This is all about political correctness. It's lynching someone because his beliefs don't match those of the hive mind. What is the point of having the right to free speech if you are condemned for exercising it?
Nobody lynched him. He spoke, he was told that what he said was shitty, he quit his job because he recognized saying shitty things was going to hurt his employer. Free speech happened.
I assume you support banning infertile hetero couples from marrying as well
Sure why not. They can still live together.
Because there are serious legal situations that surround marital status.
Because when my wife isn't entitled to my health care benefits because we don't have a kid, it's your fault. Because when my wife isn't permitted the same power-of-attorney benefits when I am ill, infirm, and/or dead, it's your fault. Because when my wife isn't allowed to visit me in a hospital situation that permits "only family", it's your fault.
Don't you get it that impinging on these sort of "benefits" makes you a bad person?
This world is not wanting for more human beings. By not adding to the human burden on the planet we are actually being responsible. But you'll happily treat us as lesser people because we don't have the same biological imperative that you do. Did I mention bad person? Personally I can't see how a hetero couple that doesn't/can't have kids is somehow lesser than someone who knocks up his wife so she can birth a kid they can raise as yet another bigot.
I don't have a horse in the gay/straight race, being hetero, but I sure as heck can tell right from wrong.
If the purpose of all life is to self-perpetuate how are you going to accomplish that with same sex unions? We are humans not amoeba.
If.
What a huge prideful assumption. That life has purpose at all is a huge assumption. Life has behavioral traits... that's it. We are no more Von Neumann sludge than we are amoeba. I'm sure you've disregarded sterile human beings as non-life all along, yes? And you've disregarded humans who simply choose to not have children as non-life, yes? I'm sure you're busy lobbying for laws that make it mandatory for every human female to be pregnant as often as is possible to guarantee healthy offspring for her entire fertile life, then be euthanized, yes? And every male needs to prove that he's impregnated a female every nine months or be persecuted and eventually terminated, yes?
Purpose. There is no purpose. Life - on average - breeds. That doesn't mean every instance of every living species must do so or even should do so. It doesn't even imply it.
Free Speech took a shot to the head. Political Correctness bullshit seems to trump it, every damn time.
Frankly NOW I'm thinking of totally dumping Firefox.
Bullshit. Political correctness is referring to a gay man as "a person of alternate sexual proclivities". Political correctness is passing policies that mandate one fourth of your female workforce must be lesbians because one in four women have had a girl-girl experience.
This is a man who took a high-profile job and was outed as a bigot. A man who thinks that it's worth paying money to impose his opinions one where someone else sticks their dick. A man who doesn't believe that gay people are people. That's not rhetoric, that's the way it is. Being against gay marriage is almost always on the grounds that "marriage is a sacred bond between man and woman", directly indicating that any other coupling is wrong and bad, and that those who engage in such practices should be penalized by being denied the same rights hetero-married enjoy.
Modern, enlightened society caught up with this guy when he took a job with visibility. Sorry, but him and his cro-magnan-thinker buddies just aren't right for this kind of a job because they taint the brand they represent.
Bullshit. It can be easily argued that in the modern era, ignorance of the law MUST be allowed as a valid defense. There are too many laws for any one person to know, ergo ignorance of the law is a viable defense.
You don't understand... it is not expected, required, or desired that you know the law. It is expected, required, and desired that you pay a lawyer to do so for you. Yes, for everything you do.
Mine says it's okay for me to hit Submit so here goes...
You know that birth rates are highest in areas where mortality rates are highest, right? It's not the stable, healthy, wealthy nations that are producing huge numbers of humans. It's the struggling, starving and poor nations that are breeding in excess. Part of longevity assumes appropriate availability of heath and nourishment resources. There's a strong reason to suspect that if we were effectively immortal, our birth rates would drop to sustainable rates, or less.
It's questionable whether typing stuff, even just a few letters, should always be considered faster and/or more productive than using a mouse.
And then there's the simple fact that it frequently DOESN'T WORK. I frequently - as an administrator - use command prompts. So I press the Start button and type "cmd". Maybe three times out of ten on various systems owned by my customers, if I do this too quickly, Win7 simply gives up. It displays nothing. It looks like it's maybe thinking about it, but meanwhile I'm waiting. And waiting. And it doesn't work. So I hit backspace to go back to "cm". That usually doesn't help. So I add the "d" again and usually I get the search to find CMD.
GP was lazy for not reading the article carefully. However, it seems strange that no one has ever suggested that the Progress supply vehicle or Soyuz life boat on the ISS could are additional variables in the scenario and have been used as a ferry to meet the shuttle half way. Is anyone knowledgeable enough to work out the feasibility?
Just a guess, but if Columbia itself had less than 4% of the delta-V required to match orbits, I'd think another ship with about 4% of the delta-V required nets you nowhere anywhere even remotely near "meet half way". Worse, once you've met half way, what's your next move? You've burned at least ten times as much fuel as you actually have just to get there. You've got (up to) twice the crew chewing up consumables in an orbit that's nowhere near anything else.
If that is even half true, that's just tyrannical. Think about it. That means even a church in Finland doing disaster relief cannot call together a congregational meeting and ask for funds without getting a "by your leave, sire" from a bunch of police bureaucrats.
I don't think so. Regulated fund-raising might not be such a bad thing. Certainly it'd reduce fraud if folks had to demonstrate a legitimate need accountability structure.
On an unrelated note, since I don't live in Finland I was wondering if you'd like to donate to my cause? It's called:
Prevent Children From Getting Sick, Ever BBMAH*
Insert a bunch of statistics here about how kids get sick all the time, from all sorts of preventable causes. Seriously, a big wall of text going on and on about the needless suffering of children throughout the world. Add a bunch of pictures of kids with sores on them, maybe flies crawling around. Basically National Geographic meets Apocalypse Now.
*By Buying Me A House
Never, ever pirate anything. It spurs their belief that people really want their product, but just aren't willing to pay for it. Instead, avoid the product altogether and encourage others to avoid it.
You're missing that people do want their product. Avoiding the product altogether sends a false message that the product isn't wanted. What we don't want is the packaging.
The closest equivalent to buying a physical product and throwing its packaging away is buying a DRM product and pirating the content. Once I've paid for the content, it's mine morally, ethically, and logically. It's just the law that needs work.
Throw away the packaging and tell the manufacturer why.
well it comforting to know that the same government that managed this program is now moving on to something as *truly* important as our and our childrens healthcare.
right?
Two things:
1} Healthcare is truly important while this TSA nonsense isn't. So yeah, that'd be good.
2} Just because one project authorized by a group is done improperly doesn't mean that all - or even any - other project will be done improperly.
Not a chance. I predict there will be relatively few sales because of the "too little, too late" status, and EA will simply conclude that they were right all along... offline mode doesn't matter.
Indeed. Humans are the best long distance runners on the planet, and we evolved that way so that we could chase our prey until they died of exhaustion.
I thought we evolved that way so that Reebok could sell us new shoes. Huh.
"One: modern lights are HID, not LED. Totally different technology."
Try again. Many newer cars are LED by OEM. I design LED lighting, so I'd be in the perfect position to know this.
We're not talking about the accent lighting. We're talking about primary lighting, where LED is very, very rare as it's only the last 24 months or so that LED clusters with high enough output have started to come to market. Incidentally, I am your boss, so I'm in a super-perfect position to know this.
"Two: what are you driving? I've got a... car. With the cut-offs in my HID projectors, 100% of my light emission is at or below the bumper level of a car in front of me."
Totally against DOT regulations, you're using illegal headlamps, idiot.
Personal? You want to get personal? I wouldn't do that. Because that'd be the bit where I drop the simple fact that I'm running a 100% OEM factory install from one of the Big Three. My totally-against DOT regulations lights? Standard for a vehicle chassis that is pumped out in quantities of 100k a year. Of course, the HID option has only been available for the last seven model years, but the point remains. Your alleged expertise in the matter has just been made questionable to the point of oblivion.
"What, what? Making stuff up are we? HIDs are available at a very, very wide color temperature range. Mine for instance are a nice 4300K; a nice crisp white light."
4300K has more blue than STANDARD 3,000K. Try again.
By definition yes, 4300K has more blue than 3000K, which is very yellow. In any practical measurement, it isn't until you exceed 5000K that blue creeps into the visible spectrum. Headlights between 4300K and 4500K are considered white. 3000K isn't normal for this application. But given you're a lighting engineer for God or something, I'm guessing that you can't handle every color temperature chart and sample on the planet disagreeing with you.
"Again, your mirrors are evidently below typical bumper level. Weird. You might want to fix that."
Ignorant of how physics, light, and mirrors work, I see.
Yeah, I've always had trouble with the idea that things above lines where light is not permitted to travel somehow reflect blinding light at someone. It's a failing, to be sure. Dude, we're not talking about passive reflected scatter photons bouncing off pavement. We're talking about shooting people in the face with headlights. Do yourself a favor and Google a few dozen images of "HID cut off" and take a gander at how the only area where anything is thrown more than about 2ft above the ground is the extreme right edge, if even there. It may save your job.
"It's not an issue with OEM installs."
Which is why Ford and Toyota are asking me (and several other companies) about LED designs and fixtures and remedies for the problems they're having.
Please shut your mouth. I design this equipment.
If you do have a job in automotive lighting, you shouldn't.
Yea? You tell that to the idiots with new LED OEM headlights in their cars, and vehicles that are taller than mine.
One: modern lights are HID, not LED. Totally different technology.
Two: what are you driving? I've got a... car. With the cut-offs in my HID projectors, 100% of my light emission is at or below the bumper level of a car in front of me. Even were I in an SUV, I'd be getting your trunk deck. Excluding anyone driving a monster truck, proper HID projectors aren't causing your problem. Unless you're driving a skateboard. Laying down.
Oh, you want to know why your HID kit isn't available in the USA? It FAILS DOT SAFETY REGULATIONS BECAUSE OF THE SEVERE AMOUNT OF BLUE LIGHT EMITTED. Blue light destroys night vision AND causes/irritates macular degeneration.
What, what? Making stuff up are we? HIDs are available at a very, very wide color temperature range. Mine for instance are a nice 4300K; a nice crisp white light. Not as yellow as typical but no blue tinting like an 8000K bulb or purple like a 12000K kit. OEMs actually use bulbs in the vicinity of 4500K for that precise reason.
Oh, and your shutters don't help when you're riding my ass (like most any moron on the road,) your light gets in my vehicle and mirrors just fine.
Again, your mirrors are evidently below typical bumper level. Weird. You might want to fix that.
As has been stated - repeatedly - the problem you have is with people who are not using proper projectors. It's not an issue with OEM installs.
BULLSHIT. This is a lie you tell yourself to justify what you did to your car.
Stock Audi's, BMW's and more are all blinding other car drivers. In an urban environment the HID lights are somewhat balanced by the ambient lighting and several-per-block streetlights; in a suburban or highway environment the reduced frequency of streetlights makes their giant light contrast more dangerous because the eye spends more time adjusting and readjusting between dark and blindingly bright.
It's much worse for car drivers when these are on SUVs or trucks. Even in the rare cases when the lights are adjusted for those vehicle's increased heights, that's no help when the assholes pull up behind you at a light.
Bullshit indeed, Captain Clueless AC.
HID-equipped cars don't use traditional aiming lenses. They use a projector ball in front of the bulb which shapes the light emitted. Additionally, between the bulb and the projector there's a metal cut-off plate that prevents light from being thrown upwards. While HIDs typically emit about three times as many lumens, virtually none of it is permitted to aim towards oncoming traffic.
The point Lumpy was making is that proper projector housings cost serious money while a set of HID bulbs and inverters cost in the realm of $50. Yes, many, many ricer idiots retrofit HIDs into their cars unsafely by keeping their lens-based housings. Which means... three times as much light in oncoming traffic.
Now you know, which should help you to stop being uneducated. Or you WOULD know if you'd not posted AC and got a nice notification someone replied to you.
I suspect the dogs just don't like staring into the sun then they poo. I'd also speculate that since streets and walls tend to be aligned with the cardinal directions there's an overall alignment augmentation due to their surroundings. finally if they like to poo in a shadow of a tree then likely they may face back to the tree and thus have a bias to north or south alignments.
Wait. That means that during the early hours they should be facing West and during the late hours they should be facing East. At high noon it doesn't matter what they do. There's no sun-related time that would put bias on North/South axis alignment and the data shows a bias against East/West alignment.
As for the assertion that the alignment of streets and walls are involved, I accidentally RTFA and found this curious line. "The magnetic consciousness was observed only in dogs off leash, in the middle of a field."
Better yet, there's variation in behaviour that reflected magnetic fluctuations.
So it turns out dogshit science isn't as easy as you thought.
"Apple has never worked with the NSA to create a backdoor in any of our products, including iPhone."
Translation: "the NSA did all the work and we didn't have to work with them."
"Additionally, we have been unaware of this alleged NSA program targeting our products."
Translation: "we weren't aware they were supposedly trying to hack our products because we already allowed them carte blanche access."
"... Whenever we hear about attempts to undermine Apple’s industry-leading security, we thoroughly investigate and take appropriate steps to protect our customers."
Translation: Our customers are best-protected by us having a lot of money and not being in secret courts all day so we comply with government organizations' suggestions.
"We will continue to use our resources to stay ahead of malicious hackers and defend our customers from security attacks, regardless of who’s behind them."
Translation: since the NSA are not malicious hackers but our best buddies, we will happily focus our efforts on black-hat bad guys. Nothing to see here.
You know... if one of these companies would just say "there are no backdoors in our software. We do not allow the NSA or any other organization access to customer data or communications under any circumstance. These are not new policies and go back to the inception of our iOS line of products", then I could take them seriously. Instead their lawyers draft these PR statements that use such mind-deadening language that it's trivial to poke fun at them.
I don't honestly believe Apply has allowed a back-door, but their statement just sucks.
This isn't my issue with it either. My (irrational) hatred for Glass-wearers is along the same vein as my disdain for people who have their cell phones out at nice restaurants while their dining companions are with them (often with their own cell phones out). Glass is a statement that you can't bear to be disconnected from the internet for fifteen fucking minutes while you enjoy a nice meal, a walk outside, or a social event. But yeah, it's not jealously.
You're right. Remember when checking your watch while in a social setting was rude? Well, checking your smartphone is too. Google Glass is the worst of that rudeness because the person you're snubbing can't even vaguely see what you see. In fact, they can't be sure when you're snubbing them and when you're not. Any glances in the general direction of the display convey "you don't matter right now", right or wrong.
Until this stuff injects data directly onto the retina without a visible chunk of hardware stuck to the face, it's going to be rude to wear.
People learn just fine from history. What they don't learn well from are historians. That which you experience educates you. That which you are told... not so much.
Nexus One, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Galaxy SIII, S4 are popular phones that include it.
Right. So almost none, which was my point. Galaxy Note series, and pretty much every other phone on the market that isn't a Blackberry doesn't. Brand new releases don't, showing that it's not just some magic innovation that needed time to be discovered.
I'm convinced Blackberry owns some patents on notification LEDs and other manufacturers can't generally be bothered to license them.
How about something similar that perhaps goes into the headphones jack of a cell phone to add LED notification to THAT?
Blackberry got it right and while a smattering of other phones include notification LEDs, it's very rare. If such a device could be powered through the headphone jack (no idea if there's enough current... IANAEE) and a little helper application for Android/iOS was written, I'd spend big bucks for such an add-on.
Not going into the Oort cloud and flinging a bunch of asteroids Earthwards.
Look, we all know walking across the street could get you run over. Nobody's saying that you can never, ever, cross the street. Instead the wisdom is to look both ways before crossing. In the context of environmental change, the wisdom is "do as little change as practical". That may mean slowing down "progress" somewhat and that may mean more expensive iPhonePadBerryDroids. That's a small price to pay to minimize the risk of making our planet less habitable.
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This is all about political correctness. It's lynching someone because his beliefs don't match those of the hive mind. What is the point of having the right to free speech if you are condemned for exercising it?
Nobody lynched him. He spoke, he was told that what he said was shitty, he quit his job because he recognized saying shitty things was going to hurt his employer. Free speech happened.
I assume you support banning infertile hetero couples from marrying as well
Sure why not. They can still live together.
Because there are serious legal situations that surround marital status.
Because when my wife isn't entitled to my health care benefits because we don't have a kid, it's your fault. Because when my wife isn't permitted the same power-of-attorney benefits when I am ill, infirm, and/or dead, it's your fault. Because when my wife isn't allowed to visit me in a hospital situation that permits "only family", it's your fault.
Don't you get it that impinging on these sort of "benefits" makes you a bad person?
This world is not wanting for more human beings. By not adding to the human burden on the planet we are actually being responsible. But you'll happily treat us as lesser people because we don't have the same biological imperative that you do. Did I mention bad person? Personally I can't see how a hetero couple that doesn't/can't have kids is somehow lesser than someone who knocks up his wife so she can birth a kid they can raise as yet another bigot.
I don't have a horse in the gay/straight race, being hetero, but I sure as heck can tell right from wrong.
If the purpose of all life is to self-perpetuate how are you going to accomplish that with same sex unions? We are humans not amoeba.
If.
What a huge prideful assumption. That life has purpose at all is a huge assumption. Life has behavioral traits... that's it. We are no more Von Neumann sludge than we are amoeba. I'm sure you've disregarded sterile human beings as non-life all along, yes? And you've disregarded humans who simply choose to not have children as non-life, yes? I'm sure you're busy lobbying for laws that make it mandatory for every human female to be pregnant as often as is possible to guarantee healthy offspring for her entire fertile life, then be euthanized, yes? And every male needs to prove that he's impregnated a female every nine months or be persecuted and eventually terminated, yes?
Purpose. There is no purpose. Life - on average - breeds. That doesn't mean every instance of every living species must do so or even should do so. It doesn't even imply it.
Free Speech took a shot to the head. Political Correctness bullshit seems to trump it, every damn time.
Frankly NOW I'm thinking of totally dumping Firefox.
Bullshit. Political correctness is referring to a gay man as "a person of alternate sexual proclivities". Political correctness is passing policies that mandate one fourth of your female workforce must be lesbians because one in four women have had a girl-girl experience.
This is a man who took a high-profile job and was outed as a bigot. A man who thinks that it's worth paying money to impose his opinions one where someone else sticks their dick. A man who doesn't believe that gay people are people. That's not rhetoric, that's the way it is. Being against gay marriage is almost always on the grounds that "marriage is a sacred bond between man and woman", directly indicating that any other coupling is wrong and bad, and that those who engage in such practices should be penalized by being denied the same rights hetero-married enjoy.
Modern, enlightened society caught up with this guy when he took a job with visibility. Sorry, but him and his cro-magnan-thinker buddies just aren't right for this kind of a job because they taint the brand they represent.
Bullshit. It can be easily argued that in the modern era, ignorance of the law MUST be allowed as a valid defense. There are too many laws for any one person to know, ergo ignorance of the law is a viable defense.
You don't understand... it is not expected, required, or desired that you know the law. It is expected, required, and desired that you pay a lawyer to do so for you. Yes, for everything you do.
Mine says it's okay for me to hit Submit so here goes...
You know that birth rates are highest in areas where mortality rates are highest, right? It's not the stable, healthy, wealthy nations that are producing huge numbers of humans. It's the struggling, starving and poor nations that are breeding in excess. Part of longevity assumes appropriate availability of heath and nourishment resources. There's a strong reason to suspect that if we were effectively immortal, our birth rates would drop to sustainable rates, or less.
It's questionable whether typing stuff, even just a few letters, should always be considered faster and/or more productive than using a mouse.
And then there's the simple fact that it frequently DOESN'T WORK. I frequently - as an administrator - use command prompts. So I press the Start button and type "cmd". Maybe three times out of ten on various systems owned by my customers, if I do this too quickly, Win7 simply gives up. It displays nothing. It looks like it's maybe thinking about it, but meanwhile I'm waiting. And waiting. And it doesn't work. So I hit backspace to go back to "cm". That usually doesn't help. So I add the "d" again and usually I get the search to find CMD.
Yay.
GP was lazy for not reading the article carefully. However, it seems strange that no one has ever suggested that the Progress supply vehicle or Soyuz life boat on the ISS could are additional variables in the scenario and have been used as a ferry to meet the shuttle half way. Is anyone knowledgeable enough to work out the feasibility?
Just a guess, but if Columbia itself had less than 4% of the delta-V required to match orbits, I'd think another ship with about 4% of the delta-V required nets you nowhere anywhere even remotely near "meet half way". Worse, once you've met half way, what's your next move? You've burned at least ten times as much fuel as you actually have just to get there. You've got (up to) twice the crew chewing up consumables in an orbit that's nowhere near anything else.
If that is even half true, that's just tyrannical. Think about it. That means even a church in Finland doing disaster relief cannot call together a congregational meeting and ask for funds without getting a "by your leave, sire" from a bunch of police bureaucrats.
I don't think so. Regulated fund-raising might not be such a bad thing. Certainly it'd reduce fraud if folks had to demonstrate a legitimate need accountability structure.
On an unrelated note, since I don't live in Finland I was wondering if you'd like to donate to my cause? It's called:
Prevent Children From Getting Sick, Ever BBMAH*
Insert a bunch of statistics here about how kids get sick all the time, from all sorts of preventable causes. Seriously, a big wall of text going on and on about the needless suffering of children throughout the world. Add a bunch of pictures of kids with sores on them, maybe flies crawling around. Basically National Geographic meets Apocalypse Now.
*By Buying Me A House
Never, ever pirate anything. It spurs their belief that people really want their product, but just aren't willing to pay for it. Instead, avoid the product altogether and encourage others to avoid it.
You're missing that people do want their product. Avoiding the product altogether sends a false message that the product isn't wanted. What we don't want is the packaging.
The closest equivalent to buying a physical product and throwing its packaging away is buying a DRM product and pirating the content. Once I've paid for the content, it's mine morally, ethically, and logically. It's just the law that needs work.
Throw away the packaging and tell the manufacturer why.
well it comforting to know that the same government that managed this program is now moving on to something as *truly* important as our and our childrens healthcare.
right?
Two things:
1} Healthcare is truly important while this TSA nonsense isn't. So yeah, that'd be good.
2} Just because one project authorized by a group is done improperly doesn't mean that all - or even any - other project will be done improperly.
Not a chance. I predict there will be relatively few sales because of the "too little, too late" status, and EA will simply conclude that they were right all along... offline mode doesn't matter.
Indeed. Humans are the best long distance runners on the planet, and we evolved that way so that we could chase our prey until they died of exhaustion.
I thought we evolved that way so that Reebok could sell us new shoes. Huh.
"One: modern lights are HID, not LED. Totally different technology."
Try again. Many newer cars are LED by OEM. I design LED lighting, so I'd be in the perfect position to know this.
We're not talking about the accent lighting. We're talking about primary lighting, where LED is very, very rare as it's only the last 24 months or so that LED clusters with high enough output have started to come to market. Incidentally, I am your boss, so I'm in a super-perfect position to know this.
"Two: what are you driving? I've got a... car. With the cut-offs in my HID projectors, 100% of my light emission is at or below the bumper level of a car in front of me."
Totally against DOT regulations, you're using illegal headlamps, idiot.
Personal? You want to get personal? I wouldn't do that. Because that'd be the bit where I drop the simple fact that I'm running a 100% OEM factory install from one of the Big Three. My totally-against DOT regulations lights? Standard for a vehicle chassis that is pumped out in quantities of 100k a year. Of course, the HID option has only been available for the last seven model years, but the point remains. Your alleged expertise in the matter has just been made questionable to the point of oblivion.
"What, what? Making stuff up are we? HIDs are available at a very, very wide color temperature range. Mine for instance are a nice 4300K; a nice crisp white light."
4300K has more blue than STANDARD 3,000K. Try again.
By definition yes, 4300K has more blue than 3000K, which is very yellow. In any practical measurement, it isn't until you exceed 5000K that blue creeps into the visible spectrum. Headlights between 4300K and 4500K are considered white. 3000K isn't normal for this application. But given you're a lighting engineer for God or something, I'm guessing that you can't handle every color temperature chart and sample on the planet disagreeing with you.
"Again, your mirrors are evidently below typical bumper level. Weird. You might want to fix that."
Ignorant of how physics, light, and mirrors work, I see.
Yeah, I've always had trouble with the idea that things above lines where light is not permitted to travel somehow reflect blinding light at someone. It's a failing, to be sure. Dude, we're not talking about passive reflected scatter photons bouncing off pavement. We're talking about shooting people in the face with headlights. Do yourself a favor and Google a few dozen images of "HID cut off" and take a gander at how the only area where anything is thrown more than about 2ft above the ground is the extreme right edge, if even there. It may save your job.
"It's not an issue with OEM installs."
Which is why Ford and Toyota are asking me (and several other companies) about LED designs and fixtures and remedies for the problems they're having.
Please shut your mouth. I design this equipment.
If you do have a job in automotive lighting, you shouldn't.
"First OEM cars DONT BLIND PEOPLE."
Yea? You tell that to the idiots with new LED OEM headlights in their cars, and vehicles that are taller than mine.
One: modern lights are HID, not LED. Totally different technology.
Two: what are you driving? I've got a... car. With the cut-offs in my HID projectors, 100% of my light emission is at or below the bumper level of a car in front of me. Even were I in an SUV, I'd be getting your trunk deck. Excluding anyone driving a monster truck, proper HID projectors aren't causing your problem. Unless you're driving a skateboard. Laying down.
Oh, you want to know why your HID kit isn't available in the USA? It FAILS DOT SAFETY REGULATIONS BECAUSE OF THE SEVERE AMOUNT OF BLUE LIGHT EMITTED. Blue light destroys night vision AND causes/irritates macular degeneration.
What, what? Making stuff up are we? HIDs are available at a very, very wide color temperature range. Mine for instance are a nice 4300K; a nice crisp white light. Not as yellow as typical but no blue tinting like an 8000K bulb or purple like a 12000K kit. OEMs actually use bulbs in the vicinity of 4500K for that precise reason.
Oh, and your shutters don't help when you're riding my ass (like most any moron on the road,) your light gets in my vehicle and mirrors just fine.
Again, your mirrors are evidently below typical bumper level. Weird. You might want to fix that.
As has been stated - repeatedly - the problem you have is with people who are not using proper projectors. It's not an issue with OEM installs.
BULLSHIT. This is a lie you tell yourself to justify what you did to your car.
Stock Audi's, BMW's and more are all blinding other car drivers. In an urban environment the HID lights are somewhat balanced by the ambient lighting and several-per-block streetlights; in a suburban or highway environment the reduced frequency of streetlights makes their giant light contrast more dangerous because the eye spends more time adjusting and readjusting between dark and blindingly bright.
It's much worse for car drivers when these are on SUVs or trucks. Even in the rare cases when the lights are adjusted for those vehicle's increased heights, that's no help when the assholes pull up behind you at a light.
Bullshit indeed, Captain Clueless AC.
HID-equipped cars don't use traditional aiming lenses. They use a projector ball in front of the bulb which shapes the light emitted. Additionally, between the bulb and the projector there's a metal cut-off plate that prevents light from being thrown upwards. While HIDs typically emit about three times as many lumens, virtually none of it is permitted to aim towards oncoming traffic.
The point Lumpy was making is that proper projector housings cost serious money while a set of HID bulbs and inverters cost in the realm of $50. Yes, many, many ricer idiots retrofit HIDs into their cars unsafely by keeping their lens-based housings. Which means... three times as much light in oncoming traffic.
Now you know, which should help you to stop being uneducated. Or you WOULD know if you'd not posted AC and got a nice notification someone replied to you.
At the very least, blanket metadata capture means the answer is absolutely, positively, unrepentantly YES.
He defecates in random directions.
Maybe it's been using Dual_EC_DRBG and the NSA hacked him?
I suspect the dogs just don't like staring into the sun then they poo. I'd also speculate that since streets and walls tend to be aligned with the cardinal directions there's an overall alignment augmentation due to their surroundings. finally if they like to poo in a shadow of a tree then likely they may face back to the tree and thus have a bias to north or south alignments.
Wait. That means that during the early hours they should be facing West and during the late hours they should be facing East. At high noon it doesn't matter what they do. There's no sun-related time that would put bias on North/South axis alignment and the data shows a bias against East/West alignment.
As for the assertion that the alignment of streets and walls are involved, I accidentally RTFA and found this curious line. "The magnetic consciousness was observed only in dogs off leash, in the middle of a field."
Better yet, there's variation in behaviour that reflected magnetic fluctuations.
So it turns out dogshit science isn't as easy as you thought.
"Apple has never worked with the NSA to create a backdoor in any of our products, including iPhone."
... Whenever we hear about attempts to undermine Apple’s industry-leading security, we thoroughly investigate and take appropriate steps to protect our customers."
Translation: "the NSA did all the work and we didn't have to work with them."
"Additionally, we have been unaware of this alleged NSA program targeting our products."
Translation: "we weren't aware they were supposedly trying to hack our products because we already allowed them carte blanche access."
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Translation: Our customers are best-protected by us having a lot of money and not being in secret courts all day so we comply with government organizations' suggestions.
"We will continue to use our resources to stay ahead of malicious hackers and defend our customers from security attacks, regardless of who’s behind them."
Translation: since the NSA are not malicious hackers but our best buddies, we will happily focus our efforts on black-hat bad guys. Nothing to see here.
You know... if one of these companies would just say "there are no backdoors in our software. We do not allow the NSA or any other organization access to customer data or communications under any circumstance. These are not new policies and go back to the inception of our iOS line of products", then I could take them seriously. Instead their lawyers draft these PR statements that use such mind-deadening language that it's trivial to poke fun at them.
I don't honestly believe Apply has allowed a back-door, but their statement just sucks.
This isn't my issue with it either. My (irrational) hatred for Glass-wearers is along the same vein as my disdain for people who have their cell phones out at nice restaurants while their dining companions are with them (often with their own cell phones out). Glass is a statement that you can't bear to be disconnected from the internet for fifteen fucking minutes while you enjoy a nice meal, a walk outside, or a social event. But yeah, it's not jealously.
You're right. Remember when checking your watch while in a social setting was rude? Well, checking your smartphone is too. Google Glass is the worst of that rudeness because the person you're snubbing can't even vaguely see what you see. In fact, they can't be sure when you're snubbing them and when you're not. Any glances in the general direction of the display convey "you don't matter right now", right or wrong.
Until this stuff injects data directly onto the retina without a visible chunk of hardware stuck to the face, it's going to be rude to wear.
People, by and large, do not learn from history.
People learn just fine from history. What they don't learn well from are historians. That which you experience educates you. That which you are told... not so much.
Nexus One, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Galaxy SIII, S4 are popular phones that include it.
Right. So almost none, which was my point. Galaxy Note series, and pretty much every other phone on the market that isn't a Blackberry doesn't. Brand new releases don't, showing that it's not just some magic innovation that needed time to be discovered.
I'm convinced Blackberry owns some patents on notification LEDs and other manufacturers can't generally be bothered to license them.
How about something similar that perhaps goes into the headphones jack of a cell phone to add LED notification to THAT?
Blackberry got it right and while a smattering of other phones include notification LEDs, it's very rare. If such a device could be powered through the headphone jack (no idea if there's enough current... IANAEE) and a little helper application for Android/iOS was written, I'd spend big bucks for such an add-on.
Not going into the Oort cloud and flinging a bunch of asteroids Earthwards.
Look, we all know walking across the street could get you run over. Nobody's saying that you can never, ever, cross the street. Instead the wisdom is to look both ways before crossing. In the context of environmental change, the wisdom is "do as little change as practical". That may mean slowing down "progress" somewhat and that may mean more expensive iPhonePadBerryDroids. That's a small price to pay to minimize the risk of making our planet less habitable.