Comment Re:Distance and Charge Time (Score 3, Informative) 174
Its just like a British milk float. It spends a lot of its time stopped, so an engine which doesn't need to idle is more efficient.
Its just like a British milk float. It spends a lot of its time stopped, so an engine which doesn't need to idle is more efficient.
More to the point its like being afraid of flying sharks. You could make a shark fly but it wouldn't be a particularly dangerous predator once you got it working.
Doesn't work that way in aerospace. The client pays for maintenance. Margins on development are small and the risk for developers is very high. If the airlines insisted on free fixes, the developer would just disappear. They don't want that to happen so they pay for the extra work.
As long as passengers are willing to pay for the upgraded gear with the price of their tickets.
Those poor, poor airline operators.
Passengers will pay.
Thinking about this on the train this morning I reckon you could get close by using Doppler sensing sonar along a corridor with one way doors at each end. A Doppler shift which indicates somebody going the wrong way would disable both doors until humans sort it out. It could probably be augmented with a camera based system. There would inevitably be false positives from kids darting around, etc but you wouldn't have to shut down the terminal.
(we assume most people aren't complete morons in Australia).
Did you _see_ the results of the last election?
Touche.
But in our defence, only 32% of people voted for the Libs, the remaining 13% was made up of the various national parties. The 5% that got them over the post were due to dodgy preference deals.
But realistically the dregs of Labor weren't getting back in to office.
How about one of those big fans they use for indoor skydiving, but oriented horizontally and pointed away from airside.
I found a nokia at a tram stop once. It was just the internal structure and battery, but a bit of hunting around in the gutter revealed the case. It had been dropped on the road and repeatedly run over. I snapped the lot together and found the most frequently dialed numbers (parents in Malaysia, not calling there to say I had found their daughters phone smashed on a road in Melbourne). Called her boyfriend and he arranged for me to drop off the phone. Very strong bits of gear, Nokias.
Aluminum is brittle, while steel deforms.
Pass the wrong type of object to a javascript library. The library happily accepts your crud, passing it through 14 levels of function calls and then says something useful like "a is not a function".
I should be safe in Eastern Aus. We could get a new inland sea out of it.
Consider this scenario. I am merging right to make a right turn.
This doesn't work with automatic cars because they don't understand hand signals. Instead I just have to merge and hope the overtaking cars are going to give way. If this behaviour becomes common, people will start merging without indicating in the expectation that automatic systems will take care of the resulting conflict.
I ride a bike to work and I indicate for right and left turns as well as stopping under some conditions. I doubt that the systems on a (semi) automatic car will understand that.
Could that body have been... The Earth? The same thing happens whenever I try to look at Paris from Australia.
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