maybe i'm not as gifted as you, but navigating around the DC metro area is a bitch without a gps. There's not really a grid, Roads open, close, and change direction depending on time of day. Intersections, ramps, and interchanges are horribly tangled messes. Looking at a map is often insufficient to provide information on if you even can get on the road you want in the direction you want from the intersection you are looking at. A little old lady on the george washington parkway will back the thing up for miles and turn what should be a 20 minute commute into a 2 hour one. A wrong turn will often lock you onto some road that will send you miles out of your way before you get to turn around.
A couple years after moving here, i now have a pretty good map in my head, but i still rely on my gps to tell me what route to take to and from work. Out of the handful of routes i could take, some are going to be clogged 2 hour rides and some are going to be 30 minute jaunts. The gps can tell me what route to take in an instant, that beats doing research on traffic every day.
I always wondered about the characters in wheel of time. in the books, it describes the technique as a trick, rather than magic use, to ignore the heat and not sweat.. In that case, i thought, all the aes sedai, would drop over from heat stroke.
If this tech is simply tricking your body into thinking you are cooler than you are, isn't that actually risking heat stroke?
That comparison isn't even tenuous. Instagram hasn't taken over for Kodak with 13 people. Kodak created products. Instagram simply leverages other companies products to provide a service. Instagram is more like one of those photo-mats that existed in parking lots in the 70's. The photo-mat employed a handful of minimum wage people to work with kodak's products. Those photo-mats also all went belly up long before even digital cameras started to come around.
Compared to the photo-mat, Instagram employs a handful of significantly better paid people to work with apple and googles products. The apples and the googles are a better comparison to Kodak. Last time i checked, apple and google employed a fair number of people.
AFAIK, in Kodak's heyday, there were 13 unemployed instagram people waiting for the digital revolution.
If my experience with trackpad controls on phone games is anything to go by, I think it's a very bad idea.
where those phone games, "built around a new generation of super-precise haptic feedback, employing dual linear resonant actuators"?
no? then your experience is invalid.
honestly, i look at it this way. It might work. It might suck. either way, it's just a controller. i already have a system to use it with it. So, pending some horrible hands on reviews, i'll probably just pick one up and see for myself.
Pre-release hype was that Insanely Great Magic Innovation or something used OMG capacitance to magically foil the classic attacks. I don't think that Apple was dumb enough to promise any such thing; but their drooling fans certainly did.
i don't recall exactly what Tim Cook promised, but i think he was hyping the convenience over the robustness of protection. I think they claimed the advanced technology would enable it to respond quickly, and it provided more protection than no passcode. That seems in line with these findings.
One more who remembers the Ice Age Scares. Of course, who are we going to believe? Those nice salesmen telling us we need expensive insurance against future disaster or our own lying memories?
wow. i had no idea this was such a touchy subject. I'm not trying to use it as any kind of evidence against anything. Like i said, i think the wrongness of past conjecture has no effect on current theories. This article seems to confirm my memories. There were articles in time and newsweek (actual articles without penguin covers). The subject was brought up on tv. Sure, it was a lot of quackery. There was virtually no scientific consensus. It was all edge media hype like In Search Of with Leonard Nimoy, but it happened. i don't understand the denial.
i also remember the ice age scare of the 70's. I don't think the GP is misremembering anything. We were bombarded by reports that the earth was cooling and we were heading for a mini ice age.
I just think it's irrelevant in the current climate change debate. I don't know what logical fallacy it is, but one scientist being wrong about scenario A doesn't dictate that another scientist is wrong about scenario B.
Why not put a half-silvered mirror (plate beamsplitter) at a 45 degree angle to the screen, a piece of black velvet beyond the beamsplitter as a light trap, and point the camera so it sees your face reflected in the glass? Like a teleprompter.
Not a bad idea really. Software could remove the ghostly reflected face probably, and it would be a far better use of software than manufacturing where your eye is looking. That just sounds like it would look creepy.
Can you then point me to any evidence that the "religious faithful", think about god in terms of a big guy on a cloud or something like that?
Ever seen the roof of the sixtine chapel?
I was raised catholic. I'm an atheist now, but when i was in school, i was taught that all the imagery was not intended to be a factual illustration of heaven and god. As they liked to put it, all that stuff is unfathomable to our human minds. People draw pictures of god as a grandfatherly old guy with a beard because it's familiar and looks pretty.
I'm sure there are old people in the church, probably my grandmother's generation, who expect to meet that guy when they die. I'm pretty sure my parents only see it as an abstract though i'm not sure how "faithful" they really are. They go to church. I'm certain that the rest of my brothers are all atheist or at least agnostic.
Am i the only one who wondered when the summary was going to get to something relevant to entomology? I was really baffled. I didn't know what rockets had to do with bugs:/
It's the same reason you get an XRay every time you go into the Dentist. You don't need them (visual inspection will tell almost everything you need to know), but they are a very simple and easy procedure that will get the dentist a good amount of money from the Insurance company.
thanks to a dental xray, i just found out i have a number of small cavities forming on the opposing faces of some of my molars. That seems like an area that's pretty hard to just look at.
I use facebook. the payoff is it keeps me in touch with a bunch of friends and family of various technical backgrounds. I guess everyone needs to weigh the cost/benefit ratio there. Currently, for me, it's fine. "Features" like these video ads could make me reevaluate that ratio and find facebook unsuitable in the future.
Stores always tout how much you are saving by using their coupons. In reality you are probably buying something you didn't actually need to buy in the first place. The same goes for rewards programs and loyalty cards, etc. Sure, you can game these incentives and come out ahead, but you kind of have to be in a position of needing the product in the first place.
I don't buy shower rings and expensive phone cases every year. Somehow i think buying a 3d printer and printing out a bunch of them is not actually saving me any money.
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maybe i'm not as gifted as you, but navigating around the DC metro area is a bitch without a gps. There's not really a grid, Roads open, close, and change direction depending on time of day. Intersections, ramps, and interchanges are horribly tangled messes. Looking at a map is often insufficient to provide information on if you even can get on the road you want in the direction you want from the intersection you are looking at. A little old lady on the george washington parkway will back the thing up for miles and turn what should be a 20 minute commute into a 2 hour one. A wrong turn will often lock you onto some road that will send you miles out of your way before you get to turn around.
A couple years after moving here, i now have a pretty good map in my head, but i still rely on my gps to tell me what route to take to and from work. Out of the handful of routes i could take, some are going to be clogged 2 hour rides and some are going to be 30 minute jaunts. The gps can tell me what route to take in an instant, that beats doing research on traffic every day.
I always wondered about the characters in wheel of time. in the books, it describes the technique as a trick, rather than magic use, to ignore the heat and not sweat.. In that case, i thought, all the aes sedai, would drop over from heat stroke.
If this tech is simply tricking your body into thinking you are cooler than you are, isn't that actually risking heat stroke?
lots of birds eat snakes as well. peacocks eat snakes. they are pretty much immune to all snake venoms. you, sir, are just baiting peacocks.
When you take into consideration what government is good at, it's now clear that we would have had that awesome lunar base by now.
It's a lot safer than my usual mode of city transportation, a skateboard.
That comparison isn't even tenuous. Instagram hasn't taken over for Kodak with 13 people. Kodak created products. Instagram simply leverages other companies products to provide a service. Instagram is more like one of those photo-mats that existed in parking lots in the 70's. The photo-mat employed a handful of minimum wage people to work with kodak's products. Those photo-mats also all went belly up long before even digital cameras started to come around.
Compared to the photo-mat, Instagram employs a handful of significantly better paid people to work with apple and googles products. The apples and the googles are a better comparison to Kodak. Last time i checked, apple and google employed a fair number of people.
AFAIK, in Kodak's heyday, there were 13 unemployed instagram people waiting for the digital revolution.
you'd get insightful if i had mod points. that's the best motive anyone has come up with.
If Apple did this, people would be up in arms!
There's a long history of apple making exaggerated claims of what their devices are going to do for you. People have been up in arms for a long time.
If my experience with trackpad controls on phone games is anything to go by, I think it's a very bad idea.
where those phone games, "built around a new generation of super-precise haptic feedback, employing dual linear resonant actuators"?
no? then your experience is invalid.
honestly, i look at it this way. It might work. It might suck. either way, it's just a controller. i already have a system to use it with it. So, pending some horrible hands on reviews, i'll probably just pick one up and see for myself.
Pre-release hype was that Insanely Great Magic Innovation or something used OMG capacitance to magically foil the classic attacks. I don't think that Apple was dumb enough to promise any such thing; but their drooling fans certainly did.
i don't recall exactly what Tim Cook promised, but i think he was hyping the convenience over the robustness of protection. I think they claimed the advanced technology would enable it to respond quickly, and it provided more protection than no passcode. That seems in line with these findings.
And even with a 250 mile range, road trips are not feasible in the near future regardless of what Elon Musk tells you.
I saw a Tesla S with DC plates on it in Cape Cod over the 4th. While there are certainly other explanations it would appear that it was driven there.
One more who remembers the Ice Age Scares. Of course, who are we going to believe? Those nice salesmen telling us we need expensive insurance against future disaster or our own lying memories?
wow. i had no idea this was such a touchy subject. I'm not trying to use it as any kind of evidence against anything. Like i said, i think the wrongness of past conjecture has no effect on current theories. This article seems to confirm my memories. There were articles in time and newsweek (actual articles without penguin covers). The subject was brought up on tv. Sure, it was a lot of quackery. There was virtually no scientific consensus. It was all edge media hype like In Search Of with Leonard Nimoy, but it happened. i don't understand the denial.
i had 3 years of others in high school. i never really did learn the verbs.
i also remember the ice age scare of the 70's. I don't think the GP is misremembering anything. We were bombarded by reports that the earth was cooling and we were heading for a mini ice age.
I just think it's irrelevant in the current climate change debate. I don't know what logical fallacy it is, but one scientist being wrong about scenario A doesn't dictate that another scientist is wrong about scenario B.
Why not put a half-silvered mirror (plate beamsplitter) at a 45 degree angle to the screen, a piece of black velvet beyond the beamsplitter as a light trap, and point the camera so it sees your face reflected in the glass? Like a teleprompter.
Not a bad idea really. Software could remove the ghostly reflected face probably, and it would be a far better use of software than manufacturing where your eye is looking. That just sounds like it would look creepy.
Can you then point me to any evidence that the "religious faithful", think about god in terms of a big guy on a cloud or something like that?
Ever seen the roof of the sixtine chapel?
I was raised catholic. I'm an atheist now, but when i was in school, i was taught that all the imagery was not intended to be a factual illustration of heaven and god. As they liked to put it, all that stuff is unfathomable to our human minds. People draw pictures of god as a grandfatherly old guy with a beard because it's familiar and looks pretty.
I'm sure there are old people in the church, probably my grandmother's generation, who expect to meet that guy when they die. I'm pretty sure my parents only see it as an abstract though i'm not sure how "faithful" they really are. They go to church. I'm certain that the rest of my brothers are all atheist or at least agnostic.
So no country on the list had more than one city. There's lots of other countries that aren't even on here.
you could read books for free at a thing called a Library.
i don't remember a time when i could refrain from spending hundreds of dollars on textbooks because they were all free at the library.
Am i the only one who wondered when the summary was going to get to something relevant to entomology? I was really baffled. I didn't know what rockets had to do with bugs :/
It's the same reason you get an XRay every time you go into the Dentist. You don't need them (visual inspection will tell almost everything you need to know), but they are a very simple and easy procedure that will get the dentist a good amount of money from the Insurance company.
thanks to a dental xray, i just found out i have a number of small cavities forming on the opposing faces of some of my molars. That seems like an area that's pretty hard to just look at.
I use facebook. the payoff is it keeps me in touch with a bunch of friends and family of various technical backgrounds. I guess everyone needs to weigh the cost/benefit ratio there. Currently, for me, it's fine. "Features" like these video ads could make me reevaluate that ratio and find facebook unsuitable in the future.
Stores always tout how much you are saving by using their coupons. In reality you are probably buying something you didn't actually need to buy in the first place. The same goes for rewards programs and loyalty cards, etc. Sure, you can game these incentives and come out ahead, but you kind of have to be in a position of needing the product in the first place.
I don't buy shower rings and expensive phone cases every year. Somehow i think buying a 3d printer and printing out a bunch of them is not actually saving me any money.
I'm sure it would take me more than a few minutes to identify that many objects.
However, how fast can it find Waldo?
Make *ALL* drone data public!
But then the federal government can still spy on you just by running their predictive analytics on the public data.
Stalking in public is illegal. You cannot follow someone around and learn about their travels in public.
George Zimmerman's defense team says you can.