Human males in many cultures have to display their fitness (economic etc), and one way to do that is by not caring too much about "petty stuff" like having lunch split exactly fairly.
FWIW male capuchin monkeys share more indiscriminately than female ones: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/us/genetic-basis-to-fairness-study-hints.html
As for calculators, that's rather primitive... One of my ex-colleagues (a guy if that's important to you) created a fancy spreadsheet that helped with all the calculations (tax, surcharge etc).
You could do stuff like share items amongst multiple people with different share proportions e.g 2:3:5 split.
If Slashdotters want to split bills fairly they should do it a proper nerdy style:).
Except, in theory we have these people called editors whose job it is to actually, you know, edit the submissions for some semblance of grammatical and spelling goodness.
Or the editors get paid extra to troll the users?;)
After all more comments makes their stats look better and maybe generates more ad impressions.
There are already plenty of existing ways to plug computers to brains. They have already been connecting animals to computers and having them play games, control robotic arms whether nearby or far far away.
The problem is doing that safely without killing too many neurons and having other long-term issues (e.g. infection). Brains are about as soft as tofu, and actually move about a bit within the skull. It is tricky to keep stuff attached to precise parts of a brain without causing severe brain damage when the person goes jogging, or gets patted on the head.
This artificial synapse doesn't seem to be about solving that problem.
Maybe they can use a flexible elastic membrane as a multipoint sensor and have some fancy way of recalculating offsets on-the-fly if the membrane shifts a bit.
Remembering that the death of an innocent civilian is worse than the death of a police officer given the police officer knowlingly signed up for the job.
But maybe their job is to "To Serve and Protect" their own asses.
1) if the target can destroy all evidence in that short time, he's either a small-timer or someone who is so prepared that you'd never be able to pin anything on even if you busted the door down the way they did.
2) If they are really that concerned about evidence destruction, they should use their brains and split to two teams, wait till he leaves the house, then arrest him and raid his house at the same time.
They should behave like police not soldiers. This is reverting to the bad old days when soldiers were the police force.
The cops are part of the problem. Their "kick the door down" methods have killed innocent people.
He's not going to shoot them if they just press his doorbell. In a high crime area, kicking doors down, is a good way of getting shot. I think many juries might agree it's self defense.
Their death rates might actually go down and effectiveness go up if they worked to get more cooperation from the general public, than if they kept behaving like uniformed thugs and gangsters.
Do you know how many cops are killed every year? 48 was in 2009 over 3/4 of them at traffic stops.(speeding suspected drunk driving, etc)
Meh. Being a cop is less dangerous than being a cab driver or garbage collector.
Are their rates really lower because they arrest people like that? How are they getting killed at traffic stops? By getting shot or by getting rammed by cars?
Whatever it is, these bunch are just unprofessional and abusing their power.
FWIW one of the most dangerous jobs is probably "President of the USA" with a 10% "killed on the job" rate, and very high assassination attempt rate;).
And guess what has demonstrated time and again that they can't make "best decisions"? Governments. Who are controlled by leaders elected by voters.
So using your logic the some countries should do away with democracy and elections, since the voters have demonstrated time and again that they elect Governments who have demonstrated time and again that they can't make decisions that are "best" according to you...
Fact is they get some stuff right. Car safety has gone up over the years. I've heard that fatalities are down because cars are safer not because drivers are better. Exhaust pollution has gone down.
If you think the government had nothing to do with it and it's all due to the manufacturers "good hearts" you should look at vehicles in other countries without those government regulations. In some places the trucks do not have underrun protection bars, the cars would not pass US/Euro safety standards, etc etc.
Maybe your Government did screw up with CAFE. But ranting about "Governments" like that is about as useful as ranting about "Humans".
Might be another reason why prices are going up world wide (lots of stuff is bought and sold in USD).
I doubt there was actually that many US dollars in the world before they suddenly "loaned" those trillions from "thin air"/taxpayers/"future generations".
But if a motorist who has used petrol all his or her life buys or borrows a new diesel car then uses the wrong nozzle at the filling station, costly damage can be done even before the ignition key has been inserted, because unlocking the doors also energises a diesel's fuel pump.
That puts the fuel under pressure, ready for instant injection into the engine, which is why modern diesels start so quickly. The old-fashioned waiting time for preliminary ignition "warm-up" might appear to have been eliminated, but in reality it has simply been electronically absorbed into pre-driving procedures. It is a clever and convenient development but it comes at a price for the absent-minded.
My excuse: just spent some hours doing taxes, and my PM is announcing an "email for all" system that he claims isn't going to cost taxpayers money but rumours are the company doing it will charge government departments money per email... Stupid stuff that looks more suitable for an "april 1st" announcement.
But can most colour blind people tell the difference between "real life" colour and movie colour? Most can't- because most of that 9% are red-green colour blind - they are missing one cone, or the cones are too close (Red1 Red2 or Green1 Green2).
People would only be affected if their colour cones are actually on different colours instead of the normal human Red, Green, Blue..
Or they had additional colours like the tetrachromats (or higher - some nonhumans are pentachromats ). Tetrachromats will notice the difference between "real life" vs colour TVs or movies. They have eyes that see 4 primary colours. Most humans have 3, only a few humans are tetrachromats (typically female).
A display/screen that shows "real life" in 3 colours will appear no different to real life to people who only see 3 or fewer colours, assuming those colours that they do see fall within the correct wavelengths. But will appear like it's missing something to tetrachromats. Just like us normals will notice if an RGB display is missing one colour (but someone with monochrome vision might not;) ).
If you're talking about desktop, upgrading Ubuntu from release to release tends to break far more desktop stuff than upgrading from Windows XP to Windows XP SP3.
When there are tons of anecdotes they start being statistically significant samples.
Worse it's not at the level where "Aunt May" is not being able to get sound to work smoothly. We're talking about Slashdot nerds who know about the wikis, forums, bugtraq, CLIs etc and still have problems.
Linux is better at most server stuff than Windows. But desktop? Sometimes it seems as if the GNOME and pulseaudio bunch are intentionally sabotaging Desktop Linux;).
What makes you think he's not paying attention to the voters?
The Democrats and Republicans get > 98% of the votes (those that don't vote literally do not count). Between them they've got practically all the voters covered.
So from a politics point of view they're doing as good a job of keeping their jobs as one reasonably can.
And the voters are doing a pretty good job of keeping them there.
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Put your pants in the Trough and get back in the queue.
Human males in many cultures have to display their fitness (economic etc), and one way to do that is by not caring too much about "petty stuff" like having lunch split exactly fairly.
:).
FWIW male capuchin monkeys share more indiscriminately than female ones:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/us/genetic-basis-to-fairness-study-hints.html
As for calculators, that's rather primitive... One of my ex-colleagues (a guy if that's important to you) created a fancy spreadsheet that helped with all the calculations (tax, surcharge etc).
You could do stuff like share items amongst multiple people with different share proportions e.g 2:3:5 split.
If Slashdotters want to split bills fairly they should do it a proper nerdy style
Doesn't seem like such a big deal. Just the 77 million stolen accounts from PSN could be worth about that already.
So is this just another China = bogeyman propaganda piece?
11 million is just a rounding error compared to how much the Federal Reserve, investment bankers etc have taken from the US people.
Except, in theory we have these people called editors whose job it is to actually, you know, edit the submissions for some semblance of grammatical and spelling goodness.
Or the editors get paid extra to troll the users? ;)
After all more comments makes their stats look better and maybe generates more ad impressions.
Giving the engine for free is a massive swing to what I believe is the future of gaming
And the future of 3D graphics benchmarking? ;)
There are already plenty of existing ways to plug computers to brains. They have already been connecting animals to computers and having them play games, control robotic arms whether nearby or far far away.
The problem is doing that safely without killing too many neurons and having other long-term issues (e.g. infection). Brains are about as soft as tofu, and actually move about a bit within the skull. It is tricky to keep stuff attached to precise parts of a brain without causing severe brain damage when the person goes jogging, or gets patted on the head.
This artificial synapse doesn't seem to be about solving that problem.
Maybe they can use a flexible elastic membrane as a multipoint sensor and have some fancy way of recalculating offsets on-the-fly if the membrane shifts a bit.
It's just a "Slashbot Automatic Summary".
I find it funny that Hillary Clinton talks about internet freedom while they drag some old guy out and cuff him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My29YT1T4R4
I guess US citizens are now to restrict their protests to the Internet ;).
Remembering that the death of an innocent civilian is worse than the death of a police officer given the police officer knowlingly signed up for the job.
But maybe their job is to "To Serve and Protect" their own asses.
1) if the target can destroy all evidence in that short time, he's either a small-timer or someone who is so prepared that you'd never be able to pin anything on even if you busted the door down the way they did.
2) If they are really that concerned about evidence destruction, they should use their brains and split to two teams, wait till he leaves the house, then arrest him and raid his house at the same time.
They should behave like police not soldiers. This is reverting to the bad old days when soldiers were the police force.
The cops are part of the problem. Their "kick the door down" methods have killed innocent people.
He's not going to shoot them if they just press his doorbell. In a high crime area, kicking doors down, is a good way of getting shot. I think many juries might agree it's self defense.
Their death rates might actually go down and effectiveness go up if they worked to get more cooperation from the general public, than if they kept behaving like uniformed thugs and gangsters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles
Do you know how many cops are killed every year? 48 was in 2009 over 3/4 of them at traffic stops.(speeding suspected drunk driving, etc)
Meh. Being a cop is less dangerous than being a cab driver or garbage collector.
Are their rates really lower because they arrest people like that? How are they getting killed at traffic stops? By getting shot or by getting rammed by cars?
Whatever it is, these bunch are just unprofessional and abusing their power.
FWIW one of the most dangerous jobs is probably "President of the USA" with a 10% "killed on the job" rate, and very high assassination attempt rate ;).
And guess what has demonstrated time and again that they can't make "best decisions"? Governments.
Who are controlled by leaders elected by voters.
So using your logic the some countries should do away with democracy and elections, since the voters have demonstrated time and again that they elect Governments who have demonstrated time and again that they can't make decisions that are "best" according to you...
Fact is they get some stuff right. Car safety has gone up over the years. I've heard that fatalities are down because cars are safer not because drivers are better. Exhaust pollution has gone down.
If you think the government had nothing to do with it and it's all due to the manufacturers "good hearts" you should look at vehicles in other countries without those government regulations. In some places the trucks do not have underrun protection bars, the cars would not pass US/Euro safety standards, etc etc.
Maybe your Government did screw up with CAFE. But ranting about "Governments" like that is about as useful as ranting about "Humans".
Where'd you get the 1 trillion figure from?
Seems to be way more than that: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=trillion+federal+reserve
Might be another reason why prices are going up world wide (lots of stuff is bought and sold in USD).
I doubt there was actually that many US dollars in the world before they suddenly "loaned" those trillions from "thin air"/taxpayers/"future generations".
I think the _older_ diesel engines could take more crap than the petrol ones. So maybe that's why they did it that way.
The new diesel engines can't :).
And you may not even have to start the car to cause damage: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2737057/A-costly-mistake.html
But if a motorist who has used petrol all his or her life buys or borrows a new diesel car then uses the wrong nozzle at the filling station, costly damage can be done even before the ignition key has been inserted, because unlocking the doors also energises a diesel's fuel pump.
That puts the fuel under pressure, ready for instant injection into the engine, which is why modern diesels start so quickly. The old-fashioned waiting time for preliminary ignition "warm-up" might appear to have been eliminated, but in reality it has simply been electronically absorbed into pre-driving procedures. It is a clever and convenient development but it comes at a price for the absent-minded.
Heh sorry that I'm an asshole.
My excuse: just spent some hours doing taxes, and my PM is announcing an "email for all" system that he claims isn't going to cost taxpayers money but rumours are the company doing it will charge government departments money per email... Stupid stuff that looks more suitable for an "april 1st" announcement.
Are you sure they are yours?
Hopefully they are not as rude and stupid as you.
Yep. For the same reason I believe that GUIs shouldn't just take care of the "noobs" but also cater for the expert users.
So that those who are bothered to learn or are trained can do stuff much faster, not slowed down by a GUI that's strictly for noobs.
Just look at some games - good players can do a fair number of actions per second.
Most people would prefer a car with a sound system that works albeit with a few bugs, than a car without a working sound system.
Only a few enthusiasts would be happy for the "opportunity" to build their own in-car sound system from scratch.
But can most colour blind people tell the difference between "real life" colour and movie colour? Most can't- because most of that 9% are red-green colour blind - they are missing one cone, or the cones are too close (Red1 Red2 or Green1 Green2).
;) ).
People would only be affected if their colour cones are actually on different colours instead of the normal human Red, Green, Blue..
Or they had additional colours like the tetrachromats (or higher - some nonhumans are pentachromats ). Tetrachromats will notice the difference between "real life" vs colour TVs or movies. They have eyes that see 4 primary colours. Most humans have 3, only a few humans are tetrachromats (typically female).
A display/screen that shows "real life" in 3 colours will appear no different to real life to people who only see 3 or fewer colours, assuming those colours that they do see fall within the correct wavelengths. But will appear like it's missing something to tetrachromats. Just like us normals will notice if an RGB display is missing one colour (but someone with monochrome vision might not
For cinemas (or expensive setups) it depends on the 3D tech.
If they use circular polarization or "infitec" tilting your head doesn't affect the 3D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Glasses#Passive
The headache problems may also depend on the "eye separation" distance they pick for the projectors and the cameras (virtual or real).
If you're talking about desktop, upgrading Ubuntu from release to release tends to break far more desktop stuff than upgrading from Windows XP to Windows XP SP3.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2086424&cid=35837864
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1635766&cid=32032714
When there are tons of anecdotes they start being statistically significant samples.
Worse it's not at the level where "Aunt May" is not being able to get sound to work smoothly. We're talking about Slashdot nerds who know about the wikis, forums, bugtraq, CLIs etc and still have problems.
Linux is better at most server stuff than Windows. But desktop? Sometimes it seems as if the GNOME and pulseaudio bunch are intentionally sabotaging Desktop Linux ;).
that means that in the UK, your beer is bigger than the US!
and your car gets more miles to the gallon :)
and a few thousands more kilometres around too.
What makes you think he's not paying attention to the voters?
The Democrats and Republicans get > 98% of the votes (those that don't vote literally do not count). Between them they've got practically all the voters covered.
So from a politics point of view they're doing as good a job of keeping their jobs as one reasonably can.
And the voters are doing a pretty good job of keeping them there.