My point was that when funds were offered earlier to make a improvements to the central atrery and they were refused because Boston didn't want to tear down any buildings in exchange for a better freeway. So they purposely didn't build a normal freeway when given the chance and now billions are being spent.
There is no way that Big Dig style projects will be approved again. The Big Dig is a well recognized fiasco. There is no way that the federal government would allow a project of such magnitude to be paid for in each state simply to keep some buildings from being torn down. They'll tell them to tear the buldings down and have the people relocated. This is what happens in freeway projects elsewhere.
In fact, Boston is probably the reason your downtown doesn't
While we are at it, I live in Brookline, so I consider downtown Boston to be the downtown nearest to me since I regularly walk to it.
At least we're not being paid NOT to build a highway.
Actually, that is exactly what happened. Boston didn't want to make the sacrifices needed to have a real freeway going through downtown. Now they come up with the idea of an underground freeway, to not have to relocate anyone. This is crazy. Instead of having to make the hard decisions, billions upon billions of dollars are spent on a luxury that is only affordable because the federal government is funding it. If every city decided they wanted to move their freeway underground at great expense do you think that MA would support it?
In the Thinkpad, there is no internal antenna- the card simply juts out the side.
Depends on the Thinkpad. You can buy Thinkpads with built in 802.11b. No card jutting out. Of course not all Thinkpads have this, but it is certainly an option.
Ian is thinking that he could run both OS X and Windows on the same box. This would be accomplished via VirtualPC. But he figures that VirtualPC would run much faster since the box is an x86 box.
Actually a VMWare-type solution might be a better idea assuming that Windows could run on an Intel-based Mac box.
Basically he thinks that he could get the best of both worlds on a single box. I am not so sure that he is right.
Millikan didn't do anything other than publish the paper that Fletcher wrote. Fletcher performed the experiment. Later they agreed that Millikan could be sole author of Fletcher's paper. You would think that now that the truth is know people would give credit where it is due.
This article is based on ZERO facts. It is simply speculation inspired by reader response to a previous speculative article. Not only that, but this is ground that has been covered over and over again. Could Apple switch to x86? Yes. Do they already have a working version of all of OS X on x86? Probably, Darwin certainly works already. Would they allow the OS to run on cheapo clones? Not while Steve is in charge.
So what does this article bring us? Not much. The guy doesn't even seem to be aware of the even more frequent rumour that Apple will switch to IBM chips.
This story is actually less informative than previous articles on the subject.
My calculations give a much smaller number than 50 degrees. I am wondering where you start at though. The valley is below 5000 ft. Lake is at what, between 4200 and 4300? Also 4000 ft of elevation change isn't the same as 4000 ft of elevation gain. Do you mean gain? If you do then the average incline, assuming 5k round trip, is about 25 degrees. If you meant 2000 ft of gain, then your angle is only 13 degrees.
Are you going to disregard any studies that don't agree with your premise? This is what you seem to be doing, and it is flawed. You should be looking at all studies as you research your article. If you approach this with an open mind you will be better able to defend your position, assuming that you still cling to it after reading the evidence.
Here's a hypothetical for you. Lets say that you find 100 studies. As far as you can tell all of them are unbiased. They don't assume that video games are good or bad, they just want to measure the effects. Now lets say that 90 of the studies say that it turns out that video games are bad, and 10 say that they do more good than harm. Will you simply ignore the 90 studies because you don't agree with them?
I am not saying that games are good or bad. I am just saying that you approach seems strange to me. What kind of journalist are you?
That said, I will mention that waayyyy back when Doug;as Englebart was inventing the mouse at SRI he found that even if you give someone a messed up mouse that has funny movement, people learn to compensate for this within a minute or two. The conclusion was that using a mouse, even a messed up one, is incredibly easy. I really doubt that someone needs to play Diablo to "learn" how to use a mouse.
I am guessing that you don't work in the industry.
These measures are not "easily" put on a mag stripe card. You can't fit that data on the stripe itself, so you are going to have to store it on a back-end database. This would multiply the amount of data going back and forth on the network by a large nunmber (maybe 100 for a fingerprint) and put a huge strain on back-end systems. So no, the solution isn't easily done with a mag stripe card.
Add to this the fact that you can prove the presence of the card in on-line ordering situations. How can you do that with a mag stripe card? You can't. Of course currently almost nobody uses this feature so maybe you have a point for now. Wait a while and see if you still have one.
Does all this justify the expense of a smart card? Maybe not. So why are more and more cards being issued? Because you can put multiple applications of the same card, and loyalty otherwise known as tracking your purchases, is high on the list.
Finally somebody noticed the lack of logic in the grandparent post, which is currently sitting at +5 Insightful. I guess all you have to do on/. to get modded up without saying anything is scream that you are against "censorship" and then sprinkle some accusations against anyone who doesn't agree with your "I can handle immense amounts of sex and violence, and so can my kids" view of the world.
Anyone here who mentions "censorship" either hasn't taken the time to read the articles and understand what is going on, or doesn't understand what censorship is.
Are you really so caught up in our society that 5 seconds a couple times a day is that important to you? Some unsolicited advice: slow down. You are going to give yourself a heart attack.
I didn't know that this was going to switch from a technical discussion to making assumptions about my health.:) Maybe I notice it because I do smart card development, so I am not your usual observer, rather than that I am a time obsessed wacko.
That said, you have changed your numbers to bolster your argument. I still argue that I often reach for cash when I think that a credit card would take longer. You might not. That is fine. I can think that a smart card would be nice in such situations without being insane. Also, you are not going to have a heart attack for not agreeing with me.
transaction still takes less than 20 or 30 seconds
How about 2 seconds total? No mag stripe running out after 6 months? It would be noticably faster. It annoys me every time I use a credit card because I am aware of how much time is being wasted. If I am just grabbing a Coke at the 7-Eleven, I shouldn't have to double my time in the store by using a credit card, annoying everyone behind me in line.
The smart card could simply ask for a PIN or a fingerprint. It could even validate a signature, or show the clerk a photo of you. And it could use velocity checking to determine the interval for these sorts of checks so that it doesn't make every transaction an extra hassle.
Also this stops mafia-types from mass producing fake cards. At CTST this year an IBM team presented a paper in which they read the keys off several cards through RF leakage, making it easy to make fake cards. This would prevent such fake cards, at least until a way of faking these patterns comes about.
One of the nice things about a smart card system is that it doesn't have to go onlne for each transaction. From the descriptions it seems that this system does have to check with a database at the time of purchase. So the speedup from a smartcard is lost.
I worked as a "hasher" in the cafeteria where Jennifer Connelly ate breakfast. I agree that she looks amazing on film, but it must take some effort. She wasn't particularly radiant when asking why we were out of whatever cereal it was that she wanted. This was probably on purpose in order to not attract attention, but you honestly wouldn't look twice on a Sunday morning.
The bots profiled in the article all have source availible. Make your bots compete against those bots that are known to be good. You could even start by stealing some tricks from the champion bots.
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Cringely posts have really dropped off here after his son died. Previous to that we were getting one of two a month. This is the first one I have seen since the editors refused to run the articles about his son's death, and yes, they weren't OT. I think they realized that they were running almost anything he put up, which might have made some people a bit upset.
Anyhow, if they are going to run his stuff frequently again, an icon is certainly needed. This has been suggested before. I once submitted headshots of both RXC and David Letterman as evidence that either one could be used as an icon for the other. Nobody thought it was funny then, and I doubt that it would be funny now without the evidence.
Your advice reminds me of a common occurance in college. For dorm parties we were supposed to provide "equally attractive non-alcoholic beverages". The people buying beer would generally buy no-name soda and hardly anybody would drink it. I asked to be put in charge of the non-alcoholic beverages. I would buy a variety of juices, carbonated beverages, etc. Once I was in charge we ALWAYS ran out, while there was always leftover alcohol. Strangely this was never seen as evidence that the 5 to 1 budget discrepance was out of whack.
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There is no way that Big Dig style projects will be approved again. The Big Dig is a well recognized fiasco. There is no way that the federal government would allow a project of such magnitude to be paid for in each state simply to keep some buildings from being torn down. They'll tell them to tear the buldings down and have the people relocated. This is what happens in freeway projects elsewhere.
In fact, Boston is probably the reason your downtown doesn't
While we are at it, I live in Brookline, so I consider downtown Boston to be the downtown nearest to me since I regularly walk to it.
Actually, that is exactly what happened. Boston didn't want to make the sacrifices needed to have a real freeway going through downtown. Now they come up with the idea of an underground freeway, to not have to relocate anyone. This is crazy. Instead of having to make the hard decisions, billions upon billions of dollars are spent on a luxury that is only affordable because the federal government is funding it. If every city decided they wanted to move their freeway underground at great expense do you think that MA would support it?
Depends on the Thinkpad. You can buy Thinkpads with built in 802.11b. No card jutting out. Of course not all Thinkpads have this, but it is certainly an option.
We are right! Really we are! There is no reason why you shouldn't agree with us! Please!!! Pretty please?
Actually a VMWare-type solution might be a better idea assuming that Windows could run on an Intel-based Mac box.
Basically he thinks that he could get the best of both worlds on a single box. I am not so sure that he is right.
Millikan didn't do anything other than publish the paper that Fletcher wrote. Fletcher performed the experiment. Later they agreed that Millikan could be sole author of Fletcher's paper. You would think that now that the truth is know people would give credit where it is due.
So what does this article bring us? Not much. The guy doesn't even seem to be aware of the even more frequent rumour that Apple will switch to IBM chips.
This story is actually less informative than previous articles on the subject.
I miss the mountains.
Here's a hypothetical for you. Lets say that you find 100 studies. As far as you can tell all of them are unbiased. They don't assume that video games are good or bad, they just want to measure the effects. Now lets say that 90 of the studies say that it turns out that video games are bad, and 10 say that they do more good than harm. Will you simply ignore the 90 studies because you don't agree with them?
I am not saying that games are good or bad. I am just saying that you approach seems strange to me. What kind of journalist are you?
That said, I will mention that waayyyy back when Doug;as Englebart was inventing the mouse at SRI he found that even if you give someone a messed up mouse that has funny movement, people learn to compensate for this within a minute or two. The conclusion was that using a mouse, even a messed up one, is incredibly easy. I really doubt that someone needs to play Diablo to "learn" how to use a mouse.
These measures are not "easily" put on a mag stripe card. You can't fit that data on the stripe itself, so you are going to have to store it on a back-end database. This would multiply the amount of data going back and forth on the network by a large nunmber (maybe 100 for a fingerprint) and put a huge strain on back-end systems. So no, the solution isn't easily done with a mag stripe card.
Add to this the fact that you can prove the presence of the card in on-line ordering situations. How can you do that with a mag stripe card? You can't. Of course currently almost nobody uses this feature so maybe you have a point for now. Wait a while and see if you still have one.
Does all this justify the expense of a smart card? Maybe not. So why are more and more cards being issued? Because you can put multiple applications of the same card, and loyalty otherwise known as tracking your purchases, is high on the list.
Anyone here who mentions "censorship" either hasn't taken the time to read the articles and understand what is going on, or doesn't understand what censorship is.
I am sick of cash. :)
I didn't know that this was going to switch from a technical discussion to making assumptions about my health. :) Maybe I notice it because I do smart card development, so I am not your usual observer, rather than that I am a time obsessed wacko.
That said, you have changed your numbers to bolster your argument. I still argue that I often reach for cash when I think that a credit card would take longer. You might not. That is fine. I can think that a smart card would be nice in such situations without being insane. Also, you are not going to have a heart attack for not agreeing with me.
How about 2 seconds total? No mag stripe running out after 6 months? It would be noticably faster. It annoys me every time I use a credit card because I am aware of how much time is being wasted. If I am just grabbing a Coke at the 7-Eleven, I shouldn't have to double my time in the store by using a credit card, annoying everyone behind me in line.
In what case? If you could be more specific I could give you an answer.
Also this stops mafia-types from mass producing fake cards. At CTST this year an IBM team presented a paper in which they read the keys off several cards through RF leakage, making it easy to make fake cards. This would prevent such fake cards, at least until a way of faking these patterns comes about.
One of the nice things about a smart card system is that it doesn't have to go onlne for each transaction. From the descriptions it seems that this system does have to check with a database at the time of purchase. So the speedup from a smartcard is lost.
Are you also a step-child? If not then you weren't in the group being slighted.
I worked as a "hasher" in the cafeteria where Jennifer Connelly ate breakfast. I agree that she looks amazing on film, but it must take some effort. She wasn't particularly radiant when asking why we were out of whatever cereal it was that she wanted. This was probably on purpose in order to not attract attention, but you honestly wouldn't look twice on a Sunday morning.
My point wasn't so much that he and Ender could sit and talk about old times. It was that Bean could use the philotic web thing to fix Anton's key.
The bots profiled in the article all have source availible. Make your bots compete against those bots that are known to be good. You could even start by stealing some tricks from the champion bots.
Anyhow, if they are going to run his stuff frequently again, an icon is certainly needed. This has been suggested before. I once submitted headshots of both RXC and David Letterman as evidence that either one could be used as an icon for the other. Nobody thought it was funny then, and I doubt that it would be funny now without the evidence.
That would happen on occasion, but generally it wasn't the case.
Jarritos is high quality? I didn't know. Now Sangria Senorial, that is high quality. At least it usually is. I occasionally get a bad bottle.
Your advice reminds me of a common occurance in college. For dorm parties we were supposed to provide "equally attractive non-alcoholic beverages". The people buying beer would generally buy no-name soda and hardly anybody would drink it. I asked to be put in charge of the non-alcoholic beverages. I would buy a variety of juices, carbonated beverages, etc. Once I was in charge we ALWAYS ran out, while there was always leftover alcohol. Strangely this was never seen as evidence that the 5 to 1 budget discrepance was out of whack.