Except that in the case of Star Citizen, you get the game with a pledge of $35+. That isn't a bad deal considering that AAA games go for $60 now when they first come out.
The other option is that a news organization that had the same early access to the data released the data at 2pm (which they are allowed to do as long as they are also in sync with the national atomic clock which is typically a best practice anyway), and the servers they used to release the data were located closer to Chicago, in which the computers used by the high speed trading knew to get their input from those systems which were physically closer to their own location (potentially co-located within the very same datacenter), and placed their trades based on that information.
Not quite as bad as you make it out to be considering Team Oracle started out at -2, and they also lost 3 of their key crew members from that incident. Bringing in that many new people at the last minute destroyed the team training that existed, which was a huge setback. The New Zealand ship though does seem to be faster.
Oh, one more aside, many tuning systems do not even allow for notes of that different in tone to even be played (such as a piano, harp, trumpet, clarinet, flute, sax, etc., etc.,). Only stringed instruments (which are fretless or which the string can be bent to change the tension) and the trombone have this ability. Some instruments can tune their notes to use a scale which does include which uses septimal quarter-tone intervals as a part of it, but once so tuned, it then can not play the standard tuning notes and a separate instrument would need to be used to do so.
Oh, as a side note, 80-90% of all people are tone deaf and can not tell the difference between notes even as far apart as a septimal quarter-tone, unless they are played at the same time (causing a harmonic dissonance wave).
I too did not suffer from the "effect". I believe it has to do with the fact that I had 8+ years of vocal performance training and sang in various choirs and madrigal groups in many euro-classical forms and languages (German, Italian, French, multiple Latin dialects (yes, there are at least three that I am aware of, German Latin (used in many pieces, especially those of Bach and Mozart), Liturgical Latin (this is the Latin handed down and used through the Roman Catholic Church), and Italian/Roman Latin) and it does make a significant difference as to how the piece if performed as many of the rhythmic and poetic points are lost if using the dialect).
I have personally spent thousands of hours performing and listening to myself and others in the various groups, needing to develop an extremely critical ear for vow sounds and the phonetic makeup of words, especially the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). And in a group, especially in roles such as section leader (used in many larger groups to hear and fix issues) you need to hear when just one person made a mistake out of the group so you can point it out to be worked on and corrected.
I believe as a result of all this training, I do not suffer from this effect (at least on the linked video, to me it was very clear that the sound was still bah).
If gut bacteria from slim people actually extracted more nutrients from food, bacteria would need less food to extract the calories and nutrients from that food (since they are more efficient) than the gut bacteria from fat people. This makes no sense since it is well documented that slim people can eat more food and not gain weight than fat people can.
This only stands to reason that the gut bacteria from FAT people extract more nutrients from food and are more efficient, extracting more calories from that food, thus leading to needing less food before the fat people become, well, fat....
While some of what you say is true, it is also hard to get an education at a facility that doesn't even have enough books for every student. Oh, you wanted to study tonight because you had free time you didn't know about, sorry, the book is going home with Johny tonight, but you get it tomorrow.
Then there is the issue of dealing with disciplinary issues at public schools. In private schools it is easy because they will simply toss you out after breaking the rules too many times and they won't let you back in. Public schools on the other hand let you back (the have to), or shuffle you to another public school in the same school district (assuming there are more than one for the grade). Not much real punishment with true consequences, and the parents and students know this and as a result do a lot more rule breaking than students in private schools.
Private schools also have the ability to better screen their student body to make certain students are performing at the proper grade levels, not advancing students when they failed, or allowing students who are excelling the chances to move forward at a faster pace. While many of the better public schools have these same ideals, principals and capabilities, more do not. Students are simply pushed down the row to be the next teacher's problem.
At its core, the game is a really great 'mech simulation; it's just all the other bits that suck.
It isn't a really great 'mech simulation. It is a good robot simulation that pretents to call things with the same names as in the Battletech Universe. But don't think for one second that the things in MWO act or work like the things named the same way from Battletech, because they don't. As such, it is pointless to call this game "Mechwarrior" and be a licensed property of Battletech. Absolutely nothing is correct and true to the Battletech Universe, which has lead to all the balance issues that the developers have released countless patch after patch after patch to try and "fix" the new "problem" they created for themselves when there would have been no issue had they simply followed the rules to begin with. But no, we can't follow rules that have been balanced over the course of 30 years, we're the developers, we know better....
So if it is useless why add it then? All it does is piss off the people who wanted a sim, which is what they were sold. And now, it is no longer that game. Of course they are pissed.
A simple fix would be to allow players to simply get put into different battle/match queues by selecting a choice of: A) "only play with people with 1st person view" B)"only play with people using 3rd person view" C) "play with both 1st person and 3rd person views available to all players in the match"
Wow! An amazing concept that doesn't alienate the people who funded you to begin with while still allowing you to add a "feature" which might bring more diverse people to the game.
But really if you as me, this is probably the final straw for many people. They put up with a lot of stupid crap already, a lot of which hasn't even been mentioned in the article. I personally didn't put up with it and stopped playing and got my refund on the original founders pack when they pushed out the game WAY before it was ready. They also have all kinds of balancing issues to this very day (one of the things mentioned in the article) because the developers of the game have no clue how to simply use the already balanced weapons in the Battletech/Mechwarrior Universe and apply them into a video game. The reason there is a need for "Cool Shot" is because they have the heat cycle for weapons at INSANE levels compared to the actual universe rules. There are hundreds of mech configurations in the universe which you simply cannot make in the video game because the heat is so high that you need 5-6 times the number of heatsinks that it should take to cool it. That equates to all lost weight which would be used for weapons or armor, and in many cases simply means you can't be heat stable when it should be, which is because they wanted to SELL you "Cool Shot".
Except that the same data would show that people who are simply passengers in a moving vehicle would also have their calls blocked when in fact they have no expectation of needing to pay attention to anything.
Except unless this can be made a class lawsuit, it is worthless to the lawyers since it is not worth their time. Typically they get paid a % of the winnings of a suit in cases when their clients are poor (which is most likely the case here). Well a % of ~$50-60 dollars isn't even worth 5 minutes of their time.
How in the world does anyone, anywhere recommend using HE or Amazon cloud for engineering work? No, seriously, how? At an absolute minimum you just gave out all your company's models, algorithms, and computational analysis programs to an outside company. At worst, those files are accessible by your direct competitors due to lax security at HE or Amazon. You just gave away all the years of engineering hours it took to create those programs and models.
Except patents do not need to be for working hardware. That hasn't been the case for decades (if ever). How else would we have patents on software? There are plenty of patents for flying cars as well. In fact, there are so many that there are enough of them out there that someone did an article about the top 5 recent flying car patents: http://info.articleonepartners.com/top-5-recent-flying-car-patents/
The issue in this case is that it may also be too broad. I havn't read the patent, as I may be in a situation where if I know about a particular patent it is worse than if I didn't know about it. But from the summary, they are specifically using the words "like" when showing their example of SD and USB. This implies that their patent isn't just for USB and SD, but for ANY type or combination of devices, for which USB and eSATA would fall under the same group/category of multiple devices. The same thing would then be said for anything that made special converters to combine multiple types of cables into 1 cable.
Shut down all the nuclear and coal plants and subsidize solar and wind energy, and by the end of this century we will have more than met our energy needs.
So what powers your home when the wind stops and the sun goes down? What keeps the grid up without brown-outs destroying all your A/C->D/C power converts and the equipment they power (which is pretty much EVERYTHING from TV's and computers, to cell phones, refrigerators, and washing machines)? You need BASELINE power stations on the grid. There has yet to be a solar or wind BASELINE plant invented (there is a theoretical one for solar that requires launching panels into space outside of the earth's and moon's shadows and using microwave beams to transfer the energy back to earth, but there are ALL kinds of issues and safety problems that it will NEVER be produced... I mean, just imagine a small piece of dust moving at thousands of km per second impacting it and throwing off the alignment even.001 of a degree, at the millions of km distant of the array, that will result in microwaving potentially millions of people).
So, given those issues, you still need something to generate baseline power. Thermal energy is a potential source, however, current research says we have already tapped 80-90% of the thermal sites that our current technology can access. Unless we figure out how to mass create diamond structures, or something of similar thermal conductivity and strength, we won't be able to access any more thermal power than we already have, and it isn't enough for the grid. Wave plants have possible potential, but even those have limited uses for the grid, and first you would essentially need to convert almost all coasts into plants to provide the power needed, which means needing to fight against the lawyers of the rich and famous since they own most of the land in/near these locations and will not want their "views" and "neighborhoods" tarnished by said structures (just look how well wind farms have been doing trying to be installed off the coastline? Ask them how well they have been doing fighting lawsuit after lawsuit for the last 15 years trying to build them). These coastal plants also have the issue of only working, well, on the coast. Transferring that energy from say the Gulf coast, or the Pacific coast to say Nebraska, or South Dakota will be EXTREMELY expensive in terms of line loss. We would need to invent atmospheric temperature superconducting materials, which would also need to be cheap, and be made of elements/materials which are plentiful for this to be a viable solution.
Long and short of it, there is no current technology, or group of technologies that can replace nuclear and fossil fuel power plants. If you want to save the environment, than the best current solutions are nuclear + solar + wind + hydro + thermal. You can't remove nuclear from that mix as there isn't enough hydro + thermal baseline power plants to keep the grid up. You may also still need some combination of gas in there for immediate usage situations (i.e. it is 5-6pm and a lot of people are getting home from work and turning up/down their thermostats, turning on computers, televisions, lights, stoves, microwaves, etc. and the power requirement of the grid just jumped up 30%). Nuclear is the cleanest baseline load plants that we know how to make. Issues with storing the waste can be solved. In fact, 80-90% of the waste can simply be reprocessed and made almost inert, but no one has built a reprocessing plant because no one has been able to fix the NIMBY problems that such a plant would cause (this is 1000x worse than the fights that wind farm plants face, as no one wants to accept the risk of not only a nuclear plant, but also having nuclear radioactive waste constantly shipped to that plant).
Enable port security which ties each port to a mac address of the other device connected to it so that all ports on the network switch are locked down to just the devices white-listed to connect. Write down what port your gear is connected to which you want to limit access to the internet, and then simply disable or enable that port to allow it to connect.
The 5th amendment came about exactly due to abuses in the 1400s-1700s in the English court system, where prosecutors would browbeat people and torture them until they confessed. No charges ever had to even be filed or identified to the person being interrogated, and they would be beaten when they didn't answer a question (and many times beaten when they didn't answer in the way that the prosecutor wanted the answer to be). This is what brought about the amendment. The fathers of our nation wanted to make certain that acts like the above could never happen again. They wanted it spelled out in plain english that a person had a right to not answer to the government. That it was the government's job to prove someone did something wrong, not the defendant's job to prove he was innocent. That the government couldn't perpetually charge someone again and again with the same crime until the government received the verdict they wanted. All of these were issues that were abused time and again, which affected the parents and grandparents of the founders of this nation, to which they took great offense against such abuses, and wanted to make sure their children and grandchildren never had to suffer from the same kind of abuse.
This is why many sane cities and police departments have strict guidelines for engaging in a chase. For instance, this would never have happened in Philadelphia, as a chase requires deadly violence to have already occurred by the suspects involved. The rational being that you put more people at risk of death by chasing a suspect than simply letting them go on their way, unless that suspect has already proven that he/she is putting the population at risk of immediate violence/death.
This is one area where I feel most CS departments do a very poor job explaining why this math is important. Too many seem to simply teach the math, but not WHY they are teaching the math. They do not show practical reasons for the the math, it is more simply taught as "Well this is the math. You need to know it because you need to know math".
This is one of the reasons why I loved the way I learned these more advanced math classes. I was initially an Electrical and Computer Engineering major. Our Freshman and Sophomore curriculum was already per-designed before we even started. There were exactly zero changes you could make to it (unless you failed a course). We had calculus, physics, chemistry, biology, (and a few engineering classes, which were essentially introductions to engineering design, debugging/measuring instrumentation like oscilloscopes, multimeters, etc., basic circuit design, and practical implementation). But, all the classes were directly integrated. Meaning that at 9am when you had your calculus class which taught you differential equations, at 10:30am in your physics class you were then using the techniques that you learned in calculus to solve real world problems. The same with the chemistry and biology. Every professor knew exactly what was being covered in the other classes, so they knew exactly when they would use that material in a practical matter in their own course. We were using calculus to derive velocity vectors of moving objects, tangential line equations, and 3 dimensional transforms, the day we learned how to use the advanced math. So we were seeing the practical reason for the math and why it was relevant in the same day that we learned it.
For a lot of programmers, you may not need to use those techniques, especially if you are simply writing social applications, or word processors. But if you are modeling 3 or 4 dimensional objects, simulating physics, creating a game engine, writing graphical engines like photoshop/GIMP, all this advanced calculus, differential equations, and matrix operations are very relevant.
You also need a powered RFID scanner to query the tag, which means either the owner's hand or the gun needs a power source to operate. I do not foresee these selling well if it only has a shelf life of a few months to a few years. The people who want a gun, want one that is reliable and can sit in a case for years and still work at a moment's notice. Swapping out a battery doesn't sound like something people will want to need to do....
Except when it doesn't and goes west off Africa and comes in from the southeast and slams across Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, South/North Carolina, Virgina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, etc.. Or when it comes in from the North Atlantic from the northeast....
Windows 8.1 will have a start button because all Microsoft ignored all the usability studies of the '70s and '80s when they first started testing computer interfaces and found that people hated touch screen interfaces for normal computer interactions because a) their arms got tired b) their screens got dirty and c) the interface was not as precise or fast as a mouse pointer for the majority of the tasks. Two of those three are still VERY valid points even today, with the third having only somewhat been partially fixed with better touch screen technology (including multi-touch systems and the newer interface mechanics it allows). People's arms still get tired, and the screens still get very dirty.
The simple matter is that the farmer's recourse is to now sue the seller (operator of the grain elevator), for selling seeds he is not authorized to sell, resulting in damages xzy as stipulated in the costs of the lawsuits the farmer had to defend itself against.
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Except that in the case of Star Citizen, you get the game with a pledge of $35+. That isn't a bad deal considering that AAA games go for $60 now when they first come out.
Just wondering...
The other option is that a news organization that had the same early access to the data released the data at 2pm (which they are allowed to do as long as they are also in sync with the national atomic clock which is typically a best practice anyway), and the servers they used to release the data were located closer to Chicago, in which the computers used by the high speed trading knew to get their input from those systems which were physically closer to their own location (potentially co-located within the very same datacenter), and placed their trades based on that information.
Not quite as bad as you make it out to be considering Team Oracle started out at -2, and they also lost 3 of their key crew members from that incident. Bringing in that many new people at the last minute destroyed the team training that existed, which was a huge setback. The New Zealand ship though does seem to be faster.
Oh, one more aside, many tuning systems do not even allow for notes of that different in tone to even be played (such as a piano, harp, trumpet, clarinet, flute, sax, etc., etc.,). Only stringed instruments (which are fretless or which the string can be bent to change the tension) and the trombone have this ability. Some instruments can tune their notes to use a scale which does include which uses septimal quarter-tone intervals as a part of it, but once so tuned, it then can not play the standard tuning notes and a separate instrument would need to be used to do so.
Oh, as a side note, 80-90% of all people are tone deaf and can not tell the difference between notes even as far apart as a septimal quarter-tone, unless they are played at the same time (causing a harmonic dissonance wave).
I too did not suffer from the "effect". I believe it has to do with the fact that I had 8+ years of vocal performance training and sang in various choirs and madrigal groups in many euro-classical forms and languages (German, Italian, French, multiple Latin dialects (yes, there are at least three that I am aware of, German Latin (used in many pieces, especially those of Bach and Mozart), Liturgical Latin (this is the Latin handed down and used through the Roman Catholic Church), and Italian/Roman Latin) and it does make a significant difference as to how the piece if performed as many of the rhythmic and poetic points are lost if using the dialect).
I have personally spent thousands of hours performing and listening to myself and others in the various groups, needing to develop an extremely critical ear for vow sounds and the phonetic makeup of words, especially the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). And in a group, especially in roles such as section leader (used in many larger groups to hear and fix issues) you need to hear when just one person made a mistake out of the group so you can point it out to be worked on and corrected.
I believe as a result of all this training, I do not suffer from this effect (at least on the linked video, to me it was very clear that the sound was still bah).
If gut bacteria from slim people actually extracted more nutrients from food, bacteria would need less food to extract the calories and nutrients from that food (since they are more efficient) than the gut bacteria from fat people. This makes no sense since it is well documented that slim people can eat more food and not gain weight than fat people can.
This only stands to reason that the gut bacteria from FAT people extract more nutrients from food and are more efficient, extracting more calories from that food, thus leading to needing less food before the fat people become, well, fat....
While some of what you say is true, it is also hard to get an education at a facility that doesn't even have enough books for every student. Oh, you wanted to study tonight because you had free time you didn't know about, sorry, the book is going home with Johny tonight, but you get it tomorrow.
Then there is the issue of dealing with disciplinary issues at public schools. In private schools it is easy because they will simply toss you out after breaking the rules too many times and they won't let you back in. Public schools on the other hand let you back (the have to), or shuffle you to another public school in the same school district (assuming there are more than one for the grade). Not much real punishment with true consequences, and the parents and students know this and as a result do a lot more rule breaking than students in private schools.
Private schools also have the ability to better screen their student body to make certain students are performing at the proper grade levels, not advancing students when they failed, or allowing students who are excelling the chances to move forward at a faster pace. While many of the better public schools have these same ideals, principals and capabilities, more do not. Students are simply pushed down the row to be the next teacher's problem.
At its core, the game is a really great 'mech simulation; it's just all the other bits that suck.
It isn't a really great 'mech simulation. It is a good robot simulation that pretents to call things with the same names as in the Battletech Universe. But don't think for one second that the things in MWO act or work like the things named the same way from Battletech, because they don't. As such, it is pointless to call this game "Mechwarrior" and be a licensed property of Battletech. Absolutely nothing is correct and true to the Battletech Universe, which has lead to all the balance issues that the developers have released countless patch after patch after patch to try and "fix" the new "problem" they created for themselves when there would have been no issue had they simply followed the rules to begin with. But no, we can't follow rules that have been balanced over the course of 30 years, we're the developers, we know better....
So if it is useless why add it then? All it does is piss off the people who wanted a sim, which is what they were sold. And now, it is no longer that game. Of course they are pissed.
A simple fix would be to allow players to simply get put into different battle/match queues by selecting a choice of:
A) "only play with people with 1st person view"
B)"only play with people using 3rd person view"
C) "play with both 1st person and 3rd person views available to all players in the match"
Wow! An amazing concept that doesn't alienate the people who funded you to begin with while still allowing you to add a "feature" which might bring more diverse people to the game.
But really if you as me, this is probably the final straw for many people. They put up with a lot of stupid crap already, a lot of which hasn't even been mentioned in the article. I personally didn't put up with it and stopped playing and got my refund on the original founders pack when they pushed out the game WAY before it was ready. They also have all kinds of balancing issues to this very day (one of the things mentioned in the article) because the developers of the game have no clue how to simply use the already balanced weapons in the Battletech/Mechwarrior Universe and apply them into a video game. The reason there is a need for "Cool Shot" is because they have the heat cycle for weapons at INSANE levels compared to the actual universe rules. There are hundreds of mech configurations in the universe which you simply cannot make in the video game because the heat is so high that you need 5-6 times the number of heatsinks that it should take to cool it. That equates to all lost weight which would be used for weapons or armor, and in many cases simply means you can't be heat stable when it should be, which is because they wanted to SELL you "Cool Shot".
Except that the same data would show that people who are simply passengers in a moving vehicle would also have their calls blocked when in fact they have no expectation of needing to pay attention to anything.
Temp jobs made up about 10 percent of the jobs lost during the Great Recession, but now make up a tenth of the jobs in the United States.
10% = .1 = 1/10 = a tenth....
Except unless this can be made a class lawsuit, it is worthless to the lawyers since it is not worth their time. Typically they get paid a % of the winnings of a suit in cases when their clients are poor (which is most likely the case here). Well a % of ~$50-60 dollars isn't even worth 5 minutes of their time.
How in the world does anyone, anywhere recommend using HE or Amazon cloud for engineering work? No, seriously, how? At an absolute minimum you just gave out all your company's models, algorithms, and computational analysis programs to an outside company. At worst, those files are accessible by your direct competitors due to lax security at HE or Amazon. You just gave away all the years of engineering hours it took to create those programs and models.
Except patents do not need to be for working hardware. That hasn't been the case for decades (if ever). How else would we have patents on software? There are plenty of patents for flying cars as well. In fact, there are so many that there are enough of them out there that someone did an article about the top 5 recent flying car patents: http://info.articleonepartners.com/top-5-recent-flying-car-patents/
The issue in this case is that it may also be too broad. I havn't read the patent, as I may be in a situation where if I know about a particular patent it is worse than if I didn't know about it. But from the summary, they are specifically using the words "like" when showing their example of SD and USB. This implies that their patent isn't just for USB and SD, but for ANY type or combination of devices, for which USB and eSATA would fall under the same group/category of multiple devices. The same thing would then be said for anything that made special converters to combine multiple types of cables into 1 cable.
Shut down all the nuclear and coal plants and subsidize solar and wind energy, and by the end of this century we will have more than met our energy needs.
So what powers your home when the wind stops and the sun goes down? What keeps the grid up without brown-outs destroying all your A/C->D/C power converts and the equipment they power (which is pretty much EVERYTHING from TV's and computers, to cell phones, refrigerators, and washing machines)? You need BASELINE power stations on the grid. There has yet to be a solar or wind BASELINE plant invented (there is a theoretical one for solar that requires launching panels into space outside of the earth's and moon's shadows and using microwave beams to transfer the energy back to earth, but there are ALL kinds of issues and safety problems that it will NEVER be produced... I mean, just imagine a small piece of dust moving at thousands of km per second impacting it and throwing off the alignment even .001 of a degree, at the millions of km distant of the array, that will result in microwaving potentially millions of people).
So, given those issues, you still need something to generate baseline power. Thermal energy is a potential source, however, current research says we have already tapped 80-90% of the thermal sites that our current technology can access. Unless we figure out how to mass create diamond structures, or something of similar thermal conductivity and strength, we won't be able to access any more thermal power than we already have, and it isn't enough for the grid. Wave plants have possible potential, but even those have limited uses for the grid, and first you would essentially need to convert almost all coasts into plants to provide the power needed, which means needing to fight against the lawyers of the rich and famous since they own most of the land in/near these locations and will not want their "views" and "neighborhoods" tarnished by said structures (just look how well wind farms have been doing trying to be installed off the coastline? Ask them how well they have been doing fighting lawsuit after lawsuit for the last 15 years trying to build them). These coastal plants also have the issue of only working, well, on the coast. Transferring that energy from say the Gulf coast, or the Pacific coast to say Nebraska, or South Dakota will be EXTREMELY expensive in terms of line loss. We would need to invent atmospheric temperature superconducting materials, which would also need to be cheap, and be made of elements/materials which are plentiful for this to be a viable solution.
Long and short of it, there is no current technology, or group of technologies that can replace nuclear and fossil fuel power plants. If you want to save the environment, than the best current solutions are nuclear + solar + wind + hydro + thermal. You can't remove nuclear from that mix as there isn't enough hydro + thermal baseline power plants to keep the grid up. You may also still need some combination of gas in there for immediate usage situations (i.e. it is 5-6pm and a lot of people are getting home from work and turning up/down their thermostats, turning on computers, televisions, lights, stoves, microwaves, etc. and the power requirement of the grid just jumped up 30%). Nuclear is the cleanest baseline load plants that we know how to make. Issues with storing the waste can be solved. In fact, 80-90% of the waste can simply be reprocessed and made almost inert, but no one has built a reprocessing plant because no one has been able to fix the NIMBY problems that such a plant would cause (this is 1000x worse than the fights that wind farm plants face, as no one wants to accept the risk of not only a nuclear plant, but also having nuclear radioactive waste constantly shipped to that plant).
Enable port security which ties each port to a mac address of the other device connected to it so that all ports on the network switch are locked down to just the devices white-listed to connect. Write down what port your gear is connected to which you want to limit access to the internet, and then simply disable or enable that port to allow it to connect.
The 5th amendment came about exactly due to abuses in the 1400s-1700s in the English court system, where prosecutors would browbeat people and torture them until they confessed. No charges ever had to even be filed or identified to the person being interrogated, and they would be beaten when they didn't answer a question (and many times beaten when they didn't answer in the way that the prosecutor wanted the answer to be). This is what brought about the amendment. The fathers of our nation wanted to make certain that acts like the above could never happen again. They wanted it spelled out in plain english that a person had a right to not answer to the government. That it was the government's job to prove someone did something wrong, not the defendant's job to prove he was innocent. That the government couldn't perpetually charge someone again and again with the same crime until the government received the verdict they wanted. All of these were issues that were abused time and again, which affected the parents and grandparents of the founders of this nation, to which they took great offense against such abuses, and wanted to make sure their children and grandchildren never had to suffer from the same kind of abuse.
This is why many sane cities and police departments have strict guidelines for engaging in a chase. For instance, this would never have happened in Philadelphia, as a chase requires deadly violence to have already occurred by the suspects involved. The rational being that you put more people at risk of death by chasing a suspect than simply letting them go on their way, unless that suspect has already proven that he/she is putting the population at risk of immediate violence/death.
This is one area where I feel most CS departments do a very poor job explaining why this math is important. Too many seem to simply teach the math, but not WHY they are teaching the math. They do not show practical reasons for the the math, it is more simply taught as "Well this is the math. You need to know it because you need to know math".
This is one of the reasons why I loved the way I learned these more advanced math classes. I was initially an Electrical and Computer Engineering major. Our Freshman and Sophomore curriculum was already per-designed before we even started. There were exactly zero changes you could make to it (unless you failed a course). We had calculus, physics, chemistry, biology, (and a few engineering classes, which were essentially introductions to engineering design, debugging/measuring instrumentation like oscilloscopes, multimeters, etc., basic circuit design, and practical implementation). But, all the classes were directly integrated. Meaning that at 9am when you had your calculus class which taught you differential equations, at 10:30am in your physics class you were then using the techniques that you learned in calculus to solve real world problems. The same with the chemistry and biology. Every professor knew exactly what was being covered in the other classes, so they knew exactly when they would use that material in a practical matter in their own course. We were using calculus to derive velocity vectors of moving objects, tangential line equations, and 3 dimensional transforms, the day we learned how to use the advanced math. So we were seeing the practical reason for the math and why it was relevant in the same day that we learned it.
For a lot of programmers, you may not need to use those techniques, especially if you are simply writing social applications, or word processors. But if you are modeling 3 or 4 dimensional objects, simulating physics, creating a game engine, writing graphical engines like photoshop/GIMP, all this advanced calculus, differential equations, and matrix operations are very relevant.
You also need a powered RFID scanner to query the tag, which means either the owner's hand or the gun needs a power source to operate. I do not foresee these selling well if it only has a shelf life of a few months to a few years. The people who want a gun, want one that is reliable and can sit in a case for years and still work at a moment's notice. Swapping out a battery doesn't sound like something people will want to need to do....
in the USA weather moves west to east
Except when it doesn't and goes west off Africa and comes in from the southeast and slams across Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, South/North Carolina, Virgina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, etc.. Or when it comes in from the North Atlantic from the northeast....
Windows 8.1 will have a start button because all Microsoft ignored all the usability studies of the '70s and '80s when they first started testing computer interfaces and found that people hated touch screen interfaces for normal computer interactions because a) their arms got tired b) their screens got dirty and c) the interface was not as precise or fast as a mouse pointer for the majority of the tasks. Two of those three are still VERY valid points even today, with the third having only somewhat been partially fixed with better touch screen technology (including multi-touch systems and the newer interface mechanics it allows). People's arms still get tired, and the screens still get very dirty.
The simple matter is that the farmer's recourse is to now sue the seller (operator of the grain elevator), for selling seeds he is not authorized to sell, resulting in damages xzy as stipulated in the costs of the lawsuits the farmer had to defend itself against.