Not to defend these abhorrent procedures, but these are two ways they use to reduce the overall ticket price at the expense of people who don't actually use the tickets they pay for. If you kill these practices, then the average ticket price would necessarily go up. If only one airline killed these procedures, then the market would drift away from them as their prices rise. If these practices are ever done away with, it will have to be due to an act of congress or the FAA in order to raise all ticket prices on all airlines by a similar (if not equal) amount.
That's only correct to a point. It's only autonomous in that it executes a set of programmed instructions over and over again when certain conditions are present. It can't truly make decisions based on arbitrary circumstances or think for itself -- that's the stuff of science fiction.
Robots don't necessarily need to have any type of autonomy. You can have a robotic arm that requires human control, for example. You can have robotic industrial machines that just repeat the same motions in response to specific input switches. I don't know of any robots that have autonomy to do anything that they're not specifically built to do.
If anyone is interested, learn to program in ladder logic, and you'll understand how industrial machines and robots operate.
Sure, all shops have done this for years. The big deal here isn't the theft per se, but the invasion of privacy that comes with looking through someone's files.
Personally, I think it's a bit silly. If I had gobs of pr0n on my computer, I'd make sure I cleaned it up before I let someone else touch it.
The funny part is, it's already a mini game in Sims 2 Pets for Wii -- you can have your Sim play Spore on their PC. Just click on the pc, select play game, and spore.
Funny story, but in the US, if you try to pay a bill 'postage due' as we call it on this side of the pond, the creditor can refuse to pay the postage, and the letter gets returned to you, which means your bill is now late, and your credit rating gets damaged. Protecting your credit is worth a $.41 stamp.
I am most likely not alone in not knowing the significance of this. It made the front page, but I've never heard of either the author or the novel -- and I'd like to think I'm fairly up on this type of thing. Could someone who knows please enlighten us as to what the big deal is here?
I don't have a data plan on my old T-Mobile Treo 600. I can use all the palm functionality, sync with Outlook, but I just can't browse the web or get e-mail in real time.
No Maxis? No Will Wright? Not SimCity. Maybe a gross childhood raping bastardization the likes of which make Jar-Jar Binks look like Lawrence Olivier, but not SimCity.
It's obvious that this girl is interested -- otherwise, why else would she switch to Ubuntu?
Advice to the geek who posted this: This is not about the OS or her mp3 player or whatever. This is about her wanting to get with you. That's why she kept Ubuntu, because she wants to show you she's open to the things you like. She could give a rat's ass what OS she uses otherwise.
It's too big to be a PDA, too small to be a laptop. This thing looks like a solution looking for a problem. Other than the fact that it's a portable device that runs Linux, I see no reason to spend $500 on this. I'd rather buy a sub-notebook and have the extra functionality.
I'm all in favor of helping the poor. I donate heavily to charities that fight poverty and volunteered at shelters, etc. What I am not in favor of is handouts. Making people dependent on the state doesn't help them at all. Welfare is not a glamorous lifestyle, but it's comfortable enough that people don't strive for anything more for fear of risking what little they have.
You can see the same thing in families -- people who pay for their own college educations do much better than those for whom mommy and daddy pay for everything. I paid every dime of my tuition myself, and am a better person for it.
It's all a matter of doing for yourself or depending on others to do for you. The more you rely on other people, the more dependent on other people you become. Job training and chemical dependency programs do way more than welfare ever will.
Welfare provides a proverbial island in the middle of a lake. Sure, it's possible to swim to shore, but it's damn hard -- and even harder when you have kids. By taking away that island, you force people to swim to shore on their own. Welfare just airlifts supplies to that island so the people can stay there longer.
I'm thinking the baby/bathwater metaphor is the wrong one. Perhaps the purse/sow's ear metaphor would be better...
Welfare and concentrated housing projects combined have done more harm to the poor than good. Ironic that we're only starting to see poverty decline in Chicago once they started tearing down the projects.
Paying people to sit on their behinds and make babies who become gang banging drug dealers is not a good solution. Forcing people to make something of themselves is sometimes the only way to convince them its possible.
HP != torque*RPM. Sorry. The proper equation that dynos use to calculate HP (they only measure torque) is HP=(torque*RPM)/5252.
But E for effort.
Big motors in SUV's and trucks are optimized to make the most torque at the low end of the power curve in order to overcome inertia while hauling large loads.
It sounds like you're trying to make yourself sound less stupid because you didn't properly read my post in the first place.
Sure, you can travel at 80 with a 150hp motor, but at this point, you're at the top of the power curve for the motor. When you're at that point, the engine is running at such high RPM that it's very loud, possibly vibrating, and just feels like it's going to fall apart -- not to mention the fact that you're way past peak efficiency. The simple fact is, if you've never felt this, then either a) you've never been on a road trip with a car that has an underpowered engine, or b) you've never driven over 65mph.
Try taking a base model Chevy Cobalt out for a 3 hour trip across farm country and you'll see what I mean.
Re-reading your post, it looks like you're confusing engine stability with overall ride stability. Engine stability is only one factor in overall ride stability. The things you mention -- tires, suspension, etc. -- are other factors. You can have the best suspension, Z rated tires, aerodynamics, whatever, but if your motor is underpowered, your ride will be affected by vibration at high speed, slow acceleration, and overheating. On the other hand, without the tires, aerodynamics, and suspension, you could put a 400hp motor in a Yugo and you now have a death trap.
Driving in Europe and driving in the US are two completely different experiences. In US cities, you are absolutely right. We don't need high horsepower when we're just going to hit a stop light in another 1/8th of a mile anyway, and speed limits are for the most part under 45mph. BUT... out in the country and in the suburbs (unless you've seen it, you can't comprehend the amount of empty space in places like New Mexico, Utah, or Arizona -- even the farm country of Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana is really sparse), you have a lot of long distance driving on long, straight roads with relatively high speed limits. When doing this type of driving, if you have less than a 150 - 175 HP (peak) motor in, say, a Honda Civic, the car is just not stable enough at the speeds you drive in those situations.
My understanding is that Australians are in the same situation, which is why GM is importing Australian hot rods to sell as Pontiacs now.
I mean, they do a lot of development, and they are the OSS company most trusted by Fortune 500's, but I think they lost their leadership position to Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu. Not trying to start a flamewar here, but they seem to be fresh out of ideas at present, and this seems to be grasping at straws.
After dealing with their nightmarish support system this month after a bug caused me to lose connection to my SAN, and dealing with the scam that is RHCE certification (30% pass rate is BS -- they're just milking retakes at $750 a pop), I can say that Red hat is really going downhill fast. They're becoming more and more focused on the bottom line and less on the little guy who got them to where they are.
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Repeat after me: "I, state your name, am NOT in Nintendo's target demographic."
You are most likely male, between the ages of 18 and 25. You are not who Nintendo wants to sell these things to. They want to sell to adults, with careers and families, who want to pick up a game to play for 20 minutes -- not hard core gamers. They want to sell to thirtysomethings (like me) who played NES, SNES, Genesis, Turbografix, etc. back in the day, and want to share the games they used to play with their children.
They want people who can pick up a game and have fun for the short amount of free time they have. It's hard to do that with an Xbox or PS* -- it's not fun getting pwned by some 12 year old with nothing better to do with his time than play Halo for 40 hours a week.
It shocks the hell out of me that they were the first ones to realize this market even exists.
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Not to defend these abhorrent procedures, but these are two ways they use to reduce the overall ticket price at the expense of people who don't actually use the tickets they pay for. If you kill these practices, then the average ticket price would necessarily go up. If only one airline killed these procedures, then the market would drift away from them as their prices rise. If these practices are ever done away with, it will have to be due to an act of congress or the FAA in order to raise all ticket prices on all airlines by a similar (if not equal) amount.
That's only correct to a point. It's only autonomous in that it executes a set of programmed instructions over and over again when certain conditions are present. It can't truly make decisions based on arbitrary circumstances or think for itself -- that's the stuff of science fiction.
Robots don't necessarily need to have any type of autonomy. You can have a robotic arm that requires human control, for example. You can have robotic industrial machines that just repeat the same motions in response to specific input switches. I don't know of any robots that have autonomy to do anything that they're not specifically built to do.
If anyone is interested, learn to program in ladder logic, and you'll understand how industrial machines and robots operate.
A guitar! Perfect! Hours of entertainment, and chicks o' plenty in college! It truly is the gift that keeps on giving.
Sure, all shops have done this for years. The big deal here isn't the theft per se, but the invasion of privacy that comes with looking through someone's files.
Personally, I think it's a bit silly. If I had gobs of pr0n on my computer, I'd make sure I cleaned it up before I let someone else touch it.
Then Popular Science go it wrong. There's a tidal plant in France that's been there since 1967.
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The funny part is, it's already a mini game in Sims 2 Pets for Wii -- you can have your Sim play Spore on their PC. Just click on the pc, select play game, and spore.
Lucky ass sims...
Funny story, but in the US, if you try to pay a bill 'postage due' as we call it on this side of the pond, the creditor can refuse to pay the postage, and the letter gets returned to you, which means your bill is now late, and your credit rating gets damaged. Protecting your credit is worth a $.41 stamp.
I am most likely not alone in not knowing the significance of this. It made the front page, but I've never heard of either the author or the novel -- and I'd like to think I'm fairly up on this type of thing. Could someone who knows please enlighten us as to what the big deal is here?
I don't have a data plan on my old T-Mobile Treo 600. I can use all the palm functionality, sync with Outlook, but I just can't browse the web or get e-mail in real time.
Exactly my perspective.
It seems like the guy is backpedaling here because they've already seen a drop in sales because of the rumors.
I own a Wii right now, and I'd like to own a 360 -- but I'm not paying $400 for one.
No Maxis? No Will Wright? Not SimCity. Maybe a gross childhood raping bastardization the likes of which make Jar-Jar Binks look like Lawrence Olivier, but not SimCity.
My thoughts exactly.
It's obvious that this girl is interested -- otherwise, why else would she switch to Ubuntu?
Advice to the geek who posted this: This is not about the OS or her mp3 player or whatever. This is about her wanting to get with you. That's why she kept Ubuntu, because she wants to show you she's open to the things you like. She could give a rat's ass what OS she uses otherwise.
Go get some.
It's too big to be a PDA, too small to be a laptop. This thing looks like a solution looking for a problem. Other than the fact that it's a portable device that runs Linux, I see no reason to spend $500 on this. I'd rather buy a sub-notebook and have the extra functionality.
Woah... Slow down there, skippy.
I'm all in favor of helping the poor. I donate heavily to charities that fight poverty and volunteered at shelters, etc. What I am not in favor of is handouts. Making people dependent on the state doesn't help them at all. Welfare is not a glamorous lifestyle, but it's comfortable enough that people don't strive for anything more for fear of risking what little they have.
You can see the same thing in families -- people who pay for their own college educations do much better than those for whom mommy and daddy pay for everything. I paid every dime of my tuition myself, and am a better person for it.
It's all a matter of doing for yourself or depending on others to do for you. The more you rely on other people, the more dependent on other people you become. Job training and chemical dependency programs do way more than welfare ever will.
Welfare provides a proverbial island in the middle of a lake. Sure, it's possible to swim to shore, but it's damn hard -- and even harder when you have kids. By taking away that island, you force people to swim to shore on their own. Welfare just airlifts supplies to that island so the people can stay there longer.
I'm thinking the baby/bathwater metaphor is the wrong one. Perhaps the purse/sow's ear metaphor would be better...
Welfare and concentrated housing projects combined have done more harm to the poor than good. Ironic that we're only starting to see poverty decline in Chicago once they started tearing down the projects.
Paying people to sit on their behinds and make babies who become gang banging drug dealers is not a good solution. Forcing people to make something of themselves is sometimes the only way to convince them its possible.
I heard that Krispy Kreme is doing a new punchcard promotion -- buy 10 dozen, get a coupon for a free bypass.
Man, who pissed on your cheerios this morning?
Quit being such a buzzkill and get some imagination. Dreaming is a good thing.
You sound like the "You'll never make it!" guy from Gulliver's Travels.
Yeah? YEAH??!?!?! Well.... You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny.
HP != torque*RPM. Sorry. The proper equation that dynos use to calculate HP (they only measure torque) is HP=(torque*RPM)/5252.
But E for effort.
Big motors in SUV's and trucks are optimized to make the most torque at the low end of the power curve in order to overcome inertia while hauling large loads.
It sounds like you're trying to make yourself sound less stupid because you didn't properly read my post in the first place.
Sure, you can travel at 80 with a 150hp motor, but at this point, you're at the top of the power curve for the motor. When you're at that point, the engine is running at such high RPM that it's very loud, possibly vibrating, and just feels like it's going to fall apart -- not to mention the fact that you're way past peak efficiency. The simple fact is, if you've never felt this, then either a) you've never been on a road trip with a car that has an underpowered engine, or b) you've never driven over 65mph.
Try taking a base model Chevy Cobalt out for a 3 hour trip across farm country and you'll see what I mean.
Re-reading your post, it looks like you're confusing engine stability with overall ride stability. Engine stability is only one factor in overall ride stability. The things you mention -- tires, suspension, etc. -- are other factors. You can have the best suspension, Z rated tires, aerodynamics, whatever, but if your motor is underpowered, your ride will be affected by vibration at high speed, slow acceleration, and overheating. On the other hand, without the tires, aerodynamics, and suspension, you could put a 400hp motor in a Yugo and you now have a death trap.
Driving in Europe and driving in the US are two completely different experiences. In US cities, you are absolutely right. We don't need high horsepower when we're just going to hit a stop light in another 1/8th of a mile anyway, and speed limits are for the most part under 45mph. BUT... out in the country and in the suburbs (unless you've seen it, you can't comprehend the amount of empty space in places like New Mexico, Utah, or Arizona -- even the farm country of Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana is really sparse), you have a lot of long distance driving on long, straight roads with relatively high speed limits. When doing this type of driving, if you have less than a 150 - 175 HP (peak) motor in, say, a Honda Civic, the car is just not stable enough at the speeds you drive in those situations.
My understanding is that Australians are in the same situation, which is why GM is importing Australian hot rods to sell as Pontiacs now.
I mean, they do a lot of development, and they are the OSS company most trusted by Fortune 500's, but I think they lost their leadership position to Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu. Not trying to start a flamewar here, but they seem to be fresh out of ideas at present, and this seems to be grasping at straws.
After dealing with their nightmarish support system this month after a bug caused me to lose connection to my SAN, and dealing with the scam that is RHCE certification (30% pass rate is BS -- they're just milking retakes at $750 a pop), I can say that Red hat is really going downhill fast. They're becoming more and more focused on the bottom line and less on the little guy who got them to where they are.
Sure it's social! Demented and sad, but social!
Repeat after me: "I, state your name, am NOT in Nintendo's target demographic."
You are most likely male, between the ages of 18 and 25. You are not who Nintendo wants to sell these things to. They want to sell to adults, with careers and families, who want to pick up a game to play for 20 minutes -- not hard core gamers. They want to sell to thirtysomethings (like me) who played NES, SNES, Genesis, Turbografix, etc. back in the day, and want to share the games they used to play with their children.
They want people who can pick up a game and have fun for the short amount of free time they have. It's hard to do that with an Xbox or PS* -- it's not fun getting pwned by some 12 year old with nothing better to do with his time than play Halo for 40 hours a week.
It shocks the hell out of me that they were the first ones to realize this market even exists.