I'm glad I could discourage you, although the other respondent here (CaptainLard) also offers some good advice. (There is, at least, a trial period where you can use the camera and send it back if you're not happy. But I'd be cautious; their support is extremely slow.) Keep in mind, however, that I haven't told the whole story here. You can imagine a lot of hand-wringing went on during the two months and three cameras I received before I finally got a product that wasn't broken on delivery. And now that I've a nominally working camera in my hands, I find myself very disappointed with its performance. (I have no doubt GoPro didn't eat their own dog food when filming the "sample videos" shown in their advertisements.) Do some digging around GetSatisfaction forums and read the complaints. You'll find I'm not alone. And, as someone who reads Slashdot, you'll probably identify all the weaknesses and flaws in the product's engineering quickly. I think the only reason GoPro gained popularity is because they were the only game in town. Now that other companies are recognizing this is a hot space, I believe the alternatives will start eating their lunch pretty quickly.
GoPro easily produces one of the worst products I've ever had the misfortune of using. The HERO3 I received shipped with a barely working wireless feature, which a software update disabled, then a following update bricked the device. After over one month of going back and forth with technical support, they finally got around to issuing a replacement. The replacement had a bad lens. At last, I finally got one that works! But now more than two months had passed since my initial order. Alas, the video quality is poor, it can no longer be made to record 1080p wide video, and the battery gives me about 30 minutes of recording time. Their product design and engineering is laughably sloppy, and I'm eagerly awaiting the day we see some competition move in and offer decent alternatives.
Some have already mentioned how you can beat speeding cameras by not speeding past them, so I won't reiterate. Other commenters complain about how silly speed limits are. I agree, but let's be practical.
For the time being, we're going to have speed enforcement. The public sea change necessary to eliminate that isn't going to happen any time soon. If we must have nannies running around, wasting time and money, who are making sure all the little kiddies are following playground rules, we might as well have machines doing it. Machines that can't prove our identities in court, and don't doll out points that adversely affect our license status and help insurance companies jack up our premiums.
We've got countermeasures (pick your favorite: Waze and Trapster) against these cameras that are legal in all states (unlike radar detectors), and, if you happen to get caught by one you've missed, your driving privileges aren't put in jeopardy.
Any system can be hacked. Having humans directly in the loop is the basic Wargames lesson.
And that is exactly what these drones should NEVER be allowed to do. And that's the basic Terminator lesson.
You've got an interesting delusional architecture here. Hang on, I've got Ray Kurzweil on the phone. He's interested in your ideas about machines spontaneously becoming sentient.
The righteous stance is: rape no one, not: rape this person instead of that. Regardless the actual outcome, Lot's choice shows he clearly values one form of life over the other. (There's a similar problem with Abraham and Isaac. Sure, Abraham eventually didn't murder his son, but he would have, and therein lies something truly horrid.)
Lot is also making a judgement about sex. Anal sex is evil, but raping women is okay because, why? It's vaginal sex, of course! Oh, and because women aren't worth as much as men. Lot made a mutually exclusive statement: don't do this wicked thing (anal sex); instead, rape my virgin daughters.
It absolutely shows God condones rape (and commands it in many other stories). God sent these angels from the ether to earth. God can just as easily send them right back. That is in God's power, right? Oh, wait, that's right. We're trying to make some kind of sick point about sacrificing others.
I'm sorry, people who defend this story--and the other cruelty, injustice, and misogyny depicted by the Bible--are barbaric, morally depraved people. I'm deeply thankful we live in a society where we don't use this garbage as the basis of our moral code. Hopefully we can keep it that way, because we need only look to the middle east to see the horrors that come about when religion has a hand in governing and guiding people.
Let me get this straight. These guys ported and anachronistic piece of software from one dead language to a slightly less dead language, and then bragged about using structured programming techniques as a feature.
Hang on, I think Scott Adams has something to say about this.
I don't see how that's relevant - many parts of the Bible are history, and good history includes talking about people who did bad things, dumb things, and morally questionable things, not just talking about good people doing good things.
Okay, I'll bite. How about Genesis 19?
1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.
4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.
5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.
8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
Giving up his daughters to be gang-raped apparently wasn't wicked by comparison. What a jerk? Or was he? According to 2 Peter 2:7, Lot was a “righteous man.”
Today, we know that rape is wrong. Why? Because we've ignored the Bible and turned our backs on your petty gods, and instead turned to reason, which tell us that women are human beings—not property—just like men, who therefore deserve all the same rights and protections.
But you and people like you will ignore that progress and will tirelessly defend your beliefs, no matter what horrors they promote. Meanwhile, humanity is steadily moving beyond these atrocious aberrations. We've been doing that expressly because we're realizing there are no invisible, white men in the sky who'll punish us for thinking for ourselves.
In other words, all the moral progress we've seen is in spite of religion, not because of it. That scares you. That's the end of power and a cruel status quo that's existed for nearly all recorded human history.
Consider the goal: invariably produce specific output for specific input. Given certain markup, styles, and scripts, there's an expected result, and that result should be the same across all browsers. That's is why we have standards. Those standards help make the Web a great platform.
What, then, is the purpose of WebKit, Gecko, Presto, and Trident—four modern browser engines—all consuming development resources, each in pursuit of the exact same standards? If each were successful, we'd have four completely duplicative pieces of software when we only need exactly one.
Some people here are claiming about monoculture. Well, sorry, these aren't biological organisms. Imagine if, instead of having resources divided four ways, those resources were focused on a single project (or, at least, some of those resources were contributing to projects that aren't waste heat). These products are nearly as complex as operating systems. Think about what could be accomplished with all that poorly allocated effort?
Now Opera have come in and helped illustrate my point. They finally realized it's inefficient for them to reinvent the wheel a fourth time. (Maybe Microsoft will do the same.) They may have also realized all this redundant effort also create unnecessary work for web developers, who must perform grueling work and testing to understand and react to the subtle differences in all these engines. With this decision, they can get their engineering talent to focus on useful development, and they've saved the rest of us quite a bit of time, too.
JavaScript is an outstanding language. Spend some time building web applications with Node.js and AngularJS, and you will find yourself enjoying it immensely.
The government has no business spending on infrastructure. Roads, bridges, telephones, police, fire fighters, and democracy have all been bad enough for our great nation!
Yet another platform that duplicates a large amount of the effort invested in existing platforms, and differentiates itself only with a thin layer of user interface logic and chrome.
I need to first complain about how the petition is poorly worded and offers weak arguments. Regardless, the unfortunate reality is: switching to the Metric System is an impractical moonshot. It's a like building a mousetrap. Without all the pieces in place, it'll never work.
We like to make simple claims that if we change our roads and our cars then it'll all work out. Laypeople will then accept it and starting using. Besides having physical hardware in the real world that's measured with Imperial (or other) systems, other problems come from sectors where the inertia is too great. Could we convince the ICAO (an organization that sets global aviation standards) to use the metric system? I doubt it. We can't even find the institutional will power to fully embrace GPS for ATC. Same question applies for maritime activities. In that vein, certain systems are perfectly logical for the task at hand. For example, traveling at 1 knot along a meridian traverses 1 minute of geographic latitude in one hour. Why switch to something less elegant?
Using one system in all applications is not practical, and whenever people have to juggle two systems in their head they're likely to fall back on whatever they're most familiar with and confident in using. We're in a self-reinforcing system of resistance. And, ultimately, it doesn't matter if Jane Smith thinks she's driving her car at 55 mph while the physicist observes 9.81m/s/s.
The effective resolution of film is infinite, with good optics on your digital scanner you could go down to any resolution you want for easy of digital editing.
With regards to earth, rape, torture, and murder have already happened. There's no sense to talking “what if” scenarios. It's done, and now we have to live with it. Even if we cut carbon and methane emissions to zero, and plant trees over millions of acres, we'll still have to cope with the consequences for our bad behavior.
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I'm glad I could discourage you, although the other respondent here (CaptainLard) also offers some good advice. (There is, at least, a trial period where you can use the camera and send it back if you're not happy. But I'd be cautious; their support is extremely slow.) Keep in mind, however, that I haven't told the whole story here. You can imagine a lot of hand-wringing went on during the two months and three cameras I received before I finally got a product that wasn't broken on delivery. And now that I've a nominally working camera in my hands, I find myself very disappointed with its performance. (I have no doubt GoPro didn't eat their own dog food when filming the "sample videos" shown in their advertisements.) Do some digging around GetSatisfaction forums and read the complaints. You'll find I'm not alone. And, as someone who reads Slashdot, you'll probably identify all the weaknesses and flaws in the product's engineering quickly. I think the only reason GoPro gained popularity is because they were the only game in town. Now that other companies are recognizing this is a hot space, I believe the alternatives will start eating their lunch pretty quickly.
GoPro easily produces one of the worst products I've ever had the misfortune of using. The HERO3 I received shipped with a barely working wireless feature, which a software update disabled, then a following update bricked the device. After over one month of going back and forth with technical support, they finally got around to issuing a replacement. The replacement had a bad lens. At last, I finally got one that works! But now more than two months had passed since my initial order. Alas, the video quality is poor, it can no longer be made to record 1080p wide video, and the battery gives me about 30 minutes of recording time. Their product design and engineering is laughably sloppy, and I'm eagerly awaiting the day we see some competition move in and offer decent alternatives.
Because armored cars like that weigh 10-20 times as much as regular cars.
Recycle your old junk, then donate cash and let the charity decide what hardware suits their needs.
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I just switched, and I'm already wondering why I was on Reader for so long.
Some have already mentioned how you can beat speeding cameras by not speeding past them, so I won't reiterate. Other commenters complain about how silly speed limits are. I agree, but let's be practical.
For the time being, we're going to have speed enforcement. The public sea change necessary to eliminate that isn't going to happen any time soon. If we must have nannies running around, wasting time and money, who are making sure all the little kiddies are following playground rules, we might as well have machines doing it. Machines that can't prove our identities in court, and don't doll out points that adversely affect our license status and help insurance companies jack up our premiums.
We've got countermeasures (pick your favorite: Waze and Trapster) against these cameras that are legal in all states (unlike radar detectors), and, if you happen to get caught by one you've missed, your driving privileges aren't put in jeopardy.
tl;dr: less cops, more cameras.
And no.
And I hope the moderators come to their senses.
I've noted this before, but rather than just parrot my previous comments
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3457941&cid=42884767
Any system can be hacked. Having humans directly in the loop is the basic Wargames lesson.
And that is exactly what these drones should NEVER be allowed to do. And that's the basic Terminator lesson.
You've got an interesting delusional architecture here. Hang on, I've got Ray Kurzweil on the phone. He's interested in your ideas about machines spontaneously becoming sentient.
Neither is righteous!
The righteous stance is: rape no one, not: rape this person instead of that. Regardless the actual outcome, Lot's choice shows he clearly values one form of life over the other. (There's a similar problem with Abraham and Isaac. Sure, Abraham eventually didn't murder his son, but he would have, and therein lies something truly horrid.)
Lot is also making a judgement about sex. Anal sex is evil, but raping women is okay because, why? It's vaginal sex, of course! Oh, and because women aren't worth as much as men. Lot made a mutually exclusive statement: don't do this wicked thing (anal sex); instead, rape my virgin daughters.
It absolutely shows God condones rape (and commands it in many other stories). God sent these angels from the ether to earth. God can just as easily send them right back. That is in God's power, right? Oh, wait, that's right. We're trying to make some kind of sick point about sacrificing others.
I'm sorry, people who defend this story--and the other cruelty, injustice, and misogyny depicted by the Bible--are barbaric, morally depraved people. I'm deeply thankful we live in a society where we don't use this garbage as the basis of our moral code. Hopefully we can keep it that way, because we need only look to the middle east to see the horrors that come about when religion has a hand in governing and guiding people.
Why not just have software on the phones we already carry?
Let me get this straight. These guys ported and anachronistic piece of software from one dead language to a slightly less dead language, and then bragged about using structured programming techniques as a feature.
Hang on, I think Scott Adams has something to say about this.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-02-11/
For the engines in question, that is the goal. It's not as if Trident is for screen readers and Gecko is for full-fledged browsers.
I don't see how that's relevant - many parts of the Bible are history, and good history includes talking about people who did bad things, dumb things, and morally questionable things, not just talking about good people doing good things.
Okay, I'll bite. How about Genesis 19?
1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.
4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.
5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.
8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
Giving up his daughters to be gang-raped apparently wasn't wicked by comparison. What a jerk? Or was he? According to 2 Peter 2:7, Lot was a “righteous man.”
Today, we know that rape is wrong. Why? Because we've ignored the Bible and turned our backs on your petty gods, and instead turned to reason, which tell us that women are human beings—not property—just like men, who therefore deserve all the same rights and protections.
But you and people like you will ignore that progress and will tirelessly defend your beliefs, no matter what horrors they promote. Meanwhile, humanity is steadily moving beyond these atrocious aberrations. We've been doing that expressly because we're realizing there are no invisible, white men in the sky who'll punish us for thinking for ourselves.
In other words, all the moral progress we've seen is in spite of religion, not because of it. That scares you. That's the end of power and a cruel status quo that's existed for nearly all recorded human history.
Consider the goal: invariably produce specific output for specific input. Given certain markup, styles, and scripts, there's an expected result, and that result should be the same across all browsers. That's is why we have standards. Those standards help make the Web a great platform.
What, then, is the purpose of WebKit, Gecko, Presto, and Trident—four modern browser engines—all consuming development resources, each in pursuit of the exact same standards? If each were successful, we'd have four completely duplicative pieces of software when we only need exactly one.
Some people here are claiming about monoculture. Well, sorry, these aren't biological organisms. Imagine if, instead of having resources divided four ways, those resources were focused on a single project (or, at least, some of those resources were contributing to projects that aren't waste heat). These products are nearly as complex as operating systems. Think about what could be accomplished with all that poorly allocated effort?
Now Opera have come in and helped illustrate my point. They finally realized it's inefficient for them to reinvent the wheel a fourth time. (Maybe Microsoft will do the same.) They may have also realized all this redundant effort also create unnecessary work for web developers, who must perform grueling work and testing to understand and react to the subtle differences in all these engines. With this decision, they can get their engineering talent to focus on useful development, and they've saved the rest of us quite a bit of time, too.
http://i.imgur.com/zBNUgpf.jpg
How's JavaScript not great, robust, or elegant?
JavaScript is an outstanding language. Spend some time building web applications with Node.js and AngularJS, and you will find yourself enjoying it immensely.
The government has no business spending on infrastructure. Roads, bridges, telephones, police, fire fighters, and democracy have all been bad enough for our great nation!
Yet another platform that duplicates a large amount of the effort invested in existing platforms, and differentiates itself only with a thin layer of user interface logic and chrome.
First, hear Tim Minchin on the subject of improbable events and how many things there are in the universe. This phenomenon may show people that wondrous occurrences are common, and they may then stop attributing those occurrences to supernatural causes.
I need to first complain about how the petition is poorly worded and offers weak arguments. Regardless, the unfortunate reality is: switching to the Metric System is an impractical moonshot. It's a like building a mousetrap. Without all the pieces in place, it'll never work.
We like to make simple claims that if we change our roads and our cars then it'll all work out. Laypeople will then accept it and starting using. Besides having physical hardware in the real world that's measured with Imperial (or other) systems, other problems come from sectors where the inertia is too great. Could we convince the ICAO (an organization that sets global aviation standards) to use the metric system? I doubt it. We can't even find the institutional will power to fully embrace GPS for ATC. Same question applies for maritime activities. In that vein, certain systems are perfectly logical for the task at hand. For example, traveling at 1 knot along a meridian traverses 1 minute of geographic latitude in one hour. Why switch to something less elegant?
Using one system in all applications is not practical, and whenever people have to juggle two systems in their head they're likely to fall back on whatever they're most familiar with and confident in using. We're in a self-reinforcing system of resistance. And, ultimately, it doesn't matter if Jane Smith thinks she's driving her car at 55 mph while the physicist observes 9.81m/s/s.
The effective resolution of film is infinite, with good optics on your digital scanner you could go down to any resolution you want for easy of digital editing.
Nope.
With regards to earth, rape, torture, and murder have already happened. There's no sense to talking “what if” scenarios. It's done, and now we have to live with it. Even if we cut carbon and methane emissions to zero, and plant trees over millions of acres, we'll still have to cope with the consequences for our bad behavior.
We should obviously do something about video games because you can kill so many more people with a game controller than an Armalite AR-10.