I don't know about "top cyclists" - I do know that the pro women's cyclists do "pleasure rides" through Miami before and after events, I followed a couple of them a couple of times, and they "cruise" at 18mph - once (when I was 20 years old) I hung with them for about 20 minutes at that pace on my mountain bike, then sprinted past them, turned down a side road and then virtually collapsed from exhaustion.
Lots of e-bikes make the excuse - it may be a minimal return for the added cost and complexity. Figure that a car is decelerating a huge mass compared to the wind-drag.
If you have a battery and a motor adding pounds and horsepower to your bike, the old "shave every last gram of weight and drag" axioms become kind of moot.
Why put up with the discomfort if you can still "get there" at a decent speed without hunching over?
There are e-bike motor kits galore - Golden Motor (Chinese with a Canadian distributor option) comes to mind, but there are many others.
Put a motor and battery on whatever bike configuration your heart desires - some of the motors have integrated controllers, others - like the Green Hornet - still require an external controller.
There are also a number of pre-engineered battery mount solutions, of varying merit.
End of the day, you'll need $400+ to get any decent range / performance out of a LiPo based conversion kit, you might trim than by a hundred or so if you don't mind using lead acid batteries.
I questioned the Hummer when it first came out - was it really better than the seven Korea era jeeps it cost to build?
Actually, yes. If you're riding through unsecured territory, do you want to be in an armored Hummer with a 50 cal mounted on top, or a light open Jeep with your trusty sidearm?
More important than that, when you ride in to town - do you want to present the image of the open Jeep, or the Hummer?
Even if the F-35 is only a little better than the A-10 at getting the job done, and costs considerably more to operate, does it look more badass while doing it? Does it protect the flight crew better than the A-10?
All that money spent is jobs for the people who aren't on the front line... gotta think like the politicians who make this stuff happen to understand why.
Before you know it, well be able to fight a complete war without risking a single soldier.
Define risk.
The drone pilots at Nellis (Las Vegas) end up with PTSD like field soldiers do.
Worse still, programmers assigned to classified projects - required to use only known approved secure development tools and libraries - are driven slowly insane by having to spend 6 months to accomplish something they know could be done in 6 days with freely available, but not approved, tools.
I think this is a perfect example of peer review NOT working - were any of these papers supposed to be peer reviewed? If they were, the reviewers should lose their reviewer status for letting the CG papers through.
The peer review system should be continually challenged by this sort of input - at least 10% of the papers submitted should be clearly bogus - it doesn't waste significant reviewers' time - they should be spending hours reviewing a genuine submission, one of these fakes should be detectable within seconds.
I'm sorry, I thought you knew, Slashdot is the place to start with bad car analogies, as bait, so people will come along and try to post better car analogies...
Yes, making your own tires would be a better analogy for not using a library like Boost or Qt.
I think not using an IDE would be more like rebuilding a carburetor using a a pair of channel-lock pliers (can remove any bolt), a shim (can be used for a screwdriver and a knife), and a sheet of pasteboard to make your gaskets from. You don't need a fancy rebuild kit with specialized tools and instructions that show you how to do those common tasks - you should know how the thing works, you should be able to strip it, clean it, reassemble it and tune it without any extra support beyond the most basic tools.
The real threat was that the deal wouldn't get done
on time.
Ticket, no ticket, plans were made, and he said he was leaving, it could have not about the cost of the flight and more about sticking to former plans.
Kind of equivalent to a 2 bit lawyer threatening to storm out of the room - everybody knows it's theater, but it still gets people talking.
The landscape has changed. And some people want to be optimistic about it.
Yeah, kids who think XBox is da Shiz...
Inasmuch as MS has lost total (>99% commercial) market domination, the landscape has changed. They still hold, and abuse, great monopoly power. They still put out product with crappy bugs that don't get fixed because a) the source code is proprietary, and b) it's not economically interesting to fix the problems until they are losing market share because of it. They still have laughable support and response to individuals with individual problems.
They have done some interesting and impressive research, but not nearly as interesting or impressive as AT&T Bell Labs did with their monopoly money, back in the day.
I'm hopeful for the future, but from my perspective, today's Microsoft is only different from the Microsoft of 20 years ago in that they no longer passively encourage piracy of their products by putting zero effective copy protection on them.
Happened with my first wife, but upon later introspection, I had the information (even though it was masked), I just willfully chose to ignore it and go with wishful thinking that the witch within had the good sense to realize that the relationship wouldn't work in witch mode.
Wrong, I was. Better, I have learned. Not look so good when 900 years old, you are, I think.
Oh, I understand completely, and an embarrassing large chunk of the legacy source code I have left behind falls into the "I could have done that better, if..." category. Nonetheless, it's amazing how many business and even life safety critical systems are creaking along on "proven" steaming piles of "could have done better, if..."
Hash would be a horrible way to do it (and I doubt it's what's proposed).
A single bit error in reading the DNA would lead to a completely indistinguishable, unrelated hash value.
Even if we could sample DNA and get a 100% accurate reading of its content, which we can't, DNA sampled from your left hand would come up with a different value from DNA sampled from your right hand - just due to insignificant genetic drift, tiny transcription errors, etc.
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Nobody wanted to do OJT in 1988, either.
I don't know about "top cyclists" - I do know that the pro women's cyclists do "pleasure rides" through Miami before and after events, I followed a couple of them a couple of times, and they "cruise" at 18mph - once (when I was 20 years old) I hung with them for about 20 minutes at that pace on my mountain bike, then sprinted past them, turned down a side road and then virtually collapsed from exhaustion.
Lots of e-bikes make the excuse - it may be a minimal return for the added cost and complexity. Figure that a car is decelerating a huge mass compared to the wind-drag.
I like the Florida laws in this regard: anything under 5bhp qualifies.
If you have a battery and a motor adding pounds and horsepower to your bike, the old "shave every last gram of weight and drag" axioms become kind of moot.
Why put up with the discomfort if you can still "get there" at a decent speed without hunching over?
There are e-bike motor kits galore - Golden Motor (Chinese with a Canadian distributor option) comes to mind, but there are many others.
Put a motor and battery on whatever bike configuration your heart desires - some of the motors have integrated controllers, others - like the Green Hornet - still require an external controller.
There are also a number of pre-engineered battery mount solutions, of varying merit.
End of the day, you'll need $400+ to get any decent range / performance out of a LiPo based conversion kit, you might trim than by a hundred or so if you don't mind using lead acid batteries.
That's the Uninstall option.
I haven't missed a single app yet that I rage-uninstalled in retaliation for them pushing me an unwanted notification.
I see the A-10 as an aircraft with which the Air Force "serves" the other branches - not control of the sky, but exploitation of that control.
If we get into another engagement with not enough A-10s available for the job, it will likely make a comeback in some form.
Social security is "self funded" by FICA taxes....
Read the pie:
http://www.usgovernmentspendin...
If you call "Healthcare" social welfare spending, you probably should also call "Pensions" military spending (who is getting these pensions?)
Even better, when you spend it on the rich, it trickles down.
When you spend it on the poor, it just goes to cocaine and hookers.
I questioned the Hummer when it first came out - was it really better than the seven Korea era jeeps it cost to build?
Actually, yes. If you're riding through unsecured territory, do you want to be in an armored Hummer with a 50 cal mounted on top, or a light open Jeep with your trusty sidearm?
More important than that, when you ride in to town - do you want to present the image of the open Jeep, or the Hummer?
Even if the F-35 is only a little better than the A-10 at getting the job done, and costs considerably more to operate, does it look more badass while doing it? Does it protect the flight crew better than the A-10?
All that money spent is jobs for the people who aren't on the front line... gotta think like the politicians who make this stuff happen to understand why.
Hard to believe the A10 would be discontinued... what generation is the B-52 on?
The U2 can be replaced by any number of alternatives... probably including a couple of aircraft that aren't common knowledge at the moment.
Before you know it, well be able to fight a complete war without risking a single soldier.
Define risk.
The drone pilots at Nellis (Las Vegas) end up with PTSD like field soldiers do.
Worse still, programmers assigned to classified projects - required to use only known approved secure development tools and libraries - are driven slowly insane by having to spend 6 months to accomplish something they know could be done in 6 days with freely available, but not approved, tools.
I think this is a perfect example of peer review NOT working - were any of these papers supposed to be peer reviewed? If they were, the reviewers should lose their reviewer status for letting the CG papers through.
The peer review system should be continually challenged by this sort of input - at least 10% of the papers submitted should be clearly bogus - it doesn't waste significant reviewers' time - they should be spending hours reviewing a genuine submission, one of these fakes should be detectable within seconds.
I'm sorry, I thought you knew, Slashdot is the place to start with bad car analogies, as bait, so people will come along and try to post better car analogies...
Yes, making your own tires would be a better analogy for not using a library like Boost or Qt.
I think not using an IDE would be more like rebuilding a carburetor using a a pair of channel-lock pliers (can remove any bolt), a shim (can be used for a screwdriver and a knife), and a sheet of pasteboard to make your gaskets from. You don't need a fancy rebuild kit with specialized tools and instructions that show you how to do those common tasks - you should know how the thing works, you should be able to strip it, clean it, reassemble it and tune it without any extra support beyond the most basic tools.
No, no, no! This is Slashdot, we need a car analogy:
Does relying on pre-made rubber tires make you a bad driver?
The word BULLSHIT
is another way of saying "negotiations."
The real threat was that the deal wouldn't get done
on time.
Ticket, no ticket, plans were made, and he said he was leaving, it could have not about the cost of the flight and more about sticking to former plans.
Kind of equivalent to a 2 bit lawyer threatening to storm out of the room - everybody knows it's theater, but it still gets people talking.
All in all, I'd rather have been a Judge than a Miner...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
What kind of system leads rich tycoons to become so callously indifferent to the lives of "little" people?
The French Monarchy, for one.
Then our court system fails to adequately punish and deter this kind of behavior.
Didn't they have courts then, too?
Guess which kind of person wrote this article?
The landscape has changed. And some people want to be optimistic about it.
Yeah, kids who think XBox is da Shiz...
Inasmuch as MS has lost total (>99% commercial) market domination, the landscape has changed. They still hold, and abuse, great monopoly power. They still put out product with crappy bugs that don't get fixed because a) the source code is proprietary, and b) it's not economically interesting to fix the problems until they are losing market share because of it. They still have laughable support and response to individuals with individual problems.
They have done some interesting and impressive research, but not nearly as interesting or impressive as AT&T Bell Labs did with their monopoly money, back in the day.
I'm hopeful for the future, but from my perspective, today's Microsoft is only different from the Microsoft of 20 years ago in that they no longer passively encourage piracy of their products by putting zero effective copy protection on them.
Happened with my first wife, but upon later introspection, I had the information (even though it was masked), I just willfully chose to ignore it and go with wishful thinking that the witch within had the good sense to realize that the relationship wouldn't work in witch mode.
Wrong, I was. Better, I have learned. Not look so good when 900 years old, you are, I think.
Oh, I understand completely, and an embarrassing large chunk of the legacy source code I have left behind falls into the "I could have done that better, if..." category. Nonetheless, it's amazing how many business and even life safety critical systems are creaking along on "proven" steaming piles of "could have done better, if..."
Hash would be a horrible way to do it (and I doubt it's what's proposed).
A single bit error in reading the DNA would lead to a completely indistinguishable, unrelated hash value.
Even if we could sample DNA and get a 100% accurate reading of its content, which we can't, DNA sampled from your left hand would come up with a different value from DNA sampled from your right hand - just due to insignificant genetic drift, tiny transcription errors, etc.