Contrariwise, fighter pilots commonly maneuver their aircraft with astounding precision, even though their actions are mediated by the flight control computer.
Go watch the Blue Angels and tell me that they're worried about the plane not doing PRECISELY what it's told to do.
Please explain why a device capable of commanding six axis movement (a helicopter), and is inherently pretty unstable, is simpler to control than one capable of commanding four axis movement (pitch, roll, yaw, translation along its long axis...an airplane), which is inherently pretty stable (as most fixed-wing aircraft are).
Your supposition that a helicopter is simple to fly is incredibly ill-informed.
Except, Delta Force is an Army detachment. The Army would give the Air Force a new chopper design right after they crammed a 120mm smoothbore Abrams main gun into their own pooper.
Poor design of equipment: How is a user supposed to know if the product is designed well? What's the metric they should check to see if it's ni-cad friendly?
Improper usage? Put in the batteries. Use till it stops. How is this usage improper?
Dumb battery chargers: Fair enough. I've got a pretty smart one, and I get great performance out of my NiMH AA's in most of my hardware.
So, the net effect is that the batteries (which are very frequently used in a multi-cell arrangement) appear to the non-multimeter-equipped person to have decreased charge carrying performance over time?
Gosh. Sounds just like the "memory effect" that people describe with NiCad batteries.
The technical detail is useful, but calling memory effect a "myth" when actually it's a pretty accurate description of what users observe under service conditions is just sorta silly.
If your premiums are so low, you must not have made a claim in the last 14 years.
I base my contention on the fact that many insurers pay out 20-40% of their gross as settlements. That's a lot of overhead. (or profit.)
I think that if we're required by law to do business with a (car) insurance agency, that agency should not be permitted to seek a profit. After all...we like free markets, don't we?
A list of verified working numbers...that will cost them lots of money (hundreds or thousands of dollars) every time they use it, and has a high probability of being answered by a very hostile individual.
How is this a winning strategy for the telemarketers?
I don't care what the person on the other end of my phone (hypothetically speaking, as I don't have one) thinks. If I stop talking, it's because I'm doing something else. If they can't understand that, so what?
Would you argue that you shouldn't be allowed to have "focused" conversations with passengers?
As an aside, I don't understand why our hyper-smart phones nowadays don't have a "Push this button to record ten seconds of this call" feature.
I mean, ZERO PHONES have this. Am I stupid? Why doesn't this exist? Do they have this feature in Japan? If not, we're not going to see it here in the states for at least 10 years...
That's a great idea! Double the required bandwidth for your service, to provide a feature that 1/100 of your userbase will care about! You'll make MILLIONS!
But, it will cost you tens of millions to launch the extra satellites, so I think you're fooked.
I understand your contention, that Democrats are more willing to hobble law enforcement than Republicans. However, they're also more willing to hobble my right to keep and bear arms, which I'm equally opposed to.
I will not vote merely for the lesser of two evils. I will not give my imprimatur to a candidate I do not believe in.
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I know the courts will give me lots of money if the telemarketers don't play by the new rules. That's fine by me.
Contrariwise, fighter pilots commonly maneuver their aircraft with astounding precision, even though their actions are mediated by the flight control computer.
Go watch the Blue Angels and tell me that they're worried about the plane not doing PRECISELY what it's told to do.
What does your example have to do with the matter at hand?
Please explain why a device capable of commanding six axis movement (a helicopter), and is inherently pretty unstable, is simpler to control than one capable of commanding four axis movement (pitch, roll, yaw, translation along its long axis...an airplane), which is inherently pretty stable (as most fixed-wing aircraft are).
Your supposition that a helicopter is simple to fly is incredibly ill-informed.
Except, Delta Force is an Army detachment. The Army would give the Air Force a new chopper design right after they crammed a 120mm smoothbore Abrams main gun into their own pooper.
Poor design of equipment: How is a user supposed to know if the product is designed well? What's the metric they should check to see if it's ni-cad friendly?
Improper usage? Put in the batteries. Use till it stops. How is this usage improper?
Dumb battery chargers: Fair enough. I've got a pretty smart one, and I get great performance out of my NiMH AA's in most of my hardware.
So, the net effect is that the batteries (which are very frequently used in a multi-cell arrangement) appear to the non-multimeter-equipped person to have decreased charge carrying performance over time?
Gosh. Sounds just like the "memory effect" that people describe with NiCad batteries.
The technical detail is useful, but calling memory effect a "myth" when actually it's a pretty accurate description of what users observe under service conditions is just sorta silly.
Gosh. here is a rear hub that costs $164 bucks. And it's Japanese. And it doesn't have a generator.
I think you could probably think of something a little less stupid to criticize America for.
Looks like a flashlight to me. Maybe you're projecting.
NP. Always happy to have a polite discussion. But then I come to /. Guess I'm a glutton for punishment. : )
And those regulations were lobbied for by...guess who? The insurance industry.
There are all kinds of stupid drivers out there. Me, I think we should make it way harder to be a driver.
A profit cap is not a free market, it is a control on a corporation that is profiteering in a non-free market.
I don't begrudge you the right to purchase insurance if you want it. I begrudge the insurance companies their legal entitlement to my dollars.
Nuh uh.
If your premiums are so low, you must not have made a claim in the last 14 years.
I base my contention on the fact that many insurers pay out 20-40% of their gross as settlements. That's a lot of overhead. (or profit.)
I think that if we're required by law to do business with a (car) insurance agency, that agency should not be permitted to seek a profit. After all...we like free markets, don't we?
Those five people are a lot cheaper to bribe^h^h^h^h^h lobby.
Telcos like technocrats.
A list of verified working numbers...that will cost them lots of money (hundreds or thousands of dollars) every time they use it, and has a high probability of being answered by a very hostile individual.
How is this a winning strategy for the telemarketers?
You're assuming it's a dish.
It's not. It's a phased array antenna. It's flat. And horizontal. You know, like a car roof.
Read the damn article.
This one is also not a three foot sphere. It's a phased array antenna a few inches thick, small enough to fit atop a passenger car.
So, yeah, this IS new. Useless to me, but new nonetheless.
So you're relying on the insurance company to not rob you silly every month?
You're insane. I can't imagine a more corrupt organization that I'm legally required to do business with than car insurers. They're ALL crooks.
I don't care what the person on the other end of my phone (hypothetically speaking, as I don't have one) thinks. If I stop talking, it's because I'm doing something else. If they can't understand that, so what?
Would you argue that you shouldn't be allowed to have "focused" conversations with passengers?
As an aside, I don't understand why our hyper-smart phones nowadays don't have a "Push this button to record ten seconds of this call" feature.
I mean, ZERO PHONES have this. Am I stupid? Why doesn't this exist? Do they have this feature in Japan? If not, we're not going to see it here in the states for at least 10 years...
You might give some thought to the difference in required bandwidth.
This technology has been available for some time, but this is the first viable "consumer-level" (IE doesn't require an RV) solution.
Which you'd know if you'd read the article.
That's a great idea! Double the required bandwidth for your service, to provide a feature that 1/100 of your userbase will care about! You'll make MILLIONS!
But, it will cost you tens of millions to launch the extra satellites, so I think you're fooked.
Way to change your argument when somebody else proves that you're wrong.
I hated my parents' music, and they weren't a big fan of mine, when I took long road trips with them. I read better without the distraction, anyway.
I was very fortunate to not be one of the people who gets car sick reading. I'd have gone loony.
I understand your contention, that Democrats are more willing to hobble law enforcement than Republicans. However, they're also more willing to hobble my right to keep and bear arms, which I'm equally opposed to.
I will not vote merely for the lesser of two evils. I will not give my imprimatur to a candidate I do not believe in.