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Re: AutoStart / AutoStop Parameters

To: Brian Meyer <bm@gte.net>
Subject: Re: AutoStart / AutoStop Parameters
From: Byron Short <bshort@AFSinc.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 11:18:42 -0700
I definitely agree with Brian here.  For mortals it's not an issue, but 
it would be pretty easy to stretch the Duration out a bit if you thought 
it was going to be.  

--Byron

Brian Meyer wrote:
> 
> >But on a serious note, doesn't the Palm only use longitudinal acceleration
> >in determining auto start/stop?  I suspect it would be possible (albeit
> very
> >hard) to take a large sweeper "perfectly" where you are getting 1+ G
> >lateral acceleration and < .1 G longitudinal acceleration for 3 seconds.
> >I suspect that a 3+ second perfect sweeper is so hard as to be impossible
> >for us humans...but what about Daddio?  I mean, unless someone lets
> >Daddio's micro-fusion reactor run out of fuel or maybe his arithmetic logic
> >unit suffers some Y2K bug he might be able to pull off a perfect 3 second
> >sweeper, right? ;-)
> >
> >John "No, not that one" Engstrom
> 
> Simple, to deal with Daddio, all you need to do is hit him with an
> electromagnetic pulse, or set the autostop to 4 seconds.
> 
> -Brian Meyer
> I suppose you could flashythingy him.


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