Motors will never be intigrated in wheels. Anything in the wheel is unsprung weight. The biggest enemy of smooth rides and tire life. Hard on the suspension system.
The motors might be connected to a short axle so they are just inside the car, but they won't be connected to the wheels.
v6? My 3 metro has plenty of power. Just today I had to brake in the acceleration lane because the idiot in front of me wasn't accelerating as hard as me. (I should have noticed sooner so I didn't have to brake) Point is even missing on one cycelinder I have more power than more drivers use.
I have seen some of my grandpa's old popular sciences from the mid 1960s (~40 years ago), and they often had articles about how to increase milage. Mostly the same advice you get today. When it wasn't that it was tests of devices or additives that would increase milage. (Popular science in those days was worth reading)
Every issue also had several ads for some gadget that would increase milage. Magnets for the gas lines, pressue regulators, chemicals. Even the infamous 200MPG carb the oil company didn't want you to know about. (Guess which one of the above worked in a new car. Then tell me why you wouldn't want to in your car even though it worked)
That is really useful when the temperature is -20. A temperature I have to drive in every year. (sometimes as low as -40, and others drive in even colder)
I'm ignoring the hazards of ice and snow. They are bad enough in a car, I don't think I'm ready to brave them on a motorcycle.
A gas engine (diesels have different rules so this does not apply) has a throttle plate that restricts air flow at low power settings. Your engine is a pump, at less than full throttle it has to work harder to get air in. This requires more energy than full throttle.
In addition, how the gas/air mixes, and the compression ratio have effects on where you get power. We can change spark advance, but we cannot do anything about those other factors which would need to change to get optimal power at other RPMs. Manufactures publish torque curves because they really exist.
Your engine is allways most efficient when it is at the peak of the torque curve, throttle wide open (or close to this, throttles can be made too big), and not accelerating at all.
An engine in a car is a more complex system. Now you get gear ratios, and both rolling and wind resistance to factor in.
True there are many times you could steer out of an accident. However there are many more times when you cannot.
A habit of hitting the breaks hard may sometimes result in an accident that is avoidable. However it will never result in an accident much worse than the one you were trying to avoid.
When you steer you have to prevent a rollover. You also have to have a clear place to go. Searing into oncoming traffic changes a 'simple' read end to a head on. Steering into a ditch may often mean hitting something hidden but immobile in the ditch. (Not to mention rollover). In heavy traffic there may not no safe way to get into the other lane.
FreeBSD 1.0 cannot be run unless you have a Unix license. I'm not sure what this would cost you, but SCO is selling licenses to Linux users for $699.00, so my guess is about that. However you need to ask SCO, as they are the only ones legally selling such a license.
For Freebsd 2.0 the requirement of a Unix license was eliminated (there were only 7 files to re-implement).
Sure a manual will roll while it is in gear. 5Th gear often does not have the ability to keep the car from moving. Particularly if your engine has 160,000 miles on it, and low compression on one cylinder, like mine does.
Most manual drivers leave their transmission in reverse when they leave the car. Reverse has the highest gear ratio of any gear, so it is the hardest for gravity to work against. (Remember that the driving is happening from the other end of the transmission, so all the gear ratios are backwards)
I like the nutshell books. I only have two monitors on my desk, and they have are full of windows. (testing here,/. there, code here (more like here there and everywhere), I don't have much free space. Except for/. (which isn't up often) I need all those windows.
With nutshell books I have a good reference that I can place on my physical desk. Not everything I need is in them, but when I need a quick refresher on some syntax or library it is nice.
I don't see the point in online nutshell types books, but they have a useful place on my desk.
Any programmer who has dealt with all kinds of will not laugh. Your claim is partially correct, but it fails to state the degree of errors. I've deal with a lot of code that is old, and customers rarely trip on the bugs. However they are there, and there is no way to fix them without a full re-design. Some of them are very serious, customer goes down hard type errors!
New code when well written can be better than old code. There may be more bugs, and customers may find them more often. However those bugs may be less serious overall.
You are having problems because you are asking the wrong question. Throw your old phones away. Get new VOIP phones. (Cheap ones are about what the cheapest converter would cost, expensive ones can do a lot more than a converter ever could) You get more flexability, as you can choose how many buttons you get, and what is displayed on the screen of the phone. You can mix and match for features, or give everyone the same phone for a better bulk rate, depending on what management wants)
There is a place for analog lines. If you need an emergency phone in the parking lot that instantly calls security when it is lifted for instance (I haven't seen VOIP models that do this - yet). Otherwise VOIP phones are the answer to the problem you are trying to solve.
Until a few years ago you were correct, hand written letters go the most weight. However this is no longer the case.
Now any letter is unopened for several weeks, while they carefully check it for various poisons. (well anthrax and the like which are not exactly poison, but are deadly)
Email is now preferred, everyone has email. Most people do not own a fax machine, though they are also liked. Phone calls work too, but they take more time.
Make sure that you give your home address. Not a P.O. box, but a real address where you get mail. They will respond with a letter to that address for everything you send if you are in their area. If you not in their area they will forward your letter to your representative from that area who will respond.
The government calls this sensitive information. Things are are public, but when combined can result in conclusions that are secret.
My mom's maiden name is public information. My address and phone number is public. My social security number is easily available, though in theory non-public. (Nearly everyone uses it as ID) Knowing any one of the above is pretty harmless to me. Knowing all of them is enough to withdraw all my saved money, and get some loans in my name.
This card puts too much sensitive information in one place.
For small companies perhaps. Big companies have a policy that all questions must be forwarded to HR who only gives dates of employment no matter how good/bad the guy was. They will fire any manager who gives any other reference, presumably to avoid the situations described above.
So that policy will miss out on some very good people who worked for a large company.
If they say you were fired for cause they better for paperwork to back up what the cause is, otherwise they will loose far more in the lawsuit than unemployment costs. The risk of this is often so great that they will pay the unemployment just to be sure you don't sue. At least in my state unemployment is a maximum of about $10,000 per year, though this varies. A lawsuit can cost that much if they win, and much more if they loose.
I'm not aware of any employers saying things were for cause, unless there is a cause. Lawyers advise against it. I know of many (seasonal) employers who let people go all the time, and their employees get unemployment. (Until next season when they come back)
Sure. Dogs are essentially wolves. However dogs have been bred for some genes that make them friendly to people, while wolves have not. Assuming they are compatible (dogs come and many sizes, I'm not sure you could bred a toy poodle with a wolf for example) they will breed. Leave a female dog in a pen when she is in heat and male wolves will do everything to get in and bred her.
Give a male dog any chance at all to get out when there is a female wolf in heat nearby and he will bred her. A dog that normally cannot get out of a pen is motivated to get out when there is a chance to bred.
Remember there is no such thing as rape to dogs. Male dogs can tell when there is a female nearby read to bred, and when the female is ready to bred (which is all biology) she will take any male she can get. Humans will be more selective, dogs and wolves are not.
Any situation where you cannot work until your last day and they have not told you to stay home with pay is a situation where you need police protection.
Even if your next job is lined up, work out your last days. (Or work out a deal to leave early, often they will let you leave earlier than your required time, but be willing to work it out) You only think you have the next job lined up perfect, there are too many things you don't know.
I have had jobs that seemed great for 3 months and then the funding fell through and I was on the street without a job in less than an hour. (the CEO basically said I could work next week, but he had just enough money to cover this weeks pay and no hope of enough to pay me for next week so I should file for unemployment)
I've known others who discovered that the job was great, but traffic was worse than they thought, so the new job wasn't worth it.
I've known some offers to be pulled after someone gives their two weeks. (This is a legal blurry area, they have some obligation to you at this point, but not much)
I've known people who took jobs that seemed great, only to discover it was a terrible abusive company that could hide it well.
Most people who switch jobs end up with a situation about like they expect, and they work there for a few years. However all of the above bad situations have happened, and they will happen again. If you are the unlucky person who it happens to you may have to fall back on the older job as a reference.
Remember too, your former co-workers are you best source of reference. If I was actively looking for a job today (I'm always looking of course), I do not want those I'm working with to know, so I cannot use them as a reference. All that are left is people who have left this company before, and people I worked with at the last job. So keep your references.
In the US two weeks is standard. However fired is a specail case, they stop payment the moment you walk out the door that day. Of course firing is a very strong term with legal meaning, companies almost never fire someone. Fired means there is a cause that they are letting you go, they are saying you are a bad employee. Some employees will turn around and sue for this, so companies only fire someone when all the paperwork has been double checked to prove that procedures were followed and the employee was bad.
Even then, most companies will allow you to "resign for personal reasons", and pay you for two weeks where you do not come in, instead of firing you. (This means when asked they say you left on good terms, and thus your lawyer won't be looking over their documents to make sure things are in order)
Otherwise things are the same. When a company decides they don't need you even though you are a good employee, they have to pay you for two weeks (this varies from state to state, but two weeks is typical). Most will pay you longer.
Ahh, but if you don't work those last two weeks they can easily document that walked off the job. They can then give you a bad reference, and they will win in court if you try to sue. (at least in my area two weeks is considered normal notice) HR would prefer not, but in this case you leave them with little choice, since they do not have opportunity to do any transitioning.
In fact for most companies this is about the only way to get fired without being turned over to the police. If they want you gone they will give you the opportunity to "resign for personal reasons", at which point they don't give a bad reference (which means they give the dates you work and that you left on good terms, like any other employee) Because you resign (and if you are smart you will because if they have to fire you they will give a bad reference) you have less legal power against them. Of course if you they catch you doing something illegal they will fire you and then turn you over to the police.
Mind many HR departments will send a guard to escort you to the door when you give your two weeks. However they still pay your for those two weeks, they just call it work from home.
However you can get co-worker references. HR only controls what your boss can say. If bob worked with you and things you are a great guy, he can say that. If you resign all bob knows is one day you are gone. It is really easy to make bob think (without telling a lie) that your leaving was a hushed thing that you could not tell them about until after you were gone. He will then be a good reference. If you are fired he will find out, and hesitate to give a good reference figuring there is something he didn't know.
In short: company references mean little (though you should check them anyway because a few people will lie about jobs they never had). However personal references are still checked.
While your criticisms are correct, this survey is much better than most. They freely admit how it was done, and that it isn't perfect. Most surveys don't go into nearly as much details, and practically state that they are useful and represent the broader people as a whole.
The numbers also seem reasonable when considering what I know of linux users in general. So I'm willing to believe them for my purposes, which are unscientific. If I needed real results I would hire a qualified independent survey firm to do it right, but that is far more expensive, and there is a reasonable chance that the results would be within the margin of error of this poll.
In the US you can talk to his former employers. Anyone sane will, if only to make sure the resume isn't completely fabricated.
However most HR department (and all sane ones!) have a policy that they will only say "Yes he worked here from date to date and left in good standing". The only exception is if they fired you, and have proof that would stand up in court that you are not a good employee. Saying anything more is asking to be taken to court for not giving a factual reference. (they might win the case, but they have to pay lawyers to do it)
Obvious, but wrong. A hydraulic piston done right leaves no failure mode that results in the elevator plunging to the bottom of the shaft (accelerating at 9.8m/s^2 all the way down). Cables break, which is the typical thing you would use if you have a motor. When a pipe breaks the whole thing sinks, but not any faster than a normal decent.
There is a reason that hydraulic elevators have less safety regulations than electric, they are inherently safer. (however they are also inherently slow) I would be happy to ride in a home built hydraulic elevator. I would not ride in a homemade electric elevator unless I was confident the builder put in the right safeties.
Then too, an electric motor is much easier to work with than your hydraulic motor. Even if you have a stream next to your elevator that you can use to power the motor for free (in which case you should be using the stream to run a generator all the time)
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Motors will never be intigrated in wheels. Anything in the wheel is unsprung weight. The biggest enemy of smooth rides and tire life. Hard on the suspension system.
The motors might be connected to a short axle so they are just inside the car, but they won't be connected to the wheels.
v6? My 3 metro has plenty of power. Just today I had to brake in the acceleration lane because the idiot in front of me wasn't accelerating as hard as me. (I should have noticed sooner so I didn't have to brake) Point is even missing on one cycelinder I have more power than more drivers use.
I have seen some of my grandpa's old popular sciences from the mid 1960s (~40 years ago), and they often had articles about how to increase milage. Mostly the same advice you get today. When it wasn't that it was tests of devices or additives that would increase milage. (Popular science in those days was worth reading)
Every issue also had several ads for some gadget that would increase milage. Magnets for the gas lines, pressue regulators, chemicals. Even the infamous 200MPG carb the oil company didn't want you to know about. (Guess which one of the above worked in a new car. Then tell me why you wouldn't want to in your car even though it worked)
That is really useful when the temperature is -20. A temperature I have to drive in every year. (sometimes as low as -40, and others drive in even colder)
I'm ignoring the hazards of ice and snow. They are bad enough in a car, I don't think I'm ready to brave them on a motorcycle.
Forget the theory and look at the real world.
A gas engine (diesels have different rules so this does not apply) has a throttle plate that restricts air flow at low power settings. Your engine is a pump, at less than full throttle it has to work harder to get air in. This requires more energy than full throttle.
In addition, how the gas/air mixes, and the compression ratio have effects on where you get power. We can change spark advance, but we cannot do anything about those other factors which would need to change to get optimal power at other RPMs. Manufactures publish torque curves because they really exist.
Your engine is allways most efficient when it is at the peak of the torque curve, throttle wide open (or close to this, throttles can be made too big), and not accelerating at all.
An engine in a car is a more complex system. Now you get gear ratios, and both rolling and wind resistance to factor in.
True there are many times you could steer out of an accident. However there are many more times when you cannot.
A habit of hitting the breaks hard may sometimes result in an accident that is avoidable. However it will never result in an accident much worse than the one you were trying to avoid.
When you steer you have to prevent a rollover. You also have to have a clear place to go. Searing into oncoming traffic changes a 'simple' read end to a head on. Steering into a ditch may often mean hitting something hidden but immobile in the ditch. (Not to mention rollover). In heavy traffic there may not no safe way to get into the other lane.
FreeBSD 1.0 cannot be run unless you have a Unix license. I'm not sure what this would cost you, but SCO is selling licenses to Linux users for $699.00, so my guess is about that. However you need to ask SCO, as they are the only ones legally selling such a license.
For Freebsd 2.0 the requirement of a Unix license was eliminated (there were only 7 files to re-implement).
Sure a manual will roll while it is in gear. 5Th gear often does not have the ability to keep the car from moving. Particularly if your engine has 160,000 miles on it, and low compression on one cylinder, like mine does.
Most manual drivers leave their transmission in reverse when they leave the car. Reverse has the highest gear ratio of any gear, so it is the hardest for gravity to work against. (Remember that the driving is happening from the other end of the transmission, so all the gear ratios are backwards)
I like the nutshell books. I only have two monitors on my desk, and they have are full of windows. (testing here, /. there, code here (more like here there and everywhere), I don't have much free space. Except for /. (which isn't up often) I need all those windows.
With nutshell books I have a good reference that I can place on my physical desk. Not everything I need is in them, but when I need a quick refresher on some syntax or library it is nice.
I don't see the point in online nutshell types books, but they have a useful place on my desk.
Any programmer who has dealt with all kinds of will not laugh. Your claim is partially correct, but it fails to state the degree of errors. I've deal with a lot of code that is old, and customers rarely trip on the bugs. However they are there, and there is no way to fix them without a full re-design. Some of them are very serious, customer goes down hard type errors!
New code when well written can be better than old code. There may be more bugs, and customers may find them more often. However those bugs may be less serious overall.
You are having problems because you are asking the wrong question. Throw your old phones away. Get new VOIP phones. (Cheap ones are about what the cheapest converter would cost, expensive ones can do a lot more than a converter ever could) You get more flexability, as you can choose how many buttons you get, and what is displayed on the screen of the phone. You can mix and match for features, or give everyone the same phone for a better bulk rate, depending on what management wants)
There is a place for analog lines. If you need an emergency phone in the parking lot that instantly calls security when it is lifted for instance (I haven't seen VOIP models that do this - yet). Otherwise VOIP phones are the answer to the problem you are trying to solve.
Until a few years ago you were correct, hand written letters go the most weight. However this is no longer the case.
Now any letter is unopened for several weeks, while they carefully check it for various poisons. (well anthrax and the like which are not exactly poison, but are deadly)
Email is now preferred, everyone has email. Most people do not own a fax machine, though they are also liked. Phone calls work too, but they take more time.
Make sure that you give your home address. Not a P.O. box, but a real address where you get mail. They will respond with a letter to that address for everything you send if you are in their area. If you not in their area they will forward your letter to your representative from that area who will respond.
The government calls this sensitive information. Things are are public, but when combined can result in conclusions that are secret.
My mom's maiden name is public information. My address and phone number is public. My social security number is easily available, though in theory non-public. (Nearly everyone uses it as ID) Knowing any one of the above is pretty harmless to me. Knowing all of them is enough to withdraw all my saved money, and get some loans in my name.
This card puts too much sensitive information in one place.
For small companies perhaps. Big companies have a policy that all questions must be forwarded to HR who only gives dates of employment no matter how good/bad the guy was. They will fire any manager who gives any other reference, presumably to avoid the situations described above.
So that policy will miss out on some very good people who worked for a large company.
If they say you were fired for cause they better for paperwork to back up what the cause is, otherwise they will loose far more in the lawsuit than unemployment costs. The risk of this is often so great that they will pay the unemployment just to be sure you don't sue. At least in my state unemployment is a maximum of about $10,000 per year, though this varies. A lawsuit can cost that much if they win, and much more if they loose.
I'm not aware of any employers saying things were for cause, unless there is a cause. Lawyers advise against it. I know of many (seasonal) employers who let people go all the time, and their employees get unemployment. (Until next season when they come back)
Sure. Dogs are essentially wolves. However dogs have been bred for some genes that make them friendly to people, while wolves have not. Assuming they are compatible (dogs come and many sizes, I'm not sure you could bred a toy poodle with a wolf for example) they will breed. Leave a female dog in a pen when she is in heat and male wolves will do everything to get in and bred her.
Give a male dog any chance at all to get out when there is a female wolf in heat nearby and he will bred her. A dog that normally cannot get out of a pen is motivated to get out when there is a chance to bred.
Remember there is no such thing as rape to dogs. Male dogs can tell when there is a female nearby read to bred, and when the female is ready to bred (which is all biology) she will take any male she can get. Humans will be more selective, dogs and wolves are not.
Hey, I'm a natural predator. I like killing deer, my cat likes killing mice.
Any situation where you cannot work until your last day and they have not told you to stay home with pay is a situation where you need police protection.
Even if your next job is lined up, work out your last days. (Or work out a deal to leave early, often they will let you leave earlier than your required time, but be willing to work it out) You only think you have the next job lined up perfect, there are too many things you don't know.
I have had jobs that seemed great for 3 months and then the funding fell through and I was on the street without a job in less than an hour. (the CEO basically said I could work next week, but he had just enough money to cover this weeks pay and no hope of enough to pay me for next week so I should file for unemployment)
I've known others who discovered that the job was great, but traffic was worse than they thought, so the new job wasn't worth it.
I've known some offers to be pulled after someone gives their two weeks. (This is a legal blurry area, they have some obligation to you at this point, but not much)
I've known people who took jobs that seemed great, only to discover it was a terrible abusive company that could hide it well.
Most people who switch jobs end up with a situation about like they expect, and they work there for a few years. However all of the above bad situations have happened, and they will happen again. If you are the unlucky person who it happens to you may have to fall back on the older job as a reference.
Remember too, your former co-workers are you best source of reference. If I was actively looking for a job today (I'm always looking of course), I do not want those I'm working with to know, so I cannot use them as a reference. All that are left is people who have left this company before, and people I worked with at the last job. So keep your references.
Any compitent lawyer will ask for lawyer fees on top of the paycheck. In many cases you can get other damages as well.
Though your point still stands. The amount you get may not be worth it. Counting time off work at the new job you may end up losing money.
In the US two weeks is standard. However fired is a specail case, they stop payment the moment you walk out the door that day. Of course firing is a very strong term with legal meaning, companies almost never fire someone. Fired means there is a cause that they are letting you go, they are saying you are a bad employee. Some employees will turn around and sue for this, so companies only fire someone when all the paperwork has been double checked to prove that procedures were followed and the employee was bad.
Even then, most companies will allow you to "resign for personal reasons", and pay you for two weeks where you do not come in, instead of firing you. (This means when asked they say you left on good terms, and thus your lawyer won't be looking over their documents to make sure things are in order)
Otherwise things are the same. When a company decides they don't need you even though you are a good employee, they have to pay you for two weeks (this varies from state to state, but two weeks is typical). Most will pay you longer.
I hate posting a correction with my poor English skills, but it took me a while to figure this one out, so I hope it helps.
One is a number.
Won is the past tense of win.
They are both pronounced the same. In conversation I have no trouble with that, but my brain is wired such that I had trouble.
Good post otherwise.
Ahh, but if you don't work those last two weeks they can easily document that walked off the job. They can then give you a bad reference, and they will win in court if you try to sue. (at least in my area two weeks is considered normal notice) HR would prefer not, but in this case you leave them with little choice, since they do not have opportunity to do any transitioning.
In fact for most companies this is about the only way to get fired without being turned over to the police. If they want you gone they will give you the opportunity to "resign for personal reasons", at which point they don't give a bad reference (which means they give the dates you work and that you left on good terms, like any other employee) Because you resign (and if you are smart you will because if they have to fire you they will give a bad reference) you have less legal power against them. Of course if you they catch you doing something illegal they will fire you and then turn you over to the police.
Mind many HR departments will send a guard to escort you to the door when you give your two weeks. However they still pay your for those two weeks, they just call it work from home.
However you can get co-worker references. HR only controls what your boss can say. If bob worked with you and things you are a great guy, he can say that. If you resign all bob knows is one day you are gone. It is really easy to make bob think (without telling a lie) that your leaving was a hushed thing that you could not tell them about until after you were gone. He will then be a good reference. If you are fired he will find out, and hesitate to give a good reference figuring there is something he didn't know.
In short: company references mean little (though you should check them anyway because a few people will lie about jobs they never had). However personal references are still checked.
While your criticisms are correct, this survey is much better than most. They freely admit how it was done, and that it isn't perfect. Most surveys don't go into nearly as much details, and practically state that they are useful and represent the broader people as a whole.
The numbers also seem reasonable when considering what I know of linux users in general. So I'm willing to believe them for my purposes, which are unscientific. If I needed real results I would hire a qualified independent survey firm to do it right, but that is far more expensive, and there is a reasonable chance that the results would be within the margin of error of this poll.
In the US you can talk to his former employers. Anyone sane will, if only to make sure the resume isn't completely fabricated.
However most HR department (and all sane ones!) have a policy that they will only say "Yes he worked here from date to date and left in good standing". The only exception is if they fired you, and have proof that would stand up in court that you are not a good employee. Saying anything more is asking to be taken to court for not giving a factual reference. (they might win the case, but they have to pay lawyers to do it)
Obvious, but wrong. A hydraulic piston done right leaves no failure mode that results in the elevator plunging to the bottom of the shaft (accelerating at 9.8m/s^2 all the way down). Cables break, which is the typical thing you would use if you have a motor. When a pipe breaks the whole thing sinks, but not any faster than a normal decent.
There is a reason that hydraulic elevators have less safety regulations than electric, they are inherently safer. (however they are also inherently slow) I would be happy to ride in a home built hydraulic elevator. I would not ride in a homemade electric elevator unless I was confident the builder put in the right safeties.
Then too, an electric motor is much easier to work with than your hydraulic motor. Even if you have a stream next to your elevator that you can use to power the motor for free (in which case you should be using the stream to run a generator all the time)