A: They are just stupid - gov always is. Tailgating caused that. It's never enforced except by Darwin, and sometimes you can't avoid doing it. Leaving enough room means some fuckwad just puts himself in it.
B: Phones are distracting. There's an obvious reason. If the person you're talking to is in the car, they realize when you're entering a dangerous situation, and shut up, even help look for problems. On the phone, you're pretending to be doing something useful, probably pretending not to be in a car at all. Thus you don't get the critical pauses at times when it's dangerous. The other guy, unaware of your situation, might be driving home his crucial point just as you're turning left across traffic into a multi-lane zoo with someone changing lanes into your path. No time to be either listening or talking, IMO.
C: While I love my new Chevy Volt, all that animation on the multiple screens is MUCH MORE DISTRACTING than the phone is. Period. I use the phone to order pizza on the way to get it, that's about it. Never a problem, I pick my spot, and it's short and over with. But if you adust the cruise control, it takes time for that popup window to pop up, show the data, then go away - and your eyes are off the road the whole time. Ditto the center stack. I just know that several times while driving this car, I've noticed myself not paying enough attention, and it's been that, never the phone. Lucky this has only happened so far when it was just drifting out of lane on a road with no traffic...but I'm going to have to get discipline about not looking at the eye candy fer sure.
D: All you idiots out there for whom the only possible application of the word smart applies to something you're holding, not you. If they let you have this shit, you'll be texting and playing games...no way that's good - and it's so addicitve people already lie about it - they say it's dangerous when others do it, but not when they do - pure vain rationalization.
I think you're half insane to even have a cel phone. Gosh, that means everyone with my number who gets bored thinks they own my time - and you give into that because you're so damn insecure you think it gets you friends, sucker. If that's what it takes, they ain't your friends, they're parasites on your time.
A big part of the trade secrets business in competing GPU's is how things are done in the details - how the problems are phrased or broken up between the CPU and GPU, and exactly what algos are used in each.
No one patents this stuff, it's all trade-secret. So no one wants to open source their drives, where all this information lives. Stinks, but there it is.
The electric power steering on my Cruze and on my Volt is very nice, thanks, and less bump-steer than my Camaro, which has the old style. I think they're made by Bosch, for a lot of cars...no complaints so fa
You were already modded max, so I'm just going to agree - AC and DC do very different streamer formation, due to the displacement current drawn by dielectrics with AC (delta V/t). This has nothing to do with lightning, but it WILL be cool.
I work with high voltage all the time, I know this stuff. See my forums in my sig.
Shh, you're not supposed to say who it really is. Let people think it's the paid pimps like Inmelt or Obama or Soros who are at fault, not their masters.
Soros used derivatives to "break the bank" of England in one daring trade, which is how he got rich. It was legal then, but immoral then and now. He then uses his money to get what he wants in the world, like trying to rig elections in the States, of which he's not a citizen. But that being illegal hasn't stopped him trying, or any of a number of other things the conservatives (now a misuse of a once perfectly good word) don't like - like universal disarmament of citizens, populare in the UN because 90+% of the countries in it are dictatorships, who of course don't want their citizens to be able to rise against them. And so on. And, personally, the guy is a prick - he manipulates markets with lies, and that affects what I do for a living in a bad way.
While all the people on that linked list are in some way "bad" - and maybe there's enough of them to be 1% (not likely) they're all just the paid pimps and front men for the very few that really run the show - they are the waiters at the club of the uber-rich - and some of them don't even know that, serving as useful idiots (like George Soros - or Barach Obama).
Follow the money - the same family has been lending money to both sides in every war since Napoleon. DeBeers is owned by who? Do it and learn something.
OMG, you're right. Only about 10k people a year are killed by drunks, and the murder rate is real low per 100k. Which is apples and oranges of course, you gotta keep the units straight. It's a lotta people no matter what. I'd bet the "death by McDonalds cholesterol" swamps them all.
http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html
Meth is more insidious. As an old hippie myself, I learned back in the '60s - Speed Kills. And in this case it really does. A couple of life long friends are dead of it - well, their husks still walk around, so they aren't counted as drug deaths, but my friends are dead.
It's really a shame something like it had to come along and remove the simplicity of the "just make drugs legal" slogan. Though I suppose it would improve the breed if we just let the stupids have meth and die...Darwin and all that.
Mine wasn't stock. It went to the GM performane center, then to Tom Henry for supertuning on the way to me. I got the number from a cop, had he been after me, I doubt a youtube video would have worked in court as a defense;~)
Close, but no cigar - it's good to point out that with gasoline, you have to wait for a mix. However, this battery didn't explode, and despite laptop batteries catching on fire, they don't either. Because the damage slowly spreads, and the reactants AREN'T gunpowder, they're what they are, more like thermite. Sure there's one heck of a lot of energy there, but it can only come out slowly, so you get a plain old (but very hot) fire. The heat is self limiting and denatures the reactants, which burn with each other not so much with air as they get evaporated by the heat...So yeah, it's bad, so is gasoline, but not a different scale, about the same actually. Remember, the *total* energy, even in a Volt, is only about enough to take you 30 miles - about a gallon of gas worth (after you mix the gas with 15 lbs of air for every lb of gas), in other words...
I just bought a Volt, see my comment below. It frigging rocks. When one of these batteries goes up, it's like thermite, not C4. Easier by far to run away from than gasoline...it might leave a crater of melted asphault, dunno. Since it wasn't cheap, I'll try not to crash it, K?
While it might make me certifiable, I actually traded in a 2010 Camaro SS for it on top. That car was too brutally quick for me - back when I raced, I won quite a few with cars far slower, and that was a last blast for me - I don't have the reflexes for 200 mph anymore which the Camaro would do, easy.
I live off the grid, have plenty of spare power from my PV panels, which I plan to use to keep the thing charged. I don't have to commute (retired) anyway, except to the beer/munchie store. I don't *have* to drive more than once a week or so, and one charge will get me to town and back fine.
I also have a 2011 Cruze, and it's easy to see why they are the #1 selling car these days - the thing rocks, and I love it. Granted GM (and other american companies) turned out shit for a few years. I'd just say that it's not universally true now, though I'd not get a Ford (software by MS, scary) or a Chrysler, who still use hot glue to hold their cars together, cheap crap (except for the price).. Bob Lutz really turned GM around. For many years I just bought GM commuter cars used (and real cheap due to people thinking they must be worn out after 100k), with 100k miles on them - no maintenance past changing oil had been done, and I drove them another 20k miles the same way, till I got bored and got another GM - no issues whatsoever - the bashing is just out of place, you euro-trash jerks.
Go back to worshiping apple or something, and get off my lawn. GM is BACK.
I know I'd go work for Elon in a heartbeat - free if I could afford to. There's a man with brass ones, and my idea of a visionary. This is a strong statement from a guy like me, a serial-offender CEO of engineering firms. I just never made as much money to go big as he did, myself....
I have a self funded (so far) fusion lab, we're getting results. We don't like to ask for money, as that would seem to put us among the charlatans out there, and we're good, but we don't and can't claim we're getting to breakeven in some short timeframe - that would just be a lie, but we are making lots of progress, which we openly report all the time on my forums (see my sig).
Myself and a partner have put in about a quarter million, and we are excellent scroungers - we are swimming in surplus/repaired equipment, no problems there, our approach doesn't need much more than a few good vacuum systems and stuff we can (and have) make in the machine shop we built to support this.
But we need "hands and brains". Grad students, or similar. We get plenty of people who'd do this work for love, but they have student loans, or kids, or whatever - they can't work free, but could and would work very cheap. Money like that would hire one (create a job), and push a good project ahead a lot quicker than I can do it alone....
Just sayin...
Mod parent up - +50, man. Look at say bloomberg TV (on the net now - http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/) at the NSYE computer setups, or Bloomberg's own. The big multiscreen layouts with zero wasted pixels can't be beat for optimal transfer of info to humans, fast and accurately, and for the humans to input decisions that have to be fast and reliable. This is a use case I share (I'm a trader, but not in the "1%"). I also do physics research and use this same sort of setup to see all the data from a running experiment in real time, and control it - same idea. It's a good way for computers to actually increase productivity, not just be entertainment and bling.
Those self-same traders and journalists do use tablets and mini phones for other things - notes to self, drill down into something without disturbing the overview. At home, I just use yet another larger monitor for that. I need no eye candy - I want my opsys to load my app, and get the hell out of the way and not waste resources or my time -- I don't play with computers (much), I work on them. I figure anytime you see the opsys/desktop, you're wasting time and resources - I'm using every resource I can to do something productive, not just fish around in the bling to cure some boredom.
These new guis, for one size fits all, really suck compared to the old, reliable stuff I can have auto-hide and waste nothing for what I do. Yeah, I even use CLI a little - not much, as it wastes screen itself for a terminal window more often than not, and it's hard to remember all the incantations...nice in a pinch for specialized work, but not for most of what I do.
That's a big one. I don't care about the resource usage - I just like Gnome2 customized the way I like it, and have habituated to it to where it's effortless and takes no fishing around to get every job I have done, fast. I'm still on U10.04, and have been looking where to go next, since Canonical obviously has their head up their ass. I DO NOT NEED OR WANT a tablet for my quad 24" screen desktop. I'm a market trader looking at slowly changing plots, and about 200 tickers, trade by trade, all day - when I'm not programming for my physics hobby. I do not approach the computer not knowing what I want to do with it, ever - that hard to discover but suggestive new interface is in my way, not helpful one bit, and non configurable in every way I care about.
I do not need or want all this fancy bling wasting pixels I paid to use. I do need reasonable hardware support, and rock solidity - which I now get from ubuntu 10.04, though the kernel doesn't support the trim command for my SSD (and don't tell me to backport the newer one - it breaks a bunch of other apps here). And as time goes on, less and less new stuff will be supported on it, so I can't just stick in the mud and keep this version forever. Guess what? Linux has lockin too! This sucks, Canonical!
I finally got a machine just the way I want it. I don't really want to change anything, just use it and write more useful software for it. The apple guy above who says he can just drop back a version - he's going to find out quicker than I that a lot of things he depends on will stop working if he tries that in his walled garden - even more walled than mine or microsoft's. He'll get that "please upgrade to a newer version to support this feature (which he may have paid for or for media on) because the older version makes it too easy to escape the garden, so we won't support what you want on it anymore. Count on it.
Yes, it does, and the real danger is those dependencies are rarely stated with discipline as they must be in programming. Many astronomers actually couldn't even list them all - and I suspect that already there are a few circular ones extant, which probably are what make "dark" this and that necessary to fit the curves. We really could use for theory to require the same discipline that coding does in this case at least - it would show most cosmology for the utter house of cards it is - which is perhaps why the idea isn't popular (it would also be a fair amount of work to implement).
You almost surely have the wealth to start a blog or discussion board which can reveal your idea widely. You can even establish that you thought of it first that way. If you really care.
On the other hand if you expect to get rich off it without doing the homework in one way (getting paper quals) or another (patent) - well, them's the breaks - you might not even if you DID do those things.
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I did this for my "unqualified ideas" and it's working fine for me. Some of the lurkers are heavy hitters in the science world, and the good stuff gets them chiming in, and gets accepted. That's enough good karma for me, personally. See my sig.
No, the real issue is now we're training already-smug dorks to give out unconditional orders reflexively and expect them to be followed. How long before they start expecting that to work with humans?
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A: They are just stupid - gov always is. Tailgating caused that. It's never enforced except by Darwin, and sometimes you can't avoid doing it. Leaving enough room means some fuckwad just puts himself in it.
B: Phones are distracting. There's an obvious reason. If the person you're talking to is in the car, they realize when you're entering a dangerous situation, and shut up, even help look for problems. On the phone, you're pretending to be doing something useful, probably pretending not to be in a car at all. Thus you don't get the critical pauses at times when it's dangerous. The other guy, unaware of your situation, might be driving home his crucial point just as you're turning left across traffic into a multi-lane zoo with someone changing lanes into your path. No time to be either listening or talking, IMO.
C: While I love my new Chevy Volt, all that animation on the multiple screens is MUCH MORE DISTRACTING than the phone is. Period. I use the phone to order pizza on the way to get it, that's about it. Never a problem, I pick my spot, and it's short and over with. But if you adust the cruise control, it takes time for that popup window to pop up, show the data, then go away - and your eyes are off the road the whole time. Ditto the center stack. I just know that several times while driving this car, I've noticed myself not paying enough attention, and it's been that, never the phone. Lucky this has only happened so far when it was just drifting out of lane on a road with no traffic...but I'm going to have to get discipline about not looking at the eye candy fer sure.
D: All you idiots out there for whom the only possible application of the word smart applies to something you're holding, not you. If they let you have this shit, you'll be texting and playing games...no way that's good - and it's so addicitve people already lie about it - they say it's dangerous when others do it, but not when they do - pure vain rationalization.
I think you're half insane to even have a cel phone. Gosh, that means everyone with my number who gets bored thinks they own my time - and you give into that because you're so damn insecure you think it gets you friends, sucker. If that's what it takes, they ain't your friends, they're parasites on your time.
A big part of the trade secrets business in competing GPU's is how things are done in the details - how the problems are phrased or broken up between the CPU and GPU, and exactly what algos are used in each. No one patents this stuff, it's all trade-secret. So no one wants to open source their drives, where all this information lives. Stinks, but there it is.
As an old biker, this gives a whole new meaning to "getting out in the wind", no? I'm eating my heart out.
The electric power steering on my Cruze and on my Volt is very nice, thanks, and less bump-steer than my Camaro, which has the old style. I think they're made by Bosch, for a lot of cars...no complaints so fa
You were already modded max, so I'm just going to agree - AC and DC do very different streamer formation, due to the displacement current drawn by dielectrics with AC (delta V/t). This has nothing to do with lightning, but it WILL be cool. I work with high voltage all the time, I know this stuff. See my forums in my sig.
Or, insider trading legal for Congress and staff but not for us?
Shh, you're not supposed to say who it really is. Let people think it's the paid pimps like Inmelt or Obama or Soros who are at fault, not their masters.
Soros used derivatives to "break the bank" of England in one daring trade, which is how he got rich. It was legal then, but immoral then and now. He then uses his money to get what he wants in the world, like trying to rig elections in the States, of which he's not a citizen. But that being illegal hasn't stopped him trying, or any of a number of other things the conservatives (now a misuse of a once perfectly good word) don't like - like universal disarmament of citizens, populare in the UN because 90+% of the countries in it are dictatorships, who of course don't want their citizens to be able to rise against them. And so on. And, personally, the guy is a prick - he manipulates markets with lies, and that affects what I do for a living in a bad way.
While all the people on that linked list are in some way "bad" - and maybe there's enough of them to be 1% (not likely) they're all just the paid pimps and front men for the very few that really run the show - they are the waiters at the club of the uber-rich - and some of them don't even know that, serving as useful idiots (like George Soros - or Barach Obama). Follow the money - the same family has been lending money to both sides in every war since Napoleon. DeBeers is owned by who? Do it and learn something.
OMG, you're right. Only about 10k people a year are killed by drunks, and the murder rate is real low per 100k. Which is apples and oranges of course, you gotta keep the units straight. It's a lotta people no matter what. I'd bet the "death by McDonalds cholesterol" swamps them all. http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html Meth is more insidious. As an old hippie myself, I learned back in the '60s - Speed Kills. And in this case it really does. A couple of life long friends are dead of it - well, their husks still walk around, so they aren't counted as drug deaths, but my friends are dead. It's really a shame something like it had to come along and remove the simplicity of the "just make drugs legal" slogan. Though I suppose it would improve the breed if we just let the stupids have meth and die...Darwin and all that.
It ain't that simple.
Drunk drivers kill more people than terrorism. And more even than some wars - annually.
I do agree with most of the rest.
Obviously, you've never been through a nasty, no holds barred, contested divorce. The death penalty would be a reprieve from that.
Mine wasn't stock. It went to the GM performane center, then to Tom Henry for supertuning on the way to me. I got the number from a cop, had he been after me, I doubt a youtube video would have worked in court as a defense ;~)
They deserve one another, and we deserve to be free of them both. Let them destroy each other - I'll bring the beer.
Close, but no cigar - it's good to point out that with gasoline, you have to wait for a mix. However, this battery didn't explode, and despite laptop batteries catching on fire, they don't either. Because the damage slowly spreads, and the reactants AREN'T gunpowder, they're what they are, more like thermite. Sure there's one heck of a lot of energy there, but it can only come out slowly, so you get a plain old (but very hot) fire. The heat is self limiting and denatures the reactants, which burn with each other not so much with air as they get evaporated by the heat...So yeah, it's bad, so is gasoline, but not a different scale, about the same actually. Remember, the *total* energy, even in a Volt, is only about enough to take you 30 miles - about a gallon of gas worth (after you mix the gas with 15 lbs of air for every lb of gas), in other words...
I just bought a Volt, see my comment below. It frigging rocks. When one of these batteries goes up, it's like thermite, not C4. Easier by far to run away from than gasoline...it might leave a crater of melted asphault, dunno. Since it wasn't cheap, I'll try not to crash it, K?
I live off the grid, have plenty of spare power from my PV panels, which I plan to use to keep the thing charged. I don't have to commute (retired) anyway, except to the beer/munchie store. I don't *have* to drive more than once a week or so, and one charge will get me to town and back fine.
I also have a 2011 Cruze, and it's easy to see why they are the #1 selling car these days - the thing rocks, and I love it. Granted GM (and other american companies) turned out shit for a few years. I'd just say that it's not universally true now, though I'd not get a Ford (software by MS, scary) or a Chrysler, who still use hot glue to hold their cars together, cheap crap (except for the price).. Bob Lutz really turned GM around. For many years I just bought GM commuter cars used (and real cheap due to people thinking they must be worn out after 100k), with 100k miles on them - no maintenance past changing oil had been done, and I drove them another 20k miles the same way, till I got bored and got another GM - no issues whatsoever - the bashing is just out of place, you euro-trash jerks. Go back to worshiping apple or something, and get off my lawn. GM is BACK.
I know I'd go work for Elon in a heartbeat - free if I could afford to. There's a man with brass ones, and my idea of a visionary. This is a strong statement from a guy like me, a serial-offender CEO of engineering firms. I just never made as much money to go big as he did, myself....
I have a self funded (so far) fusion lab, we're getting results. We don't like to ask for money, as that would seem to put us among the charlatans out there, and we're good, but we don't and can't claim we're getting to breakeven in some short timeframe - that would just be a lie, but we are making lots of progress, which we openly report all the time on my forums (see my sig). Myself and a partner have put in about a quarter million, and we are excellent scroungers - we are swimming in surplus/repaired equipment, no problems there, our approach doesn't need much more than a few good vacuum systems and stuff we can (and have) make in the machine shop we built to support this. But we need "hands and brains". Grad students, or similar. We get plenty of people who'd do this work for love, but they have student loans, or kids, or whatever - they can't work free, but could and would work very cheap. Money like that would hire one (create a job), and push a good project ahead a lot quicker than I can do it alone.... Just sayin...
Those self-same traders and journalists do use tablets and mini phones for other things - notes to self, drill down into something without disturbing the overview. At home, I just use yet another larger monitor for that. I need no eye candy - I want my opsys to load my app, and get the hell out of the way and not waste resources or my time -- I don't play with computers (much), I work on them. I figure anytime you see the opsys/desktop, you're wasting time and resources - I'm using every resource I can to do something productive, not just fish around in the bling to cure some boredom.
These new guis, for one size fits all, really suck compared to the old, reliable stuff I can have auto-hide and waste nothing for what I do. Yeah, I even use CLI a little - not much, as it wastes screen itself for a terminal window more often than not, and it's hard to remember all the incantations...nice in a pinch for specialized work, but not for most of what I do.
I do not need or want all this fancy bling wasting pixels I paid to use. I do need reasonable hardware support, and rock solidity - which I now get from ubuntu 10.04, though the kernel doesn't support the trim command for my SSD (and don't tell me to backport the newer one - it breaks a bunch of other apps here). And as time goes on, less and less new stuff will be supported on it, so I can't just stick in the mud and keep this version forever. Guess what? Linux has lockin too! This sucks, Canonical!
I finally got a machine just the way I want it. I don't really want to change anything, just use it and write more useful software for it. The apple guy above who says he can just drop back a version - he's going to find out quicker than I that a lot of things he depends on will stop working if he tries that in his walled garden - even more walled than mine or microsoft's. He'll get that "please upgrade to a newer version to support this feature (which he may have paid for or for media on) because the older version makes it too easy to escape the garden, so we won't support what you want on it anymore. Count on it.
Yes, it does, and the real danger is those dependencies are rarely stated with discipline as they must be in programming. Many astronomers actually couldn't even list them all - and I suspect that already there are a few circular ones extant, which probably are what make "dark" this and that necessary to fit the curves. We really could use for theory to require the same discipline that coding does in this case at least - it would show most cosmology for the utter house of cards it is - which is perhaps why the idea isn't popular (it would also be a fair amount of work to implement).
On the other hand if you expect to get rich off it without doing the homework in one way (getting paper quals) or another (patent) - well, them's the breaks - you might not even if you DID do those things.
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I did this for my "unqualified ideas" and it's working fine for me. Some of the lurkers are heavy hitters in the science world, and the good stuff gets them chiming in, and gets accepted. That's enough good karma for me, personally. See my sig.
None at all.
No, the real issue is now we're training already-smug dorks to give out unconditional orders reflexively and expect them to be followed. How long before they start expecting that to work with humans?