"A human driver could easily..." Bullshit. Human drivers are the worst. A drunk monkey could do better than most humans who are distracted by their pretty phones.
I have a leaf - it beeps when it backs up. Going forward, at 3 to 4 miles per hour, you can hear it - like you would hear any couple thousand lb object moving. Any increase in the number of pedestrian accidents is because people are now walking with their heads down looking at their phones.
There's no excuse for a pedestrian to be hit by a vehicle unless the vehicle is somewhere it shouldn't be - like a sidewalk.
Leasing for 180 a month, gets roughly 60-70 miles a day put on it between me going to work, my wife going to see her horse, grocery store, pet store, book store, etc. I love driving it. Spacious and very zippy, it is our preferred vehicle for 95% of our needs. We also have a truck to pull the horse trailer, so it does the long hauls when needed.
Maybe 2 cars isn't normal everywhere (LA, NYC), but growing up in Kansas and now living in Texas - everyone has 2 vehicles - one of them should be an electric.
We have filled up the truck maybe 3 times this year, and I personally haven't been to a gas station this year.
I also had insulation and a radiant barrier put in when we moved into this house. New windows and replacing the ACs have cut my electric bills in half, so I don't see any additional electricity from using it.
It is the perfect solution for me.
I like Unity - it is a powerful tool and helps to put all the pieces together. I used XNA to write a single person game modeled after the board game Pandemic and when I wanted to take it to multi-player, it became quite a chore. Unity has built in networking (RPC style messaging and also object sync), so I ported my game to unity and was able to get the networking pieces done in days. It uses c#, but can also use javascript for the scripting language. Finally, the asset store is amazing. Filled with quality free assets (and even higher quality paid) - everything from full 3d models with animation, to scripts that you drop on your project that make the camera function exactly like the camera in Civilization.
Lastly, there's a "game" you can buy through Steam - called GTGD (Gamer to Game Developer) - some Aussie walks through creating a first person shooter with teams and multiple weapons. There's a S1 and S2 and after about 12 or so of the videos (out of 20+ in S1) I had enough to start programming my own game. He's writing it all in c# and explains the code decently.
Probably not very popular here, but I've been having a lot of fun lately with Unity using c# as my scripting language. Writing a networked game, and the RPC hookups and message passing is all pretty cool. State machines are such a different animal than business event driven programs (my normal job).
This.
I wish I had mod points. Most of all the car should be able be take commands and execute on them immediately. Oddly enough, Demolition man (the movie with Sly Stallone) gets it right - let the car do the easy stuff, but allow for an override configuration. I recently got stuck in traffic in Dallas, bumper to bumper on a 4 lane tollway, sitting, move a foot, sit. I'd have loved to have my car take over and just freaking follow the guy in front of me. And I know it'll take some bumps and bruises - but when there are no longer human drivers as primary, the roads will be safer. Bottlenecks happen because of wrecks caused by inattentive humans. Or they happen because some human thinks he needs to get in front of everyone else because he's late for a meeting and swerves in and out of traffic. That all goes away. And that is probably why it won't ever happen - because it is the alpha jerks that'll say, "you'll get my steering wheel when you pry it out of my cold dead hands".
I've always considered legacy code to be code that isn't under any sort of unit testing. A well tested, thoroughly vented library will always be "production ready" for the tasks and behaviors that that code was intended for. If you are writing code (in whatever language) that isn't unit tested, then you are writing legacy code.
I normally don't respond, but are you sure we are all adults? Far too often it seems decisions are driven by greed, selfishness, or a religious self-richest goal that they now longer seem to be "grown up", much less even humanistic
I wish everyone would "grow up", but frankly I don't think grown ups know what the fuck they are doing.
Does bombing funerals count? It doesn't happen often, but I remember it happening every so often during the first couple years of occupancy in Iraq (where one sect would hit a funeral and then when all those people would have a funeral there'd be a counter strike by the other sect). That's pretty mocking...
Will 3D printers help move open-source hardware circuit design to the next level? I know that they have great potential in helping the open-source ecology project (http://opensourceecology.org/), but that is mostly in the reprinting of complex parts for repair or initial construction of larger pieces. If more EEs / home enthusiasts could print out complete modules along with printing out testing nodes - little snap-off diodes whose sole purpose in the print is to prove some inner working of module, would circuit design explode? Just curious about what you thought.
But what if the cost to fix the failure is deemed to high? It is an acceptable engineering practice to just plan on something going wrong x% of the time. Now if 1/9 is the maximum failure rate, and you can still get to orbit (meaning you design in the possibility of an engine exploding - can you imagine!), and the probability of 2/9 is astronomical, is something that is "forseen" have to be mitigated? Now granted, I hope the engine failure is truly something anomalous, given that even the smallest fracture can cause problems, and you have to test the engine at least once before use...
Will space travel ever enter the "good enough" phase of manufacturing? Being an A.E. I applaud the design of the falcon engine system. Just like most large aircraft can land with 1 out of 4 engines being functional, a system that can take a full system failure on one of its parts and still perform is quality engineering.
Ok, I respect old people, but I don't trust them - not one bit. This lady is 80 - how is she qualified to be a judge on a case that involves technology? The RIAA must have convinced her that "downloading" somehow stole their copy and they had to get them back... Anyways, I'd be curious to see the list of songs - just to see where those songs are in the charts / profit margins.
Someone else mentioned that it would be nice if apps gave justifications for their various access rights - like "full internet access" - this would be a perfectly good reason, and it would be pretty cool if all apps would tell you, when you are installing - "this app uses internet access to send which functions get used, if it is uninstalled, and the ability to rate the app - no personal information sent."
Of course a baked in analytics service for all apps, that could be disabled, would be pretty cool too... Maybe an android level API?
"The Mutewatch is designed to be simple and intuitive. Just tap the flat surface and the touch screen lights up, then swipe through the functions clock, alarm and timer. "
The Ruler of the Universe is a man living in a small shack on a world that can only be reached with a key to an unprobability field or use of an Infinite Improbability Drive. He does not want to rule the universe and tries not to whenever possible, and therefore is by far the ideal candidate for the job.
"In the case of Minecraft, the sad fact is that the Xbox 360 is the only console (handhelds excluded) on which it will be released, specifically because Microsoft forced Mojang into an exclusive contract."
According to Notch, the creator of Minecraft, they aren't on Steam for a completely different reason, not because MS forced their hand.
I subscribe to the Game Informer magazine (http://gameinformer.com/) and the number of titles that are being produced is staggering. I like all genre's of games from Plants vs Zombies to Bioshock to LotR online and find each different style of game to have unique advantages. MMORPs offer a social aspect, while an intense FPS immerses you in storyline more completely, while the simple logic and strategy involved in some games keeps the mind fresh.
My own personal favorites include Batman: Arkum Asylum - the story line and game play is first rate. BioShock, another very immersing FPS. Bioshock II was "give me some more of that" and also highly recommended (if you enjoy sometimes being kind of terrified). LotR online and D&D online are both free to play (so you can jump on for a couple days every 6 months and not feel like you are being screwed by the man because you payed 6 months subscription). World of goo is very nice as is Plants vs Zombies and even kingdom for keflings is a hoot for a builder game.
Now to the question of whether you have lost your mojo... it is easy to see the game for the math that it is - a simple counter (if I click in the right place enough times, "I win" - whatever that means in a virtual game). Once you understand a game, sometimes the senselessness can make even the idea of the playing seem rather like a waste of time and so you project that feeling onto other games thinking you have been there, done that. But it's not true. Batman is completely different from any other game I've played - and completely changed what I thought was possible. With the new input devices (I'm thinking kinect here) and new display capabilities (3-D is pretty wicked on games that program for it), I think there are games coming out that will make even that pale in comparison.
That is very insightful. You belong to groups - family, friends, co-workers, people at community organizations (church, clubs, HOAs), school (from your kid's grade school to your alma mater), state, and nation. In health care, people (especially the health nuts) like to group into "those that deserve good health for living the lifestyle they do, and those that don't". Those that deserve to pay more because of smoking or for not wearing a seat belt.
Unfortunately that relies on knowledge that we do not have. We can't figure out that the health nut for the 20 years lived in a mining community as a child. Everything you've done and not done plays a critical role in determining your overall health - and not only have we barely scratched the surface of understanding, our understanding sometimes stands at odds (took them 30 years to figure out which part of the egg does what for our bodies). And some eastern beliefs and practices are wholly ignored because of disbelief or pharmaceutical interests.
So we need to stop drawing that line around our yard, or around our workplace, or around smokers and just have universal health care. I know this bill doesn't do that, but it is at least a step, and maybe in another 20 we can take another.
I have experienced the Uncanny Valley but not necessarily in a bad way. At the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum the artist, Ron Mueck, for the first set of the sculptures here:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/11/mind-blowing-hyperrealistic-sculptures/ was on display and it was mind blowing. The woman in the bed made you feel 4 years old again because of the size - she's huge - like 10x normal - but perfect in detail. The skin has individual hair follicles, the eyes are moist looking, fingernails are slightly translucent - amazing detail. The two old woman are also perfect - but at 1/2 size normal I couldn't help be stare, up close my sense of perception was skewed and I started to imagine them moving, like you do with dead people (my families catholic, so I've got to stare at all kinds of dead ppl)
Highly recommended if you can catch up to one of his shows.
Not sure of the parent poster's university, but at the University of Kansas there is a small nuclear reactor. It is dormant now and was used by the physicists and nuclear engineers 20 years ago. However, it could be refueled and reactivated pretty quickly if needed.
Agree completely. No script is perhaps the finest add on ever. If a page doesn't load properly, then I don't go to that site. There are some sites that have upwards of 30 scripts from all over running - to this, even google is a problem - how many sites are running googleanalytics or googlesyndication, or the 10 other weird little google scripts?
http://phrogram.com/kpl.aspx
I've started teaching my son (8 years old) with Phrogram - it allows for all the needed pieces of programming, gives quick results, and has a nice little IDE (all free of course).
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"A human driver could easily..." Bullshit. Human drivers are the worst. A drunk monkey could do better than most humans who are distracted by their pretty phones.
Your comment is excellent. I don't have any points right now, so just thought I'd thank you. -CNTOAGN
https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Pa... Excellent book about managing a project of unknowns. Well written and concise.
I have a leaf - it beeps when it backs up. Going forward, at 3 to 4 miles per hour, you can hear it - like you would hear any couple thousand lb object moving. Any increase in the number of pedestrian accidents is because people are now walking with their heads down looking at their phones.
There's no excuse for a pedestrian to be hit by a vehicle unless the vehicle is somewhere it shouldn't be - like a sidewalk.
Keep your head up, its dangerous out there.
Leasing for 180 a month, gets roughly 60-70 miles a day put on it between me going to work, my wife going to see her horse, grocery store, pet store, book store, etc. I love driving it. Spacious and very zippy, it is our preferred vehicle for 95% of our needs. We also have a truck to pull the horse trailer, so it does the long hauls when needed. Maybe 2 cars isn't normal everywhere (LA, NYC), but growing up in Kansas and now living in Texas - everyone has 2 vehicles - one of them should be an electric. We have filled up the truck maybe 3 times this year, and I personally haven't been to a gas station this year. I also had insulation and a radiant barrier put in when we moved into this house. New windows and replacing the ACs have cut my electric bills in half, so I don't see any additional electricity from using it. It is the perfect solution for me.
Lastly, there's a "game" you can buy through Steam - called GTGD (Gamer to Game Developer) - some Aussie walks through creating a first person shooter with teams and multiple weapons. There's a S1 and S2 and after about 12 or so of the videos (out of 20+ in S1) I had enough to start programming my own game. He's writing it all in c# and explains the code decently.
Probably not very popular here, but I've been having a lot of fun lately with Unity using c# as my scripting language. Writing a networked game, and the RPC hookups and message passing is all pretty cool. State machines are such a different animal than business event driven programs (my normal job).
This. I wish I had mod points. Most of all the car should be able be take commands and execute on them immediately. Oddly enough, Demolition man (the movie with Sly Stallone) gets it right - let the car do the easy stuff, but allow for an override configuration. I recently got stuck in traffic in Dallas, bumper to bumper on a 4 lane tollway, sitting, move a foot, sit. I'd have loved to have my car take over and just freaking follow the guy in front of me. And I know it'll take some bumps and bruises - but when there are no longer human drivers as primary, the roads will be safer. Bottlenecks happen because of wrecks caused by inattentive humans. Or they happen because some human thinks he needs to get in front of everyone else because he's late for a meeting and swerves in and out of traffic. That all goes away. And that is probably why it won't ever happen - because it is the alpha jerks that'll say, "you'll get my steering wheel when you pry it out of my cold dead hands".
I've always considered legacy code to be code that isn't under any sort of unit testing. A well tested, thoroughly vented library will always be "production ready" for the tasks and behaviors that that code was intended for. If you are writing code (in whatever language) that isn't unit tested, then you are writing legacy code.
I normally don't respond, but are you sure we are all adults? Far too often it seems decisions are driven by greed, selfishness, or a religious self-richest goal that they now longer seem to be "grown up", much less even humanistic I wish everyone would "grow up", but frankly I don't think grown ups know what the fuck they are doing.
Or is all fair in war?
Will 3D printers help move open-source hardware circuit design to the next level? I know that they have great potential in helping the open-source ecology project (http://opensourceecology.org/), but that is mostly in the reprinting of complex parts for repair or initial construction of larger pieces. If more EEs / home enthusiasts could print out complete modules along with printing out testing nodes - little snap-off diodes whose sole purpose in the print is to prove some inner working of module, would circuit design explode? Just curious about what you thought.
But what if the cost to fix the failure is deemed to high? It is an acceptable engineering practice to just plan on something going wrong x% of the time. Now if 1/9 is the maximum failure rate, and you can still get to orbit (meaning you design in the possibility of an engine exploding - can you imagine!), and the probability of 2/9 is astronomical, is something that is "forseen" have to be mitigated? Now granted, I hope the engine failure is truly something anomalous, given that even the smallest fracture can cause problems, and you have to test the engine at least once before use...
Will space travel ever enter the "good enough" phase of manufacturing? Being an A.E. I applaud the design of the falcon engine system. Just like most large aircraft can land with 1 out of 4 engines being functional, a system that can take a full system failure on one of its parts and still perform is quality engineering.
Ok, I respect old people, but I don't trust them - not one bit. This lady is 80 - how is she qualified to be a judge on a case that involves technology? The RIAA must have convinced her that "downloading" somehow stole their copy and they had to get them back... Anyways, I'd be curious to see the list of songs - just to see where those songs are in the charts / profit margins.
Of course a baked in analytics service for all apps, that could be disabled, would be pretty cool too... Maybe an android level API?
Fun little watch I saw the other day.
"The Mutewatch is designed to be simple and intuitive. Just tap the flat surface and the touch screen lights up, then swipe through the functions clock, alarm and timer. "
The Ruler of the Universe is a man living in a small shack on a world that can only be reached with a key to an unprobability field or use of an Infinite Improbability Drive. He does not want to rule the universe and tries not to whenever possible, and therefore is by far the ideal candidate for the job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_characters#The_Ruler_of_the_Universe
"In the case of Minecraft, the sad fact is that the Xbox 360 is the only console (handhelds excluded) on which it will be released, specifically because Microsoft forced Mojang into an exclusive contract."
According to Notch, the creator of Minecraft, they aren't on Steam for a completely different reason, not because MS forced their hand.
Why No steam notch
My own personal favorites include Batman: Arkum Asylum - the story line and game play is first rate. BioShock, another very immersing FPS. Bioshock II was "give me some more of that" and also highly recommended (if you enjoy sometimes being kind of terrified). LotR online and D&D online are both free to play (so you can jump on for a couple days every 6 months and not feel like you are being screwed by the man because you payed 6 months subscription). World of goo is very nice as is Plants vs Zombies and even kingdom for keflings is a hoot for a builder game.
Now to the question of whether you have lost your mojo... it is easy to see the game for the math that it is - a simple counter (if I click in the right place enough times, "I win" - whatever that means in a virtual game). Once you understand a game, sometimes the senselessness can make even the idea of the playing seem rather like a waste of time and so you project that feeling onto other games thinking you have been there, done that. But it's not true. Batman is completely different from any other game I've played - and completely changed what I thought was possible. With the new input devices (I'm thinking kinect here) and new display capabilities (3-D is pretty wicked on games that program for it), I think there are games coming out that will make even that pale in comparison.
That is very insightful. You belong to groups - family, friends, co-workers, people at community organizations (church, clubs, HOAs), school (from your kid's grade school to your alma mater), state, and nation. In health care, people (especially the health nuts) like to group into "those that deserve good health for living the lifestyle they do, and those that don't". Those that deserve to pay more because of smoking or for not wearing a seat belt.
Unfortunately that relies on knowledge that we do not have. We can't figure out that the health nut for the 20 years lived in a mining community as a child. Everything you've done and not done plays a critical role in determining your overall health - and not only have we barely scratched the surface of understanding, our understanding sometimes stands at odds (took them 30 years to figure out which part of the egg does what for our bodies). And some eastern beliefs and practices are wholly ignored because of disbelief or pharmaceutical interests.
So we need to stop drawing that line around our yard, or around our workplace, or around smokers and just have universal health care. I know this bill doesn't do that, but it is at least a step, and maybe in another 20 we can take another.
I have experienced the Uncanny Valley but not necessarily in a bad way. At the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum the artist, Ron Mueck, for the first set of the sculptures here: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/11/mind-blowing-hyperrealistic-sculptures/ was on display and it was mind blowing. The woman in the bed made you feel 4 years old again because of the size - she's huge - like 10x normal - but perfect in detail. The skin has individual hair follicles, the eyes are moist looking, fingernails are slightly translucent - amazing detail. The two old woman are also perfect - but at 1/2 size normal I couldn't help be stare, up close my sense of perception was skewed and I started to imagine them moving, like you do with dead people (my families catholic, so I've got to stare at all kinds of dead ppl)
Highly recommended if you can catch up to one of his shows.
Not sure of the parent poster's university, but at the University of Kansas there is a small nuclear reactor. It is dormant now and was used by the physicists and nuclear engineers 20 years ago. However, it could be refueled and reactivated pretty quickly if needed.
Agree completely. No script is perhaps the finest add on ever. If a page doesn't load properly, then I don't go to that site. There are some sites that have upwards of 30 scripts from all over running - to this, even google is a problem - how many sites are running googleanalytics or googlesyndication, or the 10 other weird little google scripts?
Sounds like you had a really bad experience with the cops lately.
http://phrogram.com/kpl.aspx I've started teaching my son (8 years old) with Phrogram - it allows for all the needed pieces of programming, gives quick results, and has a nice little IDE (all free of course).