I'd play it safe and set it 5 seconds fast now so that we don't forget later.

I doubt that. Why would they want that joke back? They were probably really hoping you'd slip up and mention the past 26 Superbowl outcomes.

but you can have 999 players (on a 999 sided polygon field) and 1 ball

The best kind of nit-picking. :)

This is why you SHOULD vote. Vote 3rd party or write in. That at least shows the main two parties that you're willing to vote but aren't happy with them. If you don't vote why should anyone in the government (that is supposed to represent you as a citizen) give a shit what you think?

Don't give up just because your vote won't go to the winner, that doesn't mean it was "thrown away". Your single vote will probably never swing an election anyway. But parties and politicians will absolutely try to appeal to the people who are willing to vote. What matters is that you as a citizen exercise your right to influence your government.

"Caps Lock is cruise control for cool."
-Some INTERNET user forever ago

Alt-33

I remember my dad having black and white CRT monitors that he'd put tinted plastic transparencies over to make them black-and-green, black-and-orange, etc.

I'm sure the same principal could be applied to get red ;)

Regenerative braking can provide up to a certain amount of deceleration based on the speed of the vehicle. Low speeds need to use the conventional brakes to come to a complete stop or hold the vehicle in place. But if you're at moderate speed and the driver (or an automated system) requests more deceleration than the regenerative braking can supply, it still uses that first and then makes up the difference with the conventional brakes. So you still put less wear-and-tear on the conventional brakes.

Source: I work on this stuff. Disclaimer: could vary between different vehicle's (supplier's) design decisions / algorithms.

So the Information Age is going to be followed by the Misinformation Age?

No, he spelled "Slurm" correctly.

Witness!!

Only one thing to do then: we need to throw resources at advancing our cool skater chick and designer digital drug technologies to catch up and balance things out! Best place to start on both would probably be by forking the current EDM scene ...

Maybe not now, but just wait until my bread loaf rail gun is operational ...

To add: I write software for automotive braking systems (ABS, traction control, etc.) which use solenoids to actuate hydraulic valves to control the braking pressure at each wheel. A lot of work goes into controlling the solenoids/valves with a certain duty cycle or current level in order to actuate the valves to precise degrees of openness. This is done both to precisely control hydraulic fluid flow/pressure and also for auditory noise and mechanical vibration reasons. Automakers want ABS/ESC to be as quiet as possible. If the valves simply slam open/closed it's usually very audible to the driver, and potentially distracting at a time when their control of the vehicle could be compromised. Some things are done to dampen this mechanically but largely it comes down to algorithms requesting fine control.

So it depends on the application. Strictly speaking I think a "solenoid" is just the coil of wire which is definitely an analog component, turning an electrical current into a magnetic field. How the core, such as a valve, physically responds to the magnetic field may be simple on/off or could be analog.