Does that mean I get city council type status for speeding tickets too? I always thought we should just bump up the city tax rate by 1% to pay for traffic ticket revenue, and then take traffic ticket revenue and evenly donate it to all registered charities in the state. This would discourage a lot of predatory traffic ticketing.
I think the 12 month cycle exists for those who aren't capable of spending their salary wisely. If VA and MD didn't have to offer that pay option, then credit card companies wouldn't be able to make mountains of money off the same people. The state could probably just pay them the lump sum upfront if they wanted; they get their year's budget up front on July 1st. And then there are some people who just like getting $X every week/every other week/month
School is less about instruction (really, most US history most adults need/can comprehend could be condensed into a DVD series the length of the Band of Brothers miniseries, the essentials of math can be taught in two months at home after dinner at the age of 10) than it is babysitting.
What it boils down to is that society isn't setup to gainfully employ anyone under the age of 24; from age 16 to 24 you're assigned to consume your parent's spare and saved $$, and if they can't afford it, borrow it (student loans) to support the child's consumer lifestyle. But this isn't an anti-consumerist rant. Kids under the age of 10 aren't suited for most jobs, except reaching into jammed machinery to clear obstacles. Kids 11-18 are too obsessed with sex and defying authority to be productive other than textile manufacturing. So you end up with social(ized) babysitting. The longer the kids are in school, the fewer days parents have to schedule (and pay for) activities for the kids in the off season. Most of what you learn specific for your job (with the exception of medicine and research-based engineering or science), you learn on the job. By a rough estimate I'd say 95%+ of what you do in your day to day job you either learned by experience at your last job, or someone explained to you vaguely what you are responsible for. School and university is nothing more than a very expensive babysitting and vetting process.
My point being, a longer school year is objected to very little by most parents, not because they learn less, but because for the first 20 years of life, humans are simply hungry mouths. Yeah, you've got the occasional 15 year old taking university classes with plans on curing cancer, but the vast majority of people won't hardly produce enough in life to keep their head above water, and most tweens/teens are just a drag on society until their mid-20s.
Granted, high schools aren't famous for being a place where kids can be exposed to new perspectives
Unless you live in rural Iowa or similar, I'm not entirely sure how true this is anymore. I grew up in a suburb 30 mi north of Dallas and we had pretty significant "minorities" of mexican (1st and 2nd generation), asian (1st and 2nd generation, some 3rd generation), pretty decent cross section of your indians, persians, some students from Germany, England and one or two from Sweden (Ericsson has a major campus in the town). This is in Texas, which, other than the Bank of America tower and the Chase bank building in downtown doesn't have a whole lot of cultural ties to the east coast, where you'd expect that sort of diversity. Most of the bread winners are from west coast schools and some of the better universities local to Texas. Most everyone I know dated at least two people who were born out of country or had parents who spoke another language at home. That might be a slightly extreme example, but if it can happen in Dallas, it can certianly happen elsewhere (except Oklahoma, I heard they're getting running water up there in a few years due to federal stimulus money).
Prince George's County "Upper Marlboro Schools" is a complete clusterfuck. You should see their purchasing department, they will quote for the city of "Mpper Marlboro" and give the shipping and bill to for a building completely unreleated to the billing or shipping address, and then have it deliver to one of the 500 cities in the district. They never, ever include shipping costs and the shipping address is wrong half the time. Do I have a beef with UMS? Noooo not at all.
This would be pretty cool if it generated a wire frame box that changed in size in relation to how far away it was from you. The next step with this sort of software is to have it find 10 distinct points on the video feed, and keep the (whats the noun here? "targeted location"?) tube station, pizza shop or whatever in direct relation to the video, rather than having the lag of constantly polling the GPS + magnetic compass, leaving the targeted location lagging badly behind the video on a seperate layer which makes this (admittedly cool) tech demo seem very tragically alpha.
Are you using these open source apps to edit, or create new files in the native adobe file formats? Creating typically requires more features than a simple editor.
I think "island off the southern coast of Korea" would be more descriptive. I imagined Seoul to be more to the SW than it is. As an American born well before the Korean or Veitnam wars, the fact that I can place Seoul as being an asian country (really, it doesn't sound asian) other than the fact that they mention it in the TV show M*A*S*H a bunch of times is rather impressive. Most people just associate S. Korea as the place where DVD players and Kias are born before being shipped to their house.
So if you want to run XP64 you need to be carefull about your hardware purchases.
Intel processor in an intel (the brand, not just using intel chipset) motherboard; intel has XP64 drivers for download for the network, sound and onboard video, and an Nvidia video card, which has XP64 drivers. Mostly I'm worried about stability and 32 bit application support.
How is XP64 nowadays? I plan to switch to Win7 64 when SP1 comes out but that may be another year or two, and I'm rapidly bumping up against the 4GB limit on a more and more regular basis as a power home user (hammer+valve games+firefox+windows page file in ram = 2GB by itself). I would imagine XP64 SP3 is pretty stable as far as 64 bit windows releases go, and there are finally stable 64 bit drivers for all my hardware.
If all Rage turns out to be is an overblown desert mad max racing game, with pretty good graphics, optimized for a console
This is pretty much what one of the guys (the tall, non-balding guy, I think the lead programmer?) said during the live demo they gave at quakecon. If it's in the transcript (edited out, probably) he says "so you can shoot a rocket, it blows up, and you feel like you're cool for a minute" at which point he realized what he said and shut up. They did the tech demo using a 360 controller (on a PC) for what it's worth. It's very much a console game, I don't see why they would optimize it for PC. They even made a comparison at one point (well, sort of) they said "this isn't Grand Theft Auto in the desert" but it pretty much is GTA. With a hint of Fallout 3. It'll be a good franchise to work with they have a lot of room to grow it, but this first idtech 5 title is very much a console game that will have a PC port.
Carmack stated at Quakecon that Betheseda has to sign off on the GPL'ing of any future code. The chances of that happening are slim to none. IdTech5 is a pretty impressive piece of technology; from what I can tell it's Fallout 3 graphics maxed out with about 50% less overhead.
What's to stop people from padding their cards by 20 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour or whatever? If you know the meter maid takes his lunch from noon to 1pm (most people using this system I assume would be parking in the same area over and over again) it seems like it'd be easy to just roll in around 11:30 am, scratch in 12:55 and gain an hour and a half of "free" parking. Or do the cards work for 24 hours?
Most videos of "something moving/leaving" in relation to the earth taken by astronauts/NASA are due to random crap (speck of dust sized crap) floating by the window only a couple of inches away from the window. Optically it looks much further away due to the parallax effect not working properly because your eyes/brain aren't used to being able to see 60+ miles without there being a tree/cloud in the way and also due to the curvature of the earth. There are tons of stories of astronauts tapping on the glass of the spaceshuttle to get the dust floating an inch or two away from the glass and then calling over a fellow astronaut and claiming a huge fleet of asteroids is about to hit the earth, or alien invaders surrounding the planet, etc. It's just an optical illusion involving space dust.
It's videos, not video's. If you're old enough to be interested in slashdot, you should have learned this in 3rd grade. Your schools failed you and you should shame your parents for not correcting you.
What consumer glass tables are more than 4mm thick? Yeah designer stuff and commerical furniture that has glass surfaces use 5-10mm glass, but this will still be useless on consumer grade furniture. Chances are, if you're a consumer using a consumer grade mouse, you'll be using it on consumer grade glass furniture.
If you count the Wii's classic controller, you could easily argue that all three consoles have a standardized interface, with the same names for the my part (shoulder buttons, d-pad, L & R-analog stick, etc)
You've got to kick out AMD, Apple and Dell if you want the Kali's to stop coming. Same paycheck, same employer, but less than 1/3rd the cost of living, same weather and no earthquakes? Hell yeah people want to live there. If only there were more buildings in downtown besides the Frost Bank Building. But yeah I agree with you the high rise condos are kind of ridiculous. We have a bunch of them going up here in Dallas too (still!). Lots of Brooklyn style 3 story townhomes popping up left and right in east Dallas just outside of downtown.
Well you could argue, up until 1985 or so (when imports became drastically more common), it was damn near impossible to roll into any gas station in america and get an oil filter, set of spark plugs or the right transmission fluid for your toyota or volkswagen. Hell, it's still hard to find oil filters and parts for my 1996 jetta VR6. The windshield wiper blades are literally the only part I didn't have to order from an auto parts store. In contrast, in 2002 my dad and I were driving across Wyoming in a 1984 caddilac during a rain storm when the windshield wiper delay unit and alternator failed at the same time. Rolled into the NAPA auto parts at the end of town (VERY rural area, this place mostly serviced work trucks and farm equipment) and were able to replace both parts (plus belt) in the parking lot in under an hour and head on down the road. Had those parts in the VW failed, we would have had to wait upwards of a week in Rural Wyoming for the parts to fly in from Denver (or possibly Germany) and have someone replace them.
So yeah, it's relevant what cars your friends and family drive - if it's a weird brand, it will effect you.
There's no scarcity of mod points. They changed how they're allocated in the last couple of months, but from what I can tell, those that have them, get 5 a day.
It's not an IR sensor, it's a low resolution video camera with the IR filter removed(!) plus sound, bluetooth, expansion port, and yeah vibration too. Also the accelerometer and some other stuff. It's a pretty impressive piece of technology and while they're probably cheap to manufacture now, the $50 pricepoint was probably justified at launch.
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Does that mean I get city council type status for speeding tickets too? I always thought we should just bump up the city tax rate by 1% to pay for traffic ticket revenue, and then take traffic ticket revenue and evenly donate it to all registered charities in the state. This would discourage a lot of predatory traffic ticketing.
I think the 12 month cycle exists for those who aren't capable of spending their salary wisely. If VA and MD didn't have to offer that pay option, then credit card companies wouldn't be able to make mountains of money off the same people. The state could probably just pay them the lump sum upfront if they wanted; they get their year's budget up front on July 1st. And then there are some people who just like getting $X every week/every other week/month
School is less about instruction (really, most US history most adults need/can comprehend could be condensed into a DVD series the length of the Band of Brothers miniseries, the essentials of math can be taught in two months at home after dinner at the age of 10) than it is babysitting.
What it boils down to is that society isn't setup to gainfully employ anyone under the age of 24; from age 16 to 24 you're assigned to consume your parent's spare and saved $$, and if they can't afford it, borrow it (student loans) to support the child's consumer lifestyle. But this isn't an anti-consumerist rant. Kids under the age of 10 aren't suited for most jobs, except reaching into jammed machinery to clear obstacles. Kids 11-18 are too obsessed with sex and defying authority to be productive other than textile manufacturing. So you end up with social(ized) babysitting. The longer the kids are in school, the fewer days parents have to schedule (and pay for) activities for the kids in the off season. Most of what you learn specific for your job (with the exception of medicine and research-based engineering or science), you learn on the job. By a rough estimate I'd say 95%+ of what you do in your day to day job you either learned by experience at your last job, or someone explained to you vaguely what you are responsible for. School and university is nothing more than a very expensive babysitting and vetting process.
My point being, a longer school year is objected to very little by most parents, not because they learn less, but because for the first 20 years of life, humans are simply hungry mouths. Yeah, you've got the occasional 15 year old taking university classes with plans on curing cancer, but the vast majority of people won't hardly produce enough in life to keep their head above water, and most tweens/teens are just a drag on society until their mid-20s.
Unless you live in rural Iowa or similar, I'm not entirely sure how true this is anymore. I grew up in a suburb 30 mi north of Dallas and we had pretty significant "minorities" of mexican (1st and 2nd generation), asian (1st and 2nd generation, some 3rd generation), pretty decent cross section of your indians, persians, some students from Germany, England and one or two from Sweden (Ericsson has a major campus in the town). This is in Texas, which, other than the Bank of America tower and the Chase bank building in downtown doesn't have a whole lot of cultural ties to the east coast, where you'd expect that sort of diversity. Most of the bread winners are from west coast schools and some of the better universities local to Texas. Most everyone I know dated at least two people who were born out of country or had parents who spoke another language at home. That might be a slightly extreme example, but if it can happen in Dallas, it can certianly happen elsewhere (except Oklahoma, I heard they're getting running water up there in a few years due to federal stimulus money).
Prince George's County "Upper Marlboro Schools" is a complete clusterfuck. You should see their purchasing department, they will quote for the city of "Mpper Marlboro" and give the shipping and bill to for a building completely unreleated to the billing or shipping address, and then have it deliver to one of the 500 cities in the district. They never, ever include shipping costs and the shipping address is wrong half the time. Do I have a beef with UMS? Noooo not at all.
This would be pretty cool if it generated a wire frame box that changed in size in relation to how far away it was from you. The next step with this sort of software is to have it find 10 distinct points on the video feed, and keep the (whats the noun here? "targeted location"?) tube station, pizza shop or whatever in direct relation to the video, rather than having the lag of constantly polling the GPS + magnetic compass, leaving the targeted location lagging badly behind the video on a seperate layer which makes this (admittedly cool) tech demo seem very tragically alpha.
Are you using these open source apps to edit, or create new files in the native adobe file formats? Creating typically requires more features than a simple editor.
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I think "island off the southern coast of Korea" would be more descriptive. I imagined Seoul to be more to the SW than it is. As an American born well before the Korean or Veitnam wars, the fact that I can place Seoul as being an asian country (really, it doesn't sound asian) other than the fact that they mention it in the TV show M*A*S*H a bunch of times is rather impressive. Most people just associate S. Korea as the place where DVD players and Kias are born before being shipped to their house.
Intel processor in an intel (the brand, not just using intel chipset) motherboard; intel has XP64 drivers for download for the network, sound and onboard video, and an Nvidia video card, which has XP64 drivers. Mostly I'm worried about stability and 32 bit application support.
Yeah, I turned off my page file. Same thing, you explained it better.
How is XP64 nowadays? I plan to switch to Win7 64 when SP1 comes out but that may be another year or two, and I'm rapidly bumping up against the 4GB limit on a more and more regular basis as a power home user (hammer+valve games+firefox+windows page file in ram = 2GB by itself). I would imagine XP64 SP3 is pretty stable as far as 64 bit windows releases go, and there are finally stable 64 bit drivers for all my hardware.
This is pretty much what one of the guys (the tall, non-balding guy, I think the lead programmer?) said during the live demo they gave at quakecon. If it's in the transcript (edited out, probably) he says "so you can shoot a rocket, it blows up, and you feel like you're cool for a minute" at which point he realized what he said and shut up. They did the tech demo using a 360 controller (on a PC) for what it's worth. It's very much a console game, I don't see why they would optimize it for PC. They even made a comparison at one point (well, sort of) they said "this isn't Grand Theft Auto in the desert" but it pretty much is GTA. With a hint of Fallout 3. It'll be a good franchise to work with they have a lot of room to grow it, but this first idtech 5 title is very much a console game that will have a PC port.
Carmack stated at Quakecon that Betheseda has to sign off on the GPL'ing of any future code. The chances of that happening are slim to none. IdTech5 is a pretty impressive piece of technology; from what I can tell it's Fallout 3 graphics maxed out with about 50% less overhead.
What's to stop people from padding their cards by 20 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour or whatever? If you know the meter maid takes his lunch from noon to 1pm (most people using this system I assume would be parking in the same area over and over again) it seems like it'd be easy to just roll in around 11:30 am, scratch in 12:55 and gain an hour and a half of "free" parking. Or do the cards work for 24 hours?
Most videos of "something moving/leaving" in relation to the earth taken by astronauts/NASA are due to random crap (speck of dust sized crap) floating by the window only a couple of inches away from the window. Optically it looks much further away due to the parallax effect not working properly because your eyes/brain aren't used to being able to see 60+ miles without there being a tree/cloud in the way and also due to the curvature of the earth. There are tons of stories of astronauts tapping on the glass of the spaceshuttle to get the dust floating an inch or two away from the glass and then calling over a fellow astronaut and claiming a huge fleet of asteroids is about to hit the earth, or alien invaders surrounding the planet, etc. It's just an optical illusion involving space dust.
According to the grammar rules of your "dialect", wouldn't it be "bleed's", not "bleeds"?
It's videos, not video's. If you're old enough to be interested in slashdot, you should have learned this in 3rd grade. Your schools failed you and you should shame your parents for not correcting you.
/grammar nazi
Well you're in luck if you need to check slashdot at a cocktail party now aren't you? :)
Seriously though, most glass top desks you can buy at office depot are 4mm or less.
What consumer glass tables are more than 4mm thick? Yeah designer stuff and commerical furniture that has glass surfaces use 5-10mm glass, but this will still be useless on consumer grade furniture. Chances are, if you're a consumer using a consumer grade mouse, you'll be using it on consumer grade glass furniture.
If you count the Wii's classic controller, you could easily argue that all three consoles have a standardized interface, with the same names for the my part (shoulder buttons, d-pad, L & R-analog stick, etc)
You've got to kick out AMD, Apple and Dell if you want the Kali's to stop coming. Same paycheck, same employer, but less than 1/3rd the cost of living, same weather and no earthquakes? Hell yeah people want to live there. If only there were more buildings in downtown besides the Frost Bank Building. But yeah I agree with you the high rise condos are kind of ridiculous. We have a bunch of them going up here in Dallas too (still!). Lots of Brooklyn style 3 story townhomes popping up left and right in east Dallas just outside of downtown.
Well you could argue, up until 1985 or so (when imports became drastically more common), it was damn near impossible to roll into any gas station in america and get an oil filter, set of spark plugs or the right transmission fluid for your toyota or volkswagen. Hell, it's still hard to find oil filters and parts for my 1996 jetta VR6. The windshield wiper blades are literally the only part I didn't have to order from an auto parts store. In contrast, in 2002 my dad and I were driving across Wyoming in a 1984 caddilac during a rain storm when the windshield wiper delay unit and alternator failed at the same time. Rolled into the NAPA auto parts at the end of town (VERY rural area, this place mostly serviced work trucks and farm equipment) and were able to replace both parts (plus belt) in the parking lot in under an hour and head on down the road. Had those parts in the VW failed, we would have had to wait upwards of a week in Rural Wyoming for the parts to fly in from Denver (or possibly Germany) and have someone replace them.
So yeah, it's relevant what cars your friends and family drive - if it's a weird brand, it will effect you.
There's no scarcity of mod points. They changed how they're allocated in the last couple of months, but from what I can tell, those that have them, get 5 a day.
It's not an IR sensor, it's a low resolution video camera with the IR filter removed(!) plus sound, bluetooth, expansion port, and yeah vibration too. Also the accelerometer and some other stuff. It's a pretty impressive piece of technology and while they're probably cheap to manufacture now, the $50 pricepoint was probably justified at launch.