I'd argue that it would be binary, but not digital. It's not communicating a signal represented as a number - it's transmitting some level of power, which is available in two amplitudes (none and some). So it's analogue, binary (as opposed to continuous), but not digital.
A dimmer makes it continuous, so it would no longer be binary.
PWM, BPSK, etc. are similarly binary, but not necessarily digital. Few people consider a switch-mode power supply to be digitally controlled - it has continuous input, continuous output, and continuously-variable pulse width, yet the output pass device is only in one of two states - switched or unswitched.
Actually, the more posts this story attracts, the more accurate your statement is, and the fewer standard deviations you are away from true first. Response times not being distributed in a Gaussian curve perhaps complicates things.
Perhaps actually try it? All car mirrors have a second mirror behind the first, at precisely the angle that the switch adjusts by. When being followed by a car with bright headlights, flick the switch and you'll observe that you get a much-dimmed version of the same image. At night, you'll perfectly well be able to make out the car behind you.
Also, widen the angle of your side mirrors. You don't need to see your own doorhandles as reference - send the mirrors wider and you'll very soon become accustomed to the particular field of view that they now present. Your brain isn't nearly as dependent on seeing your own car as you think it is. If you have concerns you'll introduce a blinkspot at the cars rear flanks then relax - the slightest bobble of your head will cover that, if the main rear-view mirror doesn't already. Stop being a door-handler! With wider side mirrors and the rear-view mirror switch, you'll at worst have just one mirror shining headlights at you face, and not three.
1 in 8142 insured passenger cars, SUVS and pickups for model years 2010-12 were involved in a noncrash fire claim.
93 Fusions over MY2010 to MY2012 (800000 insured vehicles) caught fire without even being involved in a crash. Extrapolate that to ~62 Fusions for MY12 -MY13, and that's not even counting the ones involved in accidents.
2010-2012: 93 insured Ford Fusions caught fire (3-yr period, so 31 per year) without even being involved in crashes or vandalism. (That's 2010-2012 model year, not claim year, i.e. we aren't talking about 8-year-old Ford Fusions here.)
That's out of 800000 insured-years of vehicles, or ~267000 vehicles insured for 3 years each. At 31 per year, that's roughly 1 in 8000 insured Ford Fusions catch fire every year, without even being involved in accidents. In two years, that would be 2 in 8000 (i.e. 1 in 4000).
Sure it's not 2013 stats, but over two years, 1 in 4000 insured Ford Fusions caught fire just standing still.
Coincidentally, the Ford Fusion stats happen to be almost right at the average - according to the source below, 1 in 8142 insured passenger cars, SUVs and pickups has a noncrash fire claim made against it.
It can be. Linear means the acceleration is in the direction of travel, i.e. the acceleration occurs in one dimension. In a straight-line "back-and-forth" system, acceleration and speed can both be considered as dimensionless (beyond having a sign, which admittedly could be considered as bending the rules of "dimensionless" slightly). Certainly they act in a single dimension.
(This is in contrast to angular acceleration, where the acceleration is perpendicular to the direction of travel.)
Since linear doesn't imply constant, this applies to sinusoidal motion to, if it were constrained along a single axis. I'm not suggesting earthquakes are constrained to a single axis; merely that strong accelerations can exist in an earthquake, yet net displacement remains near-zero.
I only ever felt one quake but I was standing on the same spot the whole time. I was not accelerated anyplace, not in the usual sense of the term. I know on Slashdot when you show someone that they are ignorant about something, they'd rather assume you're stupid, but I think that's pretty shitty. Instead I will assume I am ignorant and have no idea what you mean and will ask, what does "acceleration" mean in the context of an earthquake?
Back-and-forth. In any oscillation, the thing being oscillated is accelerated in one direction, and then acceleration is reversed and the subject is accelerated back in the other direction. It is a linear acceleration, but it is brief and changes direction often. The acceleration in any given direction for a simple oscillation lasts for half as long as the oscillation period (and naturally the acceleration in the opposite direction also lasts half as long).
The pools didn't break during a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. The fifth most fierce ever on earth. Why should they break during a lesser earthquake?
Because magnitude doesn't correspond all that well to forces felt at the surface.
The Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake of September 2010 was a 7.1, and the peak acceleration was 1.26g. The Feb 2011 at the same location much less energetic at "just" a 6.3, yet its peak acceleration was 2.2g (among the highest recorded in an urban area) due to most of that energy being released over just 12 seconds.
The 9.0 Fukushima earthquake OTOH was spread out over 6 minutes, so its peak acceleration was 2.99g despite it being thousands of times more energetic than Christchurch's Feb quake.
Car production Year Germany USA 2003 5,145,403 4,510,469 2004 5,192,101 4,229,625 2005 5,350,187 4,321,272 2006 5,398,508 4,366,220 2007 5,709,139 3,924,268 2008 5,532,030 3,776,641 2009 4,964,523 2,195,588 2010 5,552,409 2,731,105 2011 5,871,918 2,976,991 2012 5,388,456 4,105,853 2013 2,738,155 2,270,985
(2013 is first 6mo)
So there have been recent years where Germany's car production has indeed been double what the USA was making. Over the last decade, Germany's production of cars has been roughly 50% higher than the USA. In the few years prior to 2003, they were roughly equal at ~5 million each.
But wait, that also means that at least 51% of the population actually voted for those who put these laws and legislation into effect.
No it doesn't. The current NZ government is a minority government, and the 3x parties that make up government were voted for by 48.98% of the voters. So almost precisely 51% in fact voted for someone else (and voting isn't compulsory, either, and roughly 1/4 of eligible voters didn't bother).
Several minor parties ultimately polled too low to get any seats in parliament, so the proportion of seats doesn't always reflect how the votes were proportioned.
You're presuming that legalising under-age drinking is the same as legalising under-age over-consumption & drunkeness.
In Germany, 14 year-olds are allowed to drink with their guardians. It actually encourages responsible drinking: I've heard of German 18 year olds visiting other countries and being astounded at the binge-drinking cultures that exist, because as teens those cultures haven't been taught responsible drinking - they hit 18 and go wild.
You can bet in jurisdictions where 14-year olds are allowed to drink that their parents would still get prosecuted if they allowed their kids to get wasted.
They don't need multi-speed gear boxes, but may still need a single-speed transmission to change the ratio of motor output RPM to desired axle RPM, and/or offset the shaft axes for mounting/layout reasons. They also still need differentials.
I drive in "winter conditions" 5-7 months every year...
So you're familiar with it. This kind of system would be entirely appropriate for somewhere that gets frozen-road conditions only a few days of the year, or areas that experience high amounts of traffic from out-of-towners.
This is for the visitors - the kind of idiot who follows his GPS into a lake - not the locals.
Which is fine if you want each half-wall to be a slightly different tint of blue.
Then you "box" the paint. Pick up sufficient paint to do the whole job, and if they are in several smaller tins you simply mix them all together in one big pail. Return to the smaller tins for convenience (certainly at least one tin, for later touch-ups).
Even when buying new, if you are obtaining several tins of the supposedly-same shade you should still box them.
> I just hope that Aotearoa remains a bastion of pacific sanity. Sadly the writing is on the wall. We (NZ) used to have the stones to stand up for ourselves on the international stage, but our current Prime Minister just wants to please everyone and I can't see him saying No to increased pressure from the States - he'd much rather smile and get Obama's handshake on his résumé. We've already brought in a guilty-till-proven-innocent three-strikes law for filesharing - that was completely embarrassing to see our politicians demonstrate a complete lack of grasp on the issue.
Australia and the USA are our #1 and #2 export markets so we tend to succumb when they start tightening the screws.
Full-body scanners are currently illegal in NZ, but I'm not sure if that only applies to nudie ones (it might be this aspect which makes them illegal; I'm not sure). I fear it's only a matter of time before that piece of legislation gets removed, or some loophole is found to bring two half-body scanners in - one for the upper body immediately followed by one for the lower half...
Just off the top of my head, you could fly to NZ via Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, San Francisco, Los Angeles or Vancouver. I think also Dallas.
so some number of operations need to be done in order, and if any of them fail then they need to be undone in reverse order... if you don't consider the comma operator to be unconvoluted (it's a bit obscure, I'll give you that) - and know how the && operator "aborts" when an operand is found to be false (*everyone* should know this) then:
int level = 0;
if ((++level, do_op1()) && (++level, do_op2()) && (++level, do_op3()) && (++level, do_op4())) // value of "level" will be equal to the number of the operation currently being attempted { return 0; }
// at this point, value of "level" will be equal to the number of the operation that failed
switch (level)// note the lack of "break" { case 4: undo_op4(); case 3: undo_op3(); case 2: undo_op2(); case 1: undo_op1(); } return -1;
They've been compulsorily fitted to taxis in New Zealand since August. Taxi companies fitted them at their own expense. Drivers are saying they feel safer, and the industry is claiming the amount of abuse against drivers have dropped and the cameras have directly led to arrests, including for several very serious incidents. Despite the camera systems costing upwards of $1000 per vehicle, the drivers are saying it's money well-spent.
So please ignore the cynicism of the Slashdot submitter & editor - they evidently do improve driver safety.
Because using the extension to determine what a file does was characteristic of MS-DOS. So the "C:\" part of that line isn't the only MS-DOSism present in that line, as Unix-like systems use permissions to determine if a file is executable or not rather than the extension.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd argue that it would be binary, but not digital. It's not communicating a signal represented as a number - it's transmitting some level of power, which is available in two amplitudes (none and some). So it's analogue, binary (as opposed to continuous), but not digital.
A dimmer makes it continuous, so it would no longer be binary.
PWM, BPSK, etc. are similarly binary, but not necessarily digital. Few people consider a switch-mode power supply to be digitally controlled - it has continuous input, continuous output, and continuously-variable pulse width, yet the output pass device is only in one of two states - switched or unswitched.
Discrete != digital.
A hardcore gamer worth his salt has a SSD for the OS and Aps...and a large internal platter drive for such things as music, movies...and games.
So move the audio files onto the HDD, and use NTFS symlinks on the SSD to point to them (or volume mount point, if a whole folder can be moved).
First!
... to within 0.5 standard deviations.
Actually, the more posts this story attracts, the more accurate your statement is, and the fewer standard deviations you are away from true first. Response times not being distributed in a Gaussian curve perhaps complicates things.
Perhaps actually try it? All car mirrors have a second mirror behind the first, at precisely the angle that the switch adjusts by. When being followed by a car with bright headlights, flick the switch and you'll observe that you get a much-dimmed version of the same image. At night, you'll perfectly well be able to make out the car behind you.
Also, widen the angle of your side mirrors. You don't need to see your own doorhandles as reference - send the mirrors wider and you'll very soon become accustomed to the particular field of view that they now present. Your brain isn't nearly as dependent on seeing your own car as you think it is. If you have concerns you'll introduce a blinkspot at the cars rear flanks then relax - the slightest bobble of your head will cover that, if the main rear-view mirror doesn't already. Stop being a door-handler! With wider side mirrors and the rear-view mirror switch, you'll at worst have just one mirror shining headlights at you face, and not three.
1 in 8142 insured passenger cars, SUVS and pickups for model years 2010-12 were involved in a noncrash fire claim.
93 Fusions over MY2010 to MY2012 (800000 insured vehicles) caught fire without even being involved in a crash. Extrapolate that to ~62 Fusions for MY12 -MY13, and that's not even counting the ones involved in accidents.
source: http://www.iihs.org/media/ae7293cc-294f-4e31-b3ad-827b25317eb8/-1367394320/HLDI%20Research/Fire%20losses/HLDI_FireLosses_0913.pdf
That's out of 800000 insured-years of vehicles, or ~267000 vehicles insured for 3 years each.
Oops, I mean ~267000 vehicles for each of the 3 model years.
2010-2012: 93 insured Ford Fusions caught fire (3-yr period, so 31 per year) without even being involved in crashes or vandalism. (That's 2010-2012 model year, not claim year, i.e. we aren't talking about 8-year-old Ford Fusions here.)
That's out of 800000 insured-years of vehicles, or ~267000 vehicles insured for 3 years each. At 31 per year, that's roughly 1 in 8000 insured Ford Fusions catch fire every year, without even being involved in accidents. In two years, that would be 2 in 8000 (i.e. 1 in 4000).
Sure it's not 2013 stats, but over two years, 1 in 4000 insured Ford Fusions caught fire just standing still.
Coincidentally, the Ford Fusion stats happen to be almost right at the average - according to the source below, 1 in 8142 insured passenger cars, SUVs and pickups has a noncrash fire claim made against it.
source: http://www.iihs.org/media/ae7293cc-294f-4e31-b3ad-827b25317eb8/-1367394320/HLDI%20Research/Fire%20losses/HLDI_FireLosses_0913.pdf
They also use 150kg of fuel (~200L or ~53 gallons) so you're looking at around 4mpg over the full race.
A sinusoidal vibration is not linear.
It can be. Linear means the acceleration is in the direction of travel, i.e. the acceleration occurs in one dimension. In a straight-line "back-and-forth" system, acceleration and speed can both be considered as dimensionless (beyond having a sign, which admittedly could be considered as bending the rules of "dimensionless" slightly). Certainly they act in a single dimension.
(This is in contrast to angular acceleration, where the acceleration is perpendicular to the direction of travel.)
Since linear doesn't imply constant, this applies to sinusoidal motion to, if it were constrained along a single axis. I'm not suggesting earthquakes are constrained to a single axis; merely that strong accelerations can exist in an earthquake, yet net displacement remains near-zero.
I only ever felt one quake but I was standing on the same spot the whole time. I was not accelerated anyplace, not in the usual sense of the term. I know on Slashdot when you show someone that they are ignorant about something, they'd rather assume you're stupid, but I think that's pretty shitty. Instead I will assume I am ignorant and have no idea what you mean and will ask, what does "acceleration" mean in the context of an earthquake?
Back-and-forth. In any oscillation, the thing being oscillated is accelerated in one direction, and then acceleration is reversed and the subject is accelerated back in the other direction. It is a linear acceleration, but it is brief and changes direction often. The acceleration in any given direction for a simple oscillation lasts for half as long as the oscillation period (and naturally the acceleration in the opposite direction also lasts half as long).
The pools didn't break during a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. The fifth most fierce ever on earth. Why should they break during a lesser earthquake?
Because magnitude doesn't correspond all that well to forces felt at the surface.
The Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake of September 2010 was a 7.1, and the peak acceleration was 1.26g. The Feb 2011 at the same location much less energetic at "just" a 6.3, yet its peak acceleration was 2.2g (among the highest recorded in an urban area) due to most of that energy being released over just 12 seconds.
The 9.0 Fukushima earthquake OTOH was spread out over 6 minutes, so its peak acceleration was 2.99g despite it being thousands of times more energetic than Christchurch's Feb quake.
Car production
Year Germany USA
2003 5,145,403 4,510,469
2004 5,192,101 4,229,625
2005 5,350,187 4,321,272
2006 5,398,508 4,366,220
2007 5,709,139 3,924,268
2008 5,532,030 3,776,641
2009 4,964,523 2,195,588
2010 5,552,409 2,731,105
2011 5,871,918 2,976,991
2012 5,388,456 4,105,853
2013 2,738,155 2,270,985
(2013 is first 6mo)
So there have been recent years where Germany's car production has indeed been double what the USA was making. Over the last decade, Germany's production of cars has been roughly 50% higher than the USA. In the few years prior to 2003, they were roughly equal at ~5 million each.
But wait, that also means that at least 51% of the population actually voted for those who put these laws and legislation into effect.
No it doesn't. The current NZ government is a minority government, and the 3x parties that make up government were voted for by 48.98% of the voters. So almost precisely 51% in fact voted for someone else (and voting isn't compulsory, either, and roughly 1/4 of eligible voters didn't bother).
Several minor parties ultimately polled too low to get any seats in parliament, so the proportion of seats doesn't always reflect how the votes were proportioned.
At 600 tons, I think you could just aim at any datacenter and drive right through it, magnet or not...
You're presuming that legalising under-age drinking is the same as legalising under-age over-consumption & drunkeness.
In Germany, 14 year-olds are allowed to drink with their guardians. It actually encourages responsible drinking: I've heard of German 18 year olds visiting other countries and being astounded at the binge-drinking cultures that exist, because as teens those cultures haven't been taught responsible drinking - they hit 18 and go wild.
You can bet in jurisdictions where 14-year olds are allowed to drink that their parents would still get prosecuted if they allowed their kids to get wasted.
Pure electric cars don't need gearboxes.
They don't need multi-speed gear boxes, but may still need a single-speed transmission to change the ratio of motor output RPM to desired axle RPM, and/or offset the shaft axes for mounting/layout reasons. They also still need differentials.
And how many people use the capslocks key?
I USE IT ALL THE TIME
i SuBmIt ThAt YoU'vE oNlY uSeD iT oNcE. nOw Me, OtOh...
I drive in "winter conditions" 5-7 months every year...
So you're familiar with it. This kind of system would be entirely appropriate for somewhere that gets frozen-road conditions only a few days of the year, or areas that experience high amounts of traffic from out-of-towners.
This is for the visitors - the kind of idiot who follows his GPS into a lake - not the locals.
Which is fine if you want each half-wall to be a slightly different tint of blue.
Then you "box" the paint. Pick up sufficient paint to do the whole job, and if they are in several smaller tins you simply mix them all together in one big pail. Return to the smaller tins for convenience (certainly at least one tin, for later touch-ups).
Even when buying new, if you are obtaining several tins of the supposedly-same shade you should still box them.
You can still fly direct to NZ from numerous ports in Asia, USA or Canada. You don't need to fly via Australia.
> I just hope that Aotearoa remains a bastion of pacific sanity.
Sadly the writing is on the wall. We (NZ) used to have the stones to stand up for ourselves on the international stage, but our current Prime Minister just wants to please everyone and I can't see him saying No to increased pressure from the States - he'd much rather smile and get Obama's handshake on his résumé. We've already brought in a guilty-till-proven-innocent three-strikes law for filesharing - that was completely embarrassing to see our politicians demonstrate a complete lack of grasp on the issue.
Australia and the USA are our #1 and #2 export markets so we tend to succumb when they start tightening the screws.
Full-body scanners are currently illegal in NZ, but I'm not sure if that only applies to nudie ones (it might be this aspect which makes them illegal; I'm not sure). I fear it's only a matter of time before that piece of legislation gets removed, or some loophole is found to bring two half-body scanners in - one for the upper body immediately followed by one for the lower half...
Just off the top of my head, you could fly to NZ via Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, San Francisco, Los Angeles or Vancouver. I think also Dallas.
so some number of operations need to be done in order, and if any of them fail then they need to be undone in reverse order... if you don't consider the comma operator to be unconvoluted (it's a bit obscure, I'll give you that) - and know how the && operator "aborts" when an operand is found to be false (*everyone* should know this) then:
// value of "level" will be equal to the number of the operation currently being attempted
// note the lack of "break"
int level = 0;
if ((++level, do_op1()) &&
(++level, do_op2()) &&
(++level, do_op3()) &&
(++level, do_op4()))
{
return 0;
}
// at this point, value of "level" will be equal to the number of the operation that failed
switch (level)
{
case 4:
undo_op4();
case 3:
undo_op3();
case 2:
undo_op2();
case 1:
undo_op1();
}
return -1;
They've been compulsorily fitted to taxis in New Zealand since August. Taxi companies fitted them at their own expense. Drivers are saying they feel safer, and the industry is claiming the amount of abuse against drivers have dropped and the cameras have directly led to arrests, including for several very serious incidents. Despite the camera systems costing upwards of $1000 per vehicle, the drivers are saying it's money well-spent.
So please ignore the cynicism of the Slashdot submitter & editor - they evidently do improve driver safety.
Because using the extension to determine what a file does was characteristic of MS-DOS. So the "C:\" part of that line isn't the only MS-DOSism present in that line, as Unix-like systems use permissions to determine if a file is executable or not rather than the extension.