However, using that app (or something built into the car), it should be easy enough for a human to be involved. Yes, some stupid idiot will ignore it and wreck it for everyone, certainly early on. But hopefully the system can cope with that, maybe by having a backup set of traffic lights at the junction - just set them to red when traffic from that road shouldn't be moving, and green when it should. People already, mostly, obey traffic lights (except for cyclists, for some reason...). So the guy who tries to speed through will be stopped at the light, and when it goes green he'll see a line of traffic right behind him moving at the right speed to not have to stop.
In time people _might_ learn that it's actually very efficient, keeps traffic moving, and thus keeps their journey times down, despite the counter-intuitive notion that slowing down will speed up their journey, and save them money on fuel.
The study doesn't appear to show turning traffic, which will naturally slow down when approaching the junction in order to make the turn, and will have to wait on on-coming traffic. But I'm sure that's also in their plan.
"... There's also the matter of mixing in foot traffic, but Fayazi says his next goal is to make this research applicable to a mixed traffic environment, something we could see somewhat sooner as the smart cities movement grows."
I read Slashdot purely on RSS, along with some news sites, Dilbert, and a few other comics, plus some other stuff. I use Feedly (use to use Google Reader), and an app on my phone to sync with it.
I use Lyca. They are a Polish based carrier that are setup all over Europe, so offer lower (or no) roaming costs. And they are cheap. I can pay €5 and get some free data with that. Or €10 and get a lot more free data and free calls and texts. Or €15 for even more. Plus they have other packages available for people with different usage patterns. They don't offer LTE in Ireland (yet?!), but I'm happy with the speeds I to get on HSPA.
ESPN is viewed by a lot of people, though. Yes, a lot of us techy-folks don't watch it, but your average Joe Soap does. So they need to have it there to appeal to the masses.
But I agree - an a là carte option would be good. But that's not how TV Companies work (yet?!).
1. The big screen.
- IMAX, yes. There are some movies that I will go to see in IMAX (Star Wars!), or at least iSense in ODEON.
- Other movies I'm happy to see on a 'normal' cinema screen, although I find that in my local cinema these tend to be badly calibrated and slightly out of focus
2. People everywhere.
- this isn't always a good thing. Sometimes it's fine, but there are those people who will sit whispering to each other or chomping on popcorn... people can spoil the experience you want to enjoy, and this is generally a reason that I don't go to the cinema.
3. Focus.
- agreed, and this is the main reason I _do_ go to the cinema. If I'm watching a film at home, I'll inevitably take out my phone at some point. If I'm in the cinema, I never do. Some people do, but they are very few.
4. Relentlessness.
- Em, what now?
5. A massive speaker system.
- good and bad. I've a good speaker setup (5.1) at home, but the cinema setup is (and always will be) better, unless I have a few spare thousand euro to spend. And I've better things to spend that money on. But sometimes the cinema speakers can be turned up a bit too much. (that said, it might be to drown out the people whispering to each other).
6. Previews.
- meh. Yeah, it's an opportunity to see what's coming up. But cinemas tend to play too many of them, and too many ads. I've paid to watch the film at 8pm, so why is it now 8:20 and it hasn't started yet?
- the only advantage to ads and previews is that most people have finished their popcorn by the time the movie starts.
7. Disruption.
- isn't this just point 3 again?
8. Alone time.
- em, what? alone time means being alone, so how does going to the cinema with friends or family mean alone time?
9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark.
- Paying a fortune for getting diabetes for watching a film in a cinema...? And then needing to run to the bathroom during the best bits. No
- I don't buy drinks or food in a cinema - far too expensive, and generally not particularly nice either. I'll eat before hand, or afterward, and I wish more people would.
10. Bragging rights.
- Bragging about what?
So 2 good points, 3 ok points, and 5 that aren't actually arguments for going to the cinema at all, IMHO.
Go to Setting / Apps / AppFlash Press the Disable button. It will appear where the Uninstall button normally appears, but for apps that cannot be uninstalled.
What happens if someone suffers, say, stroke and part of the face is paralysed. Or they have Botox? I suppose there has to be a backup to allow someone to reset their password in such cases, or in cases where they forget it. This backup may prove to be a weakness.
What happens if I record a video of my boss uttering his password, and then show the video to the camera?
The arguments on both sides of the oxford comma debate are generally around removing ambiguity. Certainly, in this case, there is ambiguity, and the addition of the comma would remove that ambiguity immediately.
I think there are some cases where the addition of the comma can cause ambiguity, but there are an awful lot more cases where it removes it.
So the case has to revolve around the ambiguity caused by the lack of the comma, and to whom this ambiguity benefits.
(I'm on the side of the drivers! Oxford Comma for the win!)
I know people who have actively taken steps to un-secure their phone, for performance reasons. Since encryption was enabled by default on some Android devices, people have turned off the option (which required flashing the phone) in order to give it a performance boost.
The body is easily capable of adjusting its rhythm 1 hour per day, which is why it normally takes about n days to recover when you fly through n timezones. The rhythm, however, is closer to 25 hours than 24. That's why it's easier to adjust when flying West.
You need to take mental health into affect too. In many places, without DST people would be starting work before sunrise, and going home in a dark. Lack of sunlight for at least part of your day can be a cause of depression. Where I live, there's only 7 hours' of daylight in winter.
Has there been any research done based the distance a person is East and West of the 'noon' meridian upon which their timezone is based? And based on distance from the equator?
Twice a year, when the arguments resurface, i wonder this. I've seen positive affects to DST where changing the time really does make sense, and never really any negative (apart from having to get up an hour early one day in a year).
Certainly where I live, in winter without DST we all be sitting in work an hour before sunrise. With DST, it's bright web we get to work. That makes Winter a lot less depressing. In Summer, without DST, the sun wouldn't set until around 11pm, which makes getting to sleep more difficult.
I'm convinced that the majority of people who argue for the cons don't see the benefits, don't care about others who are affected, and only think about how this minor inconvenience once a year affect them.
So, have any location based studies been done to show just where benefits, where doesn't, where people want it, where they don't? I could almost guarantee that we'd see patterns, certainly stripes on a map gradieating from ones polar view to the other, and then a sudden switch close to the edge of each timezone.
I never liked the WASD keys. I understand the reason, but I find that to use those keys I'm twisting my wrist - even with just positioning my hand that way as I type this I can feel an unnatural strain.
Personally, I always remap these to DSXC, which is a more natural angle for my hand, and the keys seems to fit more comfortably under the fingers too, especially as I normally would be using forward, left, and right mostly, and not using back a lot. It generally means mapping some other keys too to fit around them as these are normally mapped with WASD in mind.
Yeah, not really a lot to do with this story in general, but I do wonder if others do something similar...
Slashdot Mirror
They do say that it's for autonomous vehicles...
However, using that app (or something built into the car), it should be easy enough for a human to be involved. Yes, some stupid idiot will ignore it and wreck it for everyone, certainly early on. But hopefully the system can cope with that, maybe by having a backup set of traffic lights at the junction - just set them to red when traffic from that road shouldn't be moving, and green when it should. People already, mostly, obey traffic lights (except for cyclists, for some reason...). So the guy who tries to speed through will be stopped at the light, and when it goes green he'll see a line of traffic right behind him moving at the right speed to not have to stop.
In time people _might_ learn that it's actually very efficient, keeps traffic moving, and thus keeps their journey times down, despite the counter-intuitive notion that slowing down will speed up their journey, and save them money on fuel.
The study doesn't appear to show turning traffic, which will naturally slow down when approaching the junction in order to make the turn, and will have to wait on on-coming traffic. But I'm sure that's also in their plan.
Just read the last paragraph:
"... There's also the matter of mixing in foot traffic, but Fayazi says his next goal is to make this research applicable to a mixed traffic environment, something we could see somewhat sooner as the smart cities movement grows."
I read Slashdot purely on RSS, along with some news sites, Dilbert, and a few other comics, plus some other stuff. I use Feedly (use to use Google Reader), and an app on my phone to sync with it.
I use Lyca. They are a Polish based carrier that are setup all over Europe, so offer lower (or no) roaming costs. And they are cheap. I can pay €5 and get some free data with that. Or €10 and get a lot more free data and free calls and texts. Or €15 for even more. Plus they have other packages available for people with different usage patterns. They don't offer LTE in Ireland (yet?!), but I'm happy with the speeds I to get on HSPA.
But I guess you are asking about US carriers...
ESPN is viewed by a lot of people, though. Yes, a lot of us techy-folks don't watch it, but your average Joe Soap does. So they need to have it there to appeal to the masses.
But I agree - an a là carte option would be good. But that's not how TV Companies work (yet?!).
Here's my take on the "10" items:
1. The big screen.
- IMAX, yes. There are some movies that I will go to see in IMAX (Star Wars!), or at least iSense in ODEON.
- Other movies I'm happy to see on a 'normal' cinema screen, although I find that in my local cinema these tend to be badly calibrated and slightly out of focus
2. People everywhere.
- this isn't always a good thing. Sometimes it's fine, but there are those people who will sit whispering to each other or chomping on popcorn... people can spoil the experience you want to enjoy, and this is generally a reason that I don't go to the cinema.
3. Focus.
- agreed, and this is the main reason I _do_ go to the cinema. If I'm watching a film at home, I'll inevitably take out my phone at some point. If I'm in the cinema, I never do. Some people do, but they are very few.
4. Relentlessness.
- Em, what now?
5. A massive speaker system.
- good and bad. I've a good speaker setup (5.1) at home, but the cinema setup is (and always will be) better, unless I have a few spare thousand euro to spend. And I've better things to spend that money on. But sometimes the cinema speakers can be turned up a bit too much. (that said, it might be to drown out the people whispering to each other).
6. Previews.
- meh. Yeah, it's an opportunity to see what's coming up. But cinemas tend to play too many of them, and too many ads. I've paid to watch the film at 8pm, so why is it now 8:20 and it hasn't started yet?
- the only advantage to ads and previews is that most people have finished their popcorn by the time the movie starts.
7. Disruption.
- isn't this just point 3 again?
8. Alone time.
- em, what? alone time means being alone, so how does going to the cinema with friends or family mean alone time?
9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark.
- Paying a fortune for getting diabetes for watching a film in a cinema...? And then needing to run to the bathroom during the best bits. No
- I don't buy drinks or food in a cinema - far too expensive, and generally not particularly nice either. I'll eat before hand, or afterward, and I wish more people would.
10. Bragging rights.
- Bragging about what?
So 2 good points, 3 ok points, and 5 that aren't actually arguments for going to the cinema at all, IMHO.
It should, but didn't your government just vote in a new law yesterday essentially make this perfectly legal?
Just move country...
Most system apps can be disabled in Settings.
Go to Setting / Apps / AppFlash
Press the Disable button. It will appear where the Uninstall button normally appears, but for apps that cannot be uninstalled.
Is this just an elaborate excuse by one of the authors 'cos he followed this GPS and took a turn into a field?!
What happens if someone suffers, say, stroke and part of the face is paralysed. Or they have Botox?
I suppose there has to be a backup to allow someone to reset their password in such cases, or in cases where they forget it. This backup may prove to be a weakness.
What happens if I record a video of my boss uttering his password, and then show the video to the camera?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They are few, but they exist.
The problem here is that this is a company document, not Maine Legislation. So he coding style likely doesn't apply.
The arguments on both sides of the oxford comma debate are generally around removing ambiguity.
Certainly, in this case, there is ambiguity, and the addition of the comma would remove that ambiguity immediately.
I think there are some cases where the addition of the comma can cause ambiguity, but there are an awful lot more cases where it removes it.
So the case has to revolve around the ambiguity caused by the lack of the comma, and to whom this ambiguity benefits.
(I'm on the side of the drivers! Oxford Comma for the win!)
I know people who have actively taken steps to un-secure their phone, for performance reasons. Since encryption was enabled by default on some Android devices, people have turned off the option (which required flashing the phone) in order to give it a performance boost.
My thoughts went straight to that exact comic as soon as I read the first sentence of the article.
So, yeah, while XKCD has hightlighted the problem, XKCD has already told us that there won't be a solution for it.
The body is easily capable of adjusting its rhythm 1 hour per day, which is why it normally takes about n days to recover when you fly through n timezones.
The rhythm, however, is closer to 25 hours than 24. That's why it's easier to adjust when flying West.
You need to take mental health into affect too. In many places, without DST people would be starting work before sunrise, and going home in a dark. Lack of sunlight for at least part of your day can be a cause of depression. Where I live, there's only 7 hours' of daylight in winter.
Has there been any research done based the distance a person is East and West of the 'noon' meridian upon which their timezone is based? And based on distance from the equator?
Twice a year, when the arguments resurface, i wonder this. I've seen positive affects to DST where changing the time really does make sense, and never really any negative (apart from having to get up an hour early one day in a year).
Certainly where I live, in winter without DST we all be sitting in work an hour before sunrise. With DST, it's bright web we get to work. That makes Winter a lot less depressing.
In Summer, without DST, the sun wouldn't set until around 11pm, which makes getting to sleep more difficult.
I'm convinced that the majority of people who argue for the cons don't see the benefits, don't care about others who are affected, and only think about how this minor inconvenience once a year affect them.
So, have any location based studies been done to show just where benefits, where doesn't, where people want it, where they don't? I could almost guarantee that we'd see patterns, certainly stripes on a map gradieating from ones polar view to the other, and then a sudden switch close to the edge of each timezone.
So let's get the arguments over with quickly so we can all go back to business as usual. Until October anyway.
I never liked the WASD keys. I understand the reason, but I find that to use those keys I'm twisting my wrist - even with just positioning my hand that way as I type this I can feel an unnatural strain.
Personally, I always remap these to DSXC, which is a more natural angle for my hand, and the keys seems to fit more comfortably under the fingers too, especially as I normally would be using forward, left, and right mostly, and not using back a lot. It generally means mapping some other keys too to fit around them as these are normally mapped with WASD in mind.
Yeah, not really a lot to do with this story in general, but I do wonder if others do something similar...
"Angry Birds tops the list of most-banned apps at companies worldwide, as well as in Australia, the U.S..."
Are Australia and the US no longer worldwide? I didn't get the memo...
which lives on to this day in *nix
chmod 777
chmod uses octal numbering, one bit for each flag, and the flags are in groups of 3.
Ah, twos-compliment...
What is
signed char c=127 + 1;
?
Any why?
If you look at the early years for the ioccc, you'll find a tonne of stuff that people today likely won't know.
Things like
int i=5;
i=~-~-~-i;
It works in C and Java, yet none of the Java developers here knew what the ~ did...
I'm sure if I gave them stuff like
int f1=0x0001; ... ... // do something
int f2=0x0002;
int f3=0x0004;
i=f1|f3;
if (i&&f3) {
}
they'd have a hard time wondering what it was doing any way. Mainly because you don't need to do this in Java (although it will still work).
https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/...
This occurs completely in the USA. :)