Re: Robocar--a decade away?

"peachy a****e passion" <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Ken from Chicago wrote:
>
>> "peachy a****e passion" <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>David DeLaney wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:51:53 -0600, Bill Snyder <bsnyder@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:46:50 -0600, "Ken from Chicago"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>On busy highways at least around Chicago, there's LESS than a car 
>>>>>>length spacing because people will cut in front of you. Plenty of
room 
>>>>>>for a robot to stop in. ABS works by having the machine brake
MULTIPLE 
>>>>>>TIMES per second, much less simply slamming the brakes for an 
>>>>>>emergency stop.
>>>>>
>>>>>"LESS than a car length" is "Plenty of room," eh?  There are a bunch
>>>>>of concepts with names like "inertia" and "momentum" and in
particular
>>>>>"kinetic energy" and "static friction" and "dynamic friction" with
>>>>>which you really ought to have acquainted yourself before posting
>>>>>retarded drivel like this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Also "air bags" and "grinding the face into the steering wheel".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Even simpler translation and ObSF:  "'In five years, the ***** will
be
>>>>>obsolete,' said the salesman."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Dave "what do you mean, blue screen of death?" DeLaney
>>>
>>>  You know, I KNOW you guys keep saying this.  But I haven't actually 
>>> SEEN a BSOD in years.  Close to 5 years, I'd say.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Which is part of the reason Microshaft's Vista has been tanking. XP has

>> been stabilized for so long and is the OS that Enterprise IT knows so 
>> well that they are resisting full-tilt "upgrading" to Vista that MS has

>> finally relented and "backgraded" XP to have the only significant
feature 
>> of Vista, the improved security.
>>
>> Plus it wasn't helped that Vista is a resource / hardware hog and the 
>> early driver incompatibilities was a deathknell for the system. It's 
>> about the worse techno launch since ... Apple's Newton.
>>
>> -- Ken from Chicago
>
>   *shrug*  All I know is that my ME never once BSOD'd on me in the
entire 
> time I ran it.  Now I've had XP for a few years, and it's never BSOD'd
on 
> me.
>
>   I can run 7 or 8 applications at the same time I've got multiple
browser 
> windows open doing graphics heavy work, and the system doesn't slow down

> and get uncomfortable unless I have over 35 **** windows open at the
same 
> time.  Yes, I know the number of windows.
>
>   I figure so long as it's set up so you have to look at **** on a 
> separate operating system, the car will run fine.

How much ram memory does your pc have? Cuz Vista needs at least 2 gig to
run 
fairly well, unless you totally strip it down to barebones mode--IOW 
downgrade it back to XP, except it's much slower.

-- Ken from Chicago