I've been wishing they'd bring a few more adult oriented games to the wii for a while. Sure it's a fantastic console for parties and for my nephew but the childish games wear on you after a while for solo gaming.
It get's too seperated out. The police just want to meet their quota for arrests without getting in trouble for really blatant wrongful arrests. The prosecutor is expected to try his hardest for a conviction even if it's clear to him looking at the evidence that he's got that the defendant is innocent. The judge is supposed to be the one who is impartial and decideds but at the same time isn't really required to understand the crime or how it was commited so crimes which involve technology or hard to understand financial scams tend to fly over the judges head.
They get eaten by grues. Can anyone comment on "The Center for American Progress" and "The Center for Democracy and Technology" I've never heard of them before and they sound like the sort of names church groups give themselves when they want to sound credible.
Personally I love my pen,paper and abacus. Math is fun and relaxing! No way would I want to change that experience to one where I'm simply sitting, idly, waiting for the computer to do the sum for me.
and if the government wants to see what you're doing they can just route all your internet traffic to them. Seriously, governments tend to have problems controlling large technological systems.
It's not dangerous in the slightest. the light which the cross street traffic can see is not affected. only your light. So it discourages the "I can get through!I can get through! *light goes red but he's already going far too fast to stop in time* I can get through!BANG no I couldn't" accidents.
Oh you don't seem to get it. It's not dangerous in the slightest. the light which the cross street traffic can see is not affected. only your light. So the likelihood of cross street traffic entering the intersection before the speeding driver is no higher than before.
Here's a little fact which every crappy driver and boy racer doesn't seem to get. Orange means "prepare to stop"! They go orange in order to give you time to stop before the light goes red not encourage you to speed up. Get this through your head, if you speed up whenever you see orange it means you're a crappy driver.
Traditional traffic lights are dangerous since they encourage idiots to speed up when they're about to go red and so increase the chance of an accident if said idiot gets the timing wrong. These promote the orderly flow of traffic much better than traditional lights.
Oh you don't seem to get it. the light which the cross street traffic can see is not affected. only your light. So the likelihood of cross street traffic entering the intersection before the speeding driver is no higher than before.
Here's a little fact which every crappy driver and boy racer doesn't seem to get. Orange means "prepare to stop"! They go orange in order to give you time to stop before the light goes red not encourage you to speed up. Get this through your head, if you speed up when you see orange it means you're a crappy driver.
It's good because idiots who speed up get discouraged.
I didn't say anything about writing the code, just coming up with a decent protocol. I really really really would prefer if my car didn't die when the company which made it shuts down their DRM servers and it decided it wasn't an authorised automotive viehicle any more.
"is nice when it has shiny wobbly windows and you don't need to do any real work on it" Funny, that's exactly what everyone seems to always say about vista.
"- no support for advanced hardware" But great for hardware which doesn't exist yet.
"- an audio-support with 20 interwoven protocol layers " I gather you've had some problems with audio in the past on linux?
"- a problem ? pull over and get the terminal out" Alt:A problem? Pull over and spend 5 hours on the phone to tech support. "- an update ? some thing gets fixed, many things get broken" Alt:difference:Zero "- Wanna complain? fix it yourself or file a bugreport that sits there for 5 years" Wanna complain? it's a "feature" not a bug (gets closed right away)
liability suits do have a purpose and part of it is to encourage safer behaviour. This would be a clear example of it being self defeating since even if you come up with a safer system you can't install it without suffering liability. But on that note if your tire blows out or your breaks fail and it causes an accident who is liable? you or whoever you bought the car off?
Insurance companies might push it though if they decide that it will save them money. Offer cheaper insurance if you let the computer drive etc.
I liked a system I saw in a few places in spain, The traffic lights had sensors which detected how fast you were traveling towards them and reacted accordingly. It see's you going over the speed limit and speeds up the timer and changes red faster. Then it's a simple matter of running a red light.
Oh I'm all for public transport but where I live it sucks so so badly. When I was in London for a time it was an actual pleasure to travel on foot, getting from one side of the city to the other was just so easy. Course the londoners who are used to it don't think it's so great but it is.
You might find that part of what makes people happier is the money, that 10 grand you had to spend on a car? if you'd been able to spend most of it on something else would you not have been happier?(unless driving is what makes you happy which in a built up city would be quite remarkable)
Can't let outsiders know that they've been computer controlled for years:D
Train Driver 1: Yeah, that Navitron Autodrive system's made our jobs cushier than ever. Train Driver 2: You know, this thing. [taps box] With this baby driving your train for you, all you gotta do is sit back and feel your ass grow.
Well I imagine that identifying your car would be similar to liscence plates with similar penalties for forging your identifier. As for the get-out-of-my-way broadcasting gadget you can already stick one on your car, just get a siren similar to what unmarked police cars have and turn it on whenever you're in a hurry. Course the police might frown on this.
Out of interest can anyone tell me why we still have human drivers on trains? What exactly does the human do that's so hard do for a machine? I mean it always seemed like such a perfect system for automation to me and wages are such a large cost. If you didn't need a driver for every train it would open it up to having far more small commuter carriages buzzing around.
exactly! I like your car pool lane idea too since being able to travel faster gives people an incentive to get cars with such systems. So few people can get their heads round the idea that if you can remove human ego and human reaction times then you could travel much much faster on the roads without any added risk. There's nothing wrong with going 200mph down the highway as long as you keep far enough behind the car in front to stop if needs be. Humans however can't seem to do this reliably what with "I just gotta pass him out" or "I want to get there 10 seconds earlier!" so the speed limit has to be set annoyingly low.
also imagine if your car could rely not just on the input you're used to but also input from monitors on the road and other cars. Fog? no problem.
Ah but by then we'll all have an iChip in our brains to make us happy with the situation and praise the almighty Steve. I'm fairly sure they're beta testing this on the mac fanboys already.
Please god let the open source crowd get there before the manufacturers pull a VHS/Betamacs competition between their own protocols. Last thing I need is my car crashing because the section of road I'm on only runs a different manufacturers protocol.
There's just so much time wasted on the road. Link all the cars and let a computer control them and the moment the light goes green all the cars could accelerate at once rather than the first car moving off, then the second, then the third etc. On top of that throw in smarter traffic lights, better public transport systems(since there would be no need for drivers the money could be spent on more busses/trains) and being able to sleep on your way into work and you have a big winner
I think it's only a matter of time before computer controled cars come in. Problem is that even if they wait till they can build ones which are 10 times safer than human drivers and have far fewer accidents the first time one glitches and someone dies there will be the technophobes screaming about how you can't trust machines and that the killer cars need to be made illegal.
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1)No but they do help let me know when there's interesting games out there.
2)Me too.
I've been wishing they'd bring a few more adult oriented games to the wii for a while.
Sure it's a fantastic console for parties and for my nephew but the childish games wear on you after a while for solo gaming.
It get's too seperated out.
The police just want to meet their quota for arrests without getting in trouble for really blatant wrongful arrests.
The prosecutor is expected to try his hardest for a conviction even if it's clear to him looking at the evidence that he's got that the defendant is innocent.
The judge is supposed to be the one who is impartial and decideds but at the same time isn't really required to understand the crime or how it was commited so crimes which involve technology or hard to understand financial scams tend to fly over the judges head.
They get eaten by grues.
Can anyone comment on "The Center for American Progress" and "The Center for Democracy and Technology" I've never heard of them before and they sound like the sort of names church groups give themselves when they want to sound credible.
Personally I love my pen,paper and abacus. Math is fun and relaxing! No way would I want to change that experience to one where I'm simply sitting, idly, waiting for the computer to do the sum for me.
and if the government wants to see what you're doing they can just route all your internet traffic to them.
Seriously, governments tend to have problems controlling large technological systems.
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your news letter.
It's not dangerous in the slightest.
the light which the cross street traffic can see is not affected.
only your light.
So it discourages the "I can get through!I can get through! *light goes red but he's already going far too fast to stop in time* I can get through!BANG no I couldn't" accidents.
Oh you don't seem to get it.
It's not dangerous in the slightest.
the light which the cross street traffic can see is not affected.
only your light.
So the likelihood of cross street traffic entering the intersection before the speeding driver is no higher than before.
Here's a little fact which every crappy driver and boy racer doesn't seem to get.
Orange means "prepare to stop"!
They go orange in order to give you time to stop before the light goes red not encourage you to speed up.
Get this through your head, if you speed up whenever you see orange it means you're a crappy driver.
Traditional traffic lights are dangerous since they encourage idiots to speed up when they're about to go red and so increase the chance of an accident if said idiot gets the timing wrong.
These promote the orderly flow of traffic much better than traditional lights.
Oh you don't seem to get it.
the light which the cross street traffic can see is not affected.
only your light.
So the likelihood of cross street traffic entering the intersection before the speeding driver is no higher than before.
Here's a little fact which every crappy driver and boy racer doesn't seem to get.
Orange means "prepare to stop"!
They go orange in order to give you time to stop before the light goes red not encourage you to speed up.
Get this through your head, if you speed up when you see orange it means you're a crappy driver.
It's good because idiots who speed up get discouraged.
You mean old people?
They're terrible to travel with I know.
I didn't say anything about writing the code, just coming up with a decent protocol.
I really really really would prefer if my car didn't die when the company which made it shuts down their DRM servers and it decided it wasn't an authorised automotive viehicle any more.
"is nice when it has shiny wobbly windows and you don't need to do any real work on it"
Funny, that's exactly what everyone seems to always say about vista.
"- no support for advanced hardware"
But great for hardware which doesn't exist yet.
"- an audio-support with 20 interwoven protocol layers "
I gather you've had some problems with audio in the past on linux?
"- a problem ? pull over and get the terminal out"
Alt:A problem? Pull over and spend 5 hours on the phone to tech support.
"- an update ? some thing gets fixed, many things get broken"
Alt:difference:Zero
"- Wanna complain? fix it yourself or file a bugreport that sits there for 5 years"
Wanna complain? it's a "feature" not a bug (gets closed right away)
liability suits do have a purpose and part of it is to encourage safer behaviour. This would be a clear example of it being self defeating since even if you come up with a safer system you can't install it without suffering liability.
But on that note if your tire blows out or your breaks fail and it causes an accident who is liable? you or whoever you bought the car off?
Insurance companies might push it though if they decide that it will save them money.
Offer cheaper insurance if you let the computer drive etc.
I liked a system I saw in a few places in spain,
The traffic lights had sensors which detected how fast you were traveling towards them and reacted accordingly.
It see's you going over the speed limit and speeds up the timer and changes red faster.
Then it's a simple matter of running a red light.
Oh I'm all for public transport but where I live it sucks so so badly.
When I was in London for a time it was an actual pleasure to travel on foot, getting from one side of the city to the other was just so easy. Course the londoners who are used to it don't think it's so great but it is.
You might find that part of what makes people happier is the money, that 10 grand you had to spend on a car? if you'd been able to spend most of it on something else would you not have been happier?(unless driving is what makes you happy which in a built up city would be quite remarkable)
Can't let outsiders know that they've been computer controlled for years :D
Train Driver 1: Yeah, that Navitron Autodrive system's made our jobs cushier than ever.
Train Driver 2: You know, this thing. [taps box] With this baby driving your train for you, all you gotta do is sit back and feel your ass grow.
ya but so can a computer with modern software(like what's used in those gun turrets) and unlike humans never get tired or inattentive.
Well I imagine that identifying your car would be similar to liscence plates with similar penalties for forging your identifier.
As for the get-out-of-my-way broadcasting gadget you can already stick one on your car, just get a siren similar to what unmarked police cars have and turn it on whenever you're in a hurry.
Course the police might frown on this.
then they still have something for doing that, it's called a handgun pointed at your tires.
Out of interest can anyone tell me why we still have human drivers on trains?
What exactly does the human do that's so hard do for a machine?
I mean it always seemed like such a perfect system for automation to me and wages are such a large cost. If you didn't need a driver for every train it would open it up to having far more small commuter carriages buzzing around.
exactly!
I like your car pool lane idea too since being able to travel faster gives people an incentive to get cars with such systems.
So few people can get their heads round the idea that if you can remove human ego and human reaction times then you could travel much much faster on the roads without any added risk.
There's nothing wrong with going 200mph down the highway as long as you keep far enough behind the car in front to stop if needs be. Humans however can't seem to do this reliably what with "I just gotta pass him out" or "I want to get there 10 seconds earlier!" so the speed limit has to be set annoyingly low.
also imagine if your car could rely not just on the input you're used to but also input from monitors on the road and other cars. Fog? no problem.
Ah but by then we'll all have an iChip in our brains to make us happy with the situation and praise the almighty Steve.
I'm fairly sure they're beta testing this on the mac fanboys already.
Please god let the open source crowd get there before the manufacturers pull a VHS/Betamacs competition between their own protocols.
Last thing I need is my car crashing because the section of road I'm on only runs a different manufacturers protocol.
There's just so much time wasted on the road.
Link all the cars and let a computer control them and the moment the light goes green all the cars could accelerate at once rather than the first car moving off, then the second, then the third etc. On top of that throw in smarter traffic lights, better public transport systems(since there would be no need for drivers the money could be spent on more busses/trains) and being able to sleep on your way into work and you have a big winner
I think it's only a matter of time before computer controled cars come in.
Problem is that even if they wait till they can build ones which are 10 times safer than human drivers and have far fewer accidents the first time one glitches and someone dies there will be the technophobes screaming about how you can't trust machines and that the killer cars need to be made illegal.