You would be wrong in expecting that, the Tesla uses its center as a crumple zone if the sides are too stiff in the NHTSA test the car will stop too fast leading to injuries in the crash test dummies and a poor rating. Because of this it is fair to assume that the sides are not as strong as another 5 star crash test recipient with a front combustion engine. If there is only a partial impact the combustion engine still has half its crumple zone while the Tesla will have 25%.
I would be wary of the NHTSA front crash test ratings for the Tesla. The NHTSA front crash test is a full frontal crash into a wall at 35, while the IIHS does a more real world scenario of 25% and 40% of the bumper hitting a wall at 40mph. Without a large motor in the way Tesla is able to use the whole front compartment as a crumple zone as opposed to most combustion vehicles that primary use the sides as a crumple zone. While I don't think the ratings were manipulated they are artificially high because the Tesla design is able to game the system. Unfortunately the IIHS crash test ratings have not been released yet but I can't imagine them doing as well, in the 40% test the Tesla will have lost 60% of it crumple zone while typical combustion engines will lost a little over 50%, in the 25% test Tesla will lose 75% and the combustion engine is still at a little over 50%.
what I find pathetic is that they ceased production for a product in such high demand. whoever handled the bankruptcy fucked up.
What happened was Hostess had no capital to run, and no ability to borrow so they had no choice but to close. It was not until after the bankruptcy that the debts were clear, pensions reduced, and union contracts ripped up that Hostess became a viable company to buy. It was simply too big a risk to buy until the ink was dry on the bankruptcy filings.
Reverse engineering, tooling up, getting resources and stock, setting up a market channel and meanwhile the first mover is getting the first mover bonus, where all those costs and time are already spent.
What? Do you think that you can just replicate a microwave?
Those are not R&D costs those are market entry costs, except for reverse engineering which would cost a fraction of the actual research and development costs.
That defies economic logic. If your competitor steals your idea and then is able to copy your idea for cheaper...doesn't that mean you just lost and SHOULD go out of business? They improved upon your idea, right or else how would they sell it for less? Or it means you were charging too much in the first place? And if your competitor steals your idea and then sells it so cheap they don't profit...well then they go out of business. I really fail to see how the basic laws of economics are not at play here.
The problem is you competitor didn't invest funds for the R&D to come up with the product. When you make the product you have to charge extra to recoup those funds while your competitor does not have those costs, it's why generic drugs are so much cheaper then name brand, there are no R&D costs. They can make the product the same way as you do and charge less.
yeah I suppose your angle would fly if I was paying rent to someone who owned this piece of land back in 1917.. and not the current owner of this physical property(which I am doing!). do you send monthly checks to the guy who drew your apartment or did you buy it from the previous owner?
Are you saying you can't buy IP and then "rent" it to someone else? Also do you know that patent protection expires?
and maybe you should read the post you are commenting on. It is obvious he RTFS (and maybe even the fA)
and was complaining that the *title* was wrong.
"unmanned" != "unpiloted"
Remotely piloted vehicles are unmanned (technically may be, but there could be passengers).
Right here he is talking about a pilot in the seat for remote controlled planes, that is not the case for the UCLASS. It takes off, flies and lands with only simple take off, fly here, and land here commands, the same commands a pilot receives.
Computer-controlled vehicles also may be manned (e.g. Google self-driving vehicle shenanigans).
Here he is talking about the Google car driving itself but a human taking over when needed, again not was is happening with the UCLASS. There is no remote control of the plane or a cockpit for the pilot to take over with.
I would hope Google is smart enough to know that you don't need an experienced developer to find bugs in their code. Aspiring developers fresh out of college are more then adequate. At 50k a pop google could have hired 7 PFYs spending 14,000 hours scouring code, hell give them 1k bonuses for each bug to keep them motivated.
Here is the folly of your argument, the US government should do whats best for the US people. There are two options one is an overseas contractor, the other is a US contractor. If the overseas company can do it at 10-15% savings then once the 3% pass through fee from the shell company hits only 2.8% is put back into the economy and the government gets 10.2-15.2%. If the US company gets the contract the government will recoup 20-30% through taxes (SS, income, corporation,...) the other 70-80% will be put back into the economy. The only way the overseas company comes out ahead is looking at the 1 year cost.
There are natural rights, and civil rights, and political rights and social rights. Some depend on the existence of a state, or on a particular social order.
but, I suppose that you have a particular view of things that you would like to be part of the indoctrination known as "civics class."
I don't think you understand what rights are, if you were on a deserted island with no one else what rights would be endowed upon you if if a government suddenly annexed your island? The government giving you things is not a right, it's a service they perform for confiscating your and other people's money.
There are only two areas where the government should be involved, taxes which is pretty simply to fix just don't have a tax rate for married couples, just have a head of household deduction. The other is inheritance which could get messy if no will is present but the simple answer is have a will. Insurance is not an issue as it is a transaction between private institutions so the government should not be involved anyway. It's not that hard to get the government out of the religious sacrament business you just have to be willing to do things on you own and not depend on the government to do things for you.
How the hell did this get modded 5, Insightful? At least the "leftists" understand history and know that the GOP is now the party of racists specifically because of the Southern Strategy that caused Democrats and Republicans to switch party affiliations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Do you mean the Southern Strategy run by Nixon who was a card carrying member of the NAACP that Kennedy actually used as an attacking point in the south? The the racists south was then won by Carter, Clinton, and Obama. Strange how the South's racism alters the vote only when it elects republicans.
Whats funny about your mind numbingly ignorant claim that the parties switched affiliations is there are very few examples of people switching parties. Al Gore Sr. life long democrat who opposed Integration, or J. William Fulbright one of Bil Clinton's mentors and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Clinton was a segregationists. For every 1 democrat that switched affiliations there are 20 that stayed racist democrats for life.
With Tesla's model of owning the dealerships they may avoid this problem, although the problem of the owner selling the car or trading it in to a non-Tesla dealership does become an issue.
Switzerland has a higher per capita rate of gun owners then the US, their citizens are required to have automatic weapons, automatic weapons in the US are highly regulated and can be only purchased if they were made before 1987 and registered. There are only 3 areas where Swiss law is stricter then US 1) a permit is required to purchase any gun 2)A person may only own 3 guns 3)No concealed weapons. Those are the differences the laws are not nearly as stringent as some cities in the US with gun bans that hive much higher gun crime rates DC. It's not the laws it's the culture, a higher percentage of the Swiss respect life then in the US or Mexico.
Look, give it up. He has statistics to prove you wrong. This is why all countries with strong gun-control laws are seething masses of crime and murder.
No, wait...
The fact that there is no direct correlation to gun control and gun violence is all that is needed to show that gun control is not effective. The Australian gun control showed no fasters decrease in gun crime rate when compared to neighbor New Zealand which had no control laws. Countries like Mexico have a ban on all guns yet are hotbeds of gun crime, while Switzerland which requires males to have automatic rifles in their home has a low crime rate. It's not the number of guns or types of guns citizens are allowed to have it's the value of another's life that makes a difference.
Oh yeah, unsafe driver and betraying democracy... same thing.
Seriously, this guy is a criminal and should face the consequences of his actions.
Here is the thing the guy signed a document saying that he would protect classified information which he did not, that is a crime. The guy also signed a document saying he would protect the constitution which he may be able to argue he did by becoming a whistle blower. I this the constitutionality of this law is upheld this guy is fucked but overturned he would be protected.
Not just IT managers but any managers that have a direct supervisory role over employees doing technical work have to have some technical background. They will be the ones interfacing with directors and customers and must have some technical background, not only to run and implement projects properly from a top level but also to properly explain how the projects are being implemented. A simply way to tell if a manager is succeeding is to compare project costs with others in the field, if the the project is running at a significantly higher cost then what it should and the manager can't explain why the manager is the problem.
The part that really opened my eyes was the mistaken witness example. Say someone was murdered and you are the main suspect, your alibi is that you were visiting your mother at the time of the crime. Now if you tell police your alibi and their witness says she thinks she saw you near the scene of the crime, a witness that would not be able to testify in court, now can because she is contradicting your statements.You are completely innocent are are now placed at the scene of a crime because you simply told the police where you were.
You might find that software to be open source as well. What was all that bluster about OSS being "inherently more secure"?
The major security flaw that has yet to be patched on any system is the user. When security experts talk about secure systems they are talking about gaining access without the user doing something stupid, like downloading and installing a trojan then giving it elevated permissions.
Jets engines work by sucking in air, mixing the air with fuel, igniting the fuel air mixture, and pushing with the exhaust. If you replace the fuel with an electric motor it's not a jet it's a fancy prop engine with covers over the prop. Unless his plan is to vaporize water to achieve the exhaust force associated with a jet I don't see how you can call it a jet. I don't have the background to know if boiling water is a good use of energy or if turning props is significantly more efficient (which I suspect).
Typically surgeries that cause fatalities require recovery in hospitals, your Friday surgery recovery will take place with fewer staff to catch any problems before they become fatal. I was unable to tell if the increase in deaths occurred on the weekends, the only information I saw is that they included deaths up too 30 days after the surgery. As for weekend surgeries I suspect that more of them are emergency procedures where the patients life was all ready in peril.
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You would be wrong in expecting that, the Tesla uses its center as a crumple zone if the sides are too stiff in the NHTSA test the car will stop too fast leading to injuries in the crash test dummies and a poor rating. Because of this it is fair to assume that the sides are not as strong as another 5 star crash test recipient with a front combustion engine. If there is only a partial impact the combustion engine still has half its crumple zone while the Tesla will have 25%.
The majority of rear engine cars and all mid engine cars are not family sedans where crash test ratings are the selling point.
I would be wary of the NHTSA front crash test ratings for the Tesla. The NHTSA front crash test is a full frontal crash into a wall at 35, while the IIHS does a more real world scenario of 25% and 40% of the bumper hitting a wall at 40mph. Without a large motor in the way Tesla is able to use the whole front compartment as a crumple zone as opposed to most combustion vehicles that primary use the sides as a crumple zone. While I don't think the ratings were manipulated they are artificially high because the Tesla design is able to game the system. Unfortunately the IIHS crash test ratings have not been released yet but I can't imagine them doing as well, in the 40% test the Tesla will have lost 60% of it crumple zone while typical combustion engines will lost a little over 50%, in the 25% test Tesla will lose 75% and the combustion engine is still at a little over 50%.
what I find pathetic is that they ceased production for a product in such high demand. whoever handled the bankruptcy fucked up.
What happened was Hostess had no capital to run, and no ability to borrow so they had no choice but to close. It was not until after the bankruptcy that the debts were clear, pensions reduced, and union contracts ripped up that Hostess became a viable company to buy. It was simply too big a risk to buy until the ink was dry on the bankruptcy filings.
Reverse engineering, tooling up, getting resources and stock, setting up a market channel and meanwhile the first mover is getting the first mover bonus, where all those costs and time are already spent.
What? Do you think that you can just replicate a microwave?
Those are not R&D costs those are market entry costs, except for reverse engineering which would cost a fraction of the actual research and development costs.
That defies economic logic. If your competitor steals your idea and then is able to copy your idea for cheaper...doesn't that mean you just lost and SHOULD go out of business? They improved upon your idea, right or else how would they sell it for less? Or it means you were charging too much in the first place? And if your competitor steals your idea and then sells it so cheap they don't profit...well then they go out of business. I really fail to see how the basic laws of economics are not at play here.
The problem is you competitor didn't invest funds for the R&D to come up with the product. When you make the product you have to charge extra to recoup those funds while your competitor does not have those costs, it's why generic drugs are so much cheaper then name brand, there are no R&D costs. They can make the product the same way as you do and charge less.
yeah I suppose your angle would fly if I was paying rent to someone who owned this piece of land back in 1917.. and not the current owner of this physical property(which I am doing!). do you send monthly checks to the guy who drew your apartment or did you buy it from the previous owner?
Are you saying you can't buy IP and then "rent" it to someone else? Also do you know that patent protection expires?
and maybe you should read the post you are commenting on. It is obvious he RTFS (and maybe even the fA) and was complaining that the *title* was wrong.
"unmanned" != "unpiloted" Remotely piloted vehicles are unmanned (technically may be, but there could be passengers).
Right here he is talking about a pilot in the seat for remote controlled planes, that is not the case for the UCLASS. It takes off, flies and lands with only simple take off, fly here, and land here commands, the same commands a pilot receives.
Computer-controlled vehicles also may be manned (e.g. Google self-driving vehicle shenanigans).
Here he is talking about the Google car driving itself but a human taking over when needed, again not was is happening with the UCLASS. There is no remote control of the plane or a cockpit for the pilot to take over with.
"unmanned" != "unpiloted"
Remotely piloted vehicles are unmanned (technically may be, but there could be passengers).
Computer-controlled vehicles also may be manned (e.g. Google self-driving vehicle shenanigans).
I know it's a lot to RTFA but could you at least RTFS before you post.
Salty Dog was piloted entirely by computer without a human operator.
I would hope Google is smart enough to know that you don't need an experienced developer to find bugs in their code. Aspiring developers fresh out of college are more then adequate. At 50k a pop google could have hired 7 PFYs spending 14,000 hours scouring code, hell give them 1k bonuses for each bug to keep them motivated.
Here is the folly of your argument, the US government should do whats best for the US people. There are two options one is an overseas contractor, the other is a US contractor. If the overseas company can do it at 10-15% savings then once the 3% pass through fee from the shell company hits only 2.8% is put back into the economy and the government gets 10.2-15.2%. If the US company gets the contract the government will recoup 20-30% through taxes (SS, income, corporation, ...) the other 70-80% will be put back into the economy. The only way the overseas company comes out ahead is looking at the 1 year cost.
There are natural rights, and civil rights, and political rights and social rights. Some depend on the existence of a state, or on a particular social order.
but, I suppose that you have a particular view of things that you would like to be part of the indoctrination known as "civics class."
I don't think you understand what rights are, if you were on a deserted island with no one else what rights would be endowed upon you if if a government suddenly annexed your island? The government giving you things is not a right, it's a service they perform for confiscating your and other people's money.
There are only two areas where the government should be involved, taxes which is pretty simply to fix just don't have a tax rate for married couples, just have a head of household deduction. The other is inheritance which could get messy if no will is present but the simple answer is have a will. Insurance is not an issue as it is a transaction between private institutions so the government should not be involved anyway. It's not that hard to get the government out of the religious sacrament business you just have to be willing to do things on you own and not depend on the government to do things for you.
How the hell did this get modded 5, Insightful? At least the "leftists" understand history and know that the GOP is now the party of racists specifically because of the Southern Strategy that caused Democrats and Republicans to switch party affiliations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Do you mean the Southern Strategy run by Nixon who was a card carrying member of the NAACP that Kennedy actually used as an attacking point in the south? The the racists south was then won by Carter, Clinton, and Obama. Strange how the South's racism alters the vote only when it elects republicans.
Whats funny about your mind numbingly ignorant claim that the parties switched affiliations is there are very few examples of people switching parties. Al Gore Sr. life long democrat who opposed Integration, or J. William Fulbright one of Bil Clinton's mentors and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Clinton was a segregationists. For every 1 democrat that switched affiliations there are 20 that stayed racist democrats for life.
With Tesla's model of owning the dealerships they may avoid this problem, although the problem of the owner selling the car or trading it in to a non-Tesla dealership does become an issue.
It's been a while since I did any parsing but I remember some saying about Lex having to go feed Yacc tokens. So wouldn't you need Lex first.
Switzerland has a higher per capita rate of gun owners then the US, their citizens are required to have automatic weapons, automatic weapons in the US are highly regulated and can be only purchased if they were made before 1987 and registered. There are only 3 areas where Swiss law is stricter then US 1) a permit is required to purchase any gun 2)A person may only own 3 guns 3)No concealed weapons. Those are the differences the laws are not nearly as stringent as some cities in the US with gun bans that hive much higher gun crime rates DC. It's not the laws it's the culture, a higher percentage of the Swiss respect life then in the US or Mexico.
Look, give it up. He has statistics to prove you wrong. This is why all countries with strong gun-control laws are seething masses of crime and murder.
No, wait...
The fact that there is no direct correlation to gun control and gun violence is all that is needed to show that gun control is not effective. The Australian gun control showed no fasters decrease in gun crime rate when compared to neighbor New Zealand which had no control laws. Countries like Mexico have a ban on all guns yet are hotbeds of gun crime, while Switzerland which requires males to have automatic rifles in their home has a low crime rate. It's not the number of guns or types of guns citizens are allowed to have it's the value of another's life that makes a difference.
Oh yeah, unsafe driver and betraying democracy... same thing. Seriously, this guy is a criminal and should face the consequences of his actions.
Here is the thing the guy signed a document saying that he would protect classified information which he did not, that is a crime. The guy also signed a document saying he would protect the constitution which he may be able to argue he did by becoming a whistle blower. I this the constitutionality of this law is upheld this guy is fucked but overturned he would be protected.
Not just IT managers but any managers that have a direct supervisory role over employees doing technical work have to have some technical background. They will be the ones interfacing with directors and customers and must have some technical background, not only to run and implement projects properly from a top level but also to properly explain how the projects are being implemented. A simply way to tell if a manager is succeeding is to compare project costs with others in the field, if the the project is running at a significantly higher cost then what it should and the manager can't explain why the manager is the problem.
The part that really opened my eyes was the mistaken witness example. Say someone was murdered and you are the main suspect, your alibi is that you were visiting your mother at the time of the crime. Now if you tell police your alibi and their witness says she thinks she saw you near the scene of the crime, a witness that would not be able to testify in court, now can because she is contradicting your statements.You are completely innocent are are now placed at the scene of a crime because you simply told the police where you were.
You might find that software to be open source as well. What was all that bluster about OSS being "inherently more secure"?
The major security flaw that has yet to be patched on any system is the user. When security experts talk about secure systems they are talking about gaining access without the user doing something stupid, like downloading and installing a trojan then giving it elevated permissions.
Jets engines work by sucking in air, mixing the air with fuel, igniting the fuel air mixture, and pushing with the exhaust. If you replace the fuel with an electric motor it's not a jet it's a fancy prop engine with covers over the prop. Unless his plan is to vaporize water to achieve the exhaust force associated with a jet I don't see how you can call it a jet. I don't have the background to know if boiling water is a good use of energy or if turning props is significantly more efficient (which I suspect).
Typically surgeries that cause fatalities require recovery in hospitals, your Friday surgery recovery will take place with fewer staff to catch any problems before they become fatal. I was unable to tell if the increase in deaths occurred on the weekends, the only information I saw is that they included deaths up too 30 days after the surgery. As for weekend surgeries I suspect that more of them are emergency procedures where the patients life was all ready in peril.
Much of that is directly related to the legal and illegal immigrants in Texas.