You know what would be great? If they painted an amber box on the road. Lets say you are doing 30mph, that's 14m/s. What you do is create a yellow box that's 40meters long, and you have the yellow light at 3 seconds long. If you are already in the yellow box doing the area speed limit, then you know you'll make it through the lights. If you have not entered the box, then you know you have to stop. If they change the duration of the yellow light, then they would have to redraw the box. Now people just have to have dashcams in every car, if you get a red light ticket, you can show that your car was already in the yellow box when the light changed. If they change the duration of yellow and don't redraw the box, you can sue them.
If, as a poster mentions above, the yellow light is only 1 second long, then you are fucked, as the safe stopping distance is only 23 meters, while the distance you can be from the light before it changes amber is 14 meters.
So, 2 things have to happen. The local authority has to adhere to the guidelines (which can be from 3-4 seconds depending on country) to give drivers 40+ meters of space to decide to stop. And also make a measurable cue to where you would have to stop if you are not going to make it through the junction in time. Leaving it up to guesswork is not good enough.
Nowadays, we even have systems in several places that measure average speed over a certain distance, meaning braking for the camera won't work.
I would actually like this, I try to keep to the limit when I'm driving, but I know that I often stray over it when I'm more concerned about what's happening on the road than what speed I'm going. Or sometimes there's someone going 40 in a 50 (kph) and you accelerate to 65 to overtake safely. You don't want to get a ticket for that.
The only issue I ever have with posted speeds, is that they are often unnecessarily low, and I (as a novice driver) keep to the speed limit, instead of going what everyone else would feel is natural for that stretch.
Well There's the: Cool Threesome Uncool Threesome Wait, is my girlfriend/boyfriend gay Wait, is my girlfriend/boyfriend straight Is he only asking for this threesome because he no longer likes me and wants to get it on with that girl from work/the gym? We just woke up and he/she was there The Siamese (shudder) No, I'm just here to watch (we saw how that went in basic instinct)
And so on. That's just arranging a suitable partner, we haven't even touched on the physicality of it. I think I'll have to do some research on that part.
I pre-ordered XCOM and got a free copy of Civ 4, XCOM was great. I pre-ordered Borderlands 2, they gave the bonus character. The game was great.
Perhaps it was just Steam, but I've never regretted pre-ordering a game there, it pre-downloads and is available to play the moment it's released.
That said, I don't pre-order much, preferring to wait for sales, but there are some games that I was really stoked about, and was happy with my purchases and the service.
EA just failed, epically. Had everything run smoothly, then the story might have been totally different.
This is why you shouldn't be allowed to patent "as system or method" for something that is not fully implemented and available to customers. I read a great article posted here in the last week or 2 that all patent applications should be submitted with the working code. Thus, any other patent applications for a similar process, using different code could be seen as independently discovered.
Monarch Butterflies can do the same thing, they navigate by the position of the sun, but can locate it even on a cloudy day.
Another amazing fact about monarch butterflies, their migratory pattern lasts 3 generations, so no single butterfly knows, or has ever done the whole trip.
Not one to rock the boat, but I don't see any mention in that article of her being in jail/prison. She got arrested, but later acquitted. Is there something missing from the Wikipedia entry?
I always try to learn as little about the authors of books I like, so it doesn't influence how I read them. I've just finished the Wheel of Time and can't wait to see what Robert Jordan comes up with next.
Wu summed up his opinion by stating that allowing a violation of a website's Terms of Service to constitute an intentional access of a computer without authorization or exceeding authorization would "result in transforming section 1030(a)(2)(C) into an overwhelmingly overbroad enactment that would convert a multitude of otherwise innocent Internet users into misdemeanant criminals." For these reasons, Wu granted Drew's motion for acquittal. The Government did not appeal
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Is that a risk you are willing to take?
Who's got a more annoying laugh than Marissa Mayer?
You know what would be great? If they painted an amber box on the road. Lets say you are doing 30mph, that's 14m/s. What you do is create a yellow box that's 40meters long, and you have the yellow light at 3 seconds long. If you are already in the yellow box doing the area speed limit, then you know you'll make it through the lights. If you have not entered the box, then you know you have to stop. If they change the duration of the yellow light, then they would have to redraw the box. Now people just have to have dashcams in every car, if you get a red light ticket, you can show that your car was already in the yellow box when the light changed. If they change the duration of yellow and don't redraw the box, you can sue them.
If, as a poster mentions above, the yellow light is only 1 second long, then you are fucked, as the safe stopping distance is only 23 meters, while the distance you can be from the light before it changes amber is 14 meters.
So, 2 things have to happen. The local authority has to adhere to the guidelines (which can be from 3-4 seconds depending on country) to give drivers 40+ meters of space to decide to stop. And also make a measurable cue to where you would have to stop if you are not going to make it through the junction in time. Leaving it up to guesswork is not good enough.
Nowadays, we even have systems in several places that measure average speed over a certain distance, meaning braking for the camera won't work.
I would actually like this, I try to keep to the limit when I'm driving, but I know that I often stray over it when I'm more concerned about what's happening on the road than what speed I'm going. Or sometimes there's someone going 40 in a 50 (kph) and you accelerate to 65 to overtake safely. You don't want to get a ticket for that.
The only issue I ever have with posted speeds, is that they are often unnecessarily low, and I (as a novice driver) keep to the speed limit, instead of going what everyone else would feel is natural for that stretch.
I can't wait to pick up Hitch HY-KERS in this.
Well There's the:
Cool Threesome
Uncool Threesome
Wait, is my girlfriend/boyfriend gay
Wait, is my girlfriend/boyfriend straight
Is he only asking for this threesome because he no longer likes me and wants to get it on with that girl from work/the gym?
We just woke up and he/she was there
The Siamese (shudder)
No, I'm just here to watch (we saw how that went in basic instinct)
And so on. That's just arranging a suitable partner, we haven't even touched on the physicality of it. I think I'll have to do some research on that part.
"something something something should be enough for anybody", it's an article about books, use your imagination.
Yeah, but Sweden's communist, or something.
'Murica!
If you have guns, most other freedoms are easily come by.
It was quite obvious when "Where's the browser ballot in Windows gone?" became a common search on Google.
Just wait for the remastered version.
It didn't stop X-Files writers!
I pre-ordered XCOM and got a free copy of Civ 4, XCOM was great. I pre-ordered Borderlands 2, they gave the bonus character. The game was great.
Perhaps it was just Steam, but I've never regretted pre-ordering a game there, it pre-downloads and is available to play the moment it's released.
That said, I don't pre-order much, preferring to wait for sales, but there are some games that I was really stoked about, and was happy with my purchases and the service.
EA just failed, epically. Had everything run smoothly, then the story might have been totally different.
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This is why you shouldn't be allowed to patent "as system or method" for something that is not fully implemented and available to customers. I read a great article posted here in the last week or 2 that all patent applications should be submitted with the working code. Thus, any other patent applications for a similar process, using different code could be seen as independently discovered.
AND you don't have to ever hear that laugh.
Too easy, but ... they employed ... Yahoos?
Or Nokia for short.
By Odin's Beard! This is a meme I can get behind!
Monarch Butterflies can do the same thing, they navigate by the position of the sun, but can locate it even on a cloudy day.
Another amazing fact about monarch butterflies, their migratory pattern lasts 3 generations, so no single butterfly knows, or has ever done the whole trip.
Use 2 guns, once facing forwards, one backwards. It will cancel out the recoil.
Not one to rock the boat, but I don't see any mention in that article of her being in jail/prison. She got arrested, but later acquitted. Is there something missing from the Wikipedia entry?
I always try to learn as little about the authors of books I like, so it doesn't influence how I read them. I've just finished the Wheel of Time and can't wait to see what Robert Jordan comes up with next.
more specifically, from the quoted Wiki Article
Wu summed up his opinion by stating that allowing a violation of a website's Terms of Service to constitute an intentional access of a computer without authorization or exceeding authorization would "result in transforming section 1030(a)(2)(C) into an overwhelmingly overbroad enactment that would convert a multitude of otherwise innocent Internet users into misdemeanant criminals." For these reasons, Wu granted Drew's motion for acquittal. The Government did not appeal
But you could lose 100+ people on a failed sea voyage. A Mars flyby will lose at most 3 people if it ends badly.