GOING INTO THE FIELD AND DOING PRACTICAL EXPERIMENTS.
By the look of it, it looks like these researchers confirmed what the mathematicians predicted would happen. Someone brakes too hard, or too early, and the rest of the flow of traffic behind them is now all fucked up.
I swear, I've seen people bitch that "oh, problem could've been busted on mythbusters if they just did the math and left it at that" and not realize that the follow through is to... DO THE EXPERIMENT. Science occasionally is fun work out in the field and not just theoretical models.
You're missing the point of the experiment. Yes, in reality, something like that is incredibly likely. But the idea here is to study the effects other humans have on each other in dense driving situations.
I've always heard the phrase, "designed to fail soon after the warranty has expired" is there a small time bomb in the machine I'm not aware of? I've built machines for years, and no matter how just godawful the parts I pick up are(and unlike Sony, I can get mine used) it's still a crapshoot when something would die.
So could someone enlighten me as to how I could design a PC to die in exactly one or two years so I can make a fortune in warranty repair costs?
It's sad that there's a show that makes Mythbusters look like Science class. Yes, Hamster is/was in it and I love his work... On Top Gear. I'll take his word on the new Mustang but I won't on the effects of thermite on liquid nitrogen(even if someone is shoving words into his mouth).
The reality though is that shows have to entertain first, and educate second.
South park pisses me off with it's "never understand the issues and never dig deeper" libertarian attitude towards life.
Seriously, ManBearPig? You're going to make fun of Al Gore for being an advocate for something he's been an advocate for since the 70's and 80s?(or just 80s? I can't remember).
If you think that elected officials are real criminals versus people who steal large sums of cash from banks, then you need to read something other than the Ron Paul Newsletter.
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Yeah, the chip's good,b ut what about the motherboard chipset? It doesn't matter if they're both complete garbage(and AMD had nothing but garbage for chipsets until nVidia saved their asses). Intel on Intel is probably one of the most stable x86 platforms in existance.
The content of the Quran, as read by the average reasonable person, resembles Mein Kampf in its degree of evil. Godwin's law. 10 yards back, redo the whole play.
They will lose the contracts or more likely be sued by the companies for lost revenue for failing to aggresivly pursue DRM faults. This is the same issue. Apple wants to (and has to) go after these guys. THis is so dead on. The big difference between Apple DRM and Microsoft DRM is that Apple only wants it's DRM on it's own devices and microsoft wants it's DRM on everyone else's.
Anyone who's been inside a nevada casino has seen the smarmy, "When the fun stops..." brochures.
Yes, there are warnings inside nevada casinos saying that gambling is addictive and to stop.
Unfortunately, they're all at the casino cashier cage...
the simple fact is, we understand free will, willpower, addiction, etc. far more than we did when the libertarian/protestant idea of personal responsibility formed. Yes, you have the personal responsibility to stop. But if you go into an activity that's KNOWN to cause addiction-like behavior, and no one tells you, that's their fault. When you do it when you know about it, it's your fault.
I'm about as socialist as anyone can get, but even I know this is child abuse. Seriously, HDDVD buyers knew what they were getting into. it's no secret that there was a format war, and that HDDVD might not be sold anymore. it's not like DiVX where once the servers go offline, the discs are nearly useless.
No, the DVD in my hand that I burnt from an ISO is quite real, so is this hard drive full of DivX encoded movies. So are the profits to be made from pirating movies.
However, the losses involved from no-sale piracy are quite imaginary.
yeah but when was the last time you saw a president asking for discretionary funds of 200 billion or 300 billion for the poor every six months or so?
I want an increase of spending to be followed by an increase in taxes to whoever's going to benefit from the increased spending. Like I said, I don't mind being taxed if the road's going to get fixed or some other problem's going to be solved by it.
Seriously, compare a CPS-2 setup or something to an American made counterpart of the same era. They just simply don't compare.
and then there's the cabinets themselves, American cabs are these flimsy hulks of wood with low res monitors that break when you sneeze at them. In 1996, there was a major sea-change in arcade hardware. JAMMA was fine... in the 80's. 3 buttons, low res monitor, and mono sound. Fine. But come oh, 1994, 1995, hardware gets to be a whole lot better. VGA graphics, stereo sound, complicated input systems(not just multi-button fighters; light guns, optical and analog inputs) and something had to be done. So the JAMMA people got back together and came up with the JAMMA Video Standard, JVS for short. USB I/O(output for things like coin counters), stereo sound and 31kHz VGA high resolution monitors. Now, in 1996 there was only one company in America making arcade cabs and it was the Valley-Dynamo company(who got out of the cab making business all together), and all they made were low res, JAMMA compatible systems, completely ignoring the new JVS standard. Compare that to Japan and Korea where in Japan, you had Sega, Konami, Capcom, Taito, Namco and Andamiro making these sturdy metal candy cabs that still have long lasting monitors that just keep chugging along AND if not in the year 1996, had atleast by 1998 produced cabs that were JVS compliant.
It's not entitlements that's killing us, it's INCOMPETENCE. When you're not doing billions in hand outs to your buddies and giving high offices to political hacks, things actually get done.
It's not enough that you cut taxes, it's that you cut spending as well. The opposite is true too. I don't mind being taxed if my ride to work is smoother and traffic is better managed.
You can't play Tekken 6, VF5, and whatever game's hot these days on Wii.
Most games that show up in Japanese arcades are large, obtrusive machines of electronic entertainment. The Wii, as fun and intuative as it is, is a different form of entertainment.
THANK YOU. It's not consoles that killed the arcade, the American arcade *sucked*. In hospitable, uncomfortable and full of screaming children. Not just that, but the hardware was *terrible* and the best games weren't coming out in this country. It's embarassing that a game like Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 could even be popular in this country.
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Yes, and the other part of science is...
GOING INTO THE FIELD AND DOING PRACTICAL EXPERIMENTS.
By the look of it, it looks like these researchers confirmed what the mathematicians predicted would happen. Someone brakes too hard, or too early, and the rest of the flow of traffic behind them is now all fucked up.
I swear, I've seen people bitch that "oh, problem could've been busted on mythbusters if they just did the math and left it at that" and not realize that the follow through is to... DO THE EXPERIMENT. Science occasionally is fun work out in the field and not just theoretical models.
You're missing the point of the experiment. Yes, in reality, something like that is incredibly likely. But the idea here is to study the effects other humans have on each other in dense driving situations.
I've always heard the phrase, "designed to fail soon after the warranty has expired" is there a small time bomb in the machine I'm not aware of? I've built machines for years, and no matter how just godawful the parts I pick up are(and unlike Sony, I can get mine used) it's still a crapshoot when something would die.
So could someone enlighten me as to how I could design a PC to die in exactly one or two years so I can make a fortune in warranty repair costs?
It's sad that there's a show that makes Mythbusters look like Science class. Yes, Hamster is/was in it and I love his work... On Top Gear. I'll take his word on the new Mustang but I won't on the effects of thermite on liquid nitrogen(even if someone is shoving words into his mouth).
The reality though is that shows have to entertain first, and educate second.
no, because it means you're not doing it for attention, like the MBP ep insinuates.
South park pisses me off with it's "never understand the issues and never dig deeper" libertarian attitude towards life.
Seriously, ManBearPig? You're going to make fun of Al Gore for being an advocate for something he's been an advocate for since the 70's and 80s?(or just 80s? I can't remember).
Nice logic, ass.
What laws have they broken *just by being congress men*?
If you think that elected officials are real criminals versus people who steal large sums of cash from banks, then you need to read something other than the Ron Paul Newsletter.
Yeah, the chip's good,b ut what about the motherboard chipset? It doesn't matter if they're both complete garbage(and AMD had nothing but garbage for chipsets until nVidia saved their asses). Intel on Intel is probably one of the most stable x86 platforms in existance.
Anyone who's been inside a nevada casino has seen the smarmy, "When the fun stops..." brochures.
Yes, there are warnings inside nevada casinos saying that gambling is addictive and to stop.
Unfortunately, they're all at the casino cashier cage...
the simple fact is, we understand free will, willpower, addiction, etc. far more than we did when the libertarian/protestant idea of personal responsibility formed. Yes, you have the personal responsibility to stop. But if you go into an activity that's KNOWN to cause addiction-like behavior, and no one tells you, that's their fault. When you do it when you know about it, it's your fault.
Yeah but an aerosol flamethrower is also hard to control and could set MY house on fire. thus illegal.
Sod off.
I'm about as socialist as anyone can get, but even I know this is child abuse. Seriously, HDDVD buyers knew what they were getting into. it's no secret that there was a format war, and that HDDVD might not be sold anymore. it's not like DiVX where once the servers go offline, the discs are nearly useless.
No, the DVD in my hand that I burnt from an ISO is quite real, so is this hard drive full of DivX encoded movies. So are the profits to be made from pirating movies.
However, the losses involved from no-sale piracy are quite imaginary.
How many times did FEMA outright fuck up during the Clinton years vs. the Bush FEMA?
yeah but when was the last time you saw a president asking for discretionary funds of 200 billion or 300 billion for the poor every six months or so?
I want an increase of spending to be followed by an increase in taxes to whoever's going to benefit from the increased spending. Like I said, I don't mind being taxed if the road's going to get fixed or some other problem's going to be solved by it.
Do you know who James Lee Witt is?
Seriously, compare a CPS-2 setup or something to an American made counterpart of the same era. They just simply don't compare.
and then there's the cabinets themselves, American cabs are these flimsy hulks of wood with low res monitors that break when you sneeze at them. In 1996, there was a major sea-change in arcade hardware. JAMMA was fine... in the 80's. 3 buttons, low res monitor, and mono sound. Fine. But come oh, 1994, 1995, hardware gets to be a whole lot better. VGA graphics, stereo sound, complicated input systems(not just multi-button fighters; light guns, optical and analog inputs) and something had to be done. So the JAMMA people got back together and came up with the JAMMA Video Standard, JVS for short. USB I/O(output for things like coin counters), stereo sound and 31kHz VGA high resolution monitors. Now, in 1996 there was only one company in America making arcade cabs and it was the Valley-Dynamo company(who got out of the cab making business all together), and all they made were low res, JAMMA compatible systems, completely ignoring the new JVS standard. Compare that to Japan and Korea where in Japan, you had Sega, Konami, Capcom, Taito, Namco and Andamiro making these sturdy metal candy cabs that still have long lasting monitors that just keep chugging along AND if not in the year 1996, had atleast by 1998 produced cabs that were JVS compliant.
It's not entitlements that's killing us, it's INCOMPETENCE. When you're not doing billions in hand outs to your buddies and giving high offices to political hacks, things actually get done.
It's not enough that you cut taxes, it's that you cut spending as well. The opposite is true too. I don't mind being taxed if my ride to work is smoother and traffic is better managed.
You can't play Tekken 6, VF5, and whatever game's hot these days on Wii.
Most games that show up in Japanese arcades are large, obtrusive machines of electronic entertainment. The Wii, as fun and intuative as it is, is a different form of entertainment.
First move into the 90's, then move into the 21st century you beared road apple.
THANK YOU. It's not consoles that killed the arcade, the American arcade *sucked*. In hospitable, uncomfortable and full of screaming children. Not just that, but the hardware was *terrible* and the best games weren't coming out in this country. It's embarassing that a game like Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 could even be popular in this country.
untold millions and I saw zero ads for Paul on local tv in Nevada.
What's the deal here? Is paul serious or not?
(on that note, untold millions and not a superbowl ad?)