So will all the pundits in the world now scream about the impending death of Google?
Note, the iPad 1 on launch day needed just as much polish as all the new tablets do. Apple has had a long time to fix stuff, which they have. Kudos to them! They also haven't had the panic pressure of trying to play catch up feature-wise and fix issues at the same time. Sometimes first to market *is* a good thing.
My first experience with roundabouts was during a vacation to Australia (Brisbane). They are absolutely everywhere and once I'd gotten used to the etiquette in play, I fell in love with them. I drove from Brisbane all the way north to a little resort where we were catching a chart to snorkle the Reef. Traffic never really stops, folks on the roundabout have the right-of-way, but the pace is deliberately slow so that merges on and off and controlled and traffic continues to flow.
You *cannot* run a red light or miss a traffic signal as the intersection usually has a garden or statue *right in the middle of traffic*. If you are somehow so inattentive or drunk entering the intersection that you miss the big wall in front of you, folks on the roundabout have plenty of time to recognize that you aren't going to stop as you *are* in their field of vision as they travel on the circle. They can either stop or take evasive action as you smash into the concrete barricade. Drivers are empowered and required to remain attentive, even when they have the right-of-way. As you need to make a tight circle while on the traffic circle, you *must* drop speed or you'll never make the turn. Accidents on a traffic circle tend to be low-speed with minor or no injuries.
A standard traffic light abdicates all responsibility to a device. Vehicles traveling in a straight line through an intersection tend to do so at or above the speed limit - so pedestrian and driver error is frequently catastrophic or fatal. I don't know about others, but I'll take an increase in fender-benders to avoid head-on or t-bone accidents.
http://www.iihs.org/research/qanda/roundabouts.html has some excellent information about roundabouts. Note in point 5:
"5 What are the common types of crashes at roundabouts? What can be done to prevent them?
Despite the demonstrated safety benefits of roundabouts, some crashes still occur. Fewer crashes are typically seen at single-lane roundabouts compared with multilane roundabouts.5
An Institute study of crashes at 38 roundabouts in Maryland found that four crash types (run-off-road, rear-end, sideswipe, and entering-circulating) accounted for almost all crashes. A common crash type at both single-lane and double-lane roundabouts involved vehicles colliding with the central island. These crashes, which often involved unsafe speeds, accounted for almost half of all single-vehicle run-off-road crashes. Collisions occurred more frequently at entrances to roundabouts rather than within the circulatory roadway or at exits. About three-quarters of the crashes involved property damage. There were no right-angle or head-on collisions, potentially severe crash types that commonly occur at traditional intersections.6
In the Maryland study, Institute researchers concluded that unsafe speeds were an important crash factor. Some drivers may not have seen the roundabout in time. Measures to alert drivers of the need to reduce speeds (e.g., speed limit signs well in advance of roundabouts) and increase the conspicuity of roundabouts (e.g., larger roundabout ahead signs and YIELD signs, enhanced landscaping of center islands, pavement with reflector markings) may help to reduce crashes at roundabouts. Certain design features such as adequate curvature of approach roads also may aid in reducing speeds."
Go with an iPhone. Your history of killing the leading platforms when you migrate to them would be beneficial to the up-and-comer companies that I have in my stock portfolio.
Touch screens have been in use for a very long** time in military applications. Nothing the PlayBook, iPad, Windows or Android tablets do of the gestures they use is new or unique. In a commercial space, maybe, in general no.
C*O's of start ups or young companies typically aren't fat cats who siphon cash while contributing zero. A small corp will quickly die off as all jobs, from ground floor peons to the CEO are important.
C*Os of established corps can indeed be fat cats. Established revenue streams, customers, large enough assert hoards to give a company viability via inertia for more than 4 quarters. Inattention and self-serving proclamations that don't result in immediate corporate implosion, can thrive in that environment.
VC's exist to generate return on investment for their major partners. Some act as angels, but most promise x% return on investment to their patrons. If the VC is short on promise #s, they will take the short term personal gain over the long term health of the entity they are selling.
IMHO, the only thing worse than execs of of a corp getting paid off at the expense of employees during a take over, is when a nameless venture cap org does.
We don't know the whole story, but if venture cap nuked execs (that might possibly have been instrumental in making the company successful) to increase their own take, that is *WORSE*.
TFA could describe the majority of companies in Silicon Valley.
They take the calls and the credit, but pass the hard work on to the small satellite offices in other US locations, Canada or abroad. Those small satellite offices operate under the permanent threat of imminent closure unless they prove that they are "team players" and accept one hot potato after the another from main office. Most of the hot potatoes are caused by brain dead decisions and designs made at head office.
Silicon Valley should be renamed Silly Con Valley.
The wild card here is the immune system. If the presence of antibiotics switches bacteria to dormant mode - that may give the immune system time to create sufficient antibodies to wipe them out.
Accident reports are only good for determining where the combination of speed + road conditions are a hazard. They aren't good at finding long stretches of good road surface, with lower traffic volumes and good sight lines that allow very good drivers to shave several minutes off their commute by driving well over the posted speed limit.
i.e. traffic report mining doesn't generate additional precinct income through additional high-value speeding tickets.
-JaegerMonkey was dreamt up during a night spent consuming JaegerMiester shooters. -IronMonkey was designed the morning after, behind iron bars in the slammer, following the JaegerMonkey "JaegerMiester" release party.
The health privacy act or HIPPA (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/index.html), is very clear about this. This is untrusted HW running on a network dealing with medical record and other private data. There may indeed be h*ll to pay.
I'm actually surprised you managed to get the device networked without IT involvement. Network best-practice requires the network to not admit untrusted hardware so that an infiltrator can't find a quiet spot and hack the servers from within the "trusted" private network.
I had it stored on my brand-new crash-proof bio-Raid 5 array. But Smokey scored a big bag of weed last night, got the hungry and thought the bio-drives were blocks of ice cream I'd forgotten to put away. He tossed them in the freezer and ate 'em with chocolate sauce. I guess crash-proof, isn't munchy-proof.
Now we just need to invent Warp Coils and Gene Roddenberry's triumph over all the nay-sayers will be complete. According to the Star Trek chronology, Zefram Cochrane invented the first warp drive in 2063, so this ability to generate anti-matter is right on the time-table.
All couples with the last name Cochrane should immediate start procreating and naming all their children "Zefram". Bedside audio tapes of theoretical physics are suggested "night-night" aids.
But the words, "Exterminate! Exterminate!" evoke a much more visceral reaction from a robot that looks like a garbage can on wheels that one standing on 2 legs.
As such, the Willow Garage PR2 and similar successors will be the constituents of my invasion force.
A better question is who thought they had the authority to PASS the Law of Gravity? Was it a simple majority vote? 2/3's?
OMG, maybe it was a decree! I thought we were an autonomous universe - I've been fooling myself! We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class lifeforms have to toil bound to the gravity well of a larger mass, while the elite blithely float and flit from place to place and time to time!
A recent study found that 74.23% of all statistics quoted in/. articles were invented on the spot in an effort to trick folks who only read the article summary into modding them up.
I'm moving to France! It's about damn time someone banned Web 2.0. I was dreading the upgrade-hell of revving all my browsers just to be able to continue to access./
Sprint item #1: Nominate alphanumeric names to assign to for-loop index in procedure named last week. Due: Monday - noon Sprint item #2: Vote on nominated for loop index names - top 5 continue to run-off. Due: Monday 6pm Sprint item #3: Run off vote simple majority. In event of tie, Sprint Master will cast deciding vote. Due: Tuesday noon Sprint item #4: Marvel at the code dev efficiency and speed of the archaic waterfall model ensconced in the Mil-Spec 498. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-498
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So will all the pundits in the world now scream about the impending death of Google?
Note, the iPad 1 on launch day needed just as much polish as all the new tablets do. Apple has had a long time to fix stuff, which they have. Kudos to them! They also haven't had the panic pressure of trying to play catch up feature-wise and fix issues at the same time. Sometimes first to market *is* a good thing.
(repost: seems this terminal dropped my cookies)
My first experience with roundabouts was during a vacation to Australia (Brisbane). They are absolutely everywhere and once I'd gotten used to the etiquette in play, I fell in love with them. I drove from Brisbane all the way north to a little resort where we were catching a chart to snorkle the Reef. Traffic never really stops, folks on the roundabout have the right-of-way, but the pace is deliberately slow so that merges on and off and controlled and traffic continues to flow.
You *cannot* run a red light or miss a traffic signal as the intersection usually has a garden or statue *right in the middle of traffic*. If you are somehow so inattentive or drunk entering the intersection that you miss the big wall in front of you, folks on the roundabout have plenty of time to recognize that you aren't going to stop as you *are* in their field of vision as they travel on the circle. They can either stop or take evasive action as you smash into the concrete barricade. Drivers are empowered and required to remain attentive, even when they have the right-of-way. As you need to make a tight circle while on the traffic circle, you *must* drop speed or you'll never make the turn. Accidents on a traffic circle tend to be low-speed with minor or no injuries.
A standard traffic light abdicates all responsibility to a device. Vehicles traveling in a straight line through an intersection tend to do so at or above the speed limit - so pedestrian and driver error is frequently catastrophic or fatal. I don't know about others, but I'll take an increase in fender-benders to avoid head-on or t-bone accidents.
http://www.iihs.org/research/qanda/roundabouts.html has some excellent information about roundabouts. Note in point 5:
"5 What are the common types of crashes at roundabouts? What can be done to prevent them?
Despite the demonstrated safety benefits of roundabouts, some crashes still occur. Fewer crashes are typically seen at single-lane roundabouts compared with multilane roundabouts.5
An Institute study of crashes at 38 roundabouts in Maryland found that four crash types (run-off-road, rear-end, sideswipe, and entering-circulating) accounted for almost all crashes. A common crash type at both single-lane and double-lane roundabouts involved vehicles colliding with the central island. These crashes, which often involved unsafe speeds, accounted for almost half of all single-vehicle run-off-road crashes. Collisions occurred more frequently at entrances to roundabouts rather than within the circulatory roadway or at exits. About three-quarters of the crashes involved property damage. There were no right-angle or head-on collisions, potentially severe crash types that commonly occur at traditional intersections.6
In the Maryland study, Institute researchers concluded that unsafe speeds were an important crash factor. Some drivers may not have seen the roundabout in time. Measures to alert drivers of the need to reduce speeds (e.g., speed limit signs well in advance of roundabouts) and increase the conspicuity of roundabouts (e.g., larger roundabout ahead signs and YIELD signs, enhanced landscaping of center islands, pavement with reflector markings) may help to reduce crashes at roundabouts. Certain design features such as adequate curvature of approach roads also may aid in reducing speeds."
Go with an iPhone. Your history of killing the leading platforms when you migrate to them would be beneficial to the up-and-comer companies that I have in my stock portfolio.
TIA!
Touch screens have been in use for a very long** time in military applications. Nothing the PlayBook, iPad, Windows or Android tablets do of the gestures they use is new or unique. In a commercial space, maybe, in general no.
... I hate them.
C*O's of start ups or young companies typically aren't fat cats who siphon cash while contributing zero. A small corp will quickly die off as all jobs, from ground floor peons to the CEO are important.
C*Os of established corps can indeed be fat cats. Established revenue streams, customers, large enough assert hoards to give a company viability via inertia for more than 4 quarters. Inattention and self-serving proclamations that don't result in immediate corporate implosion, can thrive in that environment.
VC's exist to generate return on investment for their major partners. Some act as angels, but most promise x% return on investment to their patrons. If the VC is short on promise #s, they will take the short term personal gain over the long term health of the entity they are selling.
IMHO, the only thing worse than execs of of a corp getting paid off at the expense of employees during a take over, is when a nameless venture cap org does.
We don't know the whole story, but if venture cap nuked execs (that might possibly have been instrumental in making the company successful) to increase their own take, that is *WORSE*.
TFA could describe the majority of companies in Silicon Valley.
They take the calls and the credit, but pass the hard work on to the small satellite offices in other US locations, Canada or abroad. Those small satellite offices operate under the permanent threat of imminent closure unless they prove that they are "team players" and accept one hot potato after the another from main office. Most of the hot potatoes are caused by brain dead decisions and designs made at head office.
Silicon Valley should be renamed Silly Con Valley.
First Apple censors their App Store. Now they're facilitating at-source-proactive censorship of media.
What's next? A new iOS upgrade that translates any "subversive" conversations or texts into state-approved rhetoric?
TFA reads more like an advertisement for BitCoins than an news article.
The wild card here is the immune system. If the presence of antibiotics switches bacteria to dormant mode - that may give the immune system time to create sufficient antibodies to wipe them out.
Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
In this case that old adage happens to apply to both the host and the invader.
Accident reports are only good for determining where the combination of speed + road conditions are a hazard. They aren't good at finding long stretches of good road surface, with lower traffic volumes and good sight lines that allow very good drivers to shave several minutes off their commute by driving well over the posted speed limit.
i.e. traffic report mining doesn't generate additional precinct income through additional high-value speeding tickets.
This is a cash grab.
-JaegerMonkey was dreamt up during a night spent consuming JaegerMiester shooters.
-IronMonkey was designed the morning after, behind iron bars in the slammer, following the JaegerMonkey "JaegerMiester" release party.
The health privacy act or HIPPA (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/index.html), is very clear about this. This is untrusted HW running on a network dealing with medical record and other private data. There may indeed be h*ll to pay.
I'm actually surprised you managed to get the device networked without IT involvement. Network best-practice requires the network to not admit untrusted hardware so that an infiltrator can't find a quiet spot and hack the servers from within the "trusted" private network.
2Million->1.3Mill->642,000 years ago. Let's following the series!
2M->1.3M = 700,000
1.3M->642,000=658,000
642,000->??
Interval of ~670,000 years +/- 21,000.
Next eruption: 642,000 - 670,000 = 28000 +/- 21000 = essentially any time, ouch.
Cash n' Crash!
Answer: Who is marrying Who.
I had it stored on my brand-new crash-proof bio-Raid 5 array. But Smokey scored a big bag of weed last night, got the hungry and thought the bio-drives were blocks of ice cream I'd forgotten to put away. He tossed them in the freezer and ate 'em with chocolate sauce. I guess crash-proof, isn't munchy-proof.
Now we just need to invent Warp Coils and Gene Roddenberry's triumph over all the nay-sayers will be complete. According to the Star Trek chronology, Zefram Cochrane invented the first warp drive in 2063, so this ability to generate anti-matter is right on the time-table.
All couples with the last name Cochrane should immediate start procreating and naming all their children "Zefram". Bedside audio tapes of theoretical physics are suggested "night-night" aids.
But the words, "Exterminate! Exterminate!" evoke a much more visceral reaction from a robot that looks like a garbage can on wheels that one standing on 2 legs.
As such, the Willow Garage PR2 and similar successors will be the constituents of my invasion force.
Sincerely
--Davros
A better question is who thought they had the authority to PASS the Law of Gravity? Was it a simple majority vote? 2/3's?
OMG, maybe it was a decree! I thought we were an autonomous universe - I've been fooling myself! We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class lifeforms have to toil bound to the gravity well of a larger mass, while the elite blithely float and flit from place to place and time to time!
A recent study found that 74.23% of all statistics quoted in /. articles were invented on the spot in an effort to trick folks who only read the article summary into modding them up.
I'm moving to France! It's about damn time someone banned Web 2.0. I was dreading the upgrade-hell of revving all my browsers just to be able to continue to access ./
Could you imagine?
Sprint item #1: Nominate alphanumeric names to assign to for-loop index in procedure named last week. Due: Monday - noon
Sprint item #2: Vote on nominated for loop index names - top 5 continue to run-off. Due: Monday 6pm
Sprint item #3: Run off vote simple majority. In event of tie, Sprint Master will cast deciding vote. Due: Tuesday noon
Sprint item #4: Marvel at the code dev efficiency and speed of the archaic waterfall model ensconced in the Mil-Spec 498. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-498