I think it's not so much about wanting to stop the noise (although that extra impact helps), but to help prod you in the direction you've already decided you want to take.
If you sit down with a clear head, and plenty of time to think you can work out ways you can make your life better. One of these might be getting out of bed earlier. You sit down and think of all the ramifications, and decide that getting up early is the best thing for you to do. However, at 6 in the morning, getting up early doesn't seem like such a great idea. The alarm clock serves to remind you that you have thought it all through.
Sure it could go further to a state beyond what seems comfortable, but at this point helping people better themselves (and the world at large in many cases) is a good outcome.
That point was addressed in his first post. Basically if the chance of getting caught is low enough people perceive it as close enough to 0 to not worry about it. In that situation increasing the punishment doesn't work, so you'd need to look at the chance of getting caught to make a difference.
Exactly, how do diseases and weather patterns influence traffic and economic patterns? It's hard to say for sure, but these guys want to answer that question.
The point is the discontinuity between the CAFE standards and the licensing requirements. If you can drive them on a car license they should be subject to the CAFE standards for cars. If they are subject to the CAFE standards for trucks they should require a truck license.
We're not arguing about the way things are, we're arguing about the way they should be.
My god you're right! Putting in two sensors to tell if the engine is warm and if there's enough battery power to restart the engine are totally insurmountable engineering challenges. Maybe in 20 years when scientists have found ways to measure temperature and charge we could start using this feature.
Exactly. I can imagine in maybe 10-20 years time people looking back on discussions like this and thinking how naive we were that we thought we had enough addresses.
what would have happened when had read the article before the trial?
That's an interesting question. The whole idea is that any information available to the jurors is also available to the prosecution and the defense so they can argue about how valid it is and work out definitions etc. that everyone can agree upon. But jurors walk into the courtroom with their heads already full of information, biases and prejudices. I know that the screening process should weed out anyone with obvious bias. I'd assume that they'd also ask you some questions about how familiar you are with the matters at hand and possibly give you some special instructions based on what you already know.
Everyone doing it will stress the networks a bit. Telepresence will not be completely successful until it is completely reliable, so you'll need a lot of spare capacity.
That's roughly the arrangement I used to work in. It may have been a bit bigger than 80 sq ft but shared between 4 workers. Basically every job was divided up so it could be worked on by teams of 4, who moved into a cube with each other. You need to know something you just turn your head and ask a question and get an answer in a few seconds. It was sweet.
If you don't want to answer people's questions why are you in the office at all? Sounds like you should be working from home.
The reason we all come to this big building every day is that we work together to get stuff done. You know some stuff, I know some stuff. When I need something that you know to get a job done I ask you. When you need something I know to get a job done you ask me. If you have a personal matter that needs to be attended to, you go into a breakout room. If you want to discuss last nights football game you step into the kitchen, or the fresh air outside.
I can understand individual offices, but hate cubicles with a passion.
Man, I remember being so impressed by the graphics of Secret of the Oracle. Computers make me feel so old, when I hear guys these days talking about graphics I think about Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle and Wolfenstein 3d. Graphics? Fuck that, I just want to kill something.
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I think it's not so much about wanting to stop the noise (although that extra impact helps), but to help prod you in the direction you've already decided you want to take.
If you sit down with a clear head, and plenty of time to think you can work out ways you can make your life better. One of these might be getting out of bed earlier. You sit down and think of all the ramifications, and decide that getting up early is the best thing for you to do. However, at 6 in the morning, getting up early doesn't seem like such a great idea. The alarm clock serves to remind you that you have thought it all through.
Sure it could go further to a state beyond what seems comfortable, but at this point helping people better themselves (and the world at large in many cases) is a good outcome.
My only regret is that your post is too long to become my sig.
Yes, reading the article would take away valuable time that could be devoted to trying to sound smart on the internet.
So we have 3 tablets listed in the summary. I haven't looked at the full article, but are we to conclude that tablets just suck?
That point was addressed in his first post. Basically if the chance of getting caught is low enough people perceive it as close enough to 0 to not worry about it. In that situation increasing the punishment doesn't work, so you'd need to look at the chance of getting caught to make a difference.
Exactly, how do diseases and weather patterns influence traffic and economic patterns? It's hard to say for sure, but these guys want to answer that question.
No, they are "light trucks"
So SUVs are light *trucks* you say...
The point is the discontinuity between the CAFE standards and the licensing requirements. If you can drive them on a car license they should be subject to the CAFE standards for cars. If they are subject to the CAFE standards for trucks they should require a truck license.
We're not arguing about the way things are, we're arguing about the way they should be.
You are correct, you should always chose the correct vehicle for the job. the correct vehicle for driving in downtown Paris is not an SUV.
My god you're right! Putting in two sensors to tell if the engine is warm and if there's enough battery power to restart the engine are totally insurmountable engineering challenges. Maybe in 20 years when scientists have found ways to measure temperature and charge we could start using this feature.
LOL
Nothing like seeing a grammar nazi being wrong to make me feel better 4 hours after my hopes and dreams of leaving the office at 2pm were dashed!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to have sex with my girlfriend.
Exactly. I can imagine in maybe 10-20 years time people looking back on discussions like this and thinking how naive we were that we thought we had enough addresses.
This just came to me: if they can call back the cheque, can he then turn around and call back the wire transfer?
I really don't understand why it would be any other way. You give someone money, it's now theirs. How can you then go and grab that money back?
I'm afraid that you already have far worse problems than no being able to use Wikipedia.
what would have happened when had read the article before the trial?
That's an interesting question. The whole idea is that any information available to the jurors is also available to the prosecution and the defense so they can argue about how valid it is and work out definitions etc. that everyone can agree upon. But jurors walk into the courtroom with their heads already full of information, biases and prejudices. I know that the screening process should weed out anyone with obvious bias. I'd assume that they'd also ask you some questions about how familiar you are with the matters at hand and possibly give you some special instructions based on what you already know.
It's certainly a non-trivial problem!
"Be Ignorant" is not the rule.
"Not be misinformed by whatever bollocks you found on the internet" is the rule.
Everyone doing it will stress the networks a bit. Telepresence will not be completely successful until it is completely reliable, so you'll need a lot of spare capacity.
Didn't Margaret Thatcher say that the facts of life are conservative?
Who to believe!
Seriously!?
I have no idea what to say about that. I thought it was way less than that. That's fucked up!
That's doughnut money to the Department of Defense, whose budget is 100,000 times more than that.
Let's not exaggerate here. The department of defense only gets about 15,000 times that much. ;)
How is it that lame memes get modded insightful, yet your ideas about nuclear powered cars gets a funny mod?
I give up trying to understand /. moderation.
That's roughly the arrangement I used to work in. It may have been a bit bigger than 80 sq ft but shared between 4 workers. Basically every job was divided up so it could be worked on by teams of 4, who moved into a cube with each other. You need to know something you just turn your head and ask a question and get an answer in a few seconds. It was sweet.
If you don't want to answer people's questions why are you in the office at all? Sounds like you should be working from home.
The reason we all come to this big building every day is that we work together to get stuff done. You know some stuff, I know some stuff. When I need something that you know to get a job done I ask you. When you need something I know to get a job done you ask me. If you have a personal matter that needs to be attended to, you go into a breakout room. If you want to discuss last nights football game you step into the kitchen, or the fresh air outside.
I can understand individual offices, but hate cubicles with a passion.
Man, I remember being so impressed by the graphics of Secret of the Oracle. Computers make me feel so old, when I hear guys these days talking about graphics I think about Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle and Wolfenstein 3d. Graphics? Fuck that, I just want to kill something.
It's a plot that has been used many times before. You know why it's been used so many times in the past? Because it's a good plot!