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Comment Toyota you have a problem & anonymous posts (Score 0) 482

So i would say am some what of an expert and have a few engineering degrees to back it up. Her is the recap there is a problem but rather than try to find it due to its complexity and lack of ability we get this. Also I have posted 3 anonymous and they all got deleted. The just of the problem is this toyota went f-16 style and choose to fly by wire with the throttle of the car the component that controls speed. No there is no physical link between accelerator and throttle body. Before cruise control used to be completely disengaged if the brake was hit since the servo would not be physically controlling the wire. No all control is computer controlled of the throttle body so the redundant system that was in place was removed 1st mistake. Second before sometime cruise controls may act up due to control system design which needs to properly take into account all inputs and even reaction of the control system again if the car would act up by applying the brake problem would be solve their wore a few recalls before for cruise controls on various cars but no major impact cause brakes can be applied. There are control system bugs that you can take 100 comp sci developers and they will never find it since it is a design bug in the control system aka the governing equations for the system and well if you do not use any but rather treat it as a state machine guess what that is your control look and a horrible one at best.
Wireless Networking

Best Pre-Paid Data Plan For a Visit To Germany? 153

code prole writes "With two upcoming trips to Germany, and no readily available Internet (Wi-Fi or otherwise) in the location where we'll be staying, I'm looking for a no-contract USB stick and pre-paid data plan. Vodafone has a huge selection of USB sticks but has proven to be unresponsive to questions about data plans. And the US-based T-Mobile Help Center was clueless about getting the device in Europe and using it there. Hopefully the Slashdot community has some suggestions. Any duds to avoid?"
Cellphones

BlackBerry Bold Tops Radiation Ranking 189

geek4 writes with this excerpt from eWeek Europe: "Data from the Environmental Working Group places the BlackBerry Bold 9700 as the mobile device with the highest legal levels of cell phone radiation among popular smartphones. Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold 9700 scores the highest among popular smartphones for exposing users to the highest legal levels of cell phone radiation, according to the latest 2010 Environmental Working Group ranking. Following the Bold 9700 are the Motorola Droid, the LG Chocolate and Google's HTC Nexus One. The rankings still put the phones well within federal guidelines and rules."
Science

Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot 398

cremeglace writes "Have you ever noticed that the first cowboy to draw his gun in a Hollywood Western is invariably the one to get shot? Nobel-winning physicist Niels Bohr did, once arranging mock duels to test the validity of this cinematic curiosity. Researchers have now confirmed that people indeed move faster if they are reacting, rather than acting first."
Microsoft

Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting 390

An anonymous reader writes "For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors. With VS 2010, it appears that they have taken the next step of forcing tab width to be the same as the indent size in code. Two-space tabs anyone?"
Mozilla

Mozilla Rolls Out Firefox 3.6 RC, Nears Final 145

CWmike writes "Mozilla has shipped a release candidate build of Firefox 3.6 that, barring problems, will become the final, finished version of the upgrade. Firefox 3.6 RC1, which followed a run of betas that started in early November, features nearly 100 bug fixes from the fifth beta that Mozilla issued Dec. 17. The fixes resolved numerous crash bugs, including one that brought down the browser when it was steered to Yahoo's front page. Another fix removed a small amount of code owned by Microsoft from Firefox. The code was pointed out by a Mozilla contributor, and after digging, another developer found the original Microsoft license agreement. 'Amusingly enough, it's actually really permissive. Really the only part that's problematic is the agreement to "include the copyright notice ... on your product label and as a part of the sign-on message for your software product,"' wrote Kyle Huey on Mozilla's Bugzilla. Even so, others working on the bug said the code needed to be replaced with Mozilla's own."
PlayStation (Games)

US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144

bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."

Comment Email me (Score 1) 131

Email me jgonzalez@renasi.net. Before you try to get terminals and so forth, think of what they really need? Is it mainly high quality video, will they want to display a sort of interactive art that is crystal clear or is this a kiosk with a vga display. Before your start coming up with a solution see what the end experience is supposed to be. Streaming or just copying content is not always the best solution. What is the budget for the project, and what are your deadlines? I think it is great to talk about all the different solutions that you can use but the problem is that you have to be clearer than just terminals for a museum, and the connection to dvd player suggestion may be that some of these supposed terminals may act more just for art that is displayed at intervals, so a good quality plasma and a dvd player would be adequate maybe based on budget constraints. Maybe they may want high quality content that changes at intervals. It all depends on the budget, the interactivity that they want (meaning do they already have adobe flash app done or will you have to include this as part of the system cost?) Like I said email me it seems like a nice project but make sure the solution is adequate for the theme they are going for.

Comment Re:Bay bridge fix (Score 1) 407

Well the fix is only for tension. If you look at the pic the crack is in the bottom of the eye bar. meaning the center of the center of the eye bar tried to move in the direction of the crack (compresion force) but cracked the eye bar since it is the portion that has the highest stress concentration. Most of these eyebars are supposed to be more for tension but in any structure you have tension and compression depending on the load. I do have an eit meaning am board certified to work under a PE. Since this bridge is old we can not assume anything but look at the facts. If the crack is caused by compression why fix it with tension no matter how good you weld the fix, if the welds experience stress this thing is going to come flying of. You have to weld in a matter so that the weld experience compression not tension regardless of what ever fix you come up with. You can also put small sensors on the members of the bridge so you can see the movement of the members, the crack can stem from movement that the bridge experienced on an earthquake regardless the cause what ever the fix do not weld in a mater that the welds see tension or else the fix will come of.

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