Comment Re:When you have a bad driver ... (Score 1) 961
Look it up, it is in fact RR. Forklifts are also RR, and I would not call them "itty"
Look it up, it is in fact RR. Forklifts are also RR, and I would not call them "itty"
The car can't see the road or predict where you want to go or what direction you want to be facing at any point in a turn. Traction control assumes you want to make safe and mild turns and will steal energy from your wheels to stop you doing manuvers you may intentionally be trying to perform.
As a practical example let's say you enter an intersection in the turning lane such that you will cut across traffic (to the left in the US, the right in Japan). If you are in an FR or an MR and you turn the wheel enough that you would make the turn normally, then depress the clutch, rev up to say 5 or 6 thousand RPM, then pop the clutch, one of the following things will happen:
A. If you have traction control ON you will make the turn normally.
B. If you have traction control OFF the rear wheels will slip and escape to the side and you will perform a "spin turn", wich will result in a very tight U-turn.
If you intended to do a spin turn and you left traction control ON you would not end up makign that U-Turn you wanted to and would end up making a normal turn, also looking like a douchebag as your car sloppily jitters through the intersection.
Don't mean to nitpick but Honda makes MidShips including the upcoming S660. Also even though the above quote states "middle of the car" I'm pretty sure it's RR, not MR.
Side note: Our office car is a Toyota MR-S and it is a blast. Mind you it only has 140~ish BHP, but it's really made me love MR layouts and I am definitely checking out the S660.
Actually APNG is explicitly mentioned as a supported format for the image tag in the HTML5 spec.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#the-img-element
Search for "APNG".
There's a patch for Chrome/Chromium they've promised to accept if they see more widespread usage. Also may I point out that APNG gracefully degrades to PNG - so APNG will not actually break anything you'll just get the first frame on a browser that does not support APNG. In other words no "this site looks best in" required - just be aware that some browsers will only show the first frame.
It would be great to have a widely accepted standard from the get-go but that is something we do not have. APNG is the closest thing to an accepted standard and until we see wider usage we will not see wider adoption. And without better tools to handle it we most certainly will not see wider usage and thus this project. If you're sick of putting up with GIF or having to use JS/CSS hacks for animation would you not agree that APNG would be nice to have?
For one of our stretch goals we were considering implementing a jQuery plugin to dis-assemble and animate APNG images for browsers that do not support APNG. Since we would prefer having people use APNG and browser developers realize the demand and implement it themselves we decided not to include this. After implementing apngasm in CoffeeScript/JavaScript writing something like this would be trivial - would you like us to re-add this as a stretch goal?
Every time I see Bill Gates blowing his horn about spending a minute fraction of his fortune on malaria I am reminded of the fact Microsoft regularly sues schools for improperly licensed copies of Windows and Office through the BSA. They gag order as many fo them as they can so the numbers we know are just a fraction of the actual number of schools they've sued.
Seriously Bill, thanks for your malaria work. Other than that fuck you.
Yes and it's unstable and awful. Go fuck yourself AC.
Function reject.