On May 20, 10:34*am, "Ian Field" <gangprobing.al...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
> "Tosspot" <Frank.Le...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > On 05/20/2011 02:54 PM, Hog. wrote:
> >>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...-lights-to-sto....
>
> >> how fast do I have to be travelling to trigger the sensor but still make
> >> the
> >> lights at green *)
>
> > Also rather depends if you care about red lights.
>
> Pretty much guaranteed to be a camera to catch that.

Not in Portugal. There are so many, they wouldn't have the resources.
Lights in the middle of nowhere, no road junction, just an automated
stoplight. How many can you take before you start running them?

On Fri, 20 May 2011 17:13:15 +0100, Pip <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In article <4dd66482$0$2538$(E-Mail Removed)>, Hog. says...
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>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...-speeders.html
>>
>> how fast do I have to be travelling to trigger the sensor but still make the
>> lights at green )
>
>They got some bright lad in to the traffic light department in
>Sunderland in the late Seventies.

Linked traffic signal systems predate the late 70's and prelocate to
places of far more world significance than Sunderland. FFS I was working
on computer linked versions in the west end of london before that time.



>He set the system up so you could get
>successive green lights right through the town centre and out the otehr
>side - if you hit them right.


For a long one Marylebone road was a very well designed one. 27-29 got
you all the way from one end to the other without a stop. There was
another window at about 60 but it did mean having to be a little
enthusiastic on the throttle and taking liberties with some of the ambers.
That was only going west though, there was no way you could do the journey
without a stop going east.


The Finchley Road one was a nightmare. A very ambitious scheme to have
dynamically changing timings to reflect not just the difference in N/S
flow during the morning and evening rush hours but also to add in a bit of
E/W variation into the mix. A valve analogue computer with some very
detailed circuit diagrams printed on A1 sized paper as supporting
documentation but not a single word regarding function filling 4 boxes at
the bottom of the hill and 2 at every junction it covered was what they
came up with. I eventually got it working which surprised everybody but
couldn't get it to work anywhere near what could be defined as balanced
which didn't surprise me in the ****ing least. Ambitions beyond the
bounds of current technology that one was. Piece of **** these days of
course, you could do the whole thing as an Iphone app.

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steve auvache

On 21/05/2011 04:41, steve auvache wrote:

> course, you could do the whole thing as an Iphone app.

Here's a fact I've not bothered to check which someone told me last week:
An iPad2 out benchmarks a cray2.

On Sun, 22 May 2011 09:50:30 +0100, cat <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Here's a fact I've not bothered to check which someone told me last
week:
> An iPad2 out benchmarks a cray2.

In MIPS, almost certainly. In FLOPS, probably not.

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ogden / gsxr1000 / ktm duke ii

On Sun, 22 May 2011 10:14:45 +0100, ogden <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Sun, 22 May 2011 09:50:30 +0100, cat <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Here's a fact I've not bothered to check which someone told me last
>week:
>> An iPad2 out benchmarks a cray2.
>
>In MIPS, almost certainly. In FLOPS, probably not.

It would have beat it in gigaflops too.

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/09/ipad-...upercomputers/
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GSX-R1000 K8