I see plenty of things while riding that make me cringe - yea, you're good, wearing a helmet and all - but you aren't wearing anything else but sneakers, shorts and a wife beater. Yea, your head will be fine.....
Actually, I believe that in this case, the helmet is wearing him.
Was there any outcry when Battlefield Viet Nam came out? Because you can totally frag G.I.s in that game, and there are plenty of Viet Nam vets still around.
What about Call of Duty, the other Medal of Honor games, Battlefield 1942, etc. Plenty of G.I. and wehrmacht fragging going on there and we didn't hear any complaining from either side on the evening news, did we?
I'm still trying to figure out why allowing everyone access to healthcare would shred your constitution. I missed the part that says: "Thou shalt not have access to healthcare unless you pay for it."
Wouldn't it be simpler to make the chips larger and instead work on scaling down the board on which the chip sits? Bigger surface for the chip would allow more transistors and making the motherboard components smaller would allow more room for the larger chips.
I'm just wondering what the point is of making the chips smaller and smaller when the rest of the hardware isn't following suit.
That's what we did in Canada for the 1$ and then 2$ coins. Since you couldn't get the paper version at the bank anymore, you didn't have a choice. Only took a few years to phase out the paper versions.
Plus they were designed in such a way that they could easily be identified in your pocket, that helped too.
Think about it, you would need quite a bit of force or leverage to screw that thing in. Having a huge, dirty, bright yellow backhoe driving in granddad while spewing diesel smoke and making lots of noise doesn't quite feel the same as the coffin gently descending in its hole with a discrete pulley system with soft music playing in the background.
They take out a piece of brain tissue, and implant it into the machinery
Didn't they use semi-organic components in the computer (gelpacks I think) in Star Trek? I seem to recall an episode when the organic components of the computer caught a virus (real one, not computer) and that borked the systems of the ship.
So yeah, my point is that using organic components in a computer seemed to achieve a rather important purpose in Star Trek so it stands to reason that what we are learning here could be useful.
Was it wrong to go through those 50 meters at 50 km/h, which is the normal inner city speed?
YES, the law (the signs) say 30.
Does it makes sense to have those signs up? Probably not, but the law doesn't care.
Whether the law makes sense or not has no bearing on how it is applied for a judge. I went to court to fight a ticket for a failed stop because I stopped my car at the intersection (to see the traffic) and not at the stop sign which was about 6 meters away from the intersection (where you can't see if traffic is coming). Even though where I stopped was safer (I could see the others and they could see me), the judge said I didn't stop at the sign so therefore I was fined. He said that in that case I should stop twice, once at the sign and once at the intersection.
So one tire pressure sensor causes a christmas tree of lights in the dash...
Before we had the one Check Engine light for anything and everything that failed, and now we have a bunch of lights when 1 thing fails. That's progress...
I thought helium was refined essence of Chipmunk - surely a renewable source?
Yes, but do you have any idea how difficult it is to collect Chipmunk farts? It also takes immense amounts of baked beans to keep production going and that aversely affects the markets.
I totally agree with you, classics are called that for a reason but that doesn't make them interesting.
Case in point, I've recently read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass... what the f*ck kind of acid trip was Lewis Carroll on when he wrote that crap?
Just let the kids read what they want within a few guidelines and have them write a paper explaining what they liked/didn't like about the book. That way they practice both reading and writing and sharing their thoughts to their fellow classmates might enlighten them to new books.
that does it for all the movies and TV shows that display the FBI seal
I read somewhere, back when I was really into the X-Files, that the badges used by Scully and Mulder (and any other seen on tv actually) do not look like the official badges because the FBI doesn't let anyone replicate them for security reasons.
I suspect that the same goes for the official seal.
I don't understand what they are trying to do with the school system Canada and the US.
When I was in school, higher achievers were in one class, average students in another and lower achievers and those with behavioral issues in another. Teaching was tailored to each class and everybody learned at their pace. Lower achievers could learn with more help, higher achievers just saw more content and everybody was happy.
Why did the school system suddenly decide that being a lower achiever is a bad thing and that all kids need to be mixed together and the standards lowered for everyone? With teaching tailored to the learning capacities, everyone can succeed.
The industry treats its people like garbage because they know that when one cracks, 20 eager (and naive) young ones are already queued up for a chance to work with da video gamez!
Hardware that is literally the only thing keeping you alive should be subject to some regulation.
It is. I work at a software firm where our product is considered a medical device so I know what I'm talking about.
The FDA doesn't not get a look at our proprietary code, however we have very stringent rules to follow and they audit us on a regular basis.
Our requirements must be very detailed and we must do verification testing against these to insure that the software does what we say it does. After that, field experts who actually use the software come over and do validation testing to insure that the software does the right thing. On top of that we run load testing and various scenario based testing to see what happens in specific cases. All of this testing must be thoroughly documented because the FDA have a simple rule: what's not written down, doesn't exist/wasn't done. Correcting a typo in one of the forms in the software takes about a week to do because of all of the documentation involved.
For the 3rd party review of pacemaker software thing to work, you'd need a software engineer that also happens to be a heart surgeon reviewing the code. Good luck finding that...
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Yes, yes, yes... that's all very nice, but how good is it at making popcorn more efficiently?
People with money can get out of jail and people without have to stay in?
Don't forget about famous people, they get out of jail too.
I see plenty of things while riding that make me cringe - yea, you're good, wearing a helmet and all - but you aren't wearing anything else but sneakers, shorts and a wife beater. Yea, your head will be fine.....
Actually, I believe that in this case, the helmet is wearing him.
Was there any outcry when Battlefield Viet Nam came out? Because you can totally frag G.I.s in that game, and there are plenty of Viet Nam vets still around.
What about Call of Duty, the other Medal of Honor games, Battlefield 1942, etc. Plenty of G.I. and wehrmacht fragging going on there and we didn't hear any complaining from either side on the evening news, did we?
I'm still trying to figure out why allowing everyone access to healthcare would shred your constitution. I missed the part that says: "Thou shalt not have access to healthcare unless you pay for it."
Healthy people = good... no?
How can that town be granted the patent, the country it's in isn't even in the same continent!
My password is IAMGAY. That way, even if it got found out I can be confident no one will want to use it, because that would mean they are gay
...Not that there's anything wrong with that. /seinfeld
[...] the laws were designed to safeguard individuals, not corporations
Where is this exactly? I think that I'd like to move there.
Wouldn't it be simpler to make the chips larger and instead work on scaling down the board on which the chip sits? Bigger surface for the chip would allow more transistors and making the motherboard components smaller would allow more room for the larger chips.
I'm just wondering what the point is of making the chips smaller and smaller when the rest of the hardware isn't following suit.
That's what we did in Canada for the 1$ and then 2$ coins. Since you couldn't get the paper version at the bank anymore, you didn't have a choice. Only took a few years to phase out the paper versions.
Plus they were designed in such a way that they could easily be identified in your pocket, that helped too.
I'm not too sure if this is practical though.
Think about it, you would need quite a bit of force or leverage to screw that thing in. Having a huge, dirty, bright yellow backhoe driving in granddad while spewing diesel smoke and making lots of noise doesn't quite feel the same as the coffin gently descending in its hole with a discrete pulley system with soft music playing in the background.
They take out a piece of brain tissue, and implant it into the machinery
Didn't they use semi-organic components in the computer (gelpacks I think) in Star Trek? I seem to recall an episode when the organic components of the computer caught a virus (real one, not computer) and that borked the systems of the ship.
So yeah, my point is that using organic components in a computer seemed to achieve a rather important purpose in Star Trek so it stands to reason that what we are learning here could be useful.
Scanning for heat trails... that reminds me of Cyberia...
The first thought that popped in my head was of Splinter Cell.
Was it wrong to go through those 50 meters at 50 km/h, which is the normal inner city speed?
YES, the law (the signs) say 30.
Does it makes sense to have those signs up? Probably not, but the law doesn't care.
Whether the law makes sense or not has no bearing on how it is applied for a judge. I went to court to fight a ticket for a failed stop because I stopped my car at the intersection (to see the traffic) and not at the stop sign which was about 6 meters away from the intersection (where you can't see if traffic is coming). Even though where I stopped was safer (I could see the others and they could see me), the judge said I didn't stop at the sign so therefore I was fined. He said that in that case I should stop twice, once at the sign and once at the intersection.
The law is that law, common sense does not apply.
Apparently his parents paid for most of it. Seriously though, what kind of irresponsible parents give a race car to an 18 year old??
This kid does not have the experience or maturity required to drive this car.
You sound as if you've got an alternative. I'm listening...
Not voting isn't an alternative, well... not true, it would be an alternative if *nobody* voted. Now that would send a message
So one tire pressure sensor causes a christmas tree of lights in the dash...
Before we had the one Check Engine light for anything and everything that failed, and now we have a bunch of lights when 1 thing fails. That's progress...
I thought helium was refined essence of Chipmunk - surely a renewable source?
Yes, but do you have any idea how difficult it is to collect Chipmunk farts? It also takes immense amounts of baked beans to keep production going and that aversely affects the markets.
I totally agree with you, classics are called that for a reason but that doesn't make them interesting.
Case in point, I've recently read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass... what the f*ck kind of acid trip was Lewis Carroll on when he wrote that crap?
Just let the kids read what they want within a few guidelines and have them write a paper explaining what they liked/didn't like about the book. That way they practice both reading and writing and sharing their thoughts to their fellow classmates might enlighten them to new books.
that does it for all the movies and TV shows that display the FBI seal
I read somewhere, back when I was really into the X-Files, that the badges used by Scully and Mulder (and any other seen on tv actually) do not look like the official badges because the FBI doesn't let anyone replicate them for security reasons.
I suspect that the same goes for the official seal.
My hands already are sweaty when I'm playing, more heat coming from the controller is NOT something I'm looking for.
I don't understand what they are trying to do with the school system Canada and the US.
When I was in school, higher achievers were in one class, average students in another and lower achievers and those with behavioral issues in another. Teaching was tailored to each class and everybody learned at their pace. Lower achievers could learn with more help, higher achievers just saw more content and everybody was happy.
Why did the school system suddenly decide that being a lower achiever is a bad thing and that all kids need to be mixed together and the standards lowered for everyone? With teaching tailored to the learning capacities, everyone can succeed.
What happens when the flasher is a minor?
They release the Pedobear.
The industry treats its people like garbage because they know that when one cracks, 20 eager (and naive) young ones are already queued up for a chance to work with da video gamez!
Hardware that is literally the only thing keeping you alive should be subject to some regulation.
It is. I work at a software firm where our product is considered a medical device so I know what I'm talking about.
The FDA doesn't not get a look at our proprietary code, however we have very stringent rules to follow and they audit us on a regular basis.
Our requirements must be very detailed and we must do verification testing against these to insure that the software does what we say it does. After that, field experts who actually use the software come over and do validation testing to insure that the software does the right thing. On top of that we run load testing and various scenario based testing to see what happens in specific cases. All of this testing must be thoroughly documented because the FDA have a simple rule: what's not written down, doesn't exist/wasn't done. Correcting a typo in one of the forms in the software takes about a week to do because of all of the documentation involved.
For the 3rd party review of pacemaker software thing to work, you'd need a software engineer that also happens to be a heart surgeon reviewing the code. Good luck finding that...