"Acceleration" is change in velocity - in either direction. Sorry for being a jerk
No, jerk is change in acceleration (third derivative of position with respect to time).
Sorry for being a pedant.
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I'd happily do a week inside if it meant I could have over $6 million to burn through
When sent to prison for fraud/theft you don't get to keep what you stole. His sentence also includes the requirement to forfeit more than $11 billion.
You'd spend the rest of your life trying to repay that $6 million.
Great idea, the only minor snag with it is that CAN is a bi-directional bus that uses differential signaling over two wires only so there is no dedicated TX pin as such and cutting the connection would isolate the ELDs from the CAN network thus rendering it completely unable to monitor the vehicle systems.
If the transceiver is separate from the µController, there will be a tx-enable and/or separate rx/tx data pins, so it it should be possible to cut a trace on the board and turn it into a rx-only device.
If the transceiver is integrated into the µController (didn't used to be a thing, especially for automotive), then that's not possible.
Why, do you think it's OK for criminals to attack people as long as the victims are rich?
No I do not.
I just don't feel very sorry for these particular victims. My apologies if that wasn't clear in my original post.
Whether something is illegal or not and whether the offenders should be pursued or not have nothing to do with my personal level of sympathy for victim. I guess that's how some people must think, though...
Well, his statement "...because you are tens times closer to the earth compared to geostationary satellites in low Earth orbit." is, to quote Wolfgang Pauli, "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." So it makes one wonder what else is ill-conceived.
My reaction exactly. I stopped reading at that point.
And kudos for the Pauli quote.
I'm not too keen on referring to air as "fuel" in this context either. To me, that implies air is the source of the energy used to produce thrust. It isn't, it's just reaction mass (or working mass).
couldn't you just add some capacitors or something to hold the charge on the DRAM and thus preserve its state, at least for a short-time
Capacitors that preserve state for a short time: That's exactly what DRAM already is.
You can increase the time it can preserve state by increasing the size of the capacitors. Right now, that time is 10s of milliseconds. Want to make it 10s of seconds? Multiply size (therfore cost) by 1000. Want to make it 10s of years?
What's the problem in putting thought into swift, efficient public transport?
One big problem in many areas is low population density:
US: 37 people per km²
England: 400+ people per km²
Netherlands: 500+ people per km²
In the state of Montana (triple the area of England) it's less than 3 people per km²
The towers are just metal. Yes, they're owned by tower companies, but the towers themselves (as long as they're standing), and who owns them, have no effect on the cellular service provided through the equipment bolted to them and in the shelters at their bases. THAT is owned by the cellular providers, who pay rent to the tower companies for space on the towers.
That's how it worked yonks ago when I designed cellsite radio gear. I'm VERY skeptical that it has since changed so that now companies like American Tower own and run the actual radios and telephone networks — and that Verizon, ATT, and T-Mobile are just reselling access/minutes/GB the way that Cricket et alia do.
Cellular network operators have been using rented antenna and equipment space on/in other people's towers and buildings since the very beginning back in 1980.
I *think* it means running the desktop, video and audio on a remote machine and streaming it to you. In the old days these were called thin and thick clients. Citrix was a big player.
Is that how the *-365 apps work!? I always assumed they were written in JavaScript than ran in the browser like the various Google apps (mail, docs, sheets, etc.).
And then there are the apps. This part is trickier to overcome, and ignoring the Microsoft 365-shaped elephant in the room is difficult. [...]Google's solution? Streaming, of course! Stream those apps to your ChromeOS Flex desktop.
OK, I know I'm old, but now I'm completely lost...
I thought the *-365 apps were web-based and only required a subscription and a browser (like Chrome) to run?
And what does "streaming an app to your desktop" mean?
When discussing Intel's notable failures, it would be remiss to omit the iAPX432. It was the 32-bit processor that was supposed to replace the 16-bit 8086 family of processors.
It flopped so hard it was detected by seismographs the world over.
It was ultra-CISC with all sorts of high-level constructs directly implemented in an instruction set designed explicity for running code from high-level languages like Pascal and Ada.
However, it turned out to be way slower at running real programs than the 80286 that was already in use widely when the iAPX432 was released.
Window Maker Live, intended to show off one minimalistic window manager,
I re-read the article a couple times, but I'm still missing something. What window manager is it showing off?
There's one mention that IceWM was born in 1997, the same year that WindowMaker was born. Are we to conclude that WindowMaker was created to show off IceWM? Is IceWM currently the default window manager in Window Maker?
-- police crime effectively --
I parsed that initially as Noun Verb Adverb, and it took me quite a while to figure out it was meant to be Verb Noun Adverb.
There's a legal podcast I listen to regularly where one of the hosts likes to colloquially use "crime" as a verb. Actually it's usually "criming" used as a gerund, but apparently my brain has adjusted and now considers crime to be either noun or verb.
So he admits to using code that he developed whilst working at a former employer for a later employer, and then posting that to GitHub. He's a braver person than I am.
It's OK because it was based on code he took with him when he left his previous employer?
Are there really employers where you are allowed to take product code with you when you leave?!?!
If I recall correctly it had two register sets that were (or could) be swapped during interrupt service speeding up ISRs.
Yep. But you could also use them to implement very low overhead cooperative co-routines. [That slowed down ISRs a bit compared to using the second register set for ISRs, but coroutines were pretty cool.] One of the cellular phone designs I worked on back around '84 or so used a Z80 clone and that trick. IIRC, it was a joint venture with a british company -- Racal-something[1]. The cell channel limits/spacing were slightly different between the British and US versions...
[1] Vedic, Redac, ???
One of the cell-site radio designs I worked on at that same time used the Z8000, and that kicked ass!
Just to extend that slightly: We're still affected by EU regulations directly or indirectly, and now we have no control at all over those regulations. This situation was inevitable, entirely predictable, and does not benefit the UK at all.
Not only was it predictable; it was predicted -- loudly and repeatedly in almost those exact words.
And for those Linux users without a mouse wheel, and can't afford a quid, then simultaneous LeftButton + RightButton usually does the trick.
Depending on your desktop or WM, you might need to enable "middle mouse button emulation" (or something like that) in the mouse settings. IIRC, It can be controlled by 'xinput' if you're the type who edits config/rc files manually.
"Seems an odd way to run a legal system"
Each State has it's own Bar. Trump's brain-trust made sure he had a flunky who had passed the Bar in Florida and was a licensed lawyer in that State.
True, but this isn't a state court, it's a federal court. Not only does the federal court have its own bar, each _district_ of federal court has its own bar. As does each appeals circuit, etc. It is a bit of a mess, but that's what happens when you try to merge together a dozen-plus completely separate sovereign governments of previously independent peoples that don't like or trust each other.
But hey, at least we have a constitution that got put down on paper. :)