what if the camera loses its calibration? how do you fight that without knowing?
Some speed cams shoot pictures of you in certain positions, taggged with time hacks.
It is fairly simple math to show position 1 @ sec 2 vs. position 2 @ sec 4 and calculate speed.
With radar cams you can subpoena calibration records.
Do you have any proof or is this just speculation like most people who were caught speeding?
the police are perfectly within their rights to use highly efficient technology to catch those law breakers
While I agree that the police need appropriate tools and some latitude to do their jobs, I firmly believe their job is what the people (as in "we, the people") say it is. So whether speed cameras help their job depends on what their job is. My preference is for the police to concentrate on public safety, not revenue generation, so if the voters agree with me the police should only try to catch speeders to the extent necessary to keep the streets safe.
Maybe Police would have faster response time and more time in general to attend to real issues if they didn't have to manage people who speed all the time. Leave it to a computer/camera to take that effort instead.
I don't think it's the capping that is the only issue, but rather the pricing. It's hard to justify 100+ bucks for top tier service. We used to pay 20-30 bucks for 5, 7, or 10 Mb. In my area, bumping the 'stock' 10Mbps to 18 is $60. Going higher than that gets exorbitant.
If there was competition, this would no doubt change, but they have a virtual monopoly around here.
We also don't get those top tier speeds consistently either. During prime time everything slows down so how could someone justify this?
They take a good game and mess it up. Wonder what they will be doing this time
I'm not sure which game you're referring to? 10 million subscribers still for World of Warcraft. Diablo 3 top selling game of the year sold 12 million copies. You may not appreciate their work but obviously someone does.
Of course, left unsaid in all of this is... would Iran ever use a nuke?
Iran wants nukes for the same reason that the North Korea wants them, to keep the U.S. from ever invading their legs of the "Axis of Evil" (like they did with Iraq). And if you're a smaller country about the only way to ensure that the U.S. can't and won't invade is to have nukes.
So it's very unlikely that Iran would ever use its nukes. Merely having them would achieve their objective (stopping any invasion).
The US and other countries aren't afraid of Iran having nukes so they can invade. They are worried about the countries security. All it takes is a terrorist organization to hijack these missles, warheads, bombs and use them. That's why people were so worried when the USSR broke up. There were many unaccounted weapons around the country.
Ask Steam how they feel about that now that Microsoft is trying to run their own app/game store in Windows 8. They're definitely feeling the squeeze and are looking towards their own platform.
Just because Microsoft is not directly competing with these companies now doesn't mean they won't do it in the future.
What about the Apple store? The EA Store? I could go on. Steam is feeling the squeeze because they can't monopolize the industry on the crappy $5-10 games.
Because Linus knows what we all do, that this will end badly for RedHat. MS will come up with a reason to break booting RedHat later. No one plays with MS and comes out ahead.
10 years ago we all might agree with this but Microsoft has shown that they do place nice with others over the last few years. It's Linux that refuses to play nice with MS.
teachers need to be fired, the good ones leave for private and charter schools, the rest work just enough to make a long term contract then sit on their fat worthless asses.
Just cause you choose a profession does not mean you should be entitled to it for life if you do no perform, this is the exact opposite of the current situation
Most teachers have to deal with absolute terrible children. They get paid far too little when they are held personally responsible for a few hundred kids and their success.
I hate to say it, but Disney hasn't destroyed the Marvel franchise in my mind...they improved it. Disney is known for doing things well...I see Lucasfilms as being in good hands.
The only thing Disney is guilty of is making a PG13 movie close to PG. Other than that they protect their brand with solid films.
Personally, I'm of the exact opposite opinion. If you're gonna do an Episode VII, it has to have Han Solo in it. What I'm unsure of is bringing Harrison Ford back in. He was already a big part of ruining Indiana Jones for a current generation of moviegoers. I don't want to see a repeat performance with Star Wars.
Harrison Ford is an amazing actor. If it wasn't for him Star Wars would have been a complete flop. I noticed this after watching them start to finish almost 20 years later. But even good actors can have crappy movies if the script is terrible but ask yourself...how much worse would the Indiana Jones sequel been without their star?
Suppose a bar can never back up. Then its speed may vary enormously, making the visual how-done-am-I representation valueless.
It is HARD.
Define "fraction of job time done" numerically. Suppose you have to download 100 packages and then install them. How many % of the total should the download represent? Does the guy have cable or dialup? And how many % does the install represent? Does he have a slow USB hard drive or a ridiculously fast SSD? What if the first file downloads at 1 MBps and the 17th one at 139 Bps? I've seen that happen (varying server load, per-file mirrors). Which installs faster, a package containing 250 files totaling 10 MB, or a package containing 10 files totaling 100 MB - hint; it depends.
Generally, might as well show a rotating propeller or a cylon helmet moving dot, neither of which has a beginning or an end. Just an indication that something is going on, and the system doesn't look frozen. Maybe a couple of numbers under it showing # files done out of # total files.
Wouldn't their time be better spent developing the product and or fixing bugs than writing a extremely dead accurate progress bar? I mean we install the product once, and never see it again.
We are not the world's policeman or at least we shouldn't be and if we are we should resign. It is a thankless task and generally serves no useful purpose. Our country was not founded on the idea of policing the world. Let some other country spend all of their money on the world's "problems".
China is "destroying" the US because we suck at manufacturing and they don't. As a poor person I am quite happy that China is making affordable products. If it weren't for them I wouldn't be able to afford a goddamn thing. Not that rich people will shed a single tear about that.
China is good at manufacturing because they can employ slave labor tactics and have no EPA to regulate their waste. Have you seen their country lately? 4 smog alerts in January alone. The air quality in that country makes the worst city in the US look amazing.
So yes, China is good at manufacturing until their country collapses because all their overworked, underpaid factory workers die from the very air they breathe!
Every year or so Microsoft and the BSA roll out an updated report on the financial cost of software piracy. They make a similar argument, that someone who uses a pirated copy of MS Office would have otherwise bought an MS Office license. So they estimate the loss to the economy as # pirated copies * retail price of MS Office.
So it is interesting, and a bit of poetic justice, to apply that same logic to show the value of open source in the economy.
Certainly one could quibble with the exact figures, but it does show that the impact of open source is huge. But we already knew that, right?
So you have one application? Congrats.:)
Considering MS Office isn't recorded by downloads it would be interesting to see how many of these downloads are upgrades versus new users. Multiple downloads in the same household shouldn't count twice either because the Office license grants 2 installs in most cases. As it stands this raw data is fairly meaningless.
These kinds of decisions are obviously going to piss off customers. But Microsoft clearly feels they are untouchable.
This might be understandable if they weren't currently the not-so-proud parent of a dismally failing tablet, a disaster of an operating system and a serial failure in the online space.
One would think that just maybe they should approach customers on the basis of what the customers want, and not what some repeat-disaster of a CEO thinks is good strategy.
This will be the year of the "upset" IMHO. Ouya and Steam look set to overthrow the aging behemoths. I look forward to healthy competition.
Tell me how many times you've traded games with others? I bet it's very low or none. I feel you people cry about features you've never taken advantage of and probably never will.
Microsoft and Sony want to destroy used game sales. The used game companies make more profit per game than the original game themselves yet no one seems to think there's anything wrong with it.
If a tabled is a computer, so it my microwave oven. They both have processors, and my oven even has a keyboard (and it's user programmable).
So is my car. It has a built in computer. Touch screen with programmable options including inside my steering wheel. So I guess my car has overtaken the Ipad in sales!
This calls for Impeachment and trial of everyone involved. It will not happen of course, because murder is not as big a deal as getting a blowjob from an intern.
Because this policy couldn't possibly be carried over, modified, updated from a previous policy we've had for years?
Look at the products Oracle made themselves and not those they acquired from Sun. They're greedy.
You mean that company Sun which was bleeding $$$ and soon to go bankrupt? Oracle gave them new life, jobs and a chance to develop the products and bring them to market again.
Java... free. VirtualBox... free. Oracle Linux... free. How can you say they're greedy?
On Windows, Java installs the Ask Toolbar (for now - other times it installs other shit) every time it updates to a new version unless the user realizes Oracle is a two bit hole in the wall company and unchecks the default boxes to opt out. That's greedy. To an even greater extent that's sleazy and just...trashy.
It hasn't been installing the ASK now toolbar for months. Try grabbing the latest version from Oracle's website.
If there are security vulnerabilities discovered in update 13 then it will likely be blocked as well.
As well it should be. People have been putting up with Oracle's lackadaisical approach to bug-fixing for far too long already. Playing nice hasn't worked, now it is time to haul out the big guns.
You mean Sun. Oracle has been pushing hard to rectify bugs, security holes, etc in Sun's software.
Or Windows. This is the result of a decision made by Apple Corp. to make this happen.
This came just as several hundred school teachers in my district were sitting down to enter grades into their Infinite Campus gradebooks at the end of the marking period. Apple's decision is playing havoc with their ability to use this Java-based application on their Apple MacBook Pros.
Tim Cook's son pushed this through so he could escape being grounding for poor grades for 1 more week!
Translation: Firefox provides secure behavior by default; if you want to do insecure stuff with plugins, you can, but you have to explicitly tell it so in the configuration settings.
Why is this a problem?
Yet they don't force you to upgrade their own web browser to the latest version. Seems fairly hypocritical to me.
Maybe they should stop publishing any random idiot who makes music. It's their greed trying to get money from anyone with a microphone. Focus on developing true talent instead of writing songs for someone pretty who sells on looks alone.
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what if the camera loses its calibration? how do you fight that without knowing?
Some speed cams shoot pictures of you in certain positions, taggged with time hacks. It is fairly simple math to show position 1 @ sec 2 vs. position 2 @ sec 4 and calculate speed.
With radar cams you can subpoena calibration records.
Do you have any proof or is this just speculation like most people who were caught speeding?
While I agree that the police need appropriate tools and some latitude to do their jobs, I firmly believe their job is what the people (as in "we, the people") say it is. So whether speed cameras help their job depends on what their job is. My preference is for the police to concentrate on public safety, not revenue generation, so if the voters agree with me the police should only try to catch speeders to the extent necessary to keep the streets safe.
Maybe Police would have faster response time and more time in general to attend to real issues if they didn't have to manage people who speed all the time. Leave it to a computer/camera to take that effort instead.
I don't think it's the capping that is the only issue, but rather the pricing. It's hard to justify 100+ bucks for top tier service. We used to pay 20-30 bucks for 5, 7, or 10 Mb. In my area, bumping the 'stock' 10Mbps to 18 is $60. Going higher than that gets exorbitant.
If there was competition, this would no doubt change, but they have a virtual monopoly around here.
We also don't get those top tier speeds consistently either. During prime time everything slows down so how could someone justify this?
They take a good game and mess it up. Wonder what they will be doing this time
I'm not sure which game you're referring to? 10 million subscribers still for World of Warcraft. Diablo 3 top selling game of the year sold 12 million copies. You may not appreciate their work but obviously someone does.
Maybe this will be World of Starcraft! I have long thought that it was the next evolution of that franchise.
It will probably be the Bungie and Blizzard collaboration that has yet to be announced. The signed on to develop a game together a couple years back.
Israel has enough weapons already. 1 bomb is enough.
Of course, left unsaid in all of this is... would Iran ever use a nuke?
Iran wants nukes for the same reason that the North Korea wants them, to keep the U.S. from ever invading their legs of the "Axis of Evil" (like they did with Iraq). And if you're a smaller country about the only way to ensure that the U.S. can't and won't invade is to have nukes.
So it's very unlikely that Iran would ever use its nukes. Merely having them would achieve their objective (stopping any invasion).
The US and other countries aren't afraid of Iran having nukes so they can invade. They are worried about the countries security. All it takes is a terrorist organization to hijack these missles, warheads, bombs and use them. That's why people were so worried when the USSR broke up. There were many unaccounted weapons around the country.
Ask Steam how they feel about that now that Microsoft is trying to run their own app/game store in Windows 8. They're definitely feeling the squeeze and are looking towards their own platform.
Just because Microsoft is not directly competing with these companies now doesn't mean they won't do it in the future.
What about the Apple store? The EA Store? I could go on. Steam is feeling the squeeze because they can't monopolize the industry on the crappy $5-10 games.
Because Linus knows what we all do, that this will end badly for RedHat. MS will come up with a reason to break booting RedHat later. No one plays with MS and comes out ahead.
10 years ago we all might agree with this but Microsoft has shown that they do place nice with others over the last few years. It's Linux that refuses to play nice with MS.
teachers need to be fired, the good ones leave for private and charter schools, the rest work just enough to make a long term contract then sit on their fat worthless asses.
Just cause you choose a profession does not mean you should be entitled to it for life if you do no perform, this is the exact opposite of the current situation
Most teachers have to deal with absolute terrible children. They get paid far too little when they are held personally responsible for a few hundred kids and their success.
I hate to say it, but Disney hasn't destroyed the Marvel franchise in my mind...they improved it. Disney is known for doing things well...I see Lucasfilms as being in good hands.
The only thing Disney is guilty of is making a PG13 movie close to PG. Other than that they protect their brand with solid films.
Personally, I'm of the exact opposite opinion. If you're gonna do an Episode VII, it has to have Han Solo in it. What I'm unsure of is bringing Harrison Ford back in. He was already a big part of ruining Indiana Jones for a current generation of moviegoers. I don't want to see a repeat performance with Star Wars.
Harrison Ford is an amazing actor. If it wasn't for him Star Wars would have been a complete flop. I noticed this after watching them start to finish almost 20 years later. But even good actors can have crappy movies if the script is terrible but ask yourself...how much worse would the Indiana Jones sequel been without their star?
Suppose a bar can never back up. Then its speed may vary enormously, making the visual how-done-am-I representation valueless.
It is HARD.
Define "fraction of job time done" numerically. Suppose you have to download 100 packages and then install them. How many % of the total should the download represent? Does the guy have cable or dialup? And how many % does the install represent? Does he have a slow USB hard drive or a ridiculously fast SSD? What if the first file downloads at 1 MBps and the 17th one at 139 Bps? I've seen that happen (varying server load, per-file mirrors). Which installs faster, a package containing 250 files totaling 10 MB, or a package containing 10 files totaling 100 MB - hint; it depends.
Generally, might as well show a rotating propeller or a cylon helmet moving dot, neither of which has a beginning or an end. Just an indication that something is going on, and the system doesn't look frozen. Maybe a couple of numbers under it showing # files done out of # total files.
Wouldn't their time be better spent developing the product and or fixing bugs than writing a extremely dead accurate progress bar? I mean we install the product once, and never see it again.
We are not the world's policeman or at least we shouldn't be and if we are we should resign. It is a thankless task and generally serves no useful purpose. Our country was not founded on the idea of policing the world. Let some other country spend all of their money on the world's "problems".
China is "destroying" the US because we suck at manufacturing and they don't. As a poor person I am quite happy that China is making affordable products. If it weren't for them I wouldn't be able to afford a goddamn thing. Not that rich people will shed a single tear about that.
China is good at manufacturing because they can employ slave labor tactics and have no EPA to regulate their waste. Have you seen their country lately? 4 smog alerts in January alone. The air quality in that country makes the worst city in the US look amazing. So yes, China is good at manufacturing until their country collapses because all their overworked, underpaid factory workers die from the very air they breathe!
Every year or so Microsoft and the BSA roll out an updated report on the financial cost of software piracy. They make a similar argument, that someone who uses a pirated copy of MS Office would have otherwise bought an MS Office license. So they estimate the loss to the economy as # pirated copies * retail price of MS Office.
So it is interesting, and a bit of poetic justice, to apply that same logic to show the value of open source in the economy.
Certainly one could quibble with the exact figures, but it does show that the impact of open source is huge. But we already knew that, right?
So you have one application? Congrats. :)
Considering MS Office isn't recorded by downloads it would be interesting to see how many of these downloads are upgrades versus new users. Multiple downloads in the same household shouldn't count twice either because the Office license grants 2 installs in most cases. As it stands this raw data is fairly meaningless.
These kinds of decisions are obviously going to piss off customers. But Microsoft clearly feels they are untouchable.
This might be understandable if they weren't currently the not-so-proud parent of a dismally failing tablet, a disaster of an operating system and a serial failure in the online space.
One would think that just maybe they should approach customers on the basis of what the customers want, and not what some repeat-disaster of a CEO thinks is good strategy.
This will be the year of the "upset" IMHO. Ouya and Steam look set to overthrow the aging behemoths. I look forward to healthy competition.
Tell me how many times you've traded games with others? I bet it's very low or none. I feel you people cry about features you've never taken advantage of and probably never will. Microsoft and Sony want to destroy used game sales. The used game companies make more profit per game than the original game themselves yet no one seems to think there's anything wrong with it.
If a tabled is a computer, so it my microwave oven. They both have processors, and my oven even has a keyboard (and it's user programmable).
So is my car. It has a built in computer. Touch screen with programmable options including inside my steering wheel. So I guess my car has overtaken the Ipad in sales!
1. The person who leaked this memo. . . .
Or Faked the memo...
This calls for Impeachment and trial of everyone involved. It will not happen of course, because murder is not as big a deal as getting a blowjob from an intern.
Because this policy couldn't possibly be carried over, modified, updated from a previous policy we've had for years?
Java... free.
Rebranded Sun Java that was already free.
VirtualBox... free.
Rebranded Sun VirtualBox that was already free.
Oracle Linux... free.
Rebranded Linux distro that was already free.
How can you say they're greedy?
Look at the products Oracle made themselves and not those they acquired from Sun. They're greedy.
You mean that company Sun which was bleeding $$$ and soon to go bankrupt? Oracle gave them new life, jobs and a chance to develop the products and bring them to market again.
Java... free. VirtualBox... free. Oracle Linux... free. How can you say they're greedy?
On Windows, Java installs the Ask Toolbar (for now - other times it installs other shit) every time it updates to a new version unless the user realizes Oracle is a two bit hole in the wall company and unchecks the default boxes to opt out. That's greedy. To an even greater extent that's sleazy and just...trashy.
It hasn't been installing the ASK now toolbar for months. Try grabbing the latest version from Oracle's website.
If there are security vulnerabilities discovered in update 13 then it will likely be blocked as well.
As well it should be. People have been putting up with Oracle's lackadaisical approach to bug-fixing for far too long already. Playing nice hasn't worked, now it is time to haul out the big guns.
You mean Sun. Oracle has been pushing hard to rectify bugs, security holes, etc in Sun's software.
Or Windows. This is the result of a decision made by Apple Corp. to make this happen.
This came just as several hundred school teachers in my district were sitting down to enter grades into their Infinite Campus gradebooks at the end of the marking period. Apple's decision is playing havoc with their ability to use this Java-based application on their Apple MacBook Pros.
Tim Cook's son pushed this through so he could escape being grounding for poor grades for 1 more week!
Translation: Firefox provides secure behavior by default; if you want to do insecure stuff with plugins, you can, but you have to explicitly tell it so in the configuration settings.
Why is this a problem?
Yet they don't force you to upgrade their own web browser to the latest version. Seems fairly hypocritical to me.
Maybe they should stop publishing any random idiot who makes music. It's their greed trying to get money from anyone with a microphone. Focus on developing true talent instead of writing songs for someone pretty who sells on looks alone.