While I agree that one might assume the Pedestrian detection system might be part of the City package - I have to say that the owner was a dumbass.
Did you go out and try the airbags to show them off to your friends?
As for anti-lock brakes - when I purchased a car with this feature, Yes, I did try them out. I never had them before. First I found an empty parking lot and drove slowly, tried them, drove faster, tried them again. Drove in a circle - tried them. Each time making sure there was enough room *just in case* something didn't work as expected. I did NOT drive full tilt at a wall !!!
Maybe these features are complicated enough we need training.
I remember the first time my traction control was activated in a time of need. My car has a lot of horsepower - but the Stability system turns the engine down and applies the brakes to bring the car under control. Not a wonderful feature when trying to pull into a lane and "full power" is required. The car went idle and coasted for a few seconds because the wheels spun on black-ice. Thankfully there was room for this mistake. Now I know and anticipate it. The system can't tell the difference between "I'm out of control" and "Get me out of here now!" Just need to be quick on the "ESP" on/off button.
The more I see this happen - the more I think we need to change the economy for stolen data. Remember when they stopped arresting prostitutes and targeted the John's ? Locks can be picked and there to keep honest people honest. Credit monitoring must be pretty cheap as more companies buy it as an insurance product. This data is going to be stolen !
Now we need to make it worthless.
In the world of digital "signup on the web" stolen data can be used pretty quickly. Like the bad checks loop hole (popular on Craigslist and others). The detection of bad id's needs to be easier and products for purchase harder to get. There are days that I believe the 3 credit reporting agencies are responsible - they created a market & product that is easy to abuse. Yes - I can flag my credit rating (even "lock" it) - but then my life becomes difficult.
Maybe a smartApp that allows easier monitoring and blocking of requests. My AMEX credit card already gives real time purchase details on my phone. This might aid in detection.
Now - how to reduce the value of the products? (or increase the cost to acquire). And just maybe - make it expense for the companies that hold this data to the point they find another way.
I too knew the answer of North Pole - but suspected it was a trick question. My "second" guess was about relative position. If memory serves - the Earth rotates East. Therefore if you walked West at an appropriate speed you could maintain your position relative to the plane tangent to the surface. Kind of like a circus animal that walks on a large Ball or treadmill. The animal stays on top (yet moves through space) on the ball - or treadmill, you maintain a constant position in the room while the floor moves. So if you walked South --- then West -- then North you would wind up in 3D space in the original relative position.
The more I thought about this though, the speed of your walk would need to be faster during the West journey. Your North/South walk would produce a Zig shape. It isn't sqrt(2) - you trace a isosceles triangle (non-right triangle) and North/South must be the same length.
I'm ignoring the arc as 1 mile doesn't seem significant.
I was going to suggest contacting the pump vendor and see if they have a solution. It might be considered cheaper to pay this guy than it is to fix the problem.
Or - get a dozen of those new Intel PCs on a stick. Rather than running a dozen wires across the parking lot to trip on or finding a managed switch that can support that many VLANs - just create PC dongles.
The uploading software is probably hard coded to look for this well known IP address. It's possible that they are all direct connect (aka don't care IP) - but I wouldn't be surprised if not.
I call bullshit. This person sounds more like a bully salesperson. While I may not use *chalk* - we all use "whiteboard" markers. My children use chalk in the drive-way to express themselves - and I may, [ahem], play along. Cursive? My 4 year old has no problem reading my cursive when I draw letters in chalk on the driveway. When digital fails it is nice to have a backup plan.
Somewhere was an article that writing things down helped with retention of new concepts.
I can agree with her point that we use digital pens - when designing (software) I use a bamboo as a virtual whiteboard to collaborate with people across the globe.
Plus - she used "in the cloud" during the presentation. It was sales !! Not "research says"
Over the weekend I heard a different take on this (Reply All podcast). For Hasidic Jews - the internet contains immoral content. While they have their own websites that meet religious requirements, there is a company that builds special blocking software for accessing more public websites (Amazon was the example). For example it causes images of people to appear as blacked out - just in case it was a scantily-clad woman.
It is like net-nanny on steroids. Except steroids are immoral so it would be - not that.
Yes - and.... These seismic activities take place - which they measure. Are they not Forecasting which one will become an Earthquake? A tropical storm begins to form (Prediction by your definition) - and then teams begin to Forecast its path, how strong, and other damages (storm surge etc).
Does a "tropical storm" form beneath the earth - these gases, heat, micro-quakes. And from that information Forecast "this will be an earthquake, it will take place [here], and damages are likely to be [y]" ?
Scientists have been predicting a big quake in California for years. It will be an interesting future. "Make sure you have your hard hat and survival gear today, the quake outlook appears to be 70% and could reach magnitude 4.4 for those in the valley"
ah yes - I had a similar experience. Little known is the quality of the Keurig. They stop working. My previous one had to be replaced after 5 years - and the replacement is 2 years old. However my old style Filter "Mr coffee" pot still works after 15 years.
The printer ink analogy comparison isn't quite right. You can't buy ink at the store. However you can buy coffee everywhere - it existed before K-cups. It is an industry by god! While the grocery store now stock mostly K-cups -- coffee is available from plenty of shops. Their failure was attempting to DRM something regularly available from other sources. Maybe like music - you can buy CDs..but Apple made it dirt easy to buy. Did Keurig make it easy to *buy* coffee? (brew/make it --- yes). Now it is harder to buy - and more expensive. And they didn't solve the Eco problem.
But the point is...my experience around K-cup 2.0 is like yours. When I go to the store to buy cups it has become confusing. At least they gave them a different name. People buy me coffee as a present - v1.0 cups thankfully because that's all they know.
Recently we switched to a refillable K-cup and buy bulk coffee. The TCO hasn't been very good for these machines. Expensive up front purchase, expensive coffee pods, and relatively short life. Couple that with the new machine forcing you to buy the even-more expensive pods - and I just didn't see a reason to switch.
Thankfully some innovators have made a reusable coffee pod device that fits in the native hole. The one Keurig provides is a PITA to operate.
v1.0 doesn't exactly make the best tasting coffee. I heard v2.0 was better...but the cost doesn't make sense.
I just can't believe that FedEx/UPS isn't already doing something like this. Each driver carries a "mobile device" for which package pickup instructions are sent. "Please pickup 1 item at Business X" and later "Please pickup 2 items at Business X" Plus when the driver delivers the package they scan the item to mark it as delivered.
I know that Police cars and Fire trucks are "mobile things" - which are tracked and they know when they arrive at destination. AND - the Seattle bus system already tracks buses and sends you a text msg saying "the bus will be at your stop in 10 minutes" My friend has been using that app for many many years. Granted you aren't adding more items and exchanging money. But the prior art is thick.
and - what is the difference between a text message and email? If I had a web page that refreshed (polled) to show this status --- is that a new patent?
uh yes. The article states that the Mobile searches will be affected. I read another article that pointed out searches from a PC will give different results (mobile weighting isn't as important in the rankings).
By the sounds of it - you'll get different results depending upon the device used to search. Mobile search will favor mobile friendly results, PCs will favor...all of the crap worthy of being printed on the internet.
By little guy - I meant the actual employees. Not big-guy Sony Entertainment.
The emails of the employees doesn't sound like they were related to the policies of Sony Entertainment. While I haven't had [interest/time] to read the emails - none of the news articles I've read suggest anything interesting exists in this pile.
yeah - when they blow the door open on "big" govt and expose secrets kept from the people - we love them. When they expose the little guy - we don't like them.
Just because you come across stolen information doesn't mean you necessary can nor should share it with the world.
Does this email dump expose "Sony" or just prove what we already know - that we can all be dinks at times. News or Gossip?
I thought about that the other day. Not having plan B in their back pocket? All shows must come to an end - whether it be retirement or "ran long enough."
This is like not having a second datacenter - and no backup tape. Shit out of business.
but their creed (or motto?) was "if somebody dies, leave them behind"
Whether it be a car breaking down or somebody actually dead - they once said (several years back) that they had all sworn to keep going !!
However - Jeremy was kind of the leader. Hammond maybe could do it - would be strange. If it were me - I'd bail because I'd just "cock it up." Wouldn't want to be around as it fell down. Get out while on the top.
I saw an interview yesterday with Capt Slow on his front porch. He acknowledged the media reports and then said "If you'll excuse me I have a LaFerrari to list on eBay" and left.
Yes thank you. This is a classic mistake that many first time programmers make. Years ago somebody was comparing the speed of C++ over VBScript/IIS over Java for writing Web pages back to a browser. They too came to a similar conclusion - and also made the same mistake.
When writing to disk - the data is written once. The algorithm for in memory is not doing the same thing. It is allocating a new buffer - copying all data to said new buffer - and finally adding data to the end. If one compared the I/O of the two program executions the "in-memory" version would have many times MORE I/O.
Doing this:
Loop N.{ x = x + newValue}
Write(x) Will always be slower than
Loop N.{ Write(newValue) }
In C# and I think Java - there is an object called StringBuffer - and is intended for this kind of workload. The first thing I learned in data structures class was how to expand buffers using different algorithms and pro/con of each (heap design for instance, buddy system).
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While I agree that one might assume the Pedestrian detection system might be part of the City package - I have to say that the owner was a dumbass.
Did you go out and try the airbags to show them off to your friends?
As for anti-lock brakes - when I purchased a car with this feature, Yes, I did try them out. I never had them before. First I found an empty parking lot and drove slowly, tried them, drove faster, tried them again. Drove in a circle - tried them. Each time making sure there was enough room *just in case* something didn't work as expected. I did NOT drive full tilt at a wall !!!
Maybe these features are complicated enough we need training.
I remember the first time my traction control was activated in a time of need. My car has a lot of horsepower - but the Stability system turns the engine down and applies the brakes to bring the car under control. Not a wonderful feature when trying to pull into a lane and "full power" is required. The car went idle and coasted for a few seconds because the wheels spun on black-ice. Thankfully there was room for this mistake. Now I know and anticipate it. The system can't tell the difference between "I'm out of control" and "Get me out of here now!" Just need to be quick on the "ESP" on/off button.
It didn't eradicate it. However - the numbers of "users" dropped significantly. It was considered a turning point in how to deal with the problem.
The more I see this happen - the more I think we need to change the economy for stolen data. Remember when they stopped arresting prostitutes and targeted the John's ? Locks can be picked and there to keep honest people honest. Credit monitoring must be pretty cheap as more companies buy it as an insurance product. This data is going to be stolen !
Now we need to make it worthless.
In the world of digital "signup on the web" stolen data can be used pretty quickly. Like the bad checks loop hole (popular on Craigslist and others). The detection of bad id's needs to be easier and products for purchase harder to get. There are days that I believe the 3 credit reporting agencies are responsible - they created a market & product that is easy to abuse. Yes - I can flag my credit rating (even "lock" it) - but then my life becomes difficult.
Maybe a smartApp that allows easier monitoring and blocking of requests. My AMEX credit card already gives real time purchase details on my phone. This might aid in detection.
Now - how to reduce the value of the products? (or increase the cost to acquire).
And just maybe - make it expense for the companies that hold this data to the point they find another way.
I too knew the answer of North Pole - but suspected it was a trick question. My "second" guess was about relative position. If memory serves - the Earth rotates East. Therefore if you walked West at an appropriate speed you could maintain your position relative to the plane tangent to the surface. Kind of like a circus animal that walks on a large Ball or treadmill. The animal stays on top (yet moves through space) on the ball - or treadmill, you maintain a constant position in the room while the floor moves. So if you walked South --- then West -- then North you would wind up in 3D space in the original relative position.
The more I thought about this though, the speed of your walk would need to be faster during the West journey. Your North/South walk would produce a Zig shape. It isn't sqrt(2) - you trace a isosceles triangle (non-right triangle) and North/South must be the same length.
I'm ignoring the arc as 1 mile doesn't seem significant.
I was going to suggest contacting the pump vendor and see if they have a solution. It might be considered cheaper to pay this guy than it is to fix the problem.
Or - get a dozen of those new Intel PCs on a stick. Rather than running a dozen wires across the parking lot to trip on or finding a managed switch that can support that many VLANs - just create PC dongles.
The uploading software is probably hard coded to look for this well known IP address. It's possible that they are all direct connect (aka don't care IP) - but I wouldn't be surprised if not.
I call bullshit. This person sounds more like a bully salesperson. While I may not use *chalk* - we all use "whiteboard" markers. My children use chalk in the drive-way to express themselves - and I may, [ahem], play along. Cursive? My 4 year old has no problem reading my cursive when I draw letters in chalk on the driveway. When digital fails it is nice to have a backup plan.
Somewhere was an article that writing things down helped with retention of new concepts.
I can agree with her point that we use digital pens - when designing (software) I use a bamboo as a virtual whiteboard to collaborate with people across the globe.
Plus - she used "in the cloud" during the presentation. It was sales !! Not "research says"
Over the weekend I heard a different take on this (Reply All podcast). For Hasidic Jews - the internet contains immoral content. While they have their own websites that meet religious requirements, there is a company that builds special blocking software for accessing more public websites (Amazon was the example). For example it causes images of people to appear as blacked out - just in case it was a scantily-clad woman.
It is like net-nanny on steroids. Except steroids are immoral so it would be - not that.
> This is regulation in favor of the people. We don't see a lot of that and so it's a bit of a surprise.
Bernie for President !!!
Yes - and.... These seismic activities take place - which they measure. Are they not Forecasting which one will become an Earthquake? A tropical storm begins to form (Prediction by your definition) - and then teams begin to Forecast its path, how strong, and other damages (storm surge etc).
Does a "tropical storm" form beneath the earth - these gases, heat, micro-quakes. And from that information Forecast "this will be an earthquake, it will take place [here], and damages are likely to be [y]" ?
Scientists have been predicting a big quake in California for years. It will be an interesting future. "Make sure you have your hard hat and survival gear today, the quake outlook appears to be 70% and could reach magnitude 4.4 for those in the valley"
ah yes - I had a similar experience. Little known is the quality of the Keurig. They stop working. My previous one had to be replaced after 5 years - and the replacement is 2 years old. However my old style Filter "Mr coffee" pot still works after 15 years.
The printer ink analogy comparison isn't quite right. You can't buy ink at the store. However you can buy coffee everywhere - it existed before K-cups. It is an industry by god! While the grocery store now stock mostly K-cups -- coffee is available from plenty of shops. Their failure was attempting to DRM something regularly available from other sources. Maybe like music - you can buy CDs..but Apple made it dirt easy to buy. Did Keurig make it easy to *buy* coffee? (brew/make it --- yes). Now it is harder to buy - and more expensive. And they didn't solve the Eco problem.
But the point is...my experience around K-cup 2.0 is like yours. When I go to the store to buy cups it has become confusing. At least they gave them a different name. People buy me coffee as a present - v1.0 cups thankfully because that's all they know.
Recently we switched to a refillable K-cup and buy bulk coffee. The TCO hasn't been very good for these machines. Expensive up front purchase, expensive coffee pods, and relatively short life. Couple that with the new machine forcing you to buy the even-more expensive pods - and I just didn't see a reason to switch.
Thankfully some innovators have made a reusable coffee pod device that fits in the native hole. The one Keurig provides is a PITA to operate.
v1.0 doesn't exactly make the best tasting coffee. I heard v2.0 was better...but the cost doesn't make sense.
I just can't believe that FedEx/UPS isn't already doing something like this. Each driver carries a "mobile device" for which package pickup instructions are sent. "Please pickup 1 item at Business X" and later "Please pickup 2 items at Business X" Plus when the driver delivers the package they scan the item to mark it as delivered.
I know that Police cars and Fire trucks are "mobile things" - which are tracked and they know when they arrive at destination. AND - the Seattle bus system already tracks buses and sends you a text msg saying "the bus will be at your stop in 10 minutes" My friend has been using that app for many many years. Granted you aren't adding more items and exchanging money. But the prior art is thick.
and - what is the difference between a text message and email? If I had a web page that refreshed (polled) to show this status --- is that a new patent?
oh no - my mother always said that getting a tattoo was a bad idea! She said, "just you wait - you'll see."
uh yes. The article states that the Mobile searches will be affected. I read another article that pointed out searches from a PC will give different results (mobile weighting isn't as important in the rankings).
By the sounds of it - you'll get different results depending upon the device used to search. Mobile search will favor mobile friendly results, PCs will favor...all of the crap worthy of being printed on the internet.
By little guy - I meant the actual employees. Not big-guy Sony Entertainment.
The emails of the employees doesn't sound like they were related to the policies of Sony Entertainment. While I haven't had [interest/time] to read the emails - none of the news articles I've read suggest anything interesting exists in this pile.
TMZ might be interested in a few of the emails.
What about: Tab vs Spaces?
yeah - when they blow the door open on "big" govt and expose secrets kept from the people - we love them. When they expose the little guy - we don't like them.
Just because you come across stolen information doesn't mean you necessary can nor should share it with the world.
Does this email dump expose "Sony" or just prove what we already know - that we can all be dinks at times. News or Gossip?
and what sucks more is that these stories still exist in the timeline the day after.
I took yesterday off from /. because it was full of obviously silly stories. Thankfully no "real" news was mixed in.
Yeah - I took the day off from /.
So many were incomprehensible - it was apparent there wasn't any real news yesterday.
Yes - I was thinking something similar.
Backstory - his wife recently left him and took the car.
"Dear Slashdot - help me find a car that belongs to my employer"
I'll reply to this in just a minute. I'm still typing my 1,000 character /. password in.
oh wait - you already stole it from Adobe? damn.
Please wait while I create a new password, "Zza"
that'll keep you busy 'cause you probably start at 8 character guessing.
I thought about that the other day. Not having plan B in their back pocket? All shows must come to an end - whether it be retirement or "ran long enough."
This is like not having a second datacenter - and no backup tape. Shit out of business.
but their creed (or motto?) was "if somebody dies, leave them behind"
Whether it be a car breaking down or somebody actually dead - they once said (several years back) that they had all sworn to keep going !!
However - Jeremy was kind of the leader. Hammond maybe could do it - would be strange. If it were me - I'd bail because I'd just "cock it up." Wouldn't want to be around as it fell down. Get out while on the top.
I saw an interview yesterday with Capt Slow on his front porch. He acknowledged the media reports and then said "If you'll excuse me I have a LaFerrari to list on eBay" and left.
Yes thank you. This is a classic mistake that many first time programmers make. Years ago somebody was comparing the speed of C++ over VBScript/IIS over Java for writing Web pages back to a browser. They too came to a similar conclusion - and also made the same mistake.
When writing to disk - the data is written once. The algorithm for in memory is not doing the same thing. It is allocating a new buffer - copying all data to said new buffer - and finally adding data to the end. If one compared the I/O of the two program executions the "in-memory" version would have many times MORE I/O.
Doing this:
Loop N.{ x = x + newValue}
Write(x)
Will always be slower than
Loop N.{ Write(newValue) }
In C# and I think Java - there is an object called StringBuffer - and is intended for this kind of workload. The first thing I learned in data structures class was how to expand buffers using different algorithms and pro/con of each (heap design for instance, buddy system).
Plus - O(n) is not created equal. :-P
You forgot to carry the "psychology" in the 3rd equation. We all know the basic formula - Less In, More Out.
I have to run - that bag of potato chips is talking to me and I need to eat them to shut them up.