Let iPad be iPad.
Remember Steve Jobs gleaming over its genius.
Macintosh PowerBook 100 series was a now over 30 years old solution to airline passengers’ «mouse and wire problem».
The Magic keyboard continues the old solution, awkwardly.
Apple makes the iPad’s genius shine with touch-apps like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro.
There’s no magic, just honest work on the Smart keyboard and the touchscreen.
From http://www.ukraine.com: While Nykirken was built and rebuilt from ca 1621- 1763, Cossacks were fighting for independence from Polish-Lithuanian rule. The Ukrainian church distanced itself from Polish Roman-Catholic influence adapting a Greek-Orthodox liturgy.
Nykirken was severely damaged in a harbour explosion during World War 2 in 1944. 160 killed, 5000 wounded, 5000 homeless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nykirken
The reason for the harbour explosion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST_Voorbode
4. oktober 1944 152 English planes 193 civilians (61 schoolchildren), plus German soldiers and «Russian» slave workers unnumbered. 152 English planes, U-boat bunker largely intact. Carpet bombing of Laksevåg borough. https://digitaltmuseum.org/021085947956/bomber-over-laksevag-i-bergen-holen-skole-1944
Bombeangrepet 29. oktober 1944. 44 dead, 237 Lancaster bombers. Raid failed but one plane dropped its bomb-load over Bergen before crashing.
Interntional Women’s Day.
Balance of Powers does not work.
Balance of Terror does not work.
Boycott does not work.
Trading with dictators does not work. They grow on foreign trade.
The war continues because we´re threatened with more violence if we meddle.
First perpetrator will always reach their initial target.
DIN A uses an aspect ratio of 1:√2. It will not spiral.
It will scale like a fractal, but then it is not paper nor pulp any more.
A0 to A13 ad infinitum or into fractals.
http://www.papersizes.io/ is helpful.
Formula Libre
Liberty Media owns F1. Michael Masi is finally Champion of the World. He chose to let Verstappen race. He also had the choice to let the race finish to the rules of the event. But then Hamilton would have won. All this information was in front of Michael Masi. He looked at the pawns and kings and turned the chess board around. Michael Masi is The Great Race Cancellator. He cancelled the finale race for Mercedes and Hamilton who might as well have parked their car. This was not «Let them race!»
Verstappen should have learned from Silverstone and Monza what happens when you crash your race car into another race car. Silverstone was a true “Let them race” moment.
Verstappen claimed his position by crashing into Hamilton instead of giving way. He claimed his right according to the rules. The same in Monza.
At Interlagos Hamilton was disqualified for a 0,2 mm gap in the Mercedes wing. Why was the driver disqualified instead of a fine of 0,2 Euros for Mercedes, the maker of the car?
Etonland
Baronland
Etonia
I bought a second-hand Toyota RAV4 2015 automatic, and I feel I am driving a gearbox instead of an engine. That feeling intrigued me into remembering LJK Setright’s article on gearboxes in CAR Magazine in the late 1980s. He concluded the article on how a revolution in gearboxes would come from Holland, The Netherlands. The DAF Variomatic gearbox was the new gearbox of the future. It has now got 50 years of development built into it and is known as a Continuously Variable Transmission, a CVT and is in my Toyota.
LJKS and I were driving fuelcars, fuelies; and my Toyota RAV4 with a CVT transmission has a 2-litre, 150 bhp four cylinder engine. How the CVT-box varied the gear ratio was not noticeable as it was in the traditional ZF 4-speed automatic transmission in my Land Rover Discovery V8. The Toyota CVT kept the engine’s rpm at a surprisingly low 1200-2200 rpm in town and landscape driving, easily keeping up with traffic, and promising to go well faster with its ECO-mode lamp still glowing. This is remarkable because the engine gives out maximum torque at 3200 rpm and maximum power at 6200 rpm, so only a third of available energy is used.
My care and consideration for the environment shifted my thinking about higher speeds to this competent engine that was driving the Toyota. A good engine, but what if it was replaced by an electric motor? That would have meant a first ever electric motor with a gearbox. Toyota’s CVT is a well proven gearbox. It would have reduced the el-motorspeed, and reduced battery drain. It would also have allowed smaller el-motors to have less battery consumption with smaller battery packs, or increased mileage. Larger cars could increase their travel distance, maybe doubled or tripled mileage and the battery’s resource drain on the environment.
The battery-electric motorcar on CVT gearing would be a power efficient, fast as you like, carozzeria, a coach and a van, all built and driven intelligently. Not as intelligently as Steve Jobs’ pedal bike about town, but perhaps more so. A bike has a set of gears in its basic form. Its selection of gears is what makes the bike intelligent, not the rider on top of the frame.
Electric motorbikes on CVT would be intelligent. Standard bikes are there for riders to feel the excitement of operating the mechanics. That’s it; thrills, and we love it!
An electric motor’s 6000 rpm top speed will be reduced to 2000 rpm at high legal speeds by the CVT, promising to reduce the drain on the batteries 2-3 fold. Battery life is a weak point in electric cars. An electric motor with a CVT transmission will be able to double and even triple battery life beyond zero emissions, healing the battery’s weakness.
Is this what is coming for the model year 2022 with the Toyota bZ4X? If not, «beyond zero» will be meaningless.
Toyota’s promotional material says they will launch the Beyond Zero electric crossover. It is fully electric and teaser photos show automatic gearbox controls. Have Toyota been brave enough to solve the battery problem of electric cars? And the range problem as per above? Or have they compromised to deliver a mechanical first gear for the masses instead of the purity of the CVT?
Darth Wader styling-theme and now the Starship Toyota travelling beyond Zero. That’s nice to know.
ZF Friedrichshafen, Zahnradfabrik, should make gearboxes again. ZF CVT gearboxes.
I used to think I was quick at changing gears but automatics are much faster. The Variomatic has abolished all stops in its continuum, its endless loop, its high tech infinite loop.
The Apple Car needs to have a variomatic cvt transmission. Maybe the development of an infinite transmission of power is what is holding it up?
Eton boys make England appear Low-Q.
Those boys are the links back to Magna Carta and the barons opposing the king.
King Charles will sort them out. The Great Charter will then be restored as a historical Constitution.
If you see me blank-staring at my home screen, don’t touch me. I’m in cybermode.
Mercedes-Benz has something to prove for 2021, Red Bull has not.
Mercedes-Benz needs to build convincing cars for a changing market.
Red Bull only needs to change some of its marketing material
… and sweeten their drink.
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