You can't sue if the indicated speed is +/-5% of the actual speed. Speedometers are not guaranteed to be precise. Federal regulation only requires them to be within 5%. Now, if you have a car that's also sold in the EU, you will invariably get a speedo that reads high. Their regs state that a speedo must be set such that A) it never reads less than the actual speed, and B) it never reads more than 110% of the actual speed. In other words, they're held to +10%/-0%
Hell, I drive a 20 year old volkswagen with pushrods, rocker arms, and 2 valves per cylinder. I can fix it by the roadside with beer cans and baling wire.... which is a good thing, because they crap out fairly often.... I can afford a better car, but in my mind a better car DOES NOT EXIST! Until they make a 4WD van with an engine in the back where it BELONGS, I will continue to drive my Syncro.
It's the nature of the federal regs. They allow a certain amount of error in speedometers, but the margin is skewed greatly towards OVER-reporting. It's something like -1mph/+8mph allowable deviation. BMW just figured out the possible variables, and said "fuckit, if we report -5mph, we'll always be compliant".
Slashdot janitors, hard at work. What I want to know is how did KDawson find the link to the story in order to include it in this one, and completely fail to read even the headline?
Considering the venue, you may well be expected to do a citizen's arrest
You're an idiot. No civilian is ever expected/required to make a citizens arrest, no matter what the circumstances.
I won't even begin to address the cockamamie notion that gun store clerks are required to be humorless drones ready to lock the doors and call 911 at the slightest hint of murder, as if they're DHS agents who hear someone say "hijacking".
I consider this a good law. AAA and other organizations have shown that even hands-free cellphone usage reduces reaction time
No, it's a bad law even if you believe any electronic noisemaker in your ear is distracting. The point is that even though the technical language of the anti-walkman law outlaws bluetooth headsets, the laws are enforced as if that were not the case. Good law should be clear in intent, and uniformly enforced.
Yes, because it takes *weeks* to draft a resignation letter...
It does take several minutes, at least, and requires a word processor and a printer. Again, it is funny how they all showed up to the meeting with resignation letters in their pockets.
This is just an extension of the state government's usual spendthrift habits. They've been taking the gasoline tax, intended for road repair and expansion, and spending it on all manner of non-road related projects.
I've always asked myself why the hell a mouse driver has to be 50 MEGAbytes, a keyboard driver 80 MEGAbytes, and don't even get me started on sound and video drivers...
Keyboard and mouse, you may have an argument. But sound and video drivers? Given that most audio hardware is entirely software driven and video drivers have to provide a fairly extensive DLL interface, why does this surprise you?
Tom Tom, maybe. They seem to make little beyond personal automotive navigators. Garmin has a much larger product line and could probably survive shrinkage of the "in 200 feet, turn left" market.
The US Census Bureau TIGER database has streets but not turn restriction info
My Garmin Nuvi doesn't have a very good grasp of turn restrictions either. It's constantly telling me to turn left across Santa Monica Blvd through the middle of a curbed, impassable median that was built in 2003. Likewise it wants me to turn left off Fairfax onto Wilshire, where it's been NO LEFT TURN for decades. Street map data just isn't all that great in general. What you're paying for is having it massaged into a format your device can use.
Yeah, they all do that. I work in nasty, stinky downtown Los Angeles, east of downtown proper. We're right next to the Coca-Cola bottling facility. I see truckloads of bottled Dasani water leave, but never see a tanker truck bring water in. They're just selling the same filtered municipal water they use to make soda, only without the CO2 and flavored corn syrup.
No, not like that at all. Apple largely sells consumer products. Garmin makes a lot of GPS units for commercial aviation, trucking, and marine applications.
Here's a question: are standalone GPS significantly better than a cell phone GPS?
Most standalone and cell phone GPS receivers are the same. Everyone is using a cheap commodity GPS receiver like the SiRFstar III. Dedicated GPS units often have a better antenna, but the data coming from the receiver is generally the same no matter what the device. Beyond that, it's all what you do with the data in software.
One of the best modern war dramas I've ever seen on TV was "Over there"..., too close to the truth for people's liking was also the reason I assume it was cancelled
No, I suspect it was canceled because it was typical Steven Bochco garbage. It wasn't fucking realistic. It was hyper-melodramatic and laughably cartoonish. Half the time we weren't even watching war, but some tedious homefront drama about wheelchair ramps, getting mugged in LA after going AWOL, or spouses cheating and drunk driving. Bochco couldn't even stay on fucking point and concentrate on the central theme, which was the war. The war was little more than a convenient plot generator for contrived situations where a bunch of doofuses with stupid nicknames for each other run around and yell and shoot, then make philosophical observations after the action. Gimme a fuckin' break. I've seen better portrayals of combat on The A Team.
Read the second link and also this if you think that. This article shows VR being used to help people with PTSD, so the realism can be viewed as relevant
You don't seem to understand why VR helps PTSD. The reason that works is because simulations are inconsequential and unreal. By repeatedly presenting a simulation that resembles a real traumatic event but is not traumatic, the brain dissociates the trauma from the memory of the event. The treatment works precisely because "video games" are not like real life and do not provoke the same responses.
The counter argument is, if it looks and sounds real enough, it will be treated as real by deep levels of your brain
It will never look and sound real enough to produce the same responses in your brain. I've seen the real thing, and not only is the noise, look, and the smell* of it not at all present in video games, but the most important thing--- the fact that it's real death forever right here--- will never be accurately modeled in a video game. Without these aspects, arguing that it can cause the same effects is ludicrous.
* mmmmm..... the waxy smell of burnt JP-8 and the ammonia smell of fired small arms ammunition....
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You can't sue if the indicated speed is +/-5% of the actual speed. Speedometers are not guaranteed to be precise. Federal regulation only requires them to be within 5%. Now, if you have a car that's also sold in the EU, you will invariably get a speedo that reads high. Their regs state that a speedo must be set such that A) it never reads less than the actual speed, and B) it never reads more than 110% of the actual speed. In other words, they're held to +10%/-0%
Hell, I drive a 20 year old volkswagen with pushrods, rocker arms, and 2 valves per cylinder. I can fix it by the roadside with beer cans and baling wire.... which is a good thing, because they crap out fairly often.... I can afford a better car, but in my mind a better car DOES NOT EXIST! Until they make a 4WD van with an engine in the back where it BELONGS, I will continue to drive my Syncro.
It's the nature of the federal regs. They allow a certain amount of error in speedometers, but the margin is skewed greatly towards OVER-reporting. It's something like -1mph/+8mph allowable deviation. BMW just figured out the possible variables, and said "fuckit, if we report -5mph, we'll always be compliant".
Slashdot janitors, hard at work. What I want to know is how did KDawson find the link to the story in order to include it in this one, and completely fail to read even the headline?
Considering the venue, you may well be expected to do a citizen's arrest
You're an idiot. No civilian is ever expected/required to make a citizens arrest, no matter what the circumstances.
I won't even begin to address the cockamamie notion that gun store clerks are required to be humorless drones ready to lock the doors and call 911 at the slightest hint of murder, as if they're DHS agents who hear someone say "hijacking".
For a more accurate analogy however, if your alterations somehow caused you to stop paying taxes for the roads, then yes, that would too be illegal.
Incorrect. I can build an electric car and never pay taxes for the roads again (they come from fuel taxes). Electric cars are not illegal.
I consider this a good law. AAA and other organizations have shown that even hands-free cellphone usage reduces reaction time
No, it's a bad law even if you believe any electronic noisemaker in your ear is distracting. The point is that even though the technical language of the anti-walkman law outlaws bluetooth headsets, the laws are enforced as if that were not the case. Good law should be clear in intent, and uniformly enforced.
Indeed, by the technical definition of "manipulate", so long as you massage without using your hands, you're in the clear...
recovering a loss qualifies as a gain. It is, in fact, regaining.
Yes, because it takes *weeks* to draft a resignation letter...
It does take several minutes, at least, and requires a word processor and a printer. Again, it is funny how they all showed up to the meeting with resignation letters in their pockets.
This is just an extension of the state government's usual spendthrift habits. They've been taking the gasoline tax, intended for road repair and expansion, and spending it on all manner of non-road related projects.
I've always asked myself why the hell a mouse driver has to be 50 MEGAbytes, a keyboard driver 80 MEGAbytes, and don't even get me started on sound and video drivers...
Keyboard and mouse, you may have an argument. But sound and video drivers? Given that most audio hardware is entirely software driven and video drivers have to provide a fairly extensive DLL interface, why does this surprise you?
this reminded me to NEVER upgrade an OS. Reinstall after good backups and a list of all actively used programs.
Hard drives are so cheap, I don't understand why people don't just fresh install to a new drive and keep the old to migrate the data from.
If you think the iPhone is bad, my G1, an actual Android device, is nearly worthless
Really? I got sub 10 meter accuracy from my G1 sitting in my living room. Same with my G2. What are you using to measure the accuracy?
Verizon isn't the only carrier with an Android 2.0 OS phone, they are just the first.
Tom Tom, maybe. They seem to make little beyond personal automotive navigators. Garmin has a much larger product line and could probably survive shrinkage of the "in 200 feet, turn left" market.
The US Census Bureau TIGER database has streets but not turn restriction info
My Garmin Nuvi doesn't have a very good grasp of turn restrictions either. It's constantly telling me to turn left across Santa Monica Blvd through the middle of a curbed, impassable median that was built in 2003. Likewise it wants me to turn left off Fairfax onto Wilshire, where it's been NO LEFT TURN for decades. Street map data just isn't all that great in general. What you're paying for is having it massaged into a format your device can use.
Yeah, they all do that. I work in nasty, stinky downtown Los Angeles, east of downtown proper. We're right next to the Coca-Cola bottling facility. I see truckloads of bottled Dasani water leave, but never see a tanker truck bring water in. They're just selling the same filtered municipal water they use to make soda, only without the CO2 and flavored corn syrup.
Granted, Holland is a small country
"Small" doesn't even begin to cover it. Holland is roughly half the size of the Los Angeles/Orange County metropolitan area.
No, not like that at all. Apple largely sells consumer products. Garmin makes a lot of GPS units for commercial aviation, trucking, and marine applications.
Here's a question: are standalone GPS significantly better than a cell phone GPS?
Most standalone and cell phone GPS receivers are the same. Everyone is using a cheap commodity GPS receiver like the SiRFstar III. Dedicated GPS units often have a better antenna, but the data coming from the receiver is generally the same no matter what the device. Beyond that, it's all what you do with the data in software.
One of the best modern war dramas I've ever seen on TV was "Over there"..., too close to the truth for people's liking was also the reason I assume it was cancelled
No, I suspect it was canceled because it was typical Steven Bochco garbage. It wasn't fucking realistic. It was hyper-melodramatic and laughably cartoonish. Half the time we weren't even watching war, but some tedious homefront drama about wheelchair ramps, getting mugged in LA after going AWOL, or spouses cheating and drunk driving. Bochco couldn't even stay on fucking point and concentrate on the central theme, which was the war. The war was little more than a convenient plot generator for contrived situations where a bunch of doofuses with stupid nicknames for each other run around and yell and shoot, then make philosophical observations after the action. Gimme a fuckin' break. I've seen better portrayals of combat on The A Team.
your mom
no, that would be a vagitarian
Read the second link and also this if you think that. This article shows VR being used to help people with PTSD, so the realism can be viewed as relevant
You don't seem to understand why VR helps PTSD. The reason that works is because simulations are inconsequential and unreal. By repeatedly presenting a simulation that resembles a real traumatic event but is not traumatic, the brain dissociates the trauma from the memory of the event. The treatment works precisely because "video games" are not like real life and do not provoke the same responses.
The counter argument is, if it looks and sounds real enough, it will be treated as real by deep levels of your brain
It will never look and sound real enough to produce the same responses in your brain. I've seen the real thing, and not only is the noise, look, and the smell* of it not at all present in video games, but the most important thing--- the fact that it's real death forever right here--- will never be accurately modeled in a video game. Without these aspects, arguing that it can cause the same effects is ludicrous.
* mmmmm..... the waxy smell of burnt JP-8 and the ammonia smell of fired small arms ammunition....