better at all, quite the contrary. Usually, people into HC disable all these useless features that break the video quality.
No. 120Hz is used because 60, 30 and 24Hz all divide evenly into it so you dont get frame jittering. And a good system will interpolate between frames to smooth things out. The difference in a side by side comparison is quite clear.
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electric vehicles have NO transmission. the engine is mounted in the wheel.
Mounted in the wheel? You're thinking electric rovers for Mars. Some concept electric cars had this, production version generally do not as of yet.
Electrics generally do not need multiple gears because of the high RPM range of the electric motor. The Tesla was going to have a two speed, but I believe they ended up with one.
Both the Volt and Tesla have the motor where you would expect, and a transmission to transfer the power to the wheels though a gearbox.
They are working on in wheel motors, but there is still a lot of research and development to do before it becomes viable.
My wonder is if they have any plans for manual transmissions.
Since most modern vehicles, especially electrics and hybrids, use CVTs, I think not.
Airbuses also have tiny little bathrooms that you have to be a member of Cirque du Soleil to contortion yourself to actually use the damn thing if you are any more than 5'8". Hate those bathrooms.
Boeing has far nicer bathrooms.
...or you could have pulled the emergency brake ...
It's called a parking brake. and I have yet to see one on any vehicle that can actually stop a vehicle at speed.
Running out of gas does not kill power steering. As long as your transmission is still engaged and you're still moving forward, the engine is still turning over and the accessory belts are still moving (i.e. power steering pump is still active).
Not true at all.
I've been in a situation where the engine is off, still in drive, and going downhill (I was actually accelerating). I quickly lost both power steering and power brakes as I used them. Everything gets manual very quickly.
Remember that this is Toyota though, where any pretense to steering feedback is drowned out in a shitshow of power assisted bleh.
You've never driven a 6 speed Celica
Discrete time zones for relatively large areas are just more practical in general.
Yes, let's all give a hearty thank you to that wonderful Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming, inventor of time zones and bringer of logic to the world. He also invented inline skates!
It's for the culturally and geographically ignorant American audience - they even say "Paris, France" for fuck's sake.
Well if you just said 'Paris', you would confuse it with Paris, Ontario, Canada which is much closer to the US geographically. London, Ontario same argument.
Actually I would say that we should be permanently in daylight savings time year round, making that the new standard time.
My next purchase will be AMD/ATI as soon as the drivers give me performance that match NVIDIA.
OpenGL support in ATI is crap. never buying their stuff again.
They can, they choose not to.
Even if that is true, why does it matter?
They don't want to open source it because they don't believe in open source. It's that simple. Hopefully this will kill the last of the NVIDIA apologists.
Why does it matter to most people if they open source their driver or not?
Also, OpenGL is basically where DirectX was 10 years ago. Pathetic.
No, it's DirectX that is a completely hideous API. OpenGL is far more powerful and easy to use/understand.
I'm pretty sure it's in the Bible somewhere. Are you willing to embed within the law which recognizes gay marriage that Clergy from any religion which forbids Homosexuality cannot be compelled to sanction such a union?
I'm not willing to embed within any law religious dogma.
Marriages were around long before the bible, Koran, whatever, and marriages are performed outside the church system both legally (by a town clerk or ship captain for example) and culturally. The definition of marriage is not controlled by any religious group, however that group should and is able to determine who is to be married within their own belief system.
Marriage is between a man and woman.... anything else can NEVER be called marriage... Period...
Where exactly did that rule come from?
Sigh... you missed my point. AC did nothing but crap on interesting work of others then tried to show how smart he was by telling them what they should have done without actually having a clue himself of how to do anything. I simply shot back a little of what he was dishing.
Wow - what a complainer. Sure it's not that novel, but still cool and you just have to shit all over it. He built his own microcontroller system - that's not that trivial.
As for your suggestions:
1) a stabilizer would either drain the batteries or freeze up with the low temperatures. Adding complexity with little benefit does not make it better
2) might be interesting. IR might just show that the earth is warmer than space. Ooooo now there's science!
3) sure, put lasers on a balloon that can fly into airline flight paths. Now that's safe.
4) real time image analysis. You do realize what the computing capabilities of a microcontroller are, don't you?
5) why implement the complexity of a wireless grid? Just launch several balloons all time stamped and you can process the data later. Again, needless complexity doesn't make it better, it just makes the probability of failure much higher and drives up the cost exponentially.
6) something useful? How about a big floating sign saying ACs don't have a freaking clue what they are talking about?
And what exactly does the software run on or interface to? Thin air?
I'm not familiar with the specifics, but the lag can be more than 17ms. I'm not too familiar with the source on consoles these days either, but I know 1080p is rare.. are they 60fps?
Now I do not doubt that some cheaper TVs or early HDTVs would have this problem, and would end up throwing out every second frame to do 30fps. I highly doubt any tv would display less than 30 though. If you read this link: http://hdtvlag.googlepages.com/ , those tests used s-video - there obviously has to be an additional delay as it takes the analog source from s-video and recreates the digital signal. Those tests did not use an HDMI which most hi-def users would actually use. He didn't characterize HDlag, he characterized the lag of upsampling from analog.
However if you have a good quality HDTV, and use the HDMI inputs so its digital source to digital output, any delay would be barely perceptible if at all.
When a company breaks the law, the *ONLY* response should be the market disfavoring their products and they go out of business
Oops we ignored the nuclear safety laws and not only do our workers all have cancer, and the core went critical, killing everyone around for a few miles, but the people wont buy our power any more!
Oh well. Name change and off to the next state.
The interpolation introduces lag because it delays the picture display while creating the artificial frames.
So on a 1080p/60 source each frame is 16.7ms apart. Are you saying that you can tell when there is a 17ms lag on the video? I highly doubt that since a really good reaction time is about 10x that.
Even on a 30 fps source, and you assume a really crappy tv that lags two frames behind to interpolate, you are still looking at about 65ms, but most interpolation lags are way smaller than that.
No country should recognize stand alone software patents. It's the stupidest concept ever. Software as a part of an overall invention, sure, but not algorithms or concepts.
The higher number of Hz in a HDTV specs doesn't make it better at all, quite the contrary. Usually, people into HC disable all these useless features that break the video quality.
No. 120Hz is used because 60, 30 and 24Hz all divide evenly into it so you dont get frame jittering. And a good system will interpolate between frames to smooth things out. The difference in a side by side comparison is quite clear.
I had a 62" high def tube tv. The bulbs went on the damn thing
Theres no such thing as a 62" tube tv, and tube tvs dont have 'bulbs'
What's academic about writing an OS in assembly?
Actually writing an OS in assembler on a 680x0 was part of my engineering degree. Also had to write a real time multithread scheduler.