I was driving on the US Interstate, going about 80 mph like everyone else on the road. I normally am quite conservative about following distance, and was happily chugging along behind a couple of trucks when we start to be overtaken by a traffic pack.
Many of these drivers are safe about passing, but one fellow in a large SUV decides he needs to tailgate trucks at literally three feet, while changing lanes at 75mph, trying to get around them. He passes a few slow trucks doing this but continues to tailgate and weave around in dense traffic.
I can either stay behind him and risk being caught in a pileup when he wrecks (not good); slow down to 55mph and cause a traffic hazard for the large pack behind me; or accelerate to 85+mph and pass him. He's still tailgating people, but it's reasonably clear for a little while. I use all of my 100 horsepower to gain sufficient passing speed (85-90 mph) that I won't be near him for long to be caught in one of his crazy maneuvers, pass him, and continue at 90 mph for a while to get away from this guy.
On open road like the Interstate, speed isn't what's dangerous; it's maneuvering at speed. Driving 90mph in a straight line for a little while is a lot safer than staying behind some nut who is one truck-retread-blow away from causing a serious accident, and in that circumstance slowing down wasn't an option due to all the people behind me.
That's absurd. If you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to take responsibility for the way you do it. If a parent can't trust her kid to drive responsibly, she shouldn't be letting him drive in the first place.
While there are a few situations I've been in where the ability to exceed 80 mph has been critical to safety (getting out from behind dangerous drivers on the freeway who are liable to cause a pileup, for instance), that's not the point.
If you can't trust your kid to drive responsibly, get his ass off the road until you can.
If this actually does work (which I doubt it will, for any sort of reasonable cost and performance parameters -- this is why DARPA is just a huge waste of money), it'll be of great use on the battlefield.
The biggest danger to aircraft at sea is surface-to-air missiles. An aircraft that could submerge briefly could dodge incoming missiles by simply dunking under water and waiting for them to impact on the surface (in probably the wrong spot, since they'd also lose radar tracking).
Likewise, a torpedo launched at the thing while underwater could be evaded by simply leaving the water.
Hitting one of these, assuming it's aware of incoming fire, would require some projectile capable of traveling in both air and water and retaining tracking across the boundary, or saturation fire with both missiles and torpedoes.
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This is the el-cheapo of the 8800 generation, though -- GS designates "low-end" in Nvidia's incomprehensible naming scheme.
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After not having a desktop for a long time, I built one in August. The video card's a Geforce 8800 GS -- $75 USD.... and yet it runs Crysis fine, at mid-high settings, 1440x900 (down from my panel's native 1680x1050).
Yes, that's all well and good, but it leads to the absurd situation where power is concentrated in "swing states" due to the winner-take-all system.
Consider two states, one with 10 EV, one with 12. Obama wins the 12 EV state 51-49; McCain wins the 10 EV state 75-25. The electoral college system would say there's more support for Obama, which is clearly not the case.
While I agree with all of your points, instant run-off voting has nothing to do with knowing who won instantly -- it's just an alternate scheme to the winner-take-all system we have now.
I'm a student in a university department with lots and lots of foreigners. They shake their head and sigh when we try to talk about the American electoral system.
One in particular is South African. He's seen his share of political meltdowns and bad governance, but is amazed that we seem to have electoral confusion written into our Constitution.
Gore's home state is full of people who adhere to a particular superstition that says the world is going to end in fire, probably sometime soon. They also believe that an invisible fellow in the sky hates homosexuals
Talking about environmental responsibility and climate change, and giving rights to homosexuals, is not likely to go over well with that crowd.
Except many computational physicists do in fact know how to code, and their stuff still requires big computers.
What do you think they're doing, running COBOL on them? The lattice QCD code that I've seen is all in C. (Maybe you can teach them how to code? It's GPL, after all...)
There are legitimate scientific uses of that many cycles.
We have lots of cases where companies have collected this information and then done Evil Things with it, so people are reluctant to provide it.
So --
-- stop being evil. Start using information only for benign purposes, and then people will trust you in time.... in time. You screw people over, you have to *stop* screwing them over first, and only then figure out how to regain their trust.
Microsoft's only package manager is the godawful "Add/Remove Programs" box.
It's slow, incomplete, sucky, and generally useless.
When I started using Linux, I was shocked at how powerful package tools are: "you mean I can just go "emerge wumpus" and come back with a working install of Hunt the Wumpus? Awesome." This is, to me, one of the greatest usability improvements Linux has over Windows.
Now I'm on Ubuntu, and have half a mind to try "sudo apt-get install sandwich" to see if it'll make me lunch.
I heard they were testing Vista out on a BlueGene to see if it would run acceptably fast, but trials had to be stopped after a few thousand CPU's went on strike protesting against cruelty.
There is no country in the world (including the USA) that could successfully invade mainland Europe without losing >80% of its cities to a retaliatory nuclear strike from the French.
While the Europeans don't piss away as much of their resources on military spending as the US, they're perfectly capable of defending themselves.
Essentially all members of any highly educated professional class with no particular political bone to pick (e.g. not military engineers) tend to vote Democrat.
Reality, after all, has a well-known liberal bias.
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If you can't trust your kid to not try to show off to his mates in a dangerous fashion, don't let them have the damn car!
Okay, I suppose I have to tell the story then.
I was driving on the US Interstate, going about 80 mph like everyone else on the road. I normally am quite conservative about following distance, and was happily chugging along behind a couple of trucks when we start to be overtaken by a traffic pack.
Many of these drivers are safe about passing, but one fellow in a large SUV decides he needs to tailgate trucks at literally three feet, while changing lanes at 75mph, trying to get around them. He passes a few slow trucks doing this but continues to tailgate and weave around in dense traffic.
I can either stay behind him and risk being caught in a pileup when he wrecks (not good); slow down to 55mph and cause a traffic hazard for the large pack behind me; or accelerate to 85+mph and pass him. He's still tailgating people, but it's reasonably clear for a little while. I use all of my 100 horsepower to gain sufficient passing speed (85-90 mph) that I won't be near him for long to be caught in one of his crazy maneuvers, pass him, and continue at 90 mph for a while to get away from this guy.
On open road like the Interstate, speed isn't what's dangerous; it's maneuvering at speed. Driving 90mph in a straight line for a little while is a lot safer than staying behind some nut who is one truck-retread-blow away from causing a serious accident, and in that circumstance slowing down wasn't an option due to all the people behind me.
That's absurd. If you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to take responsibility for the way you do it. If a parent can't trust her kid to drive responsibly, she shouldn't be letting him drive in the first place.
While there are a few situations I've been in where the ability to exceed 80 mph has been critical to safety (getting out from behind dangerous drivers on the freeway who are liable to cause a pileup, for instance), that's not the point.
If you can't trust your kid to drive responsibly, get his ass off the road until you can.
If this actually does work (which I doubt it will, for any sort of reasonable cost and performance parameters -- this is why DARPA is just a huge waste of money), it'll be of great use on the battlefield.
The biggest danger to aircraft at sea is surface-to-air missiles. An aircraft that could submerge briefly could dodge incoming missiles by simply dunking under water and waiting for them to impact on the surface (in probably the wrong spot, since they'd also lose radar tracking).
Likewise, a torpedo launched at the thing while underwater could be evaded by simply leaving the water.
Hitting one of these, assuming it's aware of incoming fire, would require some projectile capable of traveling in both air and water and retaining tracking across the boundary, or saturation fire with both missiles and torpedoes.
This is the el-cheapo of the 8800 generation, though -- GS designates "low-end" in Nvidia's incomprehensible naming scheme.
After not having a desktop for a long time, I built one in August. The video card's a Geforce 8800 GS -- $75 USD. ... and yet it runs Crysis fine, at mid-high settings, 1440x900 (down from my panel's native 1680x1050).
Yes, that's all well and good, but it leads to the absurd situation where power is concentrated in "swing states" due to the winner-take-all system.
Consider two states, one with 10 EV, one with 12. Obama wins the 12 EV state 51-49; McCain wins the 10 EV state 75-25. The electoral college system would say there's more support for Obama, which is clearly not the case.
She's attractive only if you find the "sexy librarian" look attractive, except it's doubtful if this one can read.
While I agree with all of your points, instant run-off voting has nothing to do with knowing who won instantly -- it's just an alternate scheme to the winner-take-all system we have now.
It makes a few individual votes more significant. Go google "jerseyvotes".
As an American I'm likewise flabbergasted.
I'm a student in a university department with lots and lots of foreigners. They shake their head and sigh when we try to talk about the American electoral system.
One in particular is South African. He's seen his share of political meltdowns and bad governance, but is amazed that we seem to have electoral confusion written into our Constitution.
Gore's home state is full of people who adhere to a particular superstition that says the world is going to end in fire, probably sometime soon. They also believe that an invisible fellow in the sky hates homosexuals
Talking about environmental responsibility and climate change, and giving rights to homosexuals, is not likely to go over well with that crowd.
He diverted resources from the former to invade the latter?
If you're supposed to be looking for a needle in a haystack, people will wonder when you move all your metal detectors to the cotton bale next door.
... because hanging around a university teaching con-law to law students generally makes you a bad guy, or something
If by "won" you mean "we're 2 trillion and 4000 lives in the hole and the country's GDP is still below what it was before the war", then yes.
Except many computational physicists do in fact know how to code, and their stuff still requires big computers.
What do you think they're doing, running COBOL on them? The lattice QCD code that I've seen is all in C. (Maybe you can teach them how to code? It's GPL, after all...)
There are legitimate scientific uses of that many cycles.
We have lots of cases where companies have collected this information and then done Evil Things with it, so people are reluctant to provide it.
So --
-- stop being evil. Start using information only for benign purposes, and then people will trust you in time. ... in time. You screw people over, you have to *stop* screwing them over first, and only then figure out how to regain their trust.
They do it today too...
Suicide might be related to filesystems for people wrestling with fat32 wackiness...
Microsoft's only package manager is the godawful "Add/Remove Programs" box.
It's slow, incomplete, sucky, and generally useless.
When I started using Linux, I was shocked at how powerful package tools are: "you mean I can just go "emerge wumpus" and come back with a working install of Hunt the Wumpus? Awesome." This is, to me, one of the greatest usability improvements Linux has over Windows.
Now I'm on Ubuntu, and have half a mind to try "sudo apt-get install sandwich" to see if it'll make me lunch.
I heard they were testing Vista out on a BlueGene to see if it would run acceptably fast, but trials had to be stopped after a few thousand CPU's went on strike protesting against cruelty.
A retard user couldn't fuck that up.
A retard at Microsoft could.
I heard they have a few on staff -- it's just a matter of time before there's a botched firmware patch.
Perfect Dark, I think?
There is no country in the world (including the USA) that could successfully invade mainland Europe without losing >80% of its cities to a retaliatory nuclear strike from the French.
While the Europeans don't piss away as much of their resources on military spending as the US, they're perfectly capable of defending themselves.
Essentially all members of any highly educated professional class with no particular political bone to pick (e.g. not military engineers) tend to vote Democrat.
Reality, after all, has a well-known liberal bias.