...What bothers me most about this is the hard-coded, arbitrary value. I don't exactly agree with the concept (I'm more of a free-market guy) but if you're gonna do it, at least base the dollar amount on some other value, like some fraction of GDP or per Capita income, or even a multiple of minimum wage. Having to reprocess the bill every 5-10 years due to inflation seems a lot like a recompile, and what's worse it may just not happen at all!
Just because unemployment in this country is high does not mean that skilled workers (like IT staff) are in surplus. Employers pay more than they are required to law because that's what the skill-set demands. You can hire a bum off the street for minimum wage, but he probably won't replace the CISCO engineer you just fired for wanting overtime pay too well.
No doubt, it's not an all-inclusive test But just because every factor wasn't simulated doesn't mean things cannot be learned from such a test. If there is a better test that can be done, when it is done solutions to the problems identified by this test can be tested as well.
I think that if the heat was radiating out into the container, and thus not being focused to elsewhere (to a potential source of electricity generation, for instance) that that would be missing the point. No?
What would a thinner design do? Nothing. Larger screen? What will a display that's 0.12" larger really add?
GP cites a 4" screen (like many have been asking for.) Iphone 4/4s features a 3.5" screen. Perhaps I'm missing something, but I think your calculator may be broken.
Vehicle to vehicle communication will most likely be used to augment automated driving, more than augment manual driving. A vehicle may be able to be driven in traffic by it's own sensors, but it would do far better with the added sensory data points of dozens of vehicles around it. Better still if it knows the intentions of the vehicles around it (specifically their exit# or next turn).
They'll fund the implementation, in part, when it becomes a reality and is proven a safer option through insurance discounts for automated drivers. Funding the research makes little sense as there is no competitive advantage.
What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense. -Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton’s steamboat.
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...What bothers me most about this is the hard-coded, arbitrary value. I don't exactly agree with the concept (I'm more of a free-market guy) but if you're gonna do it, at least base the dollar amount on some other value, like some fraction of GDP or per Capita income, or even a multiple of minimum wage. Having to reprocess the bill every 5-10 years due to inflation seems a lot like a recompile, and what's worse it may just not happen at all!
Just because unemployment in this country is high does not mean that skilled workers (like IT staff) are in surplus. Employers pay more than they are required to law because that's what the skill-set demands. You can hire a bum off the street for minimum wage, but he probably won't replace the CISCO engineer you just fired for wanting overtime pay too well.
It's possible to get a job that's well above minimum wage outside major metro areas. Even in the deep south.
I don't tend to think about you dutch people very much. Or how silly you are.
You don't develop for 'these days.' You develop for the future.
I'm sure we can find some P-51 air frames that are serviceable, as long as we're at it!
I'll just leave this here.
No doubt, it's not an all-inclusive test But just because every factor wasn't simulated doesn't mean things cannot be learned from such a test. If there is a better test that can be done, when it is done solutions to the problems identified by this test can be tested as well.
This is actually a tablet, not a phone.
I think that if the heat was radiating out into the container, and thus not being focused to elsewhere (to a potential source of electricity generation, for instance) that that would be missing the point. No?
Which sounds delicious.
What kind of technology website keeps people up-to-date on technology!? Inconceivable!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/aug/09/apple-pips-exxon-as-worlds-biggest-company
What would a thinner design do? Nothing. Larger screen? What will a display that's 0.12" larger really add?
GP cites a 4" screen (like many have been asking for.) Iphone 4/4s features a 3.5" screen. Perhaps I'm missing something, but I think your calculator may be broken.
Apple is the biggest (technology) company in the world. Thus, it's product releases are going to be covered by (technology) websites everywhere.
I feel dumber for having to explain that.
I live alone.
Sounds like a catch-22.
Vehicle to vehicle communication will most likely be used to augment automated driving, more than augment manual driving. A vehicle may be able to be driven in traffic by it's own sensors, but it would do far better with the added sensory data points of dozens of vehicles around it. Better still if it knows the intentions of the vehicles around it (specifically their exit# or next turn).
They'll fund the implementation, in part, when it becomes a reality and is proven a safer option through insurance discounts for automated drivers. Funding the research makes little sense as there is no competitive advantage.
Horrible ideas, all of them!
I don't know what browser you use, but Google Chrome does a pretty good job at preventing that problem with it's "incognito mode".
What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense. -Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton’s steamboat.
Whoosh
What kind of food are you eating for $5000 / day?
8,175,133 is not NYC's metropolitan population. That's the city limits population. Similarly for the given London number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population
4 New York United States 19,750,000
18 London United Kingdom 12,875,000