One of the reasons they are trying to do this is to make the lights smaller.
That is one of the big problems with HID bulbs. The smaller the point source of the light the more blinding it is. They should be trying to make the emitting surface larger so they can make it less blinding to someone in the beam path.
Example: If you doubled the light output of a modern HID automotive lighting system but made the emitting surface 10 times as large the driver would be able to see much better and people in the beam pattern wouldn't be blinded anywhere near as much as they are currently.
The other bit is blue light stinks as an illumination source. Your eyes don't work well with that portion of the spectrum and it reduces your depth perception.
That is so obvious that I would suspect that a large company or a government could never get the idea out of a committee. Everyone who has had a R/C car is familiar with the idea because you want to use the thing instead of watch it sit there plugged in...
Two things would be required to make this work out:
- The cells would need to be packaged in one or two standard formats.
- They would also have make it so the condition/replacement of the batteries are a group thing. The charging stations swap out any dieing cells so and that cost is spread across the whole marketplace.
It is a misdirection...
The parent's user names isn't "kdawson", it is "kdawson (3715)". The number inside of parens is part of the name. the user number is 1344097.
I find I have to say something because someone somewhere may follow the links and give it a try. The obviously stupid first post just advertises a piece of junk from a known spyware vendor named CyberDefender.
The following link will give you a pretty clear idea: http://help.lockergnome.com/general/Avoid-Clean-PC--ftopict65244.html
This software is junk. Registry scanners/cleaners are junk (unless you mean a GOOD antivirus product scanning for virus related entries). The registry has no firm rules how it is to be used so there is no automated way to clean it.
There is no single magic bullet to remove a malware infection. The closest thing to a magic bullet (at this time) is a removal tool called "ComboFix" from a site called BleepingComputer.com, and it is free. It won't remove everything and it sometimes may remove a file used by a program but it is saved as a file in its quarantine. Run it in safe-mode with networking and it might get you out of an expensive jam.
The point of the lottery is simply to make money for the state. There isn't any reason that it must be impossible to make money off of it unless that keeps the state from making money on it.
The fact is there were already laws on the books against distracted driving. The problem is that it isn't an "exciting" infraction to enforce.
Cops have a really thick book of possible tickets to write but if the infraction isn't exciting or "sexy". the cops aren't writing tickets. Far and away the most common root cause of accidents works out to failure to yield right-of-way. This can be from obliviousness (cells and whatnot), aggression, stupidity, ignorance, etc. When this driving behavior is witnessed a police officer is more likely to just give a warning. And this is what is killing people.
If it is a "sexy" infraction the cops are all over it. Speeding which is a root cause in accidents in very low rates (I have seen figures listed on the high side at 4% and on the low side at about 1%). Why is this the vast majority of tickets written? Because it is exciting. Cell phones have been given such a big public blitz (for good reason) and it is easy to see so it is now a big enforcement item. Seatbelts became a huge item in most places even though that doesn't cause accidents because of intense media/public pressure (making sure you don't have the freedom to do something to injure yourself is very important...)
Very simply: To do some good we need to be getting police traffic enforcement focused on the core issue of failure to yield right-of-way with people that can't seem to realize they are driving a 2-ton kinetic energy weapon. And the supposed idea that, "Driving is a privilege not a right"... If people demonstrate that they can't consistently follow the rules of right-of-way then it criminal negligence on the government's part to continue to let them drive.
. .. No, we don't want to be in a world where idiots die. . ..
Actually from all of us that have been stuck on the I-405 on a daily basis, or those of us that have watched our elected officials do things such as "Health Care Reform" without ever addressing the single obvious core issue... (Cost!)
So actually yes, we really do want to cull the pool a fair bit. The system of this planet worked quite well by letting the lesser organisms fall. Frankly I think our city's would be a nicer place if they would release a few tigers every once in a while. People who have no awareness of anything outside of themselves are a blight on the planet. (Yes I mean you! The idiot who can't look away from your smartphone as you are texting while walking in front of cars...) A little awareness combined with fear for one's self helps make a person a better person.
More to the point:
There is no valid reason that I shouldn't be able to demand that my property be inspected in my presence and then be allowed to lock it securely before it is trundled off to the baggage handlers. Even if the TSA was above reproach, baggage handlers are not a group to be blindly trusted either.
There are events that I used to go to by air that I can't go to anymore. When you are traveling an item that a fingerprint can cause $2000 of damage to either you drive or you don't go.
I just keep having trouble with the realization that I have lived through the largest destruction of personal liberty (and personal dignity) in US history. I have listened to well read, college educated people who wholeheartedly support suppression of very clearly 1st amendment supported freedom of speech because the message bothers them.
This entwined with the juggernaut of corporate rights steamrolling over personal rights just because lobbyists write the laws, lobby money pays for the law makers, and people make decisions based on fear leaves me with a country that is just disappointing.
(Saddest part is you don't see anyone doing it any better...)
I find that the the basic claim (spin) of "Spam Levels Lowest Since 2009" to be truly funny.
It should be billed as "Spam Levels Dip To Level Of 2009's Simply Godawful Avalanche!"
2009 wasn't anyone's low point in spam so why is this celebrated? I just imagine Noah sending out a press release on the 28th day of the deluge saying, "Rain levels have dropped to a low level not seen in 3 days!"
Besides, even by their own graph we are still above the low level of 2009. How non news do we have to get?
Deregulation in California is what drove the sometimes 2000% increase in electricity costs that peaked in 2003. It brought us Enron and the recall of Governor Gray Davis.
Blindly recommending deregulation on a commodity that is bought and sold in an a marketplace that promotes investing and speculation instead of direct production, distribution, and consumption creates a situation that will blow up unless it is regulated in some fashion.
(Of course the SEC has shown it can really keep a handle on this type of thing... hmmm... uhhh, urrrk...
So you stop by and upload/download but don't notice that the Dept Homeland Security has the place staked out until they serve the search warrant on your house...
So you get all these cameras and the government promised you that they will only use them so they can fight violent crime. Thank god "we" (and "we" apparently means YOU.) can trust the government.
But after the bait and switch you get parking tickets... Probably followed by jaywalking and littering tickets.
Thank god we have developed the machine vision technology to completely automate this process. You buy a little biometric software and and add it to some shape recognition software and the computer can pump out some revenue enhancement at an amazingly profitable margin.
Outlandish? All of this is easy with the available technology and with governments that actually think that YOU are THEIR source of income about the only thing stopping them is... uhh... Well at least they promised it would only be used to combat violent crime!!!... uhh, but... well... hmmm...
Once we add the software upgrade on the back end your government can cover their serious shortfalls by letting the machine automatically send you citations for both littering and jaywalking when you drop a 10 dollar bill and chase it when the wind blows it into the empty street.
Or maybe you just stepped out of the painted crosswalk one step before the curb. Thank god the machine noticed and you have to admit it, it is a violation. (cha-Ching!)
So...
For those people in Nice, here is how you combat this: Acquire a few license plates of city officials and put some magnets on them so they can be interchanged easily. After the brains of the operation realize that having someone there to actually verify things has value then this should revert back to a sensible face to face system.
--
Politics is just popularity that's gone pro.
Re: uncover deceptive tactics and misinformation..
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The category of "mostly correct" is where the biggest, most destructive lies are.
As a doctor you would probably know that the scaphoid bone in the wrist is often commonly referred to as the navicular bone.
So as a doctor do you:
(A) bust someone's chops when a patient mentions something like "hitting their funny bone" or some other non "technical speak" or
(B) do you figure out that your dealing with a person who isn't supposed to have a technical knowledge of the human body and actually help them.
If your answer is A you shouldn't be practicing medicine with direct contact with patients and you either have Asperger's or are an asshole.
If your answer is B why are you busting the chops of a non medically trained person in a public forum (over something they shouldn't know anyway) when you knew what they meant to begin with?
Bank of New York Mellon is huge in processing. A main focus of their business is doing processing for other banks or other financial institutions so they process many times their internal assets as a matter of normal business. Because of this they have a whole department that all they do is customize processing. I don't know if they have a minimum $$$ of business but they are setup to help you do anything that is possible. One of the surprising things is how enthusiastic they are about finding ways to customize processing to fit your needs.
Water needs to reach the correct temperature and then have something trigger the phase transition.
In other words:
The crystallization has to start somewhere. Imperfections in the surface or impurities supply this. If you have very pure water and a "perfect" container, the lack of a starting point for crystallization can delay the phase transition by quite a bit.
(Then you get YouTube videos showing flash freezing of water bottles!/i))
I didn't realize the new Google phones were paid for by advertising!
Sarcasm aside...
Google has been generating advertising revenue in China. People have been using google.cn. A lot of foreign companies that advertise with Google get click-throughs from China. BTW - Google makes money on a lot more things then just advertising.
Just because Google isn't a market leader isn't a reason for them not to apply themselves to China. China's internet access requires exactly what Google has mastered: Search engines. Making money on that works the same in China as elsewhere: click-throughs.
I guess I am missing the point where China isn't a market for them.
If you look at the displayed behavior of corporations "the sort of market you want to perform business in" is defined as anywhere that they can make money. The fact that their only real goal is maximization of shareholder value is very clear, as it is required by law and constantly enforced by shareholder lawsuits.
I would suggest that an emerging industrial economy containing more then 1/6th of the worlds population and with an obvious needs for communication is a market where they could make money by the megatruckload.
I think that the assertion that this is an example of them sticking to their 'moral guns' is reasonably defensible.
[By definition corporations don't have morals as they do not have a conscience. Morals are specific to a human's thoughts, feelings, and actions but we can attempt to judge a corporation's actions against our own moral code.]
If you go to the add-ons page with no cookie set (ie default) the first page includes two columns with this exact order:
Left-hand Column
- Bing Search
- Wikipedia Visual Search
- eBay.com Visual Search
- ESPN Search
- Sports Buzz from Buzztap
- Truveo.com Search
Right-hand Column
- New York Times Instant Search
- Amazon Search Suggestions
- Yahoo! Search Suggestions
- Realtime Web Search (by OneRiot)
- Lyrics Search Suggestions
- Instant Visual Search (Surf Canyon)
You will find Google Search Suggestions is the first item on the second page.
With the collection of notable "nothing" search items on the first page there is no question it is intentional.
(Are you sure you aren't using "Sports Buzz from Buzztap" as your default search???)
The real chuckle with IE8 and its search provider choices: MS has moved Google to the second page of search providers and some of the 1st page choices are a joke...
Java is my common irritant with this. Whenever you run the install it hides a checkbox to load some type of crapware by default. I think it actually looks at your computer because it never seems to offer a piece of junk that you already have. It has offered the Google toolbar, MSN toolbar, Open Office, and now:
Bing...
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One of the reasons they are trying to do this is to make the lights smaller.
That is one of the big problems with HID bulbs. The smaller the point source of the light the more blinding it is. They should be trying to make the emitting surface larger so they can make it less blinding to someone in the beam path.
Example: If you doubled the light output of a modern HID automotive lighting system but made the emitting surface 10 times as large the driver would be able to see much better and people in the beam pattern wouldn't be blinded anywhere near as much as they are currently.
The other bit is blue light stinks as an illumination source. Your eyes don't work well with that portion of the spectrum and it reduces your depth perception.
AT&T keeps wondering how many times they need to keep buying the politicians...
That is so obvious that I would suspect that a large company or a government could never get the idea out of a committee. Everyone who has had a R/C car is familiar with the idea because you want to use the thing instead of watch it sit there plugged in...
Two things would be required to make this work out:
- The cells would need to be packaged in one or two standard formats.
- They would also have make it so the condition/replacement of the batteries are a group thing. The charging stations swap out any dieing cells so and that cost is spread across the whole marketplace.
It is a misdirection...
The parent's user names isn't " kdawson ", it is " kdawson (3715) ". The number inside of parens is part of the name. the user number is 1344097.
I find I have to say something because someone somewhere may follow the links and give it a try. The obviously stupid first post just advertises a piece of junk from a known spyware vendor named CyberDefender.
The following link will give you a pretty clear idea: http://help.lockergnome.com/general/Avoid-Clean-PC--ftopict65244.html
This software is junk. Registry scanners/cleaners are junk (unless you mean a GOOD antivirus product scanning for virus related entries). The registry has no firm rules how it is to be used so there is no automated way to clean it.
There is no single magic bullet to remove a malware infection. The closest thing to a magic bullet (at this time) is a removal tool called "ComboFix" from a site called BleepingComputer.com, and it is free. It won't remove everything and it sometimes may remove a file used by a program but it is saved as a file in its quarantine. Run it in safe-mode with networking and it might get you out of an expensive jam.
The point of the lottery is simply to make money for the state. There isn't any reason that it must be impossible to make money off of it unless that keeps the state from making money on it.
The fact is there were already laws on the books against distracted driving. The problem is that it isn't an "exciting" infraction to enforce.
Cops have a really thick book of possible tickets to write but if the infraction isn't exciting or "sexy". the cops aren't writing tickets. Far and away the most common root cause of accidents works out to failure to yield right-of-way. This can be from obliviousness (cells and whatnot), aggression, stupidity, ignorance, etc. When this driving behavior is witnessed a police officer is more likely to just give a warning. And this is what is killing people.
If it is a "sexy" infraction the cops are all over it. Speeding which is a root cause in accidents in very low rates (I have seen figures listed on the high side at 4% and on the low side at about 1%). Why is this the vast majority of tickets written? Because it is exciting. Cell phones have been given such a big public blitz (for good reason) and it is easy to see so it is now a big enforcement item. Seatbelts became a huge item in most places even though that doesn't cause accidents because of intense media/public pressure (making sure you don't have the freedom to do something to injure yourself is very important...)
Very simply: To do some good we need to be getting police traffic enforcement focused on the core issue of failure to yield right-of-way with people that can't seem to realize they are driving a 2-ton kinetic energy weapon. And the supposed idea that, "Driving is a privilege not a right"... If people demonstrate that they can't consistently follow the rules of right-of-way then it criminal negligence on the government's part to continue to let them drive.
. . . .
No, we don't want to be in a world where idiots die.
. .
Actually from all of us that have been stuck on the I-405 on a daily basis, or those of us that have watched our elected officials do things such as "Health Care Reform" without ever addressing the single obvious core issue... (Cost!)
So actually yes, we really do want to cull the pool a fair bit. The system of this planet worked quite well by letting the lesser organisms fall. Frankly I think our city's would be a nicer place if they would release a few tigers every once in a while. People who have no awareness of anything outside of themselves are a blight on the planet. (Yes I mean you! The idiot who can't look away from your smartphone as you are texting while walking in front of cars...) A little awareness combined with fear for one's self helps make a person a better person.
More to the point:
There is no valid reason that I shouldn't be able to demand that my property be inspected in my presence and then be allowed to lock it securely before it is trundled off to the baggage handlers. Even if the TSA was above reproach, baggage handlers are not a group to be blindly trusted either.
There are events that I used to go to by air that I can't go to anymore. When you are traveling an item that a fingerprint can cause $2000 of damage to either you drive or you don't go.
I just keep having trouble with the realization that I have lived through the largest destruction of personal liberty (and personal dignity) in US history. I have listened to well read, college educated people who wholeheartedly support suppression of very clearly 1st amendment supported freedom of speech because the message bothers them.
This entwined with the juggernaut of corporate rights steamrolling over personal rights just because lobbyists write the laws, lobby money pays for the law makers, and people make decisions based on fear leaves me with a country that is just disappointing.
(Saddest part is you don't see anyone doing it any better...)
I find that the the basic claim (spin) of "Spam Levels Lowest Since 2009" to be truly funny.
It should be billed as "Spam Levels Dip To Level Of 2009's Simply Godawful Avalanche!"
2009 wasn't anyone's low point in spam so why is this celebrated? I just imagine Noah sending out a press release on the 28th day of the deluge saying, "Rain levels have dropped to a low level not seen in 3 days!"
Besides, even by their own graph we are still above the low level of 2009. How non news do we have to get?
Deregulation in California is what drove the sometimes 2000% increase in electricity costs that peaked in 2003. It brought us Enron and the recall of Governor Gray Davis.
Blindly recommending deregulation on a commodity that is bought and sold in an a marketplace that promotes investing and speculation instead of direct production, distribution, and consumption creates a situation that will blow up unless it is regulated in some fashion.
(Of course the SEC has shown it can really keep a handle on this type of thing... hmmm... uhhh, urrrk...
So you stop by and upload/download but don't notice that the Dept Homeland Security has the place staked out until they serve the search warrant on your house...
If this isn't modded "Insightful" then I don't know what should be.
--
Politics is just popularity that's gone pro.
So you get all these cameras and the government promised you that they will only use them so they can fight violent crime. Thank god "we" (and "we" apparently means YOU.) can trust the government.
... uhh, but... well... hmmm...
But after the bait and switch you get parking tickets... Probably followed by jaywalking and littering tickets.
Thank god we have developed the machine vision technology to completely automate this process. You buy a little biometric software and and add it to some shape recognition software and the computer can pump out some revenue enhancement at an amazingly profitable margin.
Outlandish? All of this is easy with the available technology and with governments that actually think that YOU are THEIR source of income about the only thing stopping them is... uhh... Well at least they promised it would only be used to combat violent crime!!!
Once we add the software upgrade on the back end your government can cover their serious shortfalls by letting the machine automatically send you citations for both littering and jaywalking when you drop a 10 dollar bill and chase it when the wind blows it into the empty street.
Or maybe you just stepped out of the painted crosswalk one step before the curb. Thank god the machine noticed and you have to admit it, it is a violation. (cha-Ching!)
So...
For those people in Nice, here is how you combat this: Acquire a few license plates of city officials and put some magnets on them so they can be interchanged easily. After the brains of the operation realize that having someone there to actually verify things has value then this should revert back to a sensible face to face system.
--
Politics is just popularity that's gone pro.
The category of "mostly correct" is where the biggest, most destructive lies are.
As a doctor you would probably know that the scaphoid bone in the wrist is often commonly referred to as the navicular bone.
So as a doctor do you: (A) bust someone's chops when a patient mentions something like "hitting their funny bone" or some other non "technical speak" or (B) do you figure out that your dealing with a person who isn't supposed to have a technical knowledge of the human body and actually help them.
If your answer is A you shouldn't be practicing medicine with direct contact with patients and you either have Asperger's or are an asshole.
If your answer is B why are you busting the chops of a non medically trained person in a public forum (over something they shouldn't know anyway) when you knew what they meant to begin with?
Or maybe you were just being 'funny'...
Bank of New York Mellon is huge in processing. A main focus of their business is doing processing for other banks or other financial institutions so they process many times their internal assets as a matter of normal business. Because of this they have a whole department that all they do is customize processing. I don't know if they have a minimum $$$ of business but they are setup to help you do anything that is possible. One of the surprising things is how enthusiastic they are about finding ways to customize processing to fit your needs.
It is a medical device which means that it is subject to insane levels of litigation. Mostly you are probably paying for insurance.
Water needs to reach the correct temperature and then have something trigger the phase transition.
In other words:
The crystallization has to start somewhere. Imperfections in the surface or impurities supply this. If you have very pure water and a "perfect" container, the lack of a starting point for crystallization can delay the phase transition by quite a bit.
(Then you get YouTube videos showing flash freezing of water bottles!/i))
I didn't realize the new Google phones were paid for by advertising!
Sarcasm aside...
Google has been generating advertising revenue in China. People have been using google.cn. A lot of foreign companies that advertise with Google get click-throughs from China.
BTW - Google makes money on a lot more things then just advertising.
Just because Google isn't a market leader isn't a reason for them not to apply themselves to China. China's internet access requires exactly what Google has mastered: Search engines. Making money on that works the same in China as elsewhere: click-throughs.
I guess I am missing the point where China isn't a market for them.
If you look at the displayed behavior of corporations "the sort of market you want to perform business in" is defined as anywhere that they can make money. The fact that their only real goal is maximization of shareholder value is very clear, as it is required by law and constantly enforced by shareholder lawsuits.
I would suggest that an emerging industrial economy containing more then 1/6th of the worlds population and with an obvious needs for communication is a market where they could make money by the megatruckload.
I think that the assertion that this is an example of them sticking to their 'moral guns' is reasonably defensible.
[By definition corporations don't have morals as they do not have a conscience. Morals are specific to a human's thoughts, feelings, and actions but we can attempt to judge a corporation's actions against our own moral code.]
If you go to the add-ons page with no cookie set (ie default) the first page includes two columns with this exact order:
Left-hand Column
- Bing Search
- Wikipedia Visual Search
- eBay.com Visual Search
- ESPN Search
- Sports Buzz from Buzztap
- Truveo.com Search
Right-hand Column
- New York Times Instant Search
- Amazon Search Suggestions
- Yahoo! Search Suggestions
- Realtime Web Search (by OneRiot)
- Lyrics Search Suggestions
- Instant Visual Search (Surf Canyon)
You will find Google Search Suggestions is the first item on the second page.
With the collection of notable "nothing" search items on the first page there is no question it is intentional.
(Are you sure you aren't using "Sports Buzz from Buzztap" as your default search???)
The real chuckle with IE8 and its search provider choices: MS has moved Google to the second page of search providers and some of the 1st page choices are a joke...
Java is my common irritant with this. Whenever you run the install it hides a checkbox to load some type of crapware by default. I think it actually looks at your computer because it never seems to offer a piece of junk that you already have. It has offered the Google toolbar, MSN toolbar, Open Office, and now:
Bing...