I suppose that taxis will eventually need to go to a credit card system. If you order a cab via uber, cancel when the driver is close or is at the pickup location, your account will still be debited the cost of the trip.
Crap, that is the 1st link. I saw Lincoln stand up and speak at Walt Disney World back in 1973, and it was amazing to see, for the time. People in the audience thought it was a human actor. To learn from the Ars article how all his movements were synced up on a master audio tape was interesting. Amazing tech for the time.
... Second. Who the hell ever pulled up to a stop while riding and thought "Fuck. I have to put my feet down again!"?
A guy I knew once told me that when he lived in Germany, he'd get very drunk every night after work, drive home on a road that he'd figured out the timing of the traffic lights so well that he never had to put his foot down even once. The only problem was he'd forget to put his foot down when he got to his destination.. So every night the homeowners knew when he arrived in the garage by hearing him and his cycle fall over.:-)
You're damned right that I'm using a broad brush here. I'm using it because it applies broadly. Where have God-damned morals gone? Just because someone can code on a computer does not exempt them from being moral. Just because someone pays a brilliant programmer to insert code that does not serve the greater good of humanity does not mean that programmer can just ignore the possible damage his program will inflict upon his fellow human beings.
But as long as that programmer's getting paid, it's okay, right? Hey, it'll be someone else's problem to deal with, right?
Thanks for really screwing up the promise of the Great Internet! Worldwide connectedness, people around the globe coming together, mutual sharing of ideas, peace and love, etcetera. And the internet had such promise, in the beginning.
Now, it's just a way to eavesdrop on us, track all we do and where we go. I know there are many smart nerds out there still fighting the good fight for freedom, but it seems it's not enough to hold back the ones who think controlling the populace through technology is their God given right as Masters Of The Universe.
A decade or so ago insurance companies put real time video cameras in people's cars. They saw that the average time spent not looking out the windshield before having an accident was 2 seconds.
A month ago I upgraded my 3+ year old Android 2.2 basic starter smartphone to a Samsung S3 (which just upgraded to 4.4.2). Cellphones, be it Apple, Android or other, are all antennaed mini-computers (with a phone 'app') "App" players. Apple products were too expensive for me, Androids had more user controlled capability. The S3 is powerful enough to run Mame and Nintendo64/ Playstation roms, has a good size screen for watching video, and a 64gb sd card capability. This'll probably stay as my phone for several years.
I don't care what you have as long as it works for your needs.
Mmm, maybe. Not that I was looking out for anything at the time, I am aware of my surroundings, it was a very quiet street, there weren't other vehicles around me. It's possible I missed a secreted vehicle. Since this is a site for tech 'nerds' (I'm a wannabe nerd'), is it possible they had locked onto my phone's signal to monitor the comings and goings of phones at that location? That would be easier.
About a month ago, while driving a medical taxi, I was sent to an address. No one responded except a very lethargic acting woman, so I left. About a mile or so away an unmarked police car pulls me over and two plainclothes officers walk up on either side. I ask, "What'd I do?", the cop hesitates, then says, "Erratic driving". At this I frown at the officer, show him my license, then he asks me what I was doing at that house, reciting the exact address. I look at him and say, "It's a drug house, right?", he realizes I'm driving a medical taxi and then I'm free to go.
The point is my they knew exactly where I stopped at, and located me quite easily to pull me over (my 3g was off at the time). These are the times we live in nowadays...k
Years after the 9/11 attack, I talked with a young National Guard soldier whose patrol was the New York City subway system. He told me how he was trained, if need be, to shoot to kill a baby in a stroller. As he told me this, I remember how his eyes had an eerie, haunted look.
There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?". In terms of molecular dynamics and thermodynamics it is possible to justify various different views that it is a highly viscous liquid, an amorphous solid, or simply that glass is another state of matter that is neither liquid nor solid. The difference is semantic. In terms of its material properties we can do little better. There is no clear definition of the distinction between solids and highly viscous liquids. All such phases or states of matter are idealisations of real material properties. Nevertheless, from a more common sense point of view, glass should be considered a solid since it is rigid according to everyday experience. The use of the term "supercooled liquid" to describe glass still persists, but is considered by many to be an unfortunate misnomer that should be avoided. In any case, claims that glass panes in old windows have deformed due to glass flow have never been substantiated. Examples of Roman glassware and calculations based on measurements of glass visco-properties indicate that these claims cannot be true. The observed features are more easily explained as a result of the imperfect methods used to make glass window panes before the float glass process was invented.
Dianne Feinstein is refuting Snowden's claim that he made any attempts to alert higher ups. The NSA claims it can only come up with one email from Snowden. Perhaps the NSA's data collection isn't up to snuff after all?
If, as the bus is beginning to pull out, I can get the bus drivers attention by honking as I safely pull ahead of it, that's acceptable. They want to serve their customers also.
It isn't luck, ColdSam, it's the skill of driving experience, not at all like shooting a gun into the air. It's knowing your limitations, and knowing the roads you drive. Where you can safely drive faster than the posted limit, and where you certainly need to drive the posted limit, or even slower. Needing to get a passenger to a train/bus/ferry on time is part of the job, happens to me once every couple weeks. If there's another taxi hanging at the depot I'll radio in to them to try to hold the connection. If the customer misses it, they miss it, oh well. Getting my passengers to their destination alive is of course the only important thing. Avoiding potholes to give them the best ride possible is part of the driving skill humans still have overd computers at the moment. Suggesting good local places to stop at is another. I and the drivers in my company are not at all like the movie versions of cabdrivers. We're real people who have roots in our community that we serve. We're not just some random cabdriver that tries to make a fast buck from you.
So, what, finally, happened?
The final chronology is this:
BAT triggered on a low-siginifance event near M31. These are probably spurious but occasionally real.
Swift spun round to point at the location BAT identified, and found a known X-ray source.
Due to problems with the normal data products, only low-quality data were available. These data suggested that the X-ray object was much brighter than normal: an outbursting source.
I managed to analyse the problematic data, and found that the source was not in outburst. This was announced.
The full dataset became available and confirmed that the X-ray object is not in outburst.
I have the Asus Memopad also. What's really good about it, besides a 10 hour battery life, is it's powerful enough to run Mame old school videogames. It can get vendors handle Nintendo 64 rooms well. Minimal bloatware that's actually functional, $140, 32gb SDcard, great screen and viewing angles for movies, what else do you need in a tablet?
I posted today between calls, while l'm parked. I use a Bluetooth earpiece while driving, Cool as slashdot can be, it can wait until I have pulled over and have absolutely nothing else to do.
I look forward to the future, autodriving cars, era. I have experience in many careers, and cabdriving is just what I do now because A: Enjoy driving B: I deal with a variety of people, most all of them very nice, and C: I get off on helping people get what they need to do get done, always have. You can have some amazing conversations with perfect strangers, people will really open up to their cabdriver. Like a bartender, part of the job is helping others by giving advice, playing psychologist at times. The hope is that by the time I get them where they need to go, they have had a good cab experience, and just maybe, have a different more positive attitude about things in their life.
All in all it's not a bad gig. I meet some of the nicest people, make an honest living doing it, and sometimes I get to help people out. For 30 years I'd done home improvement work, roofing/ siding / windows/ framing, etc. Hard, physically demanding work. Now I sit on my butt and drive people around, and they smile and thank me as they gladly hand me money. So if my sin in life is occasionally going over the legal speed limit in order to serve my customers better, and no one gets hurt by that..., I'll just have to serve a few extra days in hell for that after I die.
You haven't had me as your driver! It's against the law here in the U.S. to use a device while driving, but the customer can check MTA's website enroute.;^)
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I suppose that taxis will eventually need to go to a credit card system. If you order a cab via uber, cancel when the driver is close or is at the pickup location, your account will still be debited the cost of the trip.
Crap, that is the 1st link. I saw Lincoln stand up and speak at Walt Disney World back in 1973, and it was amazing to see, for the time. People in the audience thought it was a human actor. To learn from the Ars article how all his movements were synced up on a master audio tape was interesting. Amazing tech for the time.
arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2014/06/how-disney-built-and-programmed-an-animatronic-president/
... Second. Who the hell ever pulled up to a stop while riding and thought "Fuck. I have to put my feet down again!"?
A guy I knew once told me that when he lived in Germany, he'd get very drunk every night after work, drive home on a road that he'd figured out the timing of the traffic lights so well that he never had to put his foot down even once. The only problem was he'd forget to put his foot down when he got to his destination.. So every night the homeowners knew when he arrived in the garage by hearing him and his cycle fall over. :-)
I've heard that if all you had to eat today was an average size can of beans, then you ate better than over half the people in the entire world.
Music is music, no matter what form it is created from. The masses decide whether said music is "good".
But as long as that programmer's getting paid, it's okay, right? Hey, it'll be someone else's problem to deal with, right?
Now, it's just a way to eavesdrop on us, track all we do and where we go. I know there are many smart nerds out there still fighting the good fight for freedom, but it seems it's not enough to hold back the ones who think controlling the populace through technology is their God given right as Masters Of The Universe.
A decade or so ago insurance companies put real time video cameras in people's cars. They saw that the average time spent not looking out the windshield before having an accident was 2 seconds.
I don't care what you have as long as it works for your needs.
Mmm, maybe. Not that I was looking out for anything at the time, I am aware of my surroundings, it was a very quiet street, there weren't other vehicles around me. It's possible I missed a secreted vehicle. Since this is a site for tech 'nerds' (I'm a wannabe nerd'), is it possible they had locked onto my phone's signal to monitor the comings and goings of phones at that location? That would be easier.
The point is my they knew exactly where I stopped at, and located me quite easily to pull me over (my 3g was off at the time). These are the times we live in nowadays...k
So basically, is Apple's CEO saying that Apple users are idiots?
Years after the 9/11 attack, I talked with a young National Guard soldier whose patrol was the New York City subway system. He told me how he was trained, if need be, to shoot to kill a baby in a stroller. As he told me this, I remember how his eyes had an eerie, haunted look.
Grace who? She must have been extremely famous, since I have never heard of her...
Well then, time to educate yourself...
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html
http://www.sfgate.com/nation/a...
If, as the bus is beginning to pull out, I can get the bus drivers attention by honking as I safely pull ahead of it, that's acceptable. They want to serve their customers also.
Why wouldn't an autonomous car be able to avoid potholes?
I really don't know, can they?
It isn't luck, ColdSam, it's the skill of driving experience, not at all like shooting a gun into the air. It's knowing your limitations, and knowing the roads you drive. Where you can safely drive faster than the posted limit, and where you certainly need to drive the posted limit, or even slower. Needing to get a passenger to a train/bus/ferry on time is part of the job, happens to me once every couple weeks. If there's another taxi hanging at the depot I'll radio in to them to try to hold the connection. If the customer misses it, they miss it, oh well. Getting my passengers to their destination alive is of course the only important thing. Avoiding potholes to give them the best ride possible is part of the driving skill humans still have overd computers at the moment. Suggesting good local places to stop at is another. I and the drivers in my company are not at all like the movie versions of cabdrivers. We're real people who have roots in our community that we serve. We're not just some random cabdriver that tries to make a fast buck from you.
So, what, finally, happened? The final chronology is this: BAT triggered on a low-siginifance event near M31. These are probably spurious but occasionally real. Swift spun round to point at the location BAT identified, and found a known X-ray source. Due to problems with the normal data products, only low-quality data were available. These data suggested that the X-ray object was much brighter than normal: an outbursting source. I managed to analyse the problematic data, and found that the source was not in outburst. This was announced. The full dataset became available and confirmed that the X-ray object is not in outburst.
I have the Asus Memopad also. What's really good about it, besides a 10 hour battery life, is it's powerful enough to run Mame old school videogames. It can get vendors handle Nintendo 64 rooms well. Minimal bloatware that's actually functional, $140, 32gb SDcard, great screen and viewing angles for movies, what else do you need in a tablet?
I posted today between calls, while l'm parked. I use a Bluetooth earpiece while driving, Cool as slashdot can be, it can wait until I have pulled over and have absolutely nothing else to do.
All in all it's not a bad gig. I meet some of the nicest people, make an honest living doing it, and sometimes I get to help people out. For 30 years I'd done home improvement work, roofing/ siding / windows/ framing, etc. Hard, physically demanding work. Now I sit on my butt and drive people around, and they smile and thank me as they gladly hand me money. So if my sin in life is occasionally going over the legal speed limit in order to serve my customers better, and no one gets hurt by that..., I'll just have to serve a few extra days in hell for that after I die.
You haven't had me as your driver! It's against the law here in the U.S. to use a device while driving, but the customer can check MTA's website enroute. ;^)