The Highlights of Auto Futures Live: The Future of Fuel - Auto Futures Reading Time: 3 minutes Auto Futures Live: The Future of Fuel was held at the Thomson Reuters HQ in London on October 29th. The event brought together journalists, leading brands and industry professionals, including an inspiring panel. The discussion and Q&A session featured a thought-provoking discussion, including policy-making, the air quality crisis, infrastructure and, of course, which fuel will rule. From hydrogen and battery electric vehicles to synthetic fuels and the internal combustion engine, our panel and audience explored the pros and cons of each propulsion. Our panel included Riversimple CEO Hugo Spowers; Head of Electric Vehicles and Connected Services Groupe PSA, Helen Lees; Professor of Turbomachinery at Imperial College London, Ricardo Martinez-Botas and Business Lead, Clean Air, ClientEarth, Dominic Phinn. The panel was moderated by radio news reporter and presenter Rachel Burden. “You could say dinosaurs weren’t replaced by better dinosaurs. We’ll see you next time!
Accidental Emacs Nice to see Emacs getting a bit of press recently. I’ve used it for almost 20 years now and it dominates my time at the keyboard. It isn’t perfect and I’m reluctant to recommend it but I wouldn’t want to be without it. Let me explain. The best thing about Emacs is that it can do everything (including the things it can’t do yet). The rest of this article describes a few of these happy accidents: modes I never knew about and tricks I wish I’d learned earlier. Emacs the Operating System Whenever I see the Emacs splash screen (click on the graphic for a close-up) I’m amazed anyone ever gets past it. You can do basic editing with the menu bar and scroll bar using the mouse. Unhappily the rest of the screen discredits this friendly proposition. Best of all, though, is the opening proposition: GNU Emacs is one component of the GNU operating system which I read as a straight-faced rebuttal of the old gag: OS integration examples META-! Window Management Well, I reckon Emacs has this problem cracked.
Lack of female role models undermining STEM career paths Role models have a great impact on one’s life choices. Teenagers who have positive role models have greater self-esteem and perform better in school than teenagers without role models in their lives, according to research. One will try to follow a role model’s footsteps, which can be done both consciously and unconsciously. When you think of famous engineers, how many women come to mind? Root of STEM’s research, which was conducted across 270 high schools, showed that on average 63% of the math and science teachers were women (68% of the math teachers and 56 % of the science teachers were women) compared to 80% women teachers in all subjects in the state of North Carolina. Currently, only 13% of practicing engineers are women and this can result in a downward spiral: the smaller the number of female engineers, the lower the chance is of one of those to become successful and become a role model to others, which again lowers the chances of women entering the field.
IVI The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design | Design ‘Let’s face the considerable evidence that all sitting is harmful,” writes Galen Cranz, a design historian whose book The Chair traces this object’s long history. Not all sitting, of course. For people who use wheelchairs, they’re an elegant and crucial technology. And sitting itself is not the culprit; any unchanging, repetitive motion or posture fails to give the body the variation it needs. But Cranz, writing primarily for an audience of ambulatory readers in industrialised and therefore sedentary societies, is one of many researchers who have been saying for decades that chairs are a major cause of pain and disability. Sitting for hours and hours can weaken your back and core muscles, pinch the nerves of your rear end and constrain the flow of blood that your body needs for peak energy and attention. For most of human history, a mix of postures was the norm for a body meeting the world. But while they remind us of the human form, chairs rarely do much to actually support it.
Book Reviews Story | The Trousers of Reality Rather than expound upon the virtues of Yet Another Methodology or a Prescribed Practice, the author sets out to show that the wisdom and experiences of the last few millennia have lead to principles and practices that transcend particular methodologies or approaches and form the basis of success; that introspection and empathy will serve better than adherence to position and retreat behind logical argument; and that, ultimately, we all want similar outcomes — even if it's not obvious on the face of it. If you have ever been torn between deadlines and burnout, stretched between politics and technology, or simply wondered "How am I going to get through this?" I think that this book definitely has something to offer you. Firstly: a disclaimer. When he announced that he was taking time out to commit his experiences to paper, I admit I was keen read his book. "The Most Important Chapter In This Book" follows next and introduces the idea of "Deep Structure and Surface Structure".
Radical UK hydrogen car revealed A ground-breaking hydrogen-powered city car, which has been designed in Britain and financed by the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, is to be unveiled next week. Autocar can reveal that the Riversimple Urban Car will have a far smaller fuel cell than in current industry prototypes and thus needs less hydrogen to be stored on board and in fuelling stations. The vehicle is no bigger than a Smart car, weighing just 350kg, and has been developed over three years by teams at Oxford and Cranfield universities. It can reach 50mph and travel in excess of 200 miles, consuming the equivalent petrol energy of 300mpg in hydrogen. Power comes from a 6kw fuel cell, which is tiny compared to the 100kw system powering the Honda Clarity. It uses a composite body to keep the weight down and four electric motors on each wheel, which double as brakes and electricity generators. Hugo Spowers, head of Riversimple, said: "Cars evolved under very different constraints to those of today, so we must move on.
www.mannyneira.com: Computers: Universe: Life, the UniVerse, and Everything Introduction: Introduction to this course Acknowledgements: Commercial Acknowledgements About... About Universe: About the Universe DBMS UniVerse and UNIX: UniVerse and the UNIX operating system The UniVerse Paradigm: The conceptual framework of Universe Prompt The Command Prompt: Using the ">" prompt The Command Stack: Accessing your command history Files UniVerse Files: Data storage in Universe Directory Files: Directory or Type 1 Files Static Files: Static or fixed modulo hashed Files Dynamic Files: Dynamic or Type 30 Files Records Records: Records and Editing The Editor - ED: The Universe line editor: ED Editor Macros: Programming in ED Dictionaries Dictionaries: Data definition dictionaries Data Fields: D type or data fields Imaginary Fields: I type or imaginary fields Phrases: PH type or phrases Other Dictionary Items: None of the above The Dictonary Dictionary: Defining the data definitions The REVISE Command: The REVISE automated data entry system Indexing Fields: Indexing in Universe
Climate change: The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about Image copyright Getty Images Concrete is the most widely used man-made material in existence. It is second only to water as the most-consumed resource on the planet. But, while cement - the key ingredient in concrete - has shaped much of our built environment, it also has a massive carbon footprint. Cement is the source of about 8% of the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to think tank Chatham House. If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in the world - behind China and the US. Cement industry leaders were in Poland for the UN's climate change conference - COP24 - to discuss ways of meeting the requirements of the Paris Agreement on climate change. So, how did our love of concrete end up endangering the planet? In praise of concrete As the key building material of most tower blocks, car parks, bridges and dams, concrete has, for the haters, enabled the construction of some of the world's worst architectural eyesores. 'Action needed' 1.
How ISPs Could Combat Botnets Focusing on the top 50 infected networks could eliminate half of all compromised machines. Convincing Internet service providers to pinpoint infected computers on their networks could eliminate the lion’s share of zombie computers responsible for churning out spam and initiating other online threats, according to a new analysis. The researchers analyzed more than 63 billion unsolicited e-mail messages sent over a four-year period and found more than 138 million unique internet addresses linked to sending out the spam. By correlating the Internet protocol addresses of these spam-sending machines with the networks maintained by Internet service providers, the researchers found that about two-thirds of them were located in the networks managed by the 200 largest ISPs from 40 countries. The research suggests that regulations designed to force ISPs to take action to curtail compromised systems would dramatically impact cybercriminals’ botnets.
Raspberry Pi Blog - News, Announcements, and Ideas Looking for this year’s perfect something to put under the tree ‘from Santa’? Well, look no further than right here — it’s time for our traditional Christmas shopping list! Woohoo! Which Raspberry Pi? As you are no doubt aware, the Raspberry Pi comes in more than one variety. Raspberry Pi 3B+ For someone learning to write code for the first time, we recommend the Raspberry Pi 3B+. Raspberry Pi Zero W The Raspberry Pi Zero W comes at a lower price, and with it, a smaller footprint than the 3B+. Pre-loaded micro SD card Whatever Raspberry Pi you choose for the lucky receiver of your Christmas gift, we also recommend getting them a pre-loaded micro SD card. Books, books, books We’re releasing two new books this week that are perfect for any Christmas stocking! Code Club Book of Scratch Volume 1 The Code Club team is buzzing over the release of the first Code Club book, which is available to order now. The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide Magazine subscriptions Accessories and such Swag Add-ons
Understanding Dual-Stack Lite The previous article examined a couple of basic Large Scale NAT (LSN) architectures – NAT444 and NAT464 – for creating dual stacked networks in the face of a depleted IPv4 address pool. The focus is primarily on broadband service providers, who must somehow continue to assign addresses to very large numbers of new customers when there are no new IPv4 addresses to use. Assigning IPv6 addresses alone is not practical for two reasons: · Almost all services accessible on the public Internet are still IPv4 only · Although quickly changing, many broadband customers are still running operating systems that either do not support IPv6 or have some shortcomings in their IPv6 support LSN – the newer, more accurate name for what was previously called Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) – is simply a NAT that is located in a service provider network rather than in a customer network. NAT444 is the simplest architecture for providing IPv4 addresses on the provider-to-customer links.