Coding with eclipse and checkstyle is so structured these days that I question the benefit of having code at all. The source is being used as a database. Perhaps that is the way it will go.
Here in Oregon, enough people were opting to vote by mail that they just decided to get rid of polling places altogether. We do still have ballot boxes at various community locations (libraries, schools, etc.) so you can drop off your ballot instead of paying for postage.
We do that on local government elections here in Australia, but the electoral commission sends out a reply paid envelope for you to send back. One time I got about five ballot papers addressed to names like "John J Jones, Jane Q Smith" which I very carefully did not open, complete or send back. I suspect somebody forgot to remove example records from a database, though it might have had something to do with the fact I lived next door to a hostel with a large itinerant population who could be persuaded to fill out ballot papers in false names.
The grooves are really strange. Looking at the pictures they seem to line up with the orbital motion of the moon, ie, a bit like streaks of windblown mud on a car.
I wonder if they are caused by debris thrown up by impacts on the surface of Mars. I imagine Phobos flying through clouds of debris, some of which splutter off the leading face of the moon, then fall back and roll along the surface, creating shallow crater chains.
He should have called it "Earth" then. In Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books people of the distant future wonder why the ancestral home of mankind was called "dirt".
it's a big mystery how Russia can come up with money for space, and yet can't seem to raise the standard of living enough to stop its demographic implosion and high rates of unemployment and deadly alcoholism.
Consider India, which has been a fantastically successful exporter for centuries, and has a large middle class. It still has hundred of millions of dirt poor people.
The only reason I can think of is entrenched social inequity. It doesn't have much to do with how much you spend on space programs. It is caused by racism, prejudice and apathy. We have the same problem in Australia with our aboriginal people.
Don't know if this is up your alley, but a former student of mine turned an old satellite into a radio telescope. Got some pretty nice images of the sun and the galactic plane...
My 6502 system accessed the tape at 300 baud. I used an old cassette recorder for the job. I had my eyes on my uncles reel to reel hi-fi system. I reckon I could have got 9600 baud out of that just by exploiting the frequency response.
Fortunately, most people understand power and refueling constraints and know how to plan ahead.
a BULK of tow truck calls on highways are due to empty fuel tanks.
Most people do NOT understand that. you have to take into consideration the bulk of the population out there, and most of them can barely talk on a phone and drive let alone pay attention to that gas gauge thingy.
OTH it should be possible for an EV to know in advance that it is likely to be driven out of range of a charging station and tell the driver what to do about it.
You get double the power for the same current that way. 20 amp power outlets are pretty common in Australia for industrial applications. At 250V thats 5000 watts for charging with no new interface required.
At high rotation speeds the metal of the axis and wheel will/could desintegrate, because of the centrifugal force.
Are you talking about the motor? Or the wheel?
The wikipedia page about the Tesla says that the motor only goes to 14000 rpm. If the driveline spins the motor much faster than the wheels then its maximum speed could be exceeded at 200km/h. Sports cars obviously drive at 300km/h without destroying their wheels.
Hope that helps you understand why there are only 2 gears on this car.
Actually I was wondering why it doesn't have just the one ratio. I assume the reason was to get a nice high maximum speed, ie, the top gear is an overdrive.
This Tesla should at least be easy to push to the next available power point. Probably a lot easier to find one of those in the country than a petrol station, even today.
Our electricity infrastructure needs to have a service a bit like USB. You plug in and get 100mA or so. Then your hardware negotiates with the network and arranges to pay for a full feed of charging current.
I've got 5 WRT54G's running DD-WRT out in the desert in enclosures. They routinely operate in temperatures in excess of 110 degrees, and usually have a bunch of users on them.
We have a blimp here in Melbourne which does ambush advertising at sporting events. One day when they had a news crew on board the wind blew up and they got blown out over Port Phillip bay. There must be a video around somewhere. It looked like being inside a white water raft charging down the rapids.
Unless they are massively overpowered, lighter than air vehicles are only appropriate for calm conditions.
but they actually were safer than airplanes (and significantly more economic)
Not if you factor in that time = money. Then they aren't so economically competitive with jet aircraft because of how slow they are. Now maybe compared to a cruise liner...
Aircraft are more economic than ships because they spend less time in transit and the cost of labour is lower. Airships seem to be a step in the wrong direction. I expect that semiballistic transport will be economic sooner than we expect because of increases in the cost of labour.
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I really don't get this obsession people have with putting braces on separate lines.
If you have worked in pascal or ada then it makes perfect sense.
Coding with eclipse and checkstyle is so structured these days that I question the benefit of having code at all. The source is being used as a database. Perhaps that is the way it will go.
book-length horrors created by people so incompetent that management didn't trust them to write code.
My first boss only knew FORTRAN, but we were working in Pascal. So the coding standard was don't do anything you can't do in FORTRAN.
Density is the opposite of readable and maintainable.
So you would agree with a code reviewer who insisted I insert one blank line between every two lines of code?
Here in Oregon, enough people were opting to vote by mail that they just decided to get rid of polling places altogether. We do still have ballot boxes at various community locations (libraries, schools, etc.) so you can drop off your ballot instead of paying for postage.
We do that on local government elections here in Australia, but the electoral commission sends out a reply paid envelope for you to send back. One time I got about five ballot papers addressed to names like "John J Jones, Jane Q Smith" which I very carefully did not open, complete or send back. I suspect somebody forgot to remove example records from a database, though it might have had something to do with the fact I lived next door to a hostel with a large itinerant population who could be persuaded to fill out ballot papers in false names.
I use netbsd but a current openbsd or freebsd would be fine I am sure.
I wonder if they are caused by debris thrown up by impacts on the surface of Mars. I imagine Phobos flying through clouds of debris, some of which splutter off the leading face of the moon, then fall back and roll along the surface, creating shallow crater chains.
"Grunt" is the Russian word for "soil"
He should have called it "Earth" then. In Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books people of the distant future wonder why the ancestral home of mankind was called "dirt".
Just wait until they introduce a hydrostatic equilibrum requirement for moons. When that happens, it'll be a dwarf moon. Or a Phoboid.
Oh damn I have already posted so I can't mod you hilarious and a little bit too close to the truth.
it's a big mystery how Russia can come up with money for space, and yet can't seem to raise the standard of living enough to stop its demographic implosion and high rates of unemployment and deadly alcoholism.
Consider India, which has been a fantastically successful exporter for centuries, and has a large middle class. It still has hundred of millions of dirt poor people.
The only reason I can think of is entrenched social inequity. It doesn't have much to do with how much you spend on space programs. It is caused by racism, prejudice and apathy. We have the same problem in Australia with our aboriginal people.
Don't know if this is up your alley, but a former student of mine turned an old satellite into a radio telescope. Got some pretty nice images of the sun and the galactic plane...
Where did he get the old satellite from?
Cripes just get a sat phone.
My 6502 system accessed the tape at 300 baud. I used an old cassette recorder for the job. I had my eyes on my uncles reel to reel hi-fi system. I reckon I could have got 9600 baud out of that just by exploiting the frequency response.
It is now time to write a small program to measure and dump the width of the pulses
Its just an FSK modem. I have an old computer right here in my house which would demodulate that, once I bumped the clock rate up by a factor of four.
Fortunately, most people understand power and refueling constraints and know how to plan ahead.
a BULK of tow truck calls on highways are due to empty fuel tanks.
Most people do NOT understand that. you have to take into consideration the bulk of the population out there, and most of them can barely talk on a phone and drive let alone pay attention to that gas gauge thingy.
OTH it should be possible for an EV to know in advance that it is likely to be driven out of range of a charging station and tell the driver what to do about it.
Of course those Europeans insist on using 220V.
You get double the power for the same current that way. 20 amp power outlets are pretty common in Australia for industrial applications. At 250V thats 5000 watts for charging with no new interface required.
At high rotation speeds the metal of the axis and wheel will/could desintegrate, because of the centrifugal force.
Are you talking about the motor? Or the wheel?
The wikipedia page about the Tesla says that the motor only goes to 14000 rpm. If the driveline spins the motor much faster than the wheels then its maximum speed could be exceeded at 200km/h. Sports cars obviously drive at 300km/h without destroying their wheels.
Hope that helps you understand why there are only 2 gears on this car.
Actually I was wondering why it doesn't have just the one ratio. I assume the reason was to get a nice high maximum speed, ie, the top gear is an overdrive.
This Tesla should at least be easy to push to the next available power point. Probably a lot easier to find one of those in the country than a petrol station, even today.
Our electricity infrastructure needs to have a service a bit like USB. You plug in and get 100mA or so. Then your hardware negotiates with the network and arranges to pay for a full feed of charging current.
I expect motor/generator combinations in replacement hubs for oilburners in less than 10 years,
Its a bit weird that this car has a two speed gearbox.
I've got 5 WRT54G's running DD-WRT out in the desert in enclosures. They routinely operate in temperatures in excess of 110 degrees, and usually have a bunch of users on them.
Is that degree C, F or K?
We have a blimp here in Melbourne which does ambush advertising at sporting events. One day when they had a news crew on board the wind blew up and they got blown out over Port Phillip bay. There must be a video around somewhere. It looked like being inside a white water raft charging down the rapids.
Unless they are massively overpowered, lighter than air vehicles are only appropriate for calm conditions.
but they actually were safer than airplanes (and significantly more economic) Not if you factor in that time = money. Then they aren't so economically competitive with jet aircraft because of how slow they are. Now maybe compared to a cruise liner...
Aircraft are more economic than ships because they spend less time in transit and the cost of labour is lower. Airships seem to be a step in the wrong direction. I expect that semiballistic transport will be economic sooner than we expect because of increases in the cost of labour.
Thats right. Its only the last half inch that hurts.
Yes, point taken.