It's a robot, does it drive an automatic or a manual transmission? If it's an American made robot I doubt it's programmed to operate a clutch.
Hey, I'm an American, functioning robot who learned early on in my programming to work a clutch. Unfortunately, Curiosity's steering wheel isn't left side mounted.;-(
Part of BMW's response FTFA:
"A vital point to acknowledge here is that there is no such thing as the ‘unstealable’ car, as Ron Cliff knows well. If a criminal decides they want your car, they will find a way to take it. Our job is to make it as difficult as possible."
Apparently, that means making it take three minutes, instead of, say, two and a half. Dare we dream one day of the car that can resist theft for... four minutes?
Repo guys use a flatbed truck that has forklift type blades that slip under the tires. Lifts the car out of any tight space without damage, in just a couple of minutes it's secured on the flatbed, being driven away, no key needed. Sophisticated car theft rings use this method.
How about just paying more attention to the battery, and charging it when it needs it?
Not good enough. I have an android phone, bought 2 extra batteries on Amazon for 15bucks, delivered. So now I don't have to sweat running out of battery if I'm not able to get to a plug. You ever see people freak out when their phone dies on them again before the end of the day. Nope, not me. If it doesn't have a removable battery, I ain't buying it.
Europe makes apple supply a usb convert connector, not for sale in the U.S. So what's the big deal with us not having usb? Answer has got to be that they make lots on selling new clock radios, cables, etc...
The first time I ever saw a digital (albeit a mechanical one) was on star trek.
That was the episode where they went back in time, and overshot time coming back. At the time that was cool and never seen before at the time, even though Sulu's clock was just numbers printed on spinning reels.
Teleportation is not gonna happen with current computer memory.To record every atom in a human body you'ld need so many terabyte hard drives that if you stacked them one on top of each other they'd go higher than the moon.
And does it work on SAAB cars? I was quoted $1500 to get a new key programmed.
The guy was a handy do-it-yourselfer type, had restored the car and rigged up the kill-switch/horn-blarer/light flashing system on his own. I remember he said it cost him about $60 in parts. It shouldn't be too hard to do. Google car kill switch or something and get some 'do it yourself' sites. Or pay a handy mechanic or car alarm guy to do it for you. Can't do this to a leased car or one the bank owns. The guy knew if he made the button low-key but obvious, if it ever got stolen, curiosity would finally get the better of the thief. Smart guy.
True story. Some years back in N.Y.C. thieves stole a restored vintage car, not knowing the owner had installed his own homemade anti-theft deterrent system. As they're tooling around in Manhattan, the thief who's driving sees a large unlabled red button mounted all by itself in the dash. The guy says to his buddy, "Hey,I wonder what this does...", and presses it. In the middle of a block the engine shuts down, the horn blares, and the car's lights keep flashing on and off. Unable to restart it, the thieves abandon the car, and that owner was laughing when he got it back, unscathed, the same day. So this story shows how you don't always need an expensive complicated alarm system to get the job done.
I found this turbolift answer on "The Trek BBS" http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=125056 I'd argue that one of the main advantages of the turbolift over today's elevators is a side product of this sideways capability, not the capability itself. Namely, a turbolift is an independently moving vehicle that can easily change lanes and sidestep other traffic. This easily increases the capacity of the shaft network tenfold at least over the "network" of a modern elevator where cars cannot sidestep or change lanes, but must wait behind each other or then have whole lanes dedicated to just one cab. Imagine what New York would look like if there could only ever be one taxi cab per lane.... The ability to sidestep, or to park on the curb, is probably why there's a horizontal stretch at Main Bridge level on the E-D ("Contagion"). The shaft to that compact topmost deck is vertical all right, but there's a horizontal staging area there as well, allowing a number of turbolifts to wait for passengers so that there never are delay at this important lift station.
I may be wrong, but with artificial gravity, you don't get knocked around in space like that. Your ship is in zero gravity, when the ship is hit, the impact is negated since the ship has an independent gravity.
So why didn't Star Fleet make like a thousand copies of Picard and have him captain a thousand Enterprises. The Borg would have been vanquished in just one 2 part episode. Just sayin'...
Trouble is, your head would arrive at the intended destination but your limbless and bloody torso would arrive somewhere in Cairo and your assorted arms and legs would be buffered indefinitely, only to ve lost for all time
James Doohan had a Q and A session with the audience at the very first Star Trek con, held in Manhattan. I was a goofy teenager then, so I goofily asked Scotty , "When you transport people, what keeps them from materializing with maybe an arm sticking out of their stomach?". It got a laugh from everyone, and Mr. Doohan too. And he assured me that the computers safegaurd against such a thing. So, you can sleep well tonight knowing that.:-)
That dumb bitch Siri that tries to communicate with you.
This morning on the WCBS 2 news, the newscasters did some off the cuff commenting after an iPhone story. Talking about Siri, Mary Calvi frowned, then said, "It doesn't work very well.". She's a smart and beautiful lady, and that was her honest opinion. Glad I went the android route, it hassaved me lots of money.
Who am I? I'm a man who doesn't get so angry with someone posting their opinion on/. that I lower myself to replying with derogatory comments. Really now, "freetard"? Did your level of maturity not grow past the fifth grade? And btw, it's spelled "investors", not investers. FTFY.
I think if this is a real threat, Apple already has an initial shipment in the air right now. They will have SOMETHING on the ground before Samsung's lawyers can get to court.
Then Samsung can sue for a large multi-billion settlement too. There would be a bit of irony if they did. "There is no 'good' karma. There is no 'bad' karma. There is just karma."
Donate them to some poor schools in a third world country.
Excellent idea! Mod up! Ship a boxful (with batteries) of them to a needy school system elsewhere in the world. It might be life changing technology for some deserving minds, ones that they might not ever be able to get their hands on otherwise. An excellent use of the "Pass It On" belief.
So if I read this right, this one Samsung patent could completely negate the recent Apple-Samsung patent U.S. court case. Why didn't these two companies realize this and come to some kind of truce before it ever got to court. Seems to me they may have wasted a whole lot of time, money and resources that could've gone toward better things. Maybe they were absent from their kindergarten class when they taught about 'cooperating' with their fellow classmates.
Apologies after you've already been caught shouldn't really count . ''I told the judge how sorry I was for robbing that bank, but he still gave me twenty years!".
Here's a thought, how about not lying in the first place? Does the phone's camera really suck that badly that you had to fake your ad? Whose decision to use the dslr was this really??
Depends how you look at it. On the one hand there is more copyright enforcement now, but on the other hand there is vastly more user generated content on the internet. So yes, more attempts to lock it down are being made, but at the same time vastly more people have the ability to put stuff up without paying for expensive hosting, understanding HTML or being able to encode video in a suitable format.
The likes of YouTube, for all their faults, have really opened up the internet for the majority of people.
Agreed, the net today is far larger and more complicated, and in most ways BETTER! than the early days. There's an awful lot of issues arising all the time that need to be lways dealt with, this issue is another. It's we're all doing that Star Trek thing, you know, boldly going where noone has gone before.:-)
And these are the painful first 'baby steps' of a possible unified people on this planet, that would be so great to see ideas like equality and love and respect for all life spread worldwide. Nothing worthwhile because ever comes easily.
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It's a robot, does it drive an automatic or a manual transmission? If it's an American made robot I doubt it's programmed to operate a clutch.
Hey, I'm an American, functioning robot who learned early on in my programming to work a clutch. Unfortunately, Curiosity's steering wheel isn't left side mounted. ;-(
Part of BMW's response FTFA: "A vital point to acknowledge here is that there is no such thing as the ‘unstealable’ car, as Ron Cliff knows well. If a criminal decides they want your car, they will find a way to take it. Our job is to make it as difficult as possible."
Apparently, that means making it take three minutes, instead of, say, two and a half. Dare we dream one day of the car that can resist theft for... four minutes?
Repo guys use a flatbed truck that has forklift type blades that slip under the tires. Lifts the car out of any tight space without damage, in just a couple of minutes it's secured on the flatbed, being driven away, no key needed. Sophisticated car theft rings use this method.
I submitted this for a story, may be redundant. Here's a link to the landing in enhanced 1080 hd video with sound effects added in. http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/curiosity-landing-video-gets-sound-visuals-enhanced-to-1080p-20120914/
How about just paying more attention to the battery, and charging it when it needs it?
Not good enough. I have an android phone, bought 2 extra batteries on Amazon for 15bucks, delivered. So now I don't have to sweat running out of battery if I'm not able to get to a plug. You ever see people freak out when their phone dies on them again before the end of the day. Nope, not me. If it doesn't have a removable battery, I ain't buying it.
Europe makes apple supply a usb convert connector, not for sale in the U.S. So what's the big deal with us not having usb? Answer has got to be that they make lots on selling new clock radios, cables, etc...
The first time I ever saw a digital (albeit a mechanical one) was on star trek.
That was the episode where they went back in time, and overshot time coming back. At the time that was cool and never seen before at the time, even though Sulu's clock was just numbers printed on spinning reels.
Teleportation is not gonna happen with current computer memory.To record every atom in a human body you'ld need so many terabyte hard drives that if you stacked them one on top of each other they'd go higher than the moon.
And does it work on SAAB cars? I was quoted $1500 to get a new key programmed.
The guy was a handy do-it-yourselfer type, had restored the car and rigged up the kill-switch/horn-blarer/light flashing system on his own. I remember he said it cost him about $60 in parts. It shouldn't be too hard to do. Google car kill switch or something and get some 'do it yourself' sites. Or pay a handy mechanic or car alarm guy to do it for you. Can't do this to a leased car or one the bank owns. The guy knew if he made the button low-key but obvious, if it ever got stolen, curiosity would finally get the better of the thief. Smart guy.
True story. Some years back in N.Y.C. thieves stole a restored vintage car, not knowing the owner had installed his own homemade anti-theft deterrent system. As they're tooling around in Manhattan, the thief who's driving sees a large unlabled red button mounted all by itself in the dash. The guy says to his buddy, "Hey,I wonder what this does...", and presses it. In the middle of a block the engine shuts down, the horn blares, and the car's lights keep flashing on and off. Unable to restart it, the thieves abandon the car, and that owner was laughing when he got it back, unscathed, the same day. So this story shows how you don't always need an expensive complicated alarm system to get the job done.
I found this turbolift answer on "The Trek BBS" http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=125056 I'd argue that one of the main advantages of the turbolift over today's elevators is a side product of this sideways capability, not the capability itself. Namely, a turbolift is an independently moving vehicle that can easily change lanes and sidestep other traffic. This easily increases the capacity of the shaft network tenfold at least over the "network" of a modern elevator where cars cannot sidestep or change lanes, but must wait behind each other or then have whole lanes dedicated to just one cab. Imagine what New York would look like if there could only ever be one taxi cab per lane.... The ability to sidestep, or to park on the curb, is probably why there's a horizontal stretch at Main Bridge level on the E-D ("Contagion"). The shaft to that compact topmost deck is vertical all right, but there's a horizontal staging area there as well, allowing a number of turbolifts to wait for passengers so that there never are delay at this important lift station.
Doctor McCoy had a little device that looked like a car cigarette lighter that could diagnose virtually any disease non invasively.
Which actually was a salt shaker from the Paramount studio commissary, and the prop guys rigged it with lights.
I may be wrong, but with artificial gravity, you don't get knocked around in space like that. Your ship is in zero gravity, when the ship is hit, the impact is negated since the ship has an independent gravity.
So why didn't Star Fleet make like a thousand copies of Picard and have him captain a thousand Enterprises. The Borg would have been vanquished in just one 2 part episode. Just sayin'...
Indeed.
Trouble is, your head would arrive at the intended destination but your limbless and bloody torso would arrive somewhere in Cairo and your assorted arms and legs would be buffered indefinitely, only to ve lost for all time James Doohan had a Q and A session with the audience at the very first Star Trek con, held in Manhattan. I was a goofy teenager then, so I goofily asked Scotty , "When you transport people, what keeps them from materializing with maybe an arm sticking out of their stomach?". It got a laugh from everyone, and Mr. Doohan too. And he assured me that the computers safegaurd against such a thing. So, you can sleep well tonight knowing that. :-)
That dumb bitch Siri that tries to communicate with you.
This morning on the WCBS 2 news, the newscasters did some off the cuff commenting after an iPhone story. Talking about Siri, Mary Calvi frowned, then said, "It doesn't work very well.". She's a smart and beautiful lady, and that was her honest opinion. Glad I went the android route, it hassaved me lots of money.
My buddy's wife will have sex with him only when he brings home a half gallon of ice cream for her. Yes, she's fat. He's happy.
Who am I? I'm a man who doesn't get so angry with someone posting their opinion on /. that I lower myself to replying with derogatory comments. Really now, "freetard"? Did your level of maturity not grow past the fifth grade? And btw, it's spelled "investors", not investers. FTFY.
I think if this is a real threat, Apple already has an initial shipment in the air right now. They will have SOMETHING on the ground before Samsung's lawyers can get to court.
Then Samsung can sue for a large multi-billion settlement too. There would be a bit of irony if they did. "There is no 'good' karma. There is no 'bad' karma. There is just karma."
Pathetic.
Think different. Think BETTER. Think Apple!
Let me guess, you own stock in Apple, don't you?
Donate them to some poor schools in a third world country.
Excellent idea! Mod up! Ship a boxful (with batteries) of them to a needy school system elsewhere in the world. It might be life changing technology for some deserving minds, ones that they might not ever be able to get their hands on otherwise. An excellent use of the "Pass It On" belief.
So if I read this right, this one Samsung patent could completely negate the recent Apple-Samsung patent U.S. court case. Why didn't these two companies realize this and come to some kind of truce before it ever got to court. Seems to me they may have wasted a whole lot of time, money and resources that could've gone toward better things. Maybe they were absent from their kindergarten class when they taught about 'cooperating' with their fellow classmates.
That video was faked, slashdot covered this one months ago.
Apologies after you've already been caught shouldn't really count . ''I told the judge how sorry I was for robbing that bank, but he still gave me twenty years!". Here's a thought, how about not lying in the first place? Does the phone's camera really suck that badly that you had to fake your ad? Whose decision to use the dslr was this really??
I must apologize for any typos/misplaced words in my posts. I'm having some device problems, it seems.
Depends how you look at it. On the one hand there is more copyright enforcement now, but on the other hand there is vastly more user generated content on the internet. So yes, more attempts to lock it down are being made, but at the same time vastly more people have the ability to put stuff up without paying for expensive hosting, understanding HTML or being able to encode video in a suitable format.
The likes of YouTube, for all their faults, have really opened up the internet for the majority of people.
Agreed, the net today is far larger and more complicated, and in most ways BETTER! than the early days. There's an awful lot of issues arising all the time that need to be lways dealt with, this issue is another. It's we're all doing that Star Trek thing, you know, boldly going where noone has gone before. :-)
And these are the painful first 'baby steps' of a possible unified people on this planet, that would be so great to see ideas like equality and love and respect for all life spread worldwide. Nothing worthwhile because ever comes easily.