The western U.S. is living on borrowed time. Decades of unsustainable development mean that the West is already using more water than it has, leading to depletion of aquifers like the Ogallala, and reservoirs like Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Climate change makes it a pretty good bet that the current decades-long drought is going to become the new normal. The southwest can't sustain its population, or its agricultural economy. Today's southwesterners are going to be the new Anasazi, real soon. Everybody knows it, but nobody is going to do anything about it until it is way past too late.
What the hell do you expect to happen when you click "like" on something? You are intentionally making your opinion public. That's the entire point of a "like" button.
Some douchebag sending a flying lawnmower into the air over downtown Manhattan should be charged with reckless endangerment, at the very least. How long before somebody gets killed by one of these assholes?
If grid lock, anger, douch baggery, and killing automated cars is you goal, then sure.
Otherwise, we will just have the self righteous assholes going 15 MPH in a 25 MPH zone becasue they are too precious to use the bike lane.
And the car will have the simple common sense to wait ten or fifteen seconds until it's safe to go around the cyclist, who will inevitably catch up at the next traffic light anyway. This behavior seems to elude humans.
A snow storm is the big one. Also, rain and dust can be a big problem as well. The thing is, when you R&D these systems in sunny California, silly things like "precipitation" seem to get forgotten. I remember seeing a presentation about the Google street view cars, and how when they deployed them to other regions, they had to institute lens cleaning procedures because they had pretty much forgotten it rains in other places in the world.
This could solve the other crucial problem of the day: declining interest in golfing. All we have to do is subsidize country club memberships for the poor under the Affordable Care Act. The rich are now too busy to golf.
Fundamentally people want to have their own biological children. They dress it up in all sorts of justifications.
When I think honestly about the years and tens-of-thousands of dollars I've spent trying to have a biological child, I must admit that I do it only out of a selfish desire to fulfill a biological imperative.
You say this as if it were surprising, or deep. The thing you don't seem to get is that pretty much everything else you do is for the same reason. Mostly, you do what you do because you are genetically programmed to do it. You are an animal like any other animal. People are just more inclined to invent a posteriori rationalizations for their actions.
It's easy enough to flip this around: "After that last visit to the doctor, I decided I'd rather spend some money on a nice bike than on cardiologists and ICU bills. But whenever I try to go out on it, I get run off the trail by jerks who act like anyone doing less than 25mph on the flats deserves to be roadkill. At least on the weekly rides most of the folks are supportive, and willing to help out beginners. Sure, there's this one guy who shows up a few times a year and spends most of his time shaking his head at us and sighing theatrically, but I've found that the best thing to do is ignore him..."
This. Totally this.
Bikes are like guns. They are inherently elegant and beautiful machines. And a really high-end bike, especially a custom bike, is a thing of beauty, as well as being exceptionally comfortable and fun to ride. If somebody can afford a beautiful bike, even if they're not a competitive rider, more power to them. Nobody needs a $10,000 bike, but it's not up to anybody but the rider to decide who deserves one. If one person has a $12,000 car and a $10,000 bike, and another person has a $30,000 car and sits on his ass in the driver's seat thinking "who does that guy on the $10,000 bike think he is?", then who's the fool?
I live on a rural road that attracts a lot of cycles. What is with the clothes the bikers wear? I understand in competition everything counts including clothes and gear but riding on the weekend is not a competition. If you are competing, wouldn't it make more sense to not be comfortable during practice?
Why is it that every time some douchebag wants to complain about cyclists, they bitch about the clothes? Why the fuck do you care what other people choose to wear? What does it have to do with anything at all?
For the record, cyclists wear spandex because it's more comfortable. Try riding 75 miles in cotton skivvies and see how your ass feels when you're done. Bright colors improve visibility. As for the stupid team logos? They're stupid. Get over it. Nobody cares what you think about it.
Even if you use your email only for work, there's still a lot of stuff in there which needs to be kept confidential for one reason or another. Payroll matters, student grades, personnel issues for example.
The first telescopes used a pair of lenses, then mirrors, then finely-created mirrors, then a high quantity of parabolic radio dishes, then really really really big mirrors - launched into orbit. Two lenses were (roughly) affordable by the common man. Mirrors, also affordable by the common man who had a tax return. Then a wealthy hobbyist or dedicated scientist, then a research lab, then a country.
The difference between "how much it costs for the stuff to find new stuff" and "how much new stuff that really expensive stuff will be found" are the questions at hand. We live in an infinite universe, so there's an infinite number of discoveries to be made. It just starts to cost impractical amounts of money after a while.
Her'es a picture of the telescope used for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has mapped a substantial fraction of the observable universe:
A two-meter instrument. Much of the innovation in modern cosmology is coming from data processing, not just building bigger and bigger mirrors. People are actually pretty clever, and can work around boundaries in surprising ways.
Like we know everything. Or even anything much at all. In terms of understanding the nature of the world. we have only scratched the barest surface. Immense depths lay undiscovered.
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The western U.S. is living on borrowed time. Decades of unsustainable development mean that the West is already using more water than it has, leading to depletion of aquifers like the Ogallala, and reservoirs like Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Climate change makes it a pretty good bet that the current decades-long drought is going to become the new normal. The southwest can't sustain its population, or its agricultural economy. Today's southwesterners are going to be the new Anasazi, real soon. Everybody knows it, but nobody is going to do anything about it until it is way past too late.
What the hell do you expect to happen when you click "like" on something? You are intentionally making your opinion public. That's the entire point of a "like" button.
What's next? "You mean I can't bludgeon you to death with my garden shovel? This is all Obama's fault, the damned communist!"
This would be funny if it weren't for Sean Hannity trying to make a hero out of the dude in Minnesota who executed a couple of teenagers for burglary.
Some douchebag sending a flying lawnmower into the air over downtown Manhattan should be charged with reckless endangerment, at the very least. How long before somebody gets killed by one of these assholes?
They should just do something analogous to what smoke detectors do. Like every few minutes when the battery gets low, automatically fire off a round.
Somebody please mod parent "Funny".
Chip and Pin in the USA will go the same way Concorde did
Back and forth to Europe twice a day?
The U.S. is finally catching up with Bulgaria on this one.
If grid lock, anger, douch baggery, and killing automated cars is you goal, then sure. Otherwise, we will just have the self righteous assholes going 15 MPH in a 25 MPH zone becasue they are too precious to use the bike lane.
And the car will have the simple common sense to wait ten or fifteen seconds until it's safe to go around the cyclist, who will inevitably catch up at the next traffic light anyway. This behavior seems to elude humans.
A snow storm is the big one. Also, rain and dust can be a big problem as well. The thing is, when you R&D these systems in sunny California, silly things like "precipitation" seem to get forgotten. I remember seeing a presentation about the Google street view cars, and how when they deployed them to other regions, they had to institute lens cleaning procedures because they had pretty much forgotten it rains in other places in the world.
The cars use a combination of optical, ultrasonic, and radar sensors. I doubt rain presents too much of a problem. Hell, I imagine they could drive pretty well at night with the headlights off.
Fucking cyclists are going to have a free lunch with self driving cars.
Just plain old taking over the streets because they know the computers will give them right of way everytime.
Which will be completely fucking awesome.
Big deal. Courtney love says she found it, too. I think her diagram might be even better.
As long as they give a demo model to Anne Hathaway, it's a win for everybody.
This could solve the other crucial problem of the day: declining interest in golfing. All we have to do is subsidize country club memberships for the poor under the Affordable Care Act. The rich are now too busy to golf.
Fundamentally people want to have their own biological children. They dress it up in all sorts of justifications.
When I think honestly about the years and tens-of-thousands of dollars I've spent trying to have a biological child, I must admit that I do it only out of a selfish desire to fulfill a biological imperative.
You say this as if it were surprising, or deep. The thing you don't seem to get is that pretty much everything else you do is for the same reason. Mostly, you do what you do because you are genetically programmed to do it. You are an animal like any other animal. People are just more inclined to invent a posteriori rationalizations for their actions.
It's easy enough to flip this around: "After that last visit to the doctor, I decided I'd rather spend some money on a nice bike than on cardiologists and ICU bills. But whenever I try to go out on it, I get run off the trail by jerks who act like anyone doing less than 25mph on the flats deserves to be roadkill. At least on the weekly rides most of the folks are supportive, and willing to help out beginners. Sure, there's this one guy who shows up a few times a year and spends most of his time shaking his head at us and sighing theatrically, but I've found that the best thing to do is ignore him..."
This. Totally this.
Bikes are like guns. They are inherently elegant and beautiful machines. And a really high-end bike, especially a custom bike, is a thing of beauty, as well as being exceptionally comfortable and fun to ride. If somebody can afford a beautiful bike, even if they're not a competitive rider, more power to them. Nobody needs a $10,000 bike, but it's not up to anybody but the rider to decide who deserves one. If one person has a $12,000 car and a $10,000 bike, and another person has a $30,000 car and sits on his ass in the driver's seat thinking "who does that guy on the $10,000 bike think he is?", then who's the fool?
Yeah, pizza-hole golf is the equivalent to dumbing down school kids by eliminating cursive writing (common core).
Also, our precious bodily fluids. Don't forget the threat from dumbed-down golf and the Common Core to our precious bodily fluids.
I live on a rural road that attracts a lot of cycles. What is with the clothes the bikers wear? I understand in competition everything counts including clothes and gear but riding on the weekend is not a competition. If you are competing, wouldn't it make more sense to not be comfortable during practice?
Why is it that every time some douchebag wants to complain about cyclists, they bitch about the clothes? Why the fuck do you care what other people choose to wear? What does it have to do with anything at all?
For the record, cyclists wear spandex because it's more comfortable. Try riding 75 miles in cotton skivvies and see how your ass feels when you're done. Bright colors improve visibility. As for the stupid team logos? They're stupid. Get over it. Nobody cares what you think about it.
Even if you use your email only for work, there's still a lot of stuff in there which needs to be kept confidential for one reason or another. Payroll matters, student grades, personnel issues for example.
Was this "feature" designed by divorce attorneys, or what?
people who think science is the right tool for every problem domain are not as smart as they think they are.
Very true. Science only has an advantage when reality is involved.
The first telescopes used a pair of lenses, then mirrors, then finely-created mirrors, then a high quantity of parabolic radio dishes, then really really really big mirrors - launched into orbit. Two lenses were (roughly) affordable by the common man. Mirrors, also affordable by the common man who had a tax return. Then a wealthy hobbyist or dedicated scientist, then a research lab, then a country.
The difference between "how much it costs for the stuff to find new stuff" and "how much new stuff that really expensive stuff will be found" are the questions at hand. We live in an infinite universe, so there's an infinite number of discoveries to be made. It just starts to cost impractical amounts of money after a while.
Her'es a picture of the telescope used for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has mapped a substantial fraction of the observable universe:
http://www.hextek.com/wp-conte...
A two-meter instrument. Much of the innovation in modern cosmology is coming from data processing, not just building bigger and bigger mirrors. People are actually pretty clever, and can work around boundaries in surprising ways.
Like we know everything. Or even anything much at all. In terms of understanding the nature of the world. we have only scratched the barest surface. Immense depths lay undiscovered.
Let's go!
20 LET X = 0
30 IF X = 50 THEN 60
40 LET X = X + 1
50 GOTO 30
60 PRINT "HAPPY "
70 PRINT X
80 PRINT " BASIC!"
Actually, it doesn't omit that at all, it states their prototype is 2000mAh.
I stand corrected. Thank you!
... discharge time is another. How long does the battery last? TFA (typically for stupid tech articles) omits this detail.