i guess the assumption is that it's half a million people on critical life support, or otherwise relying on some contraption to keep them alive. It's certainly exaggerated, but i could see an emp crashing planes. Sure, it's not going to cause the wings to stop providing lift, but I'm pretty sure airliners have no mechanical connection between the input and the control surfaces.
I guess it could cause your car to shut down. it might start back up again, but i don't have faith in my fellow motorists abilities to all handle their cars shutting off en route.
I read other articles that said the scientists basically found a correlation between heavy populations of biting flies and intensely stripped zebras. All they have is some statistical analysis that says these populations overlap. They [the scientists] then say that this is intriguing and someone should figure out if the stripes actually protect the zebras.
that's fine. it's good science. It's the journalists that are claiming, that flies have an aversion to striped surfaces.
For all we know, the heavy fly populations could be because flies tend to really like landing on stripped hosts so the flies are heaviest where the zebras are.
Then law enforcement using drones should be illegal too.
yeah! and while we're just trying to get some pork passed with this bill lifeguards shouldn't be allowed to warn swimmers of sharks and my construction company gets a $5 million grant!
As long as there are limits on how many animals you're allowed to kill in a season, should it really matter how you went about tracking and killing said animal?
That was my first thought too. I suspect that the limits are based on a reasonable expectation of how many animals people are going to kill while walking around and just looking for them unassisted. When the DNR gives out permits to kill 500 moose, it's probably done with the assumption that only 45% of those hunters will succeed. Now, if it was suddenly way easier for the hunters to find the moose, the DNR might have severely overestimated how many permits they could safely give out. It's easier to simply ban the use of drones for scouting out game than to recalibrate your culling numbers with data based on how drones affect success.
It's also probably in the state's interest to keep hunting reasonably difficult. if they start giving out only half the number of permits because people are just going to kill 2x as many moose with their technology, suddenly, there aren't as many reasons for tourists to come in for that activity.
sure. it works now because these computer vision algorithms are crude. I, and most people, would have little problem identifying those people. It's only a matter of time before a system is sophisticated enough to recognize that's a dude with some paint on his face and a silly hairstyle.
i've got to agree. My wife and sisters-in-law are all big into hooping. Here's what happens when they go someplace and put on shows or something: The girls hoop and a bunch of people stand around and watch.
Then the girls in the audience try it, but the guys just lean on the wall and watch only. It's not really sexist. It's the same thing that happens whenever there's a dance floor. Dudes don't like to get out on the dance floor. It's not leering. It's just dudes uncomfortably wishing they could loosen up.
sometimes i will go out and hoop as well. just to prove that a guy can rock a hoop. then there's a bunch of dudes watching a guy hoop. still doesn't seem sexist.
i'm moving to San Francisco from DC in July. Well, more likely i'll find a place around berkley. SF is pretty ridiculously expensive even by DC standards. I hope i don't start coming across as pompous as this posting though. It's always seemed like the ideal place for me to live. I don't know if it's for everyone though. I'd like to think that when i post about how awesome it is, it's with the assumption that it's awesome for me personally. It's not simply the best place in the history of the world.
The amount of water consumed by a bovine is only to some extent wasted, the majority ends up as urine that completes the cycle of returning nutrients to the land where the grazing occurs.
I'd wager that 100% of the water consumed by a bovine returns to the environment.
Technically witches had significant power in salem, so it was probably best to just out people suspected of witchcraft before anyone could exploit that power.
I may get accused of being a sexist and all for saying this, but it's been my experience that a feminist vision of "equality" is very different from my definition. "Equality" in their mind is getting all the perks of being a woman (men fawning over you and buying you free food and drinks, sexual power, the taboo on physically attacking you, etc.) while simultaneously also getting all the perks of being a man (higher breadwinner pay, political power, etc.)--and all without having to suffer ANY of the downsides of either gender.
In short, they want it ALL, they want it NOW, and they want it all for FREE.
well, speaking as a man, i also want to get paid as much money as i can, be fawned over, and get free food all while not being physically attacked.
i guess i also accept that some people don't know how to swim or are put into some scenario where they are swallowing / inhaling a mix of water and air. You can go quite some time without any air before you black out so that would likely be , if not painful, really terrifying.
still, as someone who has both inhaled some water from time to time, and someone who has been burned form time to time, it seems that inhaling water is really far removed from burning on the gradient of most painful ways to die. Being slowly digested over a thousand years in the belly of a sarlac is probably between them.
I'd still pick "eww" over drowning, as drowning is supposedly one of the more painful ways to die.
painful? i haven't heard that. I do some free diving and have a respectable ~2ish minute breath hold under water. I personally have never experienced shallow water blackout, but i know people who have. it doesn't sound like they ever were in pain. they just blacked out, had someone not rescued them they would have drowned, but the last thing they remembered was peacefully swimming under water. maybe i'm not drowning right.
on topic, i'd chose drinking the helmet water over drowning too.
I live in washington, DC and it's sort of like that. The previously bad areas are all getting gentrified (and way more expensive), and the blight is being forced out into the cheaper subburbs in MD and VA.
The tesla is probably not taking leaf customers away. it's not really in the same class. However, if you compare the cars to other cars in their price range, you see the difference. The model s has all the bells and whistles you'd expect form an $80k sport sedan. It's a damn fine looking car compared to the bmws and lexuses out there. the leaf looks like one of the ugliest cheapo hatchbacks out there, but it costs twice as much as any of those. (the volt suffers from the same thing if you ask me)
I don't think they rediscovered it. More likely someone is aware of it from fly fishing and they just decided to rigorously test it, and then take credit for discovering it. It's just good science.
One of my coworkers has one. Honestly, i think it sucks. The resolution is abysmal, and I found the screen impossible to focus on. It promises to provide super fast access to vital information, but in the use case of looking up a stock quote or reading a text message or using a map, i found it far easier to just look at my phone.
to even make out the screen. i had to adjust it constantly. it would always slip on my face so everytime i needed to look at the screen that meant more fiddling with my hands. for something that's supposed to be hands free, it sure did occupy my hands a lot. Then the crummy resolution results in a hard to see result.
if you think you are going to get useful navigation information while you bike or drive, like google implies, thing again. if you think you are going to suddenly exhibit superhuman cognitive abilities as the whole of the web flashes before your eyes and your friends marvel at your ability to recognize everyone and everything, think again. if you think you will look like you are paying attention while secretly watching something in glass, you won't you look like a catatonic idiot.
However, it's not like it holds no promise. this kind of thing is probably the future. And i want a cool wearable hud in the future so i'd honestly like you to buy this piece of crap now and help fix it.
1. "It Is The Tools (Stupid)." And by that I mean "the tools" I mean the software used to watch and participate. None of this is exactly "user friendly" or easily discoverable. I don't play "League of Legends" but I do play "Dota 2" a lot and you have to actively follow reddit.com/r/Dota2 and know where to look for the information on the software let alone matches. It is difficult if not impossible to even use social "share" mechanism. And even using the hooks offered from Twitch.tv into FB/G+/Twitter just means your "regular" page becomes a spammy mess.
hard to find games to watch in dota2? maybe you never clicked the watch button right there on the title screen.
I don't know what the 500 lines of java code are, but i guess they are grabbing input and cleaning it and opening database connections and whatnot. assuming that he's counting import statements and puts curly brackets on their own lines. sure 500 lines.
I don't know much about this Reactive stuff, but i don't see anything in this sample code that tells me where the input is coming from or where it is going to or if it's being cleaned in the process. Somehow Reactive also creates an environment in which nothing unexpected ever gets entered?
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i guess the assumption is that it's half a million people on critical life support, or otherwise relying on some contraption to keep them alive. It's certainly exaggerated, but i could see an emp crashing planes. Sure, it's not going to cause the wings to stop providing lift, but I'm pretty sure airliners have no mechanical connection between the input and the control surfaces.
I guess it could cause your car to shut down. it might start back up again, but i don't have faith in my fellow motorists abilities to all handle their cars shutting off en route.
I read other articles that said the scientists basically found a correlation between heavy populations of biting flies and intensely stripped zebras. All they have is some statistical analysis that says these populations overlap. They [the scientists] then say that this is intriguing and someone should figure out if the stripes actually protect the zebras.
that's fine. it's good science. It's the journalists that are claiming, that flies have an aversion to striped surfaces.
For all we know, the heavy fly populations could be because flies tend to really like landing on stripped hosts so the flies are heaviest where the zebras are.
Maybe now the prejudice will end and rats can finally get some respect!
Then law enforcement using drones should be illegal too.
yeah! and while we're just trying to get some pork passed with this bill lifeguards shouldn't be allowed to warn swimmers of sharks and my construction company gets a $5 million grant!
As long as there are limits on how many animals you're allowed to kill in a season, should it really matter how you went about tracking and killing said animal?
That was my first thought too. I suspect that the limits are based on a reasonable expectation of how many animals people are going to kill while walking around and just looking for them unassisted. When the DNR gives out permits to kill 500 moose, it's probably done with the assumption that only 45% of those hunters will succeed. Now, if it was suddenly way easier for the hunters to find the moose, the DNR might have severely overestimated how many permits they could safely give out. It's easier to simply ban the use of drones for scouting out game than to recalibrate your culling numbers with data based on how drones affect success.
It's also probably in the state's interest to keep hunting reasonably difficult. if they start giving out only half the number of permits because people are just going to kill 2x as many moose with their technology, suddenly, there aren't as many reasons for tourists to come in for that activity.
but i didn't have to type it. i can edit it, but the site prefills it for me.
wtf. i actually didn't hate beta until i tried to post this snide remark. but now i have to enter a subject for my replies? seriously, wtf?
No, start protecting your privacy.
You do not have to allow then to do it.
http://cvdazzle.com/
And, self promotion (baby steps, but working):
https://play.google.com/store/...
sure. it works now because these computer vision algorithms are crude. I, and most people, would have little problem identifying those people. It's only a matter of time before a system is sophisticated enough to recognize that's a dude with some paint on his face and a silly hairstyle.
i've got to agree. My wife and sisters-in-law are all big into hooping. Here's what happens when they go someplace and put on shows or something: The girls hoop and a bunch of people stand around and watch.
Then the girls in the audience try it, but the guys just lean on the wall and watch only. It's not really sexist. It's the same thing that happens whenever there's a dance floor. Dudes don't like to get out on the dance floor. It's not leering. It's just dudes uncomfortably wishing they could loosen up.
sometimes i will go out and hoop as well. just to prove that a guy can rock a hoop. then there's a bunch of dudes watching a guy hoop. still doesn't seem sexist.
i'm moving to San Francisco from DC in July. Well, more likely i'll find a place around berkley. SF is pretty ridiculously expensive even by DC standards. I hope i don't start coming across as pompous as this posting though. It's always seemed like the ideal place for me to live. I don't know if it's for everyone though. I'd like to think that when i post about how awesome it is, it's with the assumption that it's awesome for me personally. It's not simply the best place in the history of the world.
well yeah. it's not a good excuse, but that's different from a lie.
"It works on my machine isn't a lie." it DOES work on my machine.
The amount of water consumed by a bovine is only to some extent wasted, the majority ends up as urine that completes the cycle of returning nutrients to the land where the grazing occurs.
I'd wager that 100% of the water consumed by a bovine returns to the environment.
Technically witches had significant power in salem, so it was probably best to just out people suspected of witchcraft before anyone could exploit that power.
now i can continue my steady diet of breakfast cereal with a smug sense of satisfaction!
I may get accused of being a sexist and all for saying this, but it's been my experience that a feminist vision of "equality" is very different from my definition. "Equality" in their mind is getting all the perks of being a woman (men fawning over you and buying you free food and drinks, sexual power, the taboo on physically attacking you, etc.) while simultaneously also getting all the perks of being a man (higher breadwinner pay, political power, etc.)--and all without having to suffer ANY of the downsides of either gender.
In short, they want it ALL, they want it NOW, and they want it all for FREE.
well, speaking as a man, i also want to get paid as much money as i can, be fawned over, and get free food all while not being physically attacked.
I have a long history of pro apple posts. I'd just like to go on record saying this doesn't excite me at all. (neither does a watch)
i guess i also accept that some people don't know how to swim or are put into some scenario where they are swallowing / inhaling a mix of water and air. You can go quite some time without any air before you black out so that would likely be , if not painful, really terrifying.
still, as someone who has both inhaled some water from time to time, and someone who has been burned form time to time, it seems that inhaling water is really far removed from burning on the gradient of most painful ways to die. Being slowly digested over a thousand years in the belly of a sarlac is probably between them.
I'd still pick "eww" over drowning, as drowning is supposedly one of the more painful ways to die.
painful? i haven't heard that. I do some free diving and have a respectable ~2ish minute breath hold under water. I personally have never experienced shallow water blackout, but i know people who have. it doesn't sound like they ever were in pain. they just blacked out, had someone not rescued them they would have drowned, but the last thing they remembered was peacefully swimming under water. maybe i'm not drowning right.
on topic, i'd chose drinking the helmet water over drowning too.
I live in washington, DC and it's sort of like that. The previously bad areas are all getting gentrified (and way more expensive), and the blight is being forced out into the cheaper subburbs in MD and VA.
Dear NIssan,
One word will explain why the LEAF is not popular:
FUGLY
This!
The tesla is probably not taking leaf customers away. it's not really in the same class. However, if you compare the cars to other cars in their price range, you see the difference. The model s has all the bells and whistles you'd expect form an $80k sport sedan. It's a damn fine looking car compared to the bmws and lexuses out there. the leaf looks like one of the ugliest cheapo hatchbacks out there, but it costs twice as much as any of those. (the volt suffers from the same thing if you ask me)
I don't think they rediscovered it. More likely someone is aware of it from fly fishing and they just decided to rigorously test it, and then take credit for discovering it. It's just good science.
One of my coworkers has one. Honestly, i think it sucks. The resolution is abysmal, and I found the screen impossible to focus on. It promises to provide super fast access to vital information, but in the use case of looking up a stock quote or reading a text message or using a map, i found it far easier to just look at my phone.
to even make out the screen. i had to adjust it constantly. it would always slip on my face so everytime i needed to look at the screen that meant more fiddling with my hands. for something that's supposed to be hands free, it sure did occupy my hands a lot. Then the crummy resolution results in a hard to see result.
if you think you are going to get useful navigation information while you bike or drive, like google implies, thing again. if you think you are going to suddenly exhibit superhuman cognitive abilities as the whole of the web flashes before your eyes and your friends marvel at your ability to recognize everyone and everything, think again. if you think you will look like you are paying attention while secretly watching something in glass, you won't you look like a catatonic idiot.
However, it's not like it holds no promise. this kind of thing is probably the future. And i want a cool wearable hud in the future so i'd honestly like you to buy this piece of crap now and help fix it.
1. "It Is The Tools (Stupid)." And by that I mean "the tools" I mean the software used to watch and participate. None of this is exactly "user friendly" or easily discoverable. I don't play "League of Legends" but I do play "Dota 2" a lot and you have to actively follow reddit.com/r/Dota2 and know where to look for the information on the software let alone matches. It is difficult if not impossible to even use social "share" mechanism. And even using the hooks offered from Twitch.tv into FB/G+/Twitter just means your "regular" page becomes a spammy mess.
hard to find games to watch in dota2? maybe you never clicked the watch button right there on the title screen.
I don't know what the 500 lines of java code are, but i guess they are grabbing input and cleaning it and opening database connections and whatnot. assuming that he's counting import statements and puts curly brackets on their own lines. sure 500 lines.
I don't know much about this Reactive stuff, but i don't see anything in this sample code that tells me where the input is coming from or where it is going to or if it's being cleaned in the process. Somehow Reactive also creates an environment in which nothing unexpected ever gets entered?