Posts by Anonymous Coward 903 posts • joined 26 Jun 2008
Nobody claimed that it was a closed system or that you could recover 100% of the energy.
The simple fact remains that an electric motor being spun from an external force generates electricity, so a plane descending can recover some charge (maybe 10%, but that's still 10% that doesn't need topping up on the ground)
An ICE cannot generate more fuel under any circumstances (oil seeping through into the fuel doesn't count!)
Which hints at the big advantage of electric propulsion... when you don't need to push, you can run the system in reverse and generate electricity to (partially) recharge the batteries. With combustion fuels you don't stand much chance of creating more fuel. (Except possibly hydrogen...)
Autopilot is exactly a driver/pilot assist technology. No more, no less.
In aviation terms, an autopilot will follow a heading at a set altitude until it is told otherwise (whether direct pilot input or a trigger from a pre-planned route). Aviation autopilots will also happily fly into another plane in their path if there is one (unless augmented with other systems, but it's then not just an autopilot).
I'm sure they would also fly straight into an overturned truck floating in their flight path.
Equally a bridge/flyover going over the road that you're on, especially when your road dips to go under it. To a human it's quite clear that you're not going to smash into the bridge but to radar/lidar it's not so clear.
That's why they generally ignore big stationary objects.
Medical devices, like their remote access server? You know, that think that facilitates working from home for a significant proportion of the staff; those doing admin things such as ordering meds, PPE, etc or completing other 'paper'work.
Yeah, I can see how they shouldn't have any form of internet connection for that.
I suspect you've been in this game a similar amount of time to me.
I've taken to darkening most of the image, just leaving the target item bright. so instructions that say 'click this button' will highlight the button and dull the context.
Users really are dumb sometimes.
Shared libraries are not about minimising disk space.
When a vulnerability is discovered in a library (say, jpeg parsing) you can update that library once and be done rather than having to wait for every app vendor to update their app and then installing each and every one of those. Better not miss one or you'll still be vulnerable.
I'm currently using a ~11 year old Pro 2400 set. Some of the legends are wearing off and the wrist-rest is shiny, but otherwise it has been flawless. Keyboard batteries last 12 months, mouse ones 6.
I haven't installed the logitech software though - distant memories remind me that it's annoying and experience says that it's not needed anyway.
My current car has such a bracket, but my previous car had such a discreet arrangement that I didn't notice for about 2 years - the fuel cap had a couple of notches in the side, allowing it to perch atop the flap. It was also tethered so couldn't be removed entirely. A brilliant bit of design, masked by the fact that nobody knew about it - I told several other owners of similar cars who all responded with "wow, never knew that!"
Prior to that car though, there was no such arrangement. The cap either got placed on the pump, or on the car roof. I never had a problem with that either.
He is such a major flight risk that he cannot be released on furlough or similar.
But if he's that worried about contracting covid-19, there's another way to keep him safe... solitary confinement. If he has zero contact with any other living creature, the risk of contracting it are significantly reduced to the point of elimination.
Boosting that fuel has a cost, and the risk of it leaking is high.
It would also be difficult to haul enough fuel for multiple satellites.
If you're sending up a purely refuelling rig, you may as well send up a complete new bird to benefit from other technological advances.
Lycra. Indeed, it's prohibited on a mountain bike. That's rule #18
Indeed, I once drove all the way across the country to a rented cottage that we hadn't seen before, purely on intuition. My parents made the same journey at the same time but using sat-nav (we were coming back at different times hence needing both cars).
I arrived almost 2 hours before them.
Sat-nav has its uses, but is not always the right solution.
Anyway, back to the topic... from what I've witnessed, public transport is pretty much empty at the moment. A friend commutes by train (to a hospital) - normally it's standing room only and getting friendly, but the last 2 weeks she has had three whole carriages to herself.
It looks to me like there used to be peaks associated with weekends, but now there are troughs at the weekend. That implies that it is now being used for work related travel more than leisure, which is a good thing.
Well, kind of. I mean how many people are going to get lost on their way to work, or end up on an airport runway?
My car (of German origin) has a tyre pressure monitoring system that relies on the ABS sensors and looks at comparative differences on wheel rotation - a soft/flat tyre has a smaller circumference and thus will spin quicker.
That struck me as a very clever implementation, but it does mean that you need to drive some distance to get reliable data, because going around corners has a similar effect on rotational speeds.
My experience has shown that it alerts me to a soft tyre at around the same time as I notice it, maybe before. A proper flat however I noticed a long time before it alerted me (I kept going, slowly, another mile because there was nowhere safe to stop on that bit of road)
I've done the whole AD-within-registered-domain a lot. And some of those businesses have then decided to change their company (or 'trading as') name and thus register a new domain, redirecting the website etc. It plays havoc with the AD setup. Having a unique domain for the AD saves a lot of hassle in those situations.
I don't believe there is any one 'best' arrangement to cover all situations.
While we're on the subject, the US recommendation is 6ft separation whereas in the UK it's 2m. That extra 17cm might make all the difference, so perhaps we should err on the side of caution and go with the 2m one?
For reference, 6ft is about 13 linguine; 2m is a smidge over 14
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