This is the first time I've heard of how Microsoft's device works. Their design totally sucks. Why not just use a table of known FCC broadcasting stations for your area and then figure out that channels are free based upon how far you are from those?
This is so silly. Why "detect" who is broadcasting if it cannot be done reliably? We should instead depend upon FCC radio transmitting tower locations (for licensed users) and just have a GPS and do a bit of math to know what signals are free to use.
Get in the way of that point to point beam of electricity and FRAP! You become a BBQed piece of meat. Yeah. Let's all adopt wireless power today! (Of course if it had some sort of communication protocol that is constantly asking "Are you there?" before sending a huge surge of electricity, the risk could be minimized. Do this every 10 seconds or so.)
Wait, why would you not just go to the Wi-fi network in the first place? If the wi-fi network is going to know right off the bat, why not have it announce where the location of the crash cart is? Machine detects no heartbeat, loudspeakers: "*BZZZT*! CODE BLUE IN ROOM SEVEN. CRASH CART LOCATED IN FRONT OF ROOM 9. " Congrats. You have become even moreso a meat slave in a hospital doing exactly as the machine asks. Heh.
I agree with everything you are saying. You say you take the bus everywhere. The problem with that is that (here anyway), they are late about 20% of the time. (I gave them a test run for about a month and those are the numbers I came up with.) So the busses are great, *IF* the drivers are audited. (GPS, anyone?) Then the late ones could be fired, or the schedules could be changed. It sucks to use a bus auto-router when the busses aren't always on time.
About PHEVs, yes they are awesome. I wish I had one. It's just too expensive for me right now. (You'd have to buy the cheapest hybrid you could get your hands on, then basically hack it yourself. (even more $$$ with the potential for things to go very wrong.)) If PHEVs were mass produced, I could wait for one to depreciate to the point it becomes logical for me to buy one. Some day.
Her BMW had an "intelligent" system on-board as well as the GPS, and out of nowhere, it told her to "stop the car". So she did. Quickly. In the fast-lane, on the motorway. Chaos ensued.
Everyone behind her was following too closely. Plain and simple. They should have time to react, apply their own brakes, change lanes, anything. People need to learn to stop following so closely.
Have the self control to not tail other people. If you can't see the red light, then you're too close to the vehicle in front of you. It's really that simple.
I would throw your traffic cop idea out the window, and instead place more speed cameras, everywhere. They are much more bang per buck. Traffic cops require large tens of thousands of dollars per year salary. Speed cameras require just a one time investment of a few thousand (when you're talking about mass production) and would catch so many people so fast, they would probably pay for themselves in a week. (In ANY place you put them in America.)
If the smoke is decreasing your visibility, I would see that as a huge negative. I live in a smoking = sin state (California), so I might think that smokers are all evil villans.
Have you ever asked yourself why you need this? If you just leave early enough, it really wouldn't matter. I drive a 35MPH top speed vehicle on side streets and the math turns out to be that I take just twice as long as a normal car to arrive. Since a lot of my travels are downtown, the math actually turns on it's head. It takes a car FAR longer to go to the same spots I go to because I can park on the sidewalk and a car has to search out a street parking or pay for underground parking.:-)
Using cruise control in some cars wastes more gas than not using it. You don't want to try to maintain 55mph speeds going straight uphill. The engine would be using gas like crazy. Really depends if you live in a hilly area. (Like 99% of California)
Maybe that's your whole problem then. You need to stop fighting battles and find friends (and girlfriends) that agree with your ideas (either because they too have those ideas, or they have learned to trust your ideas). My 2 cents.
I think the FCC should sell bandwidth in small chunks of time. Say, for a week at a time. This would allow more down to earth pricing. If someone was smart with the space, they would resell it for internet connections and price compete with EVDO/etc.
Why bother stopping bank fraud when you can just pass the losses onto the customer in terms of higher APR loans, lower APR savings accounts, and annual fees? It's a similar issue. Lazyness on the part of administrative offices.
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I don't get it. Why would they require you to have an RFID card? They already have a unique shopper token ID. Your credit card...
What if all employers started requiring fingerprints? Where is your choice now?
This is the first time I've heard of how Microsoft's device works. Their design totally sucks. Why not just use a table of known FCC broadcasting stations for your area and then figure out that channels are free based upon how far you are from those?
This is so silly. Why "detect" who is broadcasting if it cannot be done reliably? We should instead depend upon FCC radio transmitting tower locations (for licensed users) and just have a GPS and do a bit of math to know what signals are free to use.
Did someone really just "Come up with this idea for a cell scanner", or is this yet more information being unclassified from area 51?
Do you really think technology lasts 5 years?
Get in the way of that point to point beam of electricity and FRAP! You become a BBQed piece of meat. Yeah. Let's all adopt wireless power today! (Of course if it had some sort of communication protocol that is constantly asking "Are you there?" before sending a huge surge of electricity, the risk could be minimized. Do this every 10 seconds or so.)
Wait, why would you not just go to the Wi-fi network in the first place? If the wi-fi network is going to know right off the bat, why not have it announce where the location of the crash cart is? Machine detects no heartbeat, loudspeakers: "*BZZZT*! CODE BLUE IN ROOM SEVEN. CRASH CART LOCATED IN FRONT OF ROOM 9. " Congrats. You have become even moreso a meat slave in a hospital doing exactly as the machine asks. Heh.
I agree with everything you are saying. You say you take the bus everywhere. The problem with that is that (here anyway), they are late about 20% of the time. (I gave them a test run for about a month and those are the numbers I came up with.) So the busses are great, *IF* the drivers are audited. (GPS, anyone?) Then the late ones could be fired, or the schedules could be changed. It sucks to use a bus auto-router when the busses aren't always on time.
About PHEVs, yes they are awesome. I wish I had one. It's just too expensive for me right now. (You'd have to buy the cheapest hybrid you could get your hands on, then basically hack it yourself. (even more $$$ with the potential for things to go very wrong.)) If PHEVs were mass produced, I could wait for one to depreciate to the point it becomes logical for me to buy one. Some day.
I for one welcome our new battery efficient overlords.
Maybe they are adding actual useful features like HSDPA? Hahaha. (Or not.)
Google for "Smart Battery Specification" (SBS). It's real. I've seen it in action. (Dell D600 laptop.)
Her BMW had an "intelligent" system on-board as well as the GPS, and out of nowhere, it told her to "stop the car". So she did. Quickly. In the fast-lane, on the motorway. Chaos ensued.
Everyone behind her was following too closely. Plain and simple. They should have time to react, apply their own brakes, change lanes, anything. People need to learn to stop following so closely.
Have the self control to not tail other people. If you can't see the red light, then you're too close to the vehicle in front of you. It's really that simple.
True. It boils down to using the right tool for the job.
I would throw your traffic cop idea out the window, and instead place more speed cameras, everywhere. They are much more bang per buck. Traffic cops require large tens of thousands of dollars per year salary. Speed cameras require just a one time investment of a few thousand (when you're talking about mass production) and would catch so many people so fast, they would probably pay for themselves in a week. (In ANY place you put them in America.)
If the smoke is decreasing your visibility, I would see that as a huge negative. I live in a smoking = sin state (California), so I might think that smokers are all evil villans.
Have you ever asked yourself why you need this? If you just leave early enough, it really wouldn't matter. I drive a 35MPH top speed vehicle on side streets and the math turns out to be that I take just twice as long as a normal car to arrive. Since a lot of my travels are downtown, the math actually turns on it's head. It takes a car FAR longer to go to the same spots I go to because I can park on the sidewalk and a car has to search out a street parking or pay for underground parking. :-)
Using cruise control in some cars wastes more gas than not using it. You don't want to try to maintain 55mph speeds going straight uphill. The engine would be using gas like crazy. Really depends if you live in a hilly area. (Like 99% of California)
I almost lost the PVR war over that fiasco.
Maybe that's your whole problem then. You need to stop fighting battles and find friends (and girlfriends) that agree with your ideas (either because they too have those ideas, or they have learned to trust your ideas). My 2 cents.
I think the FCC should sell bandwidth in small chunks of time. Say, for a week at a time. This would allow more down to earth pricing. If someone was smart with the space, they would resell it for internet connections and price compete with EVDO/etc.
Just make sure you don't engineer yourself out of a job. :)
They've patented setting up a software interrupt that goes to a handler and saves program state! (Breakpoints in a nutshell.)
Why bother stopping bank fraud when you can just pass the losses onto the customer in terms of higher APR loans, lower APR savings accounts, and annual fees? It's a similar issue. Lazyness on the part of administrative offices.
from nowhere, to nowhere. :)