They've been using something like this for a long time in house arrests, which is half way between bail and incarceration in my mind. Granted, these leg collars just told whether they were in the house or not. I could also see it being used in halfway houses. But these are generally situations that you enter into in lieu of sitting in the slammer, and I'd guess that most people would rather be tracked in their own home than sitting in jail.
Poverty puts people in a situation where they are desperate enough to commit a crime.
There is supposed evidence that it is far more difficult for a black person to succeed economically than a white person. Such as a study done in which resumes were sent out which were identical in every respect besides the name. The white sounding names were asked in for an interview almost three times as often.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if stereotypical redneck names such as Cletus, Clem and Bubba were discriminated against just as much in the business world. Alghough those are more often nicknames or non-standard shortenings, while black people just have different names given at birth.
You will probably also find that if you compare the crime/incarceration rates of different races but from similar socioeconimic backgrounds they tend to be quite similar, but that is just a hunch rather than something backed up with cold hard evidence.
Velocity is a vector quantity, basically speed times a direction vector. If you turn, it takes a force to push you in the new direction. Since F=MA, that means that you are being accelerated. If you were to drive a car in a clockwise circle at a speed of 100 MPH, it would be constantly accelerated to the right, but its speed would remain 100 MPH. However the net velocity would be zero, as the net spatial displacement would be zero (at least every time you come back to the start point.)
And orbiting bodies continually lost speed? What kind of troll weed are you putting in your pipe?
they're simply another commodity asset of the provider.
I'd go as far as to say that it isn't so much that the user is the product.
In traditional capitalism, the end user paid money to get a product or service. Now that we are entering more of an information age, the end user basically has to endure advertising instead of paying money. The "contract" is that the information given is good/entertaining enough. The hope is, of course, that the end user ends up purchasing products advertised. But this would basically require that most of the economy is run in a traditional model, otherwise none of those advertising dollars would be offered up.
This is no different than the economic model that television broadcasting has run on for the last half century or so. Ironically, this means that it does not make sense for a network TV station to put out quality programming. If the viewers are the product, then the TV stations want the product to be as high quality as possible. In this case, highest quality means easist to influence by advertising. So, TV stations must then put out mostly lowest common denominator programming in order to attract the customers which will make them the most money.
Curious... why doesn't Gmail/pop3 cut it? If you just leave messages on server, then you basically have a backup of all the mail you've gotten, handilly Google searchable.
Although I suppose this could start being a pain if you check mail from multiple computers.
Ya know, if they just use Direct X calls which are optimized for the architecture. Moving to a different target than uses the same calls, already optimized for the different architecture shouldn't present much of a problem.
You ever notice how a lot of the games that come out toward the end of the life cycle of a console look, play and feel better than the first run games? The console didn't change in that time. The developers just dug in and found a lot of system-specific tweaks that were only worth exploiting because everyone has the same hardware.
That system dependance means that there will be some problems in running a true emulation. The only reason that the PS2 was able to emulate the original playstation so well is that they had a PS2 chip on board, as the price of production had dropped so much. I haven't heard of MS planning this, but then again E3 hasn't come up yet.
Yes, there will most likely be some form of backwards compatibility, tweaked for some of the more popular games. But unless they include a seperate emulation processor so you essentially have a whole Xbox on board, I don't see the whole spectrum of Xbox games being emulated perfectly.
And geez... I really don't know how they'd be able to cram that big Xbox into the smaller profile 360 with the basic gesture of double concavity.
On a s(n)ide note: has anyone else seen that Xbox360 video linked to on Penny Arcade a couple days ago and not thought "Wow, this feels just like an Ipod commercial." Even some people who haven't seen Ipod commercials feel the same way.
I couldn't see locking you out of gears helping at all if you know how to drive and shift properly. It would be much harder to keep the RPMs high in the power band. Reving the engine up high and then lagging it once you finally get up to speed for fourth really can't be that efficient
Unless people would simply shift too early with 2&3, lagging the engine and never getting the Rs up into the most efficient range. I guess you never really can't count on people to actually know how to drive, so this might actually save on economy.
Is it a manual car? I've noticed the same thing when I used to drive the same car as my parents. I always thought it was due to them shifting too soon, lagging the engine.
RE: the tank fill method, I've gotten as much as 4 gallons difference on a tank from the same pump, parked in the same direction. I think it's related to the gasoline foaming up, tripping the auto stop.
On the flip side, driving a little faster can also help you hit the light before it turns red, also eliminating the need to slow down. This driver probably lost out on some of these, which meant more time idling = 0MPG. These probably balanced out quite well in this instance.
Another caveat is the small sample size. I've noticed that sometimes even from the same pump auto stop will kick in with different amounts of gas in the tank (often between three and four gallons, to my estimation. And the gas gauge will read at a different level as well... not just starting filling with different amounts of gas in tank.) I think it's related to different amounts of detergent or some other condition which makes the gas foam up a bit. When it foams up in the tube that feeds to the tank, it can trip the auto stop early.
That is sort of the point of a turbo. It basically forces more air into the cylinder so that you can burn more gas per stroke, rating higher power. Diesel engines seem to have a totally different response, usually getting better mileage with a turbo. (BTW, turbos were originally invented for diesels used in long hauls, not for sports cars.) But diesel engines are a very different system from gasoline burning.
Isn't the whole peak efficiency was the basis behind the hybrid car? Run it right at the top of the power band. If the car's speed doesn't dictate that much revving, pull some of the extra power out and store it in a battery. If a little more power is needed, pull it back out of the battery and use it to drive a motor which helps push the car.
I've often seen underpowered cars perform far worse than expected in terms of fuel economy. If you aren't on a flat, smooth surface, the engine has to struggle just to keep up. A larger engine will just cruise along if you have to go uphill, against wind, or are carrying a load. From what I understand large diesels (such as used in a semi) don't really see much difference in fuel economy between no load and large load on the truck (at least on long trips with few stops/starts)
By nature, pit bulls are actually extremely loyal/friendly to people. They have one of the highest rates of passing temperment tests of any breed. The problems to people come from two major things. 1)training: pit bulls are often used as a security device, and so trained (against their genetic nature) to be aggressive to people. 2)biology: Pit bulls have massively strong jaws, and so a bite by them will be more devastating than other animals. Along with the bred-in behavior of bite, hold, shake.
Now, the reason that pit bulls have the human loyalty is also a matter of breeding. Pit bulls were bred to fight other dogs. It's been bred in so that an owner can reach in and physically pulled out of a fight without the owner getting mauled.
Really, pit bulls aren't inherently dangerous to people. It's just that there are people that turn them into weapons. However, pit bulls can be fairly dangerous to other dogs, due to the massive jaws and bred in dog aggression.
Foxes and deer really aren't comparable. Deer are herbivores while foxes are predators. Deer will eat as much and breed as fast as they can during the summer months, often to their detriment and suffering in the leaner winter months (Don't try to tell me that allowing deer to starve to death is more humane than shooting them.)
Foxes, being predators, are more limited by their prey availability. This also doesn't go away in the winter, so don't have winter die-offs.
That's because real wolves are sh*t scared of humans. Now a wolf/domestic dog hybrid, on the other hand, can be very dangerous. Unfortunately letting wolves move closer to people will lead to more hybrids. Any hybrid attack will be viewed as a wolf attack by the reactionary locals.
First panel: the glow of a monitor sillouhetting the top of a Mt. Dew can.
Second panel: the can is lowered to show the office: empty cans, random cards lying about the room, boxen with no cover, hard drives, multiple monitors on either the command line, a text editor or an FPS.
Third panel (or even later if you want to instill drama)pan to the right to face the mortal enemy: the lUser: "I think my cup holder is broken."
Browsing through the covers, it seems that these are all "free comic book day" editions. That means that this is basically an advertising stunt. First one's free and all that.
(I'm not saying that I'm against it at all... a perfect way to get new people into the medium, or just to introduce people to your particular work.)
But once those cracks are there, the freeze-thaw cycles of water IN the cracks will increase the cracking (Your ice cube trays are open at the top. Try putting a can of soda or even a closed bottled of water in the freezer for a couple days and see what happens.) The underlying shape of the soils will change a lot more with freeze-thaw cycles. Just google for frost heave to find out.
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They've been using something like this for a long time in house arrests, which is half way between bail and incarceration in my mind. Granted, these leg collars just told whether they were in the house or not. I could also see it being used in halfway houses. But these are generally situations that you enter into in lieu of sitting in the slammer, and I'd guess that most people would rather be tracked in their own home than sitting in jail.
Poverty puts people in a situation where they are desperate enough to commit a crime.
There is supposed evidence that it is far more difficult for a black person to succeed economically than a white person. Such as a study done in which resumes were sent out which were identical in every respect besides the name. The white sounding names were asked in for an interview almost three times as often.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if stereotypical redneck names such as Cletus, Clem and Bubba were discriminated against just as much in the business world. Alghough those are more often nicknames or non-standard shortenings, while black people just have different names given at birth.
You will probably also find that if you compare the crime/incarceration rates of different races but from similar socioeconimic backgrounds they tend to be quite similar, but that is just a hunch rather than something backed up with cold hard evidence.
Hmm... maybe I meant to say "average velocity" instead of "net velocity."
Velocity is a vector quantity, basically speed times a direction vector. If you turn, it takes a force to push you in the new direction. Since F=MA, that means that you are being accelerated. If you were to drive a car in a clockwise circle at a speed of 100 MPH, it would be constantly accelerated to the right, but its speed would remain 100 MPH. However the net velocity would be zero, as the net spatial displacement would be zero (at least every time you come back to the start point.)
And orbiting bodies continually lost speed? What kind of troll weed are you putting in your pipe?
That's the theory for Ender living for thousands of years in the later books.
Zero rest mass would do the trick as well.
No... Constant velocity = no acceleration. Constant high speed in a circle (such as in orbit)= lots of acceleration.
they're simply another commodity asset of the provider.
I'd go as far as to say that it isn't so much that the user is the product.
In traditional capitalism, the end user paid money to get a product or service. Now that we are entering more of an information age, the end user basically has to endure advertising instead of paying money. The "contract" is that the information given is good/entertaining enough. The hope is, of course, that the end user ends up purchasing products advertised. But this would basically require that most of the economy is run in a traditional model, otherwise none of those advertising dollars would be offered up.
This is no different than the economic model that television broadcasting has run on for the last half century or so. Ironically, this means that it does not make sense for a network TV station to put out quality programming. If the viewers are the product, then the TV stations want the product to be as high quality as possible. In this case, highest quality means easist to influence by advertising. So, TV stations must then put out mostly lowest common denominator programming in order to attract the customers which will make them the most money.
Or cable/DSL can often be found for $5-$10 more a month.
Curious... why doesn't Gmail/pop3 cut it? If you just leave messages on server, then you basically have a backup of all the mail you've gotten, handilly Google searchable.
Although I suppose this could start being a pain if you check mail from multiple computers.
Ya know, if they just use Direct X calls which are optimized for the architecture. Moving to a different target than uses the same calls, already optimized for the different architecture shouldn't present much of a problem.
You ever notice how a lot of the games that come out toward the end of the life cycle of a console look, play and feel better than the first run games? The console didn't change in that time. The developers just dug in and found a lot of system-specific tweaks that were only worth exploiting because everyone has the same hardware.
That system dependance means that there will be some problems in running a true emulation. The only reason that the PS2 was able to emulate the original playstation so well is that they had a PS2 chip on board, as the price of production had dropped so much. I haven't heard of MS planning this, but then again E3 hasn't come up yet.
Yes, there will most likely be some form of backwards compatibility, tweaked for some of the more popular games. But unless they include a seperate emulation processor so you essentially have a whole Xbox on board, I don't see the whole spectrum of Xbox games being emulated perfectly.
And geez... I really don't know how they'd be able to cram that big Xbox into the smaller profile 360 with the basic gesture of double concavity.
On a s(n)ide note: has anyone else seen that Xbox360 video linked to on Penny Arcade a couple days ago and not thought "Wow, this feels just like an Ipod commercial." Even some people who haven't seen Ipod commercials feel the same way.
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency requires detergents in gasoline.
I couldn't see locking you out of gears helping at all if you know how to drive and shift properly. It would be much harder to keep the RPMs high in the power band. Reving the engine up high and then lagging it once you finally get up to speed for fourth really can't be that efficient
Unless people would simply shift too early with 2&3, lagging the engine and never getting the Rs up into the most efficient range. I guess you never really can't count on people to actually know how to drive, so this might actually save on economy.
Is it a manual car? I've noticed the same thing when I used to drive the same car as my parents. I always thought it was due to them shifting too soon, lagging the engine.
RE: the tank fill method, I've gotten as much as 4 gallons difference on a tank from the same pump, parked in the same direction. I think it's related to the gasoline foaming up, tripping the auto stop.
On the flip side, driving a little faster can also help you hit the light before it turns red, also eliminating the need to slow down. This driver probably lost out on some of these, which meant more time idling = 0MPG. These probably balanced out quite well in this instance.
Another caveat is the small sample size. I've noticed that sometimes even from the same pump auto stop will kick in with different amounts of gas in the tank (often between three and four gallons, to my estimation. And the gas gauge will read at a different level as well... not just starting filling with different amounts of gas in tank.) I think it's related to different amounts of detergent or some other condition which makes the gas foam up a bit. When it foams up in the tube that feeds to the tank, it can trip the auto stop early.
That is sort of the point of a turbo. It basically forces more air into the cylinder so that you can burn more gas per stroke, rating higher power. Diesel engines seem to have a totally different response, usually getting better mileage with a turbo. (BTW, turbos were originally invented for diesels used in long hauls, not for sports cars.) But diesel engines are a very different system from gasoline burning.
Isn't the whole peak efficiency was the basis behind the hybrid car? Run it right at the top of the power band. If the car's speed doesn't dictate that much revving, pull some of the extra power out and store it in a battery. If a little more power is needed, pull it back out of the battery and use it to drive a motor which helps push the car.
I've often seen underpowered cars perform far worse than expected in terms of fuel economy. If you aren't on a flat, smooth surface, the engine has to struggle just to keep up. A larger engine will just cruise along if you have to go uphill, against wind, or are carrying a load. From what I understand large diesels (such as used in a semi) don't really see much difference in fuel economy between no load and large load on the truck (at least on long trips with few stops/starts)
By nature, pit bulls are actually extremely loyal/friendly to people. They have one of the highest rates of passing temperment tests of any breed. The problems to people come from two major things. 1)training: pit bulls are often used as a security device, and so trained (against their genetic nature) to be aggressive to people. 2)biology: Pit bulls have massively strong jaws, and so a bite by them will be more devastating than other animals. Along with the bred-in behavior of bite, hold, shake.
Now, the reason that pit bulls have the human loyalty is also a matter of breeding. Pit bulls were bred to fight other dogs. It's been bred in so that an owner can reach in and physically pulled out of a fight without the owner getting mauled.
Really, pit bulls aren't inherently dangerous to people. It's just that there are people that turn them into weapons. However, pit bulls can be fairly dangerous to other dogs, due to the massive jaws and bred in dog aggression.
Foxes and deer really aren't comparable. Deer are herbivores while foxes are predators. Deer will eat as much and breed as fast as they can during the summer months, often to their detriment and suffering in the leaner winter months (Don't try to tell me that allowing deer to starve to death is more humane than shooting them.)
Foxes, being predators, are more limited by their prey availability. This also doesn't go away in the winter, so don't have winter die-offs.
Not to mention that deer have been known to overgraze land so much that it turns into a desert.
That's because real wolves are sh*t scared of humans. Now a wolf/domestic dog hybrid, on the other hand, can be very dangerous. Unfortunately letting wolves move closer to people will lead to more hybrids. Any hybrid attack will be viewed as a wolf attack by the reactionary locals.
You really can't see it?
It would have to be from the BOFH's perspective.
First panel: the glow of a monitor sillouhetting the top of a Mt. Dew can.
Second panel: the can is lowered to show the office: empty cans, random cards lying about the room, boxen with no cover, hard drives, multiple monitors on either the command line, a text editor or an FPS.
Third panel (or even later if you want to instill drama)pan to the right to face the mortal enemy: the lUser: "I think my cup holder is broken."
Browsing through the covers, it seems that these are all "free comic book day" editions. That means that this is basically an advertising stunt. First one's free and all that.
(I'm not saying that I'm against it at all... a perfect way to get new people into the medium, or just to introduce people to your particular work.)
I honestly meant biggest in terms of dollars. Don't know why I didn't clarify.
But once those cracks are there, the freeze-thaw cycles of water IN the cracks will increase the cracking (Your ice cube trays are open at the top. Try putting a can of soda or even a closed bottled of water in the freezer for a couple days and see what happens.) The underlying shape of the soils will change a lot more with freeze-thaw cycles. Just google for frost heave to find out.