Whole class got that question wrong except me (spent so long making the program that muscle memory meant it was quicker for me to do the math manually).
Same thing would happen with me. When I cheated by programming the calculator, I found I didn't need to cheat because it taught me how to do the problems. There were several exams I would go in with a loaded calculator, and come out with an A having not used any of the things I had programmed into them.
I graduated before you, but needed the Graphics Calculator for a couple of my classes. If you weren't in the AP Calculus classes though you wouldn't have needed one. They didn't use them in the algebra and geometry classes.
The problem is, some teachers could almost be accused of "promoting" overly casual correspondence with the kids in an attempt to look "hip" and to "connect with" the students.
My son's sarcasm and lack of correctness took a nose dive the last year of elementary school, his teacher was a bad influence and encouraged sarcasm, and lack of respect for authorities. Something we've seen continue into middle school where we are confounded by the teachers there who seem to find my son's lack of respect for them amusing. (he doesn't understand why he can't come home and use the same lack of respect and sarcasm towards us that his teachers find amusing). I don't think some of these teachers realize the disservice they are doing the kids.
When they get a job in the real world, 9 times out of 10, their employers won't be impressed with sarcasm, lack of proper communication skills, and lack of respect.
I am in favour of auto-updating Windows, don't get me wrong; however, it could be catastrophic if anyone ever manages to figure out a way to spread a virus via the auto update.
I'm not sure the technical route someone would have to take to do this; If, perhaps someone could somehow infect a DNS server to treat an infected server as a Microsoft update server.
If you're going to give all of the details of your entire life to Google in exchange for some minor convenience, why not start in grade school?
Starts before grade school. Ok, maybe Grade school before google itself spies on you, but with the likes of Spy-On-Me Elmo and No Privacy Barbie being connected to the internet for very young kids. (there was a case of one of these young kid, internet connected toys getting publicly hacked recently) your loss of privacy these days starts at birth.
200 people every night? Like they have to stand in line every night to get a bed? This is one reason that all the temporary shelter solutions don't work. Every evening, the homeless have to stand in line for the chance at getting a place. And every morning they get tossed back out on the street. And maybe they don't get one, so they have to find a warm doorway quickly. Pretty soon they just say, "Fuck it. Not worth the trouble." And move back under the freeway where they can stake out a (relatively) permanent campsite.
I in no way admire or support ISIS in any way, they're scum of the earth. However, with that said, they treat their homeless better.
ISIS consider it their responsibility to feed, house, and clothe anyone in their territory who is unable to do it themselves. They consider themselves religious bound.
If you're homeless in ISIS territory, they give you a home. Granted, the home probably belonged to a previously homeless man who was used as a suicide bomber before you arrived and they'll probably pressure you to do something that will end up getting yourself killed.
He needs cheap workers that will work for pennies and be thankful for his next packing warehouse, now that outsourcing into Mexico isn't feasible anymore.
Based on what I've heard about how much Amazon pays, I think most of the people in the homeless shelter will be Amazon employees. If they were honest they'd call it Employee housing.
Did you see the unbelievably life-like color in those samples? The shot of the Taj Mahal is especially stunning.
Have you ever seen the first photograph ever taken? If I recall, it was a view looking out a window in France. It looks like a swirl of grey with almost no definition. Certainly, unless you're specifically told what you're looking at, no one would ever guess.
I don't know. I read the article but I'm guessing:
I doubt the "paper" is very thick, It probably wouldn't work if the paper was thick, has to be thin for the tiny crystal towers, if they were tall, I imagine colour would look wrong from an angle... The printer will probably not end up being much larger, again I don't know, but lasers can be pretty compact, think of your Sony Discman... or rather travel back to 1990 and think of your Sony Discman.
I think the biggest problem: how much does the "paper" cost. If you're paying more for paper than you do for paper and ink now then it might have difficulty taking off. There again, ink is by far the most expensive part now and you're removing that.
The paper is also reusable, how many sheets of paper are wasted because someone forgot to set a margin.
Best of all, it works with human controlled vehicles too. There's going to be a lot of them on the road for decades even if we have AI cars available to the public tomorrow.
We have them in the US. While great in theory, American's -- excepting a small number of nutcases -- mostly loathe them. If traffic is light, they are an unnecessary nuisance and if traffic is heavy, judging the proper speed and timing to enter traffic flow is difficult and requires skills approximating those of a professional race driver. They also tend to baffle GPS which is a real problem when encountering one of these monstrosities in a strange town.
They might, and I emphasize MIGHT, work well with fully automated traffic control.
I understand that Americans don't like roundabouts. I've lived in various different countries in my life, and I've noticed Americans don't like them. I put it down to unfamiliarity. They're not difficult to use, they're just "unfamiliar" to use. People in places where they exist much prefer them, because they do make so much more sense.
If you're not used to driving on them, because you only encounter them once in a blue-moon (or even if you encounter them daily, but there are people on them who don't know what they're doing), I can see it looking more difficult to navigate than it is. They're disliked because they're outside the normal comfort zone. It's like driving a big truck after years driving a subcompact car. It feels weird, it feels uncomfortable to drive because you're not sure where your vehicle boundaries are.
The solution to people being uncomfortable with them, is having more of them. I don't think you will find anyone in Europe who says roundabouts are difficult to navigate. Europe HAS to use them because they have higher population densities in most places and traffic lights are so inefficient comparatively. America has got away without them because they don't deal with the same # of cars per mile of road (in many locations) - and where they do have the population density, they have a population that don't want to learn something new, like a traffic circle.
Synchronized lights can be bad if the timing is bad for the distance between lights.
There is a stretch of about 5 miles I go to take the kids to school where, if I hit red for the first traffic light, I will hit EVERY traffic light. The time it takes to start from a stop at that first light and accelerate to the next light, is just enough time for the next light to turn red right before you get there.
On the other hand, if I get through the first light on green, I won't hit a single red light until the very last light before the school (a perpendicular busy road that stops me no matter what). You sail on through the intersections, watching them turn amber and then red in your rearview right after you pass them.
It's rather famous for this, so that first light on the road always has people running it when it's red. No one wants 7 or 8 minutes added on a 7 minute stretch of road.
I can see, long before autonomous cars being the only cars on the road, sections of cities being only accessible by vehicle, if the vehicle is electric and autonomous.
I think we'll see "smart zones" within city centres that are limited to smart cars long before the majority of people are diving such cars. It will start in some progressive cities as a means to cut pollution and congestions and gradually spread to be the norm in most high density population centers.
I think they're trying to differentiate themselves. I agree, not for me, I don't use any of those social media apps and have no desire to integrate my browser with them.
The problem for them is, their market share is tiny compared to Chrome. They need to do something different to stand out or people will, for the most part, use Chrome.
We do have them in the US. I've been stuck in traffic jams where they exist. Problem is, people in the circle have priority, so if one road has a LOT of cars coming in, nobody else can get into the circle until they exit.
There are some, yes, but very few in most parts of the country, and because there are very few, most people don't know how to use them properly. If they were more common, I think the population would know how to use them.
When I do see them around here, everyone stays in the outside lane. Almost no one utilizes the inside lane. I think their adoption along with education would be a smart idea. Doesn't completely solve all traffic problems, no one solution ever will, but they are way more efficient than traffic lights.
Very few pedestrians in most parts of the South where study was done, they probably didn't consider pedestrians. I've found in South Carolina, where sidewalks actually exist they're more for decoration than to be used. They're usually at a 30 degree incline slopping towards the road (and thus much more comfortable to walk on road rather than on the incline) or they just randomly start and stop every few blocks with no continuity, requiring you to walk through tall grass full of ticks (or the road) for half your journey.
Greenville itself may only have 100k (don't know the statistic), but the city with all it's satellite suburb towns is closer to 1 million. That said, Greenville has much better traffic than other cities of similar size. Unlike most places they usually plan ahead and expand roads before they're needed, instead of waiting until 10 years after the expansion is needed.
It's not "Small town America" it's "midsized city America". A lot more people live across the country in cities smaller than 3 million than live in cities of more than 3 million people.
Will the same solution work in New York City? Probably, probably not. It would certainly require a lot more processing.
Intelligent Intersections Already Exist, they're called "Roundabouts" or "Traffic Circles" depending on your geographic location.
In most cases they eliminate the need for idling cars, they process much more cars per minute than a traditional traffic light, all cars can go through at an intelligent speed without the need for computers or artificial intelligence calculating algorithms.
Best of all, it works with human controlled vehicles too. There's going to be a lot of them on the road for decades even if we have AI cars available to the public tomorrow.
It's really quite ridiculous we don't have more of them in the US instead of four-way stops and traffic lights.
Just think of all the money we'd save on electricity if everyone just glowed in the dark.
The movie industry would have a new scape goat for theatres not filling. It's too bright in the cinema with everyone glowing, no one can see the picture.
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Whole class got that question wrong except me (spent so long making the program that muscle memory meant it was quicker for me to do the math manually).
Same thing would happen with me. When I cheated by programming the calculator, I found I didn't need to cheat because it taught me how to do the problems. There were several exams I would go in with a loaded calculator, and come out with an A having not used any of the things I had programmed into them.
I graduated before you, but needed the Graphics Calculator for a couple of my classes. If you weren't in the AP Calculus classes though you wouldn't have needed one. They didn't use them in the algebra and geometry classes.
Meh! Graphing Calculator we used (think it was an HP) allowed for programming on it. So we played games on it during class.
Then when it was time for exams, we wrote the formulas we were supposed to memorise into programs on the calculator.
I think you missed the point. It appears AC was deliberately making as many mistakes as possible.
The problem is, some teachers could almost be accused of "promoting" overly casual correspondence with the kids in an attempt to look "hip" and to "connect with" the students.
My son's sarcasm and lack of correctness took a nose dive the last year of elementary school, his teacher was a bad influence and encouraged sarcasm, and lack of respect for authorities. Something we've seen continue into middle school where we are confounded by the teachers there who seem to find my son's lack of respect for them amusing. (he doesn't understand why he can't come home and use the same lack of respect and sarcasm towards us that his teachers find amusing). I don't think some of these teachers realize the disservice they are doing the kids.
When they get a job in the real world, 9 times out of 10, their employers won't be impressed with sarcasm, lack of proper communication skills, and lack of respect.
I am in favour of auto-updating Windows, don't get me wrong; however, it could be catastrophic if anyone ever manages to figure out a way to spread a virus via the auto update.
I'm not sure the technical route someone would have to take to do this; If, perhaps someone could somehow infect a DNS server to treat an infected server as a Microsoft update server.
If you're going to give all of the details of your entire life to Google in exchange for some minor convenience, why not start in grade school?
Starts before grade school. Ok, maybe Grade school before google itself spies on you, but with the likes of Spy-On-Me Elmo and No Privacy Barbie being connected to the internet for very young kids. (there was a case of one of these young kid, internet connected toys getting publicly hacked recently) your loss of privacy these days starts at birth.
a coincidence? I think not.
Surly APPLE should have the leg up on school linked names.
Move with the times FLAC is SOOOOOO May 11th.
Can Amazonians wear trash bags and burlap sacks to work now?
Only if they bought them online.
200 people every night? Like they have to stand in line every night to get a bed? This is one reason that all the temporary shelter solutions don't work. Every evening, the homeless have to stand in line for the chance at getting a place. And every morning they get tossed back out on the street. And maybe they don't get one, so they have to find a warm doorway quickly. Pretty soon they just say, "Fuck it. Not worth the trouble." And move back under the freeway where they can stake out a (relatively) permanent campsite.
I in no way admire or support ISIS in any way, they're scum of the earth. However, with that said, they treat their homeless better.
ISIS consider it their responsibility to feed, house, and clothe anyone in their territory who is unable to do it themselves. They consider themselves religious bound.
If you're homeless in ISIS territory, they give you a home. Granted, the home probably belonged to a previously homeless man who was used as a suicide bomber before you arrived and they'll probably pressure you to do something that will end up getting yourself killed.
He needs cheap workers that will work for pennies and be thankful for his next packing warehouse, now that outsourcing into Mexico isn't feasible anymore.
Based on what I've heard about how much Amazon pays, I think most of the people in the homeless shelter will be Amazon employees. If they were honest they'd call it Employee housing.
Did you see the unbelievably life-like color in those samples? The shot of the Taj Mahal is especially stunning.
Have you ever seen the first photograph ever taken? If I recall, it was a view looking out a window in France. It looks like a swirl of grey with almost no definition. Certainly, unless you're specifically told what you're looking at, no one would ever guess.
I don't know. I read the article but I'm guessing:
I doubt the "paper" is very thick, It probably wouldn't work if the paper was thick, has to be thin for the tiny crystal towers, if they were tall, I imagine colour would look wrong from an angle... The printer will probably not end up being much larger, again I don't know, but lasers can be pretty compact, think of your Sony Discman... or rather travel back to 1990 and think of your Sony Discman.
I think the biggest problem: how much does the "paper" cost. If you're paying more for paper than you do for paper and ink now then it might have difficulty taking off. There again, ink is by far the most expensive part now and you're removing that.
The paper is also reusable, how many sheets of paper are wasted because someone forgot to set a margin.
Best of all, it works with human controlled vehicles too. There's going to be a lot of them on the road for decades even if we have AI cars available to the public tomorrow.
We have them in the US. While great in theory, American's -- excepting a small number of nutcases -- mostly loathe them. If traffic is light, they are an unnecessary nuisance and if traffic is heavy, judging the proper speed and timing to enter traffic flow is difficult and requires skills approximating those of a professional race driver. They also tend to baffle GPS which is a real problem when encountering one of these monstrosities in a strange town.
They might, and I emphasize MIGHT, work well with fully automated traffic control.
I understand that Americans don't like roundabouts. I've lived in various different countries in my life, and I've noticed Americans don't like them. I put it down to unfamiliarity. They're not difficult to use, they're just "unfamiliar" to use. People in places where they exist much prefer them, because they do make so much more sense.
If you're not used to driving on them, because you only encounter them once in a blue-moon (or even if you encounter them daily, but there are people on them who don't know what they're doing), I can see it looking more difficult to navigate than it is. They're disliked because they're outside the normal comfort zone. It's like driving a big truck after years driving a subcompact car. It feels weird, it feels uncomfortable to drive because you're not sure where your vehicle boundaries are.
The solution to people being uncomfortable with them, is having more of them. I don't think you will find anyone in Europe who says roundabouts are difficult to navigate. Europe HAS to use them because they have higher population densities in most places and traffic lights are so inefficient comparatively. America has got away without them because they don't deal with the same # of cars per mile of road (in many locations) - and where they do have the population density, they have a population that don't want to learn something new, like a traffic circle.
Synchronized lights can be bad if the timing is bad for the distance between lights.
There is a stretch of about 5 miles I go to take the kids to school where, if I hit red for the first traffic light, I will hit EVERY traffic light. The time it takes to start from a stop at that first light and accelerate to the next light, is just enough time for the next light to turn red right before you get there.
On the other hand, if I get through the first light on green, I won't hit a single red light until the very last light before the school (a perpendicular busy road that stops me no matter what). You sail on through the intersections, watching them turn amber and then red in your rearview right after you pass them.
It's rather famous for this, so that first light on the road always has people running it when it's red. No one wants 7 or 8 minutes added on a 7 minute stretch of road.
I can see, long before autonomous cars being the only cars on the road, sections of cities being only accessible by vehicle, if the vehicle is electric and autonomous.
I think we'll see "smart zones" within city centres that are limited to smart cars long before the majority of people are diving such cars. It will start in some progressive cities as a means to cut pollution and congestions and gradually spread to be the norm in most high density population centers.
I think they're trying to differentiate themselves. I agree, not for me, I don't use any of those social media apps and have no desire to integrate my browser with them.
The problem for them is, their market share is tiny compared to Chrome. They need to do something different to stand out or people will, for the most part, use Chrome.
We do have them in the US. I've been stuck in traffic jams where they exist. Problem is, people in the circle have priority, so if one road has a LOT of cars coming in, nobody else can get into the circle until they exit.
There are some, yes, but very few in most parts of the country, and because there are very few, most people don't know how to use them properly. If they were more common, I think the population would know how to use them.
When I do see them around here, everyone stays in the outside lane. Almost no one utilizes the inside lane. I think their adoption along with education would be a smart idea. Doesn't completely solve all traffic problems, no one solution ever will, but they are way more efficient than traffic lights.
They already all got to the other side during my childhood.
Aside from the obvious pedestrian issues
Very few pedestrians in most parts of the South where study was done, they probably didn't consider pedestrians. I've found in South Carolina, where sidewalks actually exist they're more for decoration than to be used. They're usually at a 30 degree incline slopping towards the road (and thus much more comfortable to walk on road rather than on the incline) or they just randomly start and stop every few blocks with no continuity, requiring you to walk through tall grass full of ticks (or the road) for half your journey.
Greenville itself may only have 100k (don't know the statistic), but the city with all it's satellite suburb towns is closer to 1 million. That said, Greenville has much better traffic than other cities of similar size. Unlike most places they usually plan ahead and expand roads before they're needed, instead of waiting until 10 years after the expansion is needed.
It's not "Small town America" it's "midsized city America". A lot more people live across the country in cities smaller than 3 million than live in cities of more than 3 million people.
Will the same solution work in New York City? Probably, probably not. It would certainly require a lot more processing.
Intelligent Intersections Already Exist, they're called "Roundabouts" or "Traffic Circles" depending on your geographic location.
In most cases they eliminate the need for idling cars, they process much more cars per minute than a traditional traffic light, all cars can go through at an intelligent speed without the need for computers or artificial intelligence calculating algorithms.
Best of all, it works with human controlled vehicles too. There's going to be a lot of them on the road for decades even if we have AI cars available to the public tomorrow.
It's really quite ridiculous we don't have more of them in the US instead of four-way stops and traffic lights.
Red Light Cameras are already banned by the constitution in South Carolina where these tests were held.
Just think of all the money we'd save on electricity if everyone just glowed in the dark.
The movie industry would have a new scape goat for theatres not filling. It's too bright in the cinema with everyone glowing, no one can see the picture.