An experienced glider pilot has one more vairometer to use - his own posterior. One can feel speed changes in it:) Also one does not see how air moves, the pilot can feel whether the plane is nearing the turbulent region. This together with general knowledge about thermal ans waves helps a great deal.
No idea why Bigelow screwed up. Gliders are built for turbulent weather. When one is targeting thermals then it is the turbulent parts of the atmosphere the plane is heading to. Stall speed is typically about 40 knots and Vne (top speed) is about 120 knots at low altitudes. The range is quite big. And it is not a big deal to get below the stall speed if you have enough height. You just lose part of that height. I experienced stall in a glider myself a few times. Not a big deal. On the other side crossing your Vne is almost as good as trying to kill yourself real hard. It is not easy to fly when your wings break off:) Whatever Bigelow did, he should try not to cross his Vne. Crossing Vne was probably a consequence of something else though.
They do not want to catch a raising column of hot air (thermal). They want to catch a wave downwind of a mountain. The waves reach considerably higher than the mountain which generates them. Thermals are typically very bumpy. Waves are typically extremely steady. Only their middle part (the rotor) is bumpy but you can avoid that. This should be quite a steady flight.
Windows is becoming less and less relevant for gaming. Most people game on smartphones/tablets or consoles and SteamOS is gaining more support by the day.
Closed source, commercial software is written by people who are paid to do it. Software that people are paid to written more often includes the boring, not-fun parts like testing, documentation, and auditing. Therefore closed source software has a higher chance of being audited.
Why do you think a car company would not audit open source software it is using in their cars? They can get publicly ridiculed for low quality of their code. Would you buy a car from a company which was shown to have crappy and insecure code in their cars? This is not like a PC which you can reboot and all is fine. And why do you think a company which does not audit its open source code would audit its closed source code?
We're both just constructing arguments that may or may not be true. My point is that those arguments are irrelevant. A given piece of software either has or has not been audited.
I agree with you. My point is that in the case of a car software the openness of the source code would give the company even more incentives to audit it yourself compared to a closed source code. And moreover there are people who are really interested in cars and which would definitely look at the code. What about all the rodhoders?
I mean you want to move experience from simple PC software to car software. I do not think this is valid.
Open == You can audit it if you want. It's absolutely no guarantee that anyone ever has.
There may not be a guarantee but there is a good change it is statistically true. There exists a group of people who may want to audit a car software and they can do it only when it is open. Therefore open source software should have a higher chance of being audited.
I just don't find enough uses for it to justify the floor or bench space for the machine. In subtractive manufacturing where one takes away material I can work in metal, plastic, and wood. I can cut, plane, sand, shave, drill, tap, or die-cut, and if I pick up one of those tabletop mills, I could mill and otherwise create channels, and these can all be done in three different materials.
The problem is that a cheap 3dPrinter can do shapes which would require 5-DOF CNC. These are very expensive. So you can use only plastic in a 3d printer but you can do very complicated shapes. With a cheaper 3 DOF CNC you can use also wood or metals, but the shapes you can produce will be simpler.
Don't forget it isn't just raw watt savings. You also have the heat dissipation of that heat, and then the additional AC load and it's inefficiency. I'd multiply power savings by 3-4 if you want an accurate figure for amount saved.
Fans running at a bit higher RPM does not increase energy consumption in a noticeable way. A typical PC fan power consumption is about 2W. If you are water cooling without fans then there will not be any difference at all.
If you need air-condition at all then you must realize that these systems have COP of about 4. That means that increasing heat dissipation of your computer by X watts will lead to increase of air-condition consumption by about X/4. That means that your power multiplier of 3-4 is very wrong. If you really want to apply it at all (notice that in during winter you save on heating) then it should be somewhere around 1.25 - 1.3. That does not make a significant difference.
I was considering upgrades because of power savings many times and I always did a computation how long it would take so that the saved energy pays for the upgrade. Mostly the result was about 9 years. It was always bigger than 4 years. In other words it does not make sense to upgrade because of power savings. I guess only Germans (where energy is ridiculously expensive for home users) may consider upgrade because of power savings:)
You probably do not know the really important stuff about him, just what his PR team wants you to know.
Timeline may not be a bad thing if it can be assured the same level of access for everybody and the same level of detail and reliability. And no way to opt out especially for those with power.
If you touch type then you can avoid bottoming out the key when you have a good mechanical keyboard. This way you can avoid the hard slowdown at the end of the keystroke which makes finger joint fatigue smaller.
Bottoming out is the impact when a key reaches the end of travel. The problem with many (but not all) cheap rubber dome keyboards is that the actual key-press is detected only very near the end of the total key travel available. So very soon after key-press registration the key cannot move down any more.
E.g. Cherry MX brown switches register key-press just after the tactile bump somewhere before 2 mm of travel down. The actual bottoming out happens at 4 mm. This gives you a bit more than 2 mm to stop pressing the key and avoiding the impact of bottoming out. I do not know any rubber dome keyboard which gives you so much length to stop pressing the key.
If you do not type a lot then there is no need for a mechanical keyboard.
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No idea why Bigelow screwed up. Gliders are built for turbulent weather. When one is targeting thermals then it is the turbulent parts of the atmosphere the plane is heading to. Stall speed is typically about 40 knots and Vne (top speed) is about 120 knots at low altitudes. The range is quite big. And it is not a big deal to get below the stall speed if you have enough height. You just lose part of that height. I experienced stall in a glider myself a few times. Not a big deal. On the other side crossing your Vne is almost as good as trying to kill yourself real hard. It is not easy to fly when your wings break off :) Whatever Bigelow did, he should try not to cross his Vne. Crossing Vne was probably a consequence of something else though.
They do not want to catch a raising column of hot air (thermal). They want to catch a wave downwind of a mountain. The waves reach considerably higher than the mountain which generates them. Thermals are typically very bumpy. Waves are typically extremely steady. Only their middle part (the rotor) is bumpy but you can avoid that. This should be quite a steady flight.
Windows is becoming less and less relevant for gaming. Most people game on smartphones/tablets or consoles and SteamOS is gaining more support by the day.
As for as the number of players you are probably right. But most gaming revenue is still on PC: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...
But the trend indicates the mobile platforms will eventually prevail.
I used both AMD and nVidia cards and I did not have driver problems with any of the cards. But nVidia hardware did die after about a year :-/
Who cares where it is produced? Price/performance ratio is important.
And a hurting neck from the bulky VR headset!
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Closed source, commercial software is written by people who are paid to do it. Software that people are paid to written more often includes the boring, not-fun parts like testing, documentation, and auditing. Therefore closed source software has a higher chance of being audited.
Why do you think a car company would not audit open source software it is using in their cars? They can get publicly ridiculed for low quality of their code. Would you buy a car from a company which was shown to have crappy and insecure code in their cars? This is not like a PC which you can reboot and all is fine. And why do you think a company which does not audit its open source code would audit its closed source code?
We're both just constructing arguments that may or may not be true. My point is that those arguments are irrelevant. A given piece of software either has or has not been audited.
I agree with you. My point is that in the case of a car software the openness of the source code would give the company even more incentives to audit it yourself compared to a closed source code. And moreover there are people who are really interested in cars and which would definitely look at the code. What about all the rodhoders?
I mean you want to move experience from simple PC software to car software. I do not think this is valid.
They're both wrong.
Open == You can audit it if you want. It's absolutely no guarantee that anyone ever has.
There may not be a guarantee but there is a good change it is statistically true. There exists a group of people who may want to audit a car software and they can do it only when it is open. Therefore open source software should have a higher chance of being audited.
AK-47: 715 m/s
.44 Magnum: 360 - 450 m/s
Black powder musket: 120 - 370 m/s
I just don't find enough uses for it to justify the floor or bench space for the machine. In subtractive manufacturing where one takes away material I can work in metal, plastic, and wood. I can cut, plane, sand, shave, drill, tap, or die-cut, and if I pick up one of those tabletop mills, I could mill and otherwise create channels, and these can all be done in three different materials.
The problem is that a cheap 3dPrinter can do shapes which would require 5-DOF CNC. These are very expensive. So you can use only plastic in a 3d printer but you can do very complicated shapes. With a cheaper 3 DOF CNC you can use also wood or metals, but the shapes you can produce will be simpler.
Don't forget it isn't just raw watt savings. You also have the heat dissipation of that heat, and then the additional AC load and it's inefficiency. I'd multiply power savings by 3-4 if you want an accurate figure for amount saved.
Fans running at a bit higher RPM does not increase energy consumption in a noticeable way. A typical PC fan power consumption is about 2W. If you are water cooling without fans then there will not be any difference at all.
If you need air-condition at all then you must realize that these systems have COP of about 4. That means that increasing heat dissipation of your computer by X watts will lead to increase of air-condition consumption by about X/4. That means that your power multiplier of 3-4 is very wrong. If you really want to apply it at all (notice that in during winter you save on heating) then it should be somewhere around 1.25 - 1.3. That does not make a significant difference.
I was considering upgrades because of power savings many times and I always did a computation how long it would take so that the saved energy pays for the upgrade. Mostly the result was about 9 years. It was always bigger than 4 years. In other words it does not make sense to upgrade because of power savings. I guess only Germans (where energy is ridiculously expensive for home users) may consider upgrade because of power savings :)
cases (avr-dragon, beaglebone)
replacement parts (e.g. knobs for scope, handle for a valve, dust cover for a bicycle pedal ...)
coil spools
holder type things (e.g. PSU holder, HDD holder, CPU water cooler holder, ...)
toys for kids (e.g. a planetary gear assembly to teach them how it works)
improvement parts for the 3d printer itself
prototyping stuff (e.g. usable ergonomic contoured keyboard case)
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Like for example remove all div elements with class name "advertisement"?
Did you want to tell that people should not try to build something which would be able to do a low speed USB connection?
But it is true there are controllers which do not need a crystal for USB.
Interesting. No Firefox crash for me in the last layer in Archlinux. It is running every day for about 10 hours.
He is right though. Firefox crashes frequently lately. Try to open the GitHub pages of the Atom editor packages and you see what I mean.
Is that limited to windows version? Because I did not noticed any crashes in linux version lately.
Firefox is becoming less and less stable.
I do not even remember when my Firefox crashed the last time. As far as I can tell, it is extremely stable.
That is it. The data in timelines will be manipulated.
Timeline may not be a bad thing if it can be assured the same level of access for everybody and the same level of detail and reliability. And no way to opt out especially for those with power.
Sounds like a cool way to get dizzy because the acceleration effect on the inner ear will be missing.
Bottoming out is the impact when a key reaches the end of travel. The problem with many (but not all) cheap rubber dome keyboards is that the actual key-press is detected only very near the end of the total key travel available. So very soon after key-press registration the key cannot move down any more.
E.g. Cherry MX brown switches register key-press just after the tactile bump somewhere before 2 mm of travel down. The actual bottoming out happens at 4 mm. This gives you a bit more than 2 mm to stop pressing the key and avoiding the impact of bottoming out. I do not know any rubber dome keyboard which gives you so much length to stop pressing the key.
If you do not type a lot then there is no need for a mechanical keyboard.
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