Exactly. Driving fast is not a problem when the conditions allow it. But when you're going so fast that the braking distance is longer than you can see, you're going too fast pretty much by definition. Sometimes that's above the legal speed limit, sometimes below.
Of course, if you're not paying attention, the braking distance also increases because of the delayed reaction.
If it is reasonably reliable - say >80% or so - it has the potential for people to take it for granted and rely on it, thereby encouraging people to drive too fast. OTOH, we already have plenty of idiots who do that without any obstacle warning gizmos, so in these situations it would certainly help. I guess to really know which effect is bigger, someone would have to do a study on how this technology changes people's behavior.
If you need your car to detect obstacles for you, you're driving too fast. Because there's no way this is going to work 100% - not every pedestrian is carrying a device with Wi-Fi eneabled - so what do you do when you're relying on it and it fails?
You're assuming that what's legal is in the interest of the people, or at least a majority of them. Especially when you're talking about tyrants and repressive regimes, that's not at all true. And even in "democratic" societies, those in power care a lot more about themselves than the people they're supposed to represent. See the two-party political system of the US, where you get the chance to vote for the "lesser of two evils" every four years. You call that democratic? It's no wonder this system produced laws making racial segregation legal. That doesn't mean it is was what society as a whole wanted.
1GB is actually immense for a portable Linux, so it should be fine.
Umm, have you actually tried running any remotely modern distro with 1GB RAM? I'm not talking about something heavily trimmed for low memory footprint. I'm sure I could run Fluxbox and a few xterms with 32MB or maybe even less, but Firefox (or any other modern web browser) will still happily eat up hundreds of MBs. Same holds true for pretty much any Gnome or KDE app (since they tend to load half their respective desktop), Open/Libre Office, etc.
Fitting an SO-DIMM inside a tablet may indeed not be possible, but there's nothing stopping them from slapping at least 2GB RAM in there. 4GB could be a problem since ARMs are all 32bit for now, no idea if they support something like PAE. But that's an ugly hack anyway - 64bit ARMs shouldn't be too far out now (1-2 years or so).
Since the certification requirements for Win8 (on x86) mandate that Secure Boot can be disabled, I predict that the instructions for the Win8 version of Windows Loader (or whatever it is the kids use these days) will be roughly:
1. Disable Secure Boot. 2. Run program, click OK
I also predict that for Win9 MS will change that requirement to its opposite, due to the "overwhelming success of the programme" or somesuch, citing the fact that even Linux vendors have signed on as a "see, we're not evil" argument.
I wonder what's next in the piracy race. A signed Linux kernel, with a small initrd that loads a VM? A signed Linux kernel which executes the loader via kexec? Somehow, I don't think technological solutions to piracy will ever work. As long as people want to pirate, they will find a way to do so. After all, there's no shortage of people who find cracking a new copy protection too good a challenge to pass up.
Thanks, I didn't know that, besides the obvious thing that 666, coming from Christian mythology, wouldn't be recognized (at least with the same meaning) by people with different cultural backgrounds.
Maybe the ideal status code for China would be 6489. Then they'd have to censor the censorship, preferably by serving the original content instead...
One more thought, and sorry for replying to myself: If you constantly increased the intensity of the beam, you could probably keep pulling it. But to even maintain the position would require continuous power proportional to the distance you pulled the object in the first place.
Wouldn't the photons exiting the object on the other side exert the same force in the opposite direction? Seems like this would only work for infinitely long objects. Or, if the object were at least long enough that it takes the photons a significant time to travel through it, one could maybe use it to pull it a little closer (while the front of the beam hasn't yet arrived at the end) and hold it there while the beam is active, and make it bounce back by stopping the beam.
(If this works at all; IANAP, I've pulled this out of the same orifice you did, and I didn't even think it through long enough to find any obvious flaws.)
Thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU SO MUCH! It feels like that damn 16:9 screen just became a few inches higher. Almost makes me remember the good old days when the grass was green and the screens were 4:3.
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If and only if those peasants aren't fooled into believing it's better that way. Take the poor people who vote for Republican candidates that want to end entitlement programs that poor people rely on to help them in this economy. No, please, take them.
That even many poor people hold such views isn't surprising. To quote Karl Marx on the subject:
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.
Before a revolution begins, revolutionaries are always a minority, for the reason Marx laid out. That hasn't stopped revolutions from happening in the past, and it won't stop them in the future. Revolutionaries just need to keep in mind that they have to adapt their strategy and expectations to the conditions surrounding them.
Sadly, that's one of the features HTML5+JS has already copied. Firefox uses 100% of one CPU core for several seconds at a time regularly when loading and displaying large and JS-heavy sites, and I use Flashblock, so it can't be crappy invisible Flash applets. Yes, my laptop is old, but a 1.6 GHz dual core should be more than enough to browse the web.
Yes, very far. You have to manipulate protons, not electrons, to convert an atom from one element into another element. Sorry, humor has to respect science a little bit.:-)
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Speed does not kill. Inappropriate speed kills.
Exactly. Driving fast is not a problem when the conditions allow it. But when you're going so fast that the braking distance is longer than you can see, you're going too fast pretty much by definition. Sometimes that's above the legal speed limit, sometimes below.
Of course, if you're not paying attention, the braking distance also increases because of the delayed reaction.
You mean like this?
Phone: Beep beep!
(Pedestrian stops to look at phone)
Phone: New wireless network found: "You'll be dead in 3 seconds"
(Pedestrian gets hit)
If it is reasonably reliable - say >80% or so - it has the potential for people to take it for granted and rely on it, thereby encouraging people to drive too fast. OTOH, we already have plenty of idiots who do that without any obstacle warning gizmos, so in these situations it would certainly help. I guess to really know which effect is bigger, someone would have to do a study on how this technology changes people's behavior.
If you need your car to detect obstacles for you, you're driving too fast. Because there's no way this is going to work 100% - not every pedestrian is carrying a device with Wi-Fi eneabled - so what do you do when you're relying on it and it fails?
You're assuming that what's legal is in the interest of the people, or at least a majority of them. Especially when you're talking about tyrants and repressive regimes, that's not at all true. And even in "democratic" societies, those in power care a lot more about themselves than the people they're supposed to represent. See the two-party political system of the US, where you get the chance to vote for the "lesser of two evils" every four years. You call that democratic? It's no wonder this system produced laws making racial segregation legal. That doesn't mean it is was what society as a whole wanted.
Wiki, really? I doubt Netflix wants a blind person to stream Star Trek II and all of a sudden see "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAApenispenispenis" as well. ;)
I think if I were blind I'd appreciate being able to see again, no matter what the first thing I saw was!
1GB is actually immense for a portable Linux, so it should be fine.
Umm, have you actually tried running any remotely modern distro with 1GB RAM? I'm not talking about something heavily trimmed for low memory footprint. I'm sure I could run Fluxbox and a few xterms with 32MB or maybe even less, but Firefox (or any other modern web browser) will still happily eat up hundreds of MBs. Same holds true for pretty much any Gnome or KDE app (since they tend to load half their respective desktop), Open/Libre Office, etc.
Fitting an SO-DIMM inside a tablet may indeed not be possible, but there's nothing stopping them from slapping at least 2GB RAM in there. 4GB could be a problem since ARMs are all 32bit for now, no idea if they support something like PAE. But that's an ugly hack anyway - 64bit ARMs shouldn't be too far out now (1-2 years or so).
This guy has all those tubes to worry about.
I think 800k is quite above average for the CEO of a plumbing company!
Since the certification requirements for Win8 (on x86) mandate that Secure Boot can be disabled, I predict that the instructions for the Win8 version of Windows Loader (or whatever it is the kids use these days) will be roughly:
1. Disable Secure Boot.
2. Run program, click OK
I also predict that for Win9 MS will change that requirement to its opposite, due to the "overwhelming success of the programme" or somesuch, citing the fact that even Linux vendors have signed on as a "see, we're not evil" argument.
I wonder what's next in the piracy race. A signed Linux kernel, with a small initrd that loads a VM? A signed Linux kernel which executes the loader via kexec? Somehow, I don't think technological solutions to piracy will ever work. As long as people want to pirate, they will find a way to do so. After all, there's no shortage of people who find cracking a new copy protection too good a challenge to pass up.
Q: Why do you pay your CEO so much?
A: Because ICANN.
Thanks, I didn't know that, besides the obvious thing that 666, coming from Christian mythology, wouldn't be recognized (at least with the same meaning) by people with different cultural backgrounds.
Maybe the ideal status code for China would be 6489. Then they'd have to censor the censorship, preferably by serving the original content instead...
What sort of pathetic attempt at trolling is that? At least include a goatse link and some sort of GNAA reference the next time!
The proper status code would be "666 - Go To Hell". Served to the court, not the customer.
The patent system is certainly not ideal in its current implementation, but that's not an excuse to scrap thing entirely.
I suppose you didn't want to infringe on the patent on using articles in conjunction with nouns?
Not a problem. He's anonymous, so they won't know who to charge.
Wait wait wait... He's Anonymous? Better be careful then, remember that tax evasion was what got Al Capone locked up in the end!
One more thought, and sorry for replying to myself: If you constantly increased the intensity of the beam, you could probably keep pulling it. But to even maintain the position would require continuous power proportional to the distance you pulled the object in the first place.
Wouldn't the photons exiting the object on the other side exert the same force in the opposite direction? Seems like this would only work for infinitely long objects. Or, if the object were at least long enough that it takes the photons a significant time to travel through it, one could maybe use it to pull it a little closer (while the front of the beam hasn't yet arrived at the end) and hold it there while the beam is active, and make it bounce back by stopping the beam.
(If this works at all; IANAP, I've pulled this out of the same orifice you did, and I didn't even think it through long enough to find any obvious flaws.)
It seems quite logical. After all, a computer without Windows is more useful and therefore more valuable.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU SO MUCH! It feels like that damn 16:9 screen just became a few inches higher. Almost makes me remember the good old days when the grass was green and the screens were 4:3.
Did I say thank you?
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This song seems appropriate to your problem (in German, sorry - but at least it's got subtitles):
And I'm sleeping in the shower.
Because the shower sticks with me.
It's the only friend that I have left in the world.
If and only if those peasants aren't fooled into believing it's better that way. Take the poor people who vote for Republican candidates that want to end entitlement programs that poor people rely on to help them in this economy. No, please, take them.
That even many poor people hold such views isn't surprising. To quote Karl Marx on the subject:
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.
Before a revolution begins, revolutionaries are always a minority, for the reason Marx laid out. That hasn't stopped revolutions from happening in the past, and it won't stop them in the future. Revolutionaries just need to keep in mind that they have to adapt their strategy and expectations to the conditions surrounding them.
and thanks for all the 100%-CPU-use times?
Sadly, that's one of the features HTML5+JS has already copied. Firefox uses 100% of one CPU core for several seconds at a time regularly when loading and displaying large and JS-heavy sites, and I use Flashblock, so it can't be crappy invisible Flash applets. Yes, my laptop is old, but a 1.6 GHz dual core should be more than enough to browse the web.
Yes, very far. You have to manipulate protons, not electrons, to convert an atom from one element into another element. Sorry, humor has to respect science a little bit. :-)
Just reverse the polarity, duh!
The ability to download a car.
...and then fly it away at warp speed to run from the MAFIAA!