And in what part of a low speed rear bumper collision vs. a high speed T-bone is the latter BETTER (from either position) on a bike? Please elucidate.
Because I have (had) friends who have been involved in similar situations on bikes. One (who was hit from behind on the highway, not an intersection) broke his collarbone but is fully recovered. The other (hit from the side in a high speed collision) did not recover. Jerkface?
The thing is, from what I can tell from TFA (yes, I read it, gasp!) the participants in the study were *not* actual UAV pilots, but the usual psych study volunteers (probably unfortunate undergrads).
And they even mention that real UAV operators are "seasoned fighter pilots" - who by definition are college graduates with *years* of flight school and operational experience, often from the Air Force Academy. These people have already been highly selected to be the types who *can* in fact endure hours of boredom and still pay attention without "checking a cellphone". Maybe we in fact don't need to have a random 20 year old psych undergrad piloting military hardware, and in fact the current system of requiring highly trained military pilots to do a job where they make decisions potentially resulting in human casualties is actually just fine as is.
The person with the highest score overall was the one who paid the most attention to the simulation. “She’s the person we’d like to clone for a boring, low-workload environment,” Cummings says — but such a work ethic may not be the norm among most operators.
Yeah, that's the tiny but highly motivated fraction of the population making it through years of training that i was talking about. And in fact from what I have read, the UAV pilots (though who often do a tour in Iraq/Afghanistan for takeoff & landing which requires better latency) are based in NY, Kansas, Nevada, etc - which is why a lot of the very senior experienced pilots are happy to take that assignment...
Not sure if you are implying that people "looking for opportunities" are unemployed in a desperate market, or that 40 year olds can't get a job in SV, but either way it's complete bullshit. The demand so far outstrips the supply right now in the Valley it's painful.
Painful because of how many interviews it takes to find anyone decent - but if you are a good engineer who works well with others many companies do not in fact give a shit about your age. Facebook and the other social media companies/startups are still a small fraction of the Bay Area employers.
Depends where you are, but yes, going through on yellow is usually legal, so long as you're through the intersection before the light turns red.
They call that a "permissive" vs. "restrictive" yellow law. Permissive means you just have to enter while it's yellow, restrictive means you need to be through.
And then there are vehicle codes like in CA, where it's so vague no one really knows how to interpret it... (though because of that you are pretty safe if you "enter the intersection on yellow with caution", which is basically permissive... just don't accelerate to go through since that has been legally interpreted as *not* "with caution"...)
The problem isn't "running the yellow", it's running the red. If it's still yellow it's not against the law. But yeah, I would bet the increase in "same direction collisions" they noticed (which basically was the same as the decrease in right angle collisions) was due precisely to the person behind not paying attention to someone slamming on the brakes...
And I'd be willing to bet the overwhelming majority of accidents are just due to running a red, not "jumping the green". In my current commute I probably see 10 people a day run red lights (especially on left turns), but I have yet to see a single "green jumper". Funny thing is, I swear at least once a week someone runs a light right in front of a cop car, and I have also yet to see that cop actually give a crap and ticket them. Man, if I were the cop I'd make sure they got a ticket just for being so clueless... but I guess that's the point, they know most police don't really care unless they are specifically given that job.
Actually, it's damn lies in the slashdot summary, too. From TFA:
"The DOT’s report noted that two intersections in Newark have been part of the camera program for two years, and that 24 others in six communities have been recording violations for at least one year. At the Newark sites, the report said, crashes in the latest year were down by 57 percent from the “pre-camera year,” with decreases of 86 percent for right-angle collisions and 42 percent for same-direction crashes.
It said the number of citations issued at the Newark intersections fell by 85 percent over the two-year period. “
So, crashes are up a total of 0.9% in a year, but the intersections that have had cameras for 2 years are *way* down, as are citations. So, it's also very possible (though still a hypothesis) that it takes a year or so for locals to get used to the concept of cameras, at which point they really start proving their worth.
And even in the "new" cameras, an increase of only 0.9% means while there was a slight increase overall, it's practically a given that a collision from behind because someone couldn't stop fast enough in reaction to hard braking is going to be less dangerous that T-boning someone trying to beat the light...
Most important thing when going through this is to decide the resolution you want to run at up front and stick to it - and also, apply all of the mods you want before saving any games. The save games usually have issues if you change resolution or mods and then try to load one.
Actually, DK2 is one of the apps I have bought from GoG that hasn't run very well on Win7 - major performance issues for some reason. Maybe I'll get back to fiddling with it some day, but I bought too many other old games for $5 to care right now;)
I think the other I have had issues with is Ultima 7: The Black Gate, which didn't work at all for me. But ironically, it works perfectly running on a Macbook Pro under Boxer (only problem is the Mac touchpad is horribly painful to use with it, really needs a separate mouse).
I actually bought it from GoG, installed on Windows 7 running in a Parallels VM on a Macbook Pro Retina, and it just worked. Of course, I then downloaded and installed all of the custom patches/mods to allow running at high resolutions, improved graphics, fix a ton of little bugs, etc, which was a bit more of a pain. In the end the only problem I had was it just wasn't happy trying to run at the native 2880x1800:) But it works fine (and looks great) at 1440x900...
Skype doesn't come pre-installed, so you had to volitionally install it from the store.
Nope, that's not true.
"Skype for Windows 8 will be in the Windows Store on October 26, the day Windows 8 and its ARM-based sibling, Windows RT, are generally available. Skype for Windows 8 also will be preinstalled on "the top 12 Windows OEMs' machines," Skype officials said."
Which is funny because it could have very easily been spun in the opposite direction. How about "save $99 to accept preloaded trial software." With that position everyone would be talking about how great a deal it is just to delete a few crappy trial apps.
And given how many stupid things the PC using masses already download (let's face it, if they didn't spyware would not exist) to get "coupons", "enter a drawing for a free iPad", whatever - I'm sure a lot of people would be happy for that $99 savings. Microsoft/OEMs just made yet another brain-dead marketing call...
The article was not about "computer enthusiasts", it was about "enthusiast PCs", which in fact have a very specific meaning. They are the kinds of PCs that have $600 video cards, packed with RAM, SSDs, water cooling etc, and are upgraded way more often than probably necessary - hence the desire for a socketed motherboard.
Yes, obviously you can be "enthusiastic" about computers and not build one of those, but that's not what this article is remotely about, so why bother trying to change the semantics for some irrelevant point?
Just like you can be a car enthusiast and still own a stock Toyota Prius. But a stock Prius is not an "enthusiast car". And of course we know you will somehow try to disagree with that as well, but you are talking to yourself because the "car enthusiast community" that makes the whole term have meaning other than some dictionary definition will have no more interest than arguing your semantics than anyone here.
So far the most interesting argument I have seen against their new approach is that no manufacturer will want to make dozens of motherboard SKUs to support the ridiculous range of chips Intel always introduces to cover all price points, features, etc. You may not change the CPU, but you probably had to decide between a bunch of different models.
Not the point of the article, though (which is BS, I agree). But if Intel wants mobo manufacturers to sell boards with the chip soldered on, they better consolidate their offering a bit. According to this, Intel has released over 50 desktop models based on Sandy Bridge in the last 18 months.
If in "90% of what everyone uses" you define "everyone" as "the few percent of desktop x86 enthusiasts who only run Linux".
But even notwithstanding that, unless you can point out an *ARM* platform with 6-8 3GHz 64 bit cores that supports 16GB+ RAM *and* a socketed motherboard for the CPU, it's irrelevant to his post, anyway.
1) Depending on who you ask, either iOS or BlackBerry App World makes the most money (they apparently jockey for #1 and #2 spots in developer revenue).
2) #3 spot is apparently owned by Amazon.
Depending on who you ask, if some of the people you ask are completely making shit up! Apple est. app store revenues for 2011 of $2.9B and RIM $280M. Order of magnitude, not "jockeying for #1 and #2 spots". And if you take all Android stores (probably combining Amazon, Google, and Samsung is plenty) they are well ahead of RIM for #2. The only thing RIM leads at is "revenue per app" which makes sense when they have a tiny fraction of the apps of the other stores, and those they have tend to be higher priced.
So Apple is "hanging on" because developers make money from the platform, despite being only 20% (of smartphone sales - they make a killing on tablets and ipods as well, which are compatible).
My words were "kicking ass", not "hanging on", not sure where you got that "parahprase". But no, Apple is not hanging on or kicking ass because of their app store, it's because they sell a shitload of high margin phones and tablets, and have a loyal customer base who tends to replace them every couple years. The app store is still only a few percent of the ~$35B in revenue they take in every quarter.
And as far as "crappy Androids" - they aren't free, they are *subsidized*. The manufacturer can still have plenty of margin. You can get an iPhone 4S for $100 or 5 for $200, and that's the "high end market". $0-$100 with a ~$300-400 subsidy can still get you a perfectly capable Android smartphone.
What? How is this +5? Nothing about bitcoins is ever going to remotely show anything about a deflationary spiral unless you think this silly geek experiment could actually lead to lower production and wages at a macroeconomic scale. And if you DO think that, I have a new currency called "bytebills" that I'd like to sell you...
With a gold standard (that no longer even exists, of course) it's only inflationary if the new supply of gold grows faster than economic expansion. Otherwise even gold can be limiting and deflationary.
Bitcoins, on the other hand, will be completely deflationary due to their very finite and rate limited supply. Using them as a currency would encourage hoarding and completely dry up lending, pretty much sending economic growth down the toilet.
I mean, seriously, can't geeks get over bitcoins' digital nature and understand basic the economics and psychology behind this? How about imagining bitcoins are WoW gold and new supply just stopped completely. Basically anyone who hoarded them is now "rich", and anyone new to the game and without them is screwed. Sort of like how it would happen in real life if we went back on the gold standard, let alone a "bit coin standard".
Even iOS is actually small compared to the overall marketshare of Android. And that's because it's a single manufacturer trying to push its own OS in the days of smartphones largely dependent on their app ecosystem, etc to thrive.
And why did Android come out of nowhere to be the market leader? Because it works, and it's *free* - so it's not one company making up that 70% share, it's a dozen or more. And unlike Apple, most of the other manufacturers have a relatively tight margin and so their choice is either develop their own OS or license one. (Apple is still kicking ass because they were first, and they make a high quality, high end, high margin product with amazing marketing that will ensure them a profitable 15-20% of the market).
This SAME THING has already happened in the video space (TVs, BD players, and set-top boxes). 10 years ago Tivo was one of the few devices using Linux, and everyone else was paying license fees for VXWorks, WinCE, PowerTV, QNX, etc. Now (as I mentioned previously) almost every connected TV and BD player runs Linux, because it works and it's free.
And even more ironically during all of this RIM bought QNX and closed the source so they could ride another proprietary OS into the ground. They should have been paying attention to Palm and HP's fiasco. Their WebOS was actually a *good* design, and it still failed miserably. RIM (like Palm) is in a horrible position in the market because they are a single manufacturer that's going to have a harder and harder time convincing developers to bother with Blackberry apps. Even Microsoft may have a better shot, since they are trying to build an app market by licensing their OS and consolidating their experience on their other hugely successful products...
When 3rd place is 4% of the market and falling, yes, it is irrelevant.
And Linux *is* pretty much irrelevant from a business point of view on the desktop, if that's what you mean. But it (via Android) was 70% of smartphone sales last quarter. It also has 60%+ market share of web servers, and runs on about 95% of networked TVs and BD players. So actually, if you look at market share of "connected devices" it's solidly in 1st, and pulling away.
But I guess RIM has that Playbook in the tablet market to save them, right? Yeah...
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And in what part of a low speed rear bumper collision vs. a high speed T-bone is the latter BETTER (from either position) on a bike? Please elucidate.
Because I have (had) friends who have been involved in similar situations on bikes. One (who was hit from behind on the highway, not an intersection) broke his collarbone but is fully recovered. The other (hit from the side in a high speed collision) did not recover. Jerkface?
The thing is, from what I can tell from TFA (yes, I read it, gasp!) the participants in the study were *not* actual UAV pilots, but the usual psych study volunteers (probably unfortunate undergrads).
And they even mention that real UAV operators are "seasoned fighter pilots" - who by definition are college graduates with *years* of flight school and operational experience, often from the Air Force Academy. These people have already been highly selected to be the types who *can* in fact endure hours of boredom and still pay attention without "checking a cellphone". Maybe we in fact don't need to have a random 20 year old psych undergrad piloting military hardware, and in fact the current system of requiring highly trained military pilots to do a job where they make decisions potentially resulting in human casualties is actually just fine as is.
The person with the highest score overall was the one who paid the most attention to the simulation. “She’s the person we’d like to clone for a boring, low-workload environment,” Cummings says — but such a work ethic may not be the norm among most operators.
Yeah, that's the tiny but highly motivated fraction of the population making it through years of training that i was talking about. And in fact from what I have read, the UAV pilots (though who often do a tour in Iraq/Afghanistan for takeoff & landing which requires better latency) are based in NY, Kansas, Nevada, etc - which is why a lot of the very senior experienced pilots are happy to take that assignment...
Not sure if you are implying that people "looking for opportunities" are unemployed in a desperate market, or that 40 year olds can't get a job in SV, but either way it's complete bullshit. The demand so far outstrips the supply right now in the Valley it's painful.
Painful because of how many interviews it takes to find anyone decent - but if you are a good engineer who works well with others many companies do not in fact give a shit about your age. Facebook and the other social media companies/startups are still a small fraction of the Bay Area employers.
Depends where you are, but yes, going through on yellow is usually legal, so long as you're through the intersection before the light turns red.
They call that a "permissive" vs. "restrictive" yellow law. Permissive means you just have to enter while it's yellow, restrictive means you need to be through.
And then there are vehicle codes like in CA, where it's so vague no one really knows how to interpret it... (though because of that you are pretty safe if you "enter the intersection on yellow with caution", which is basically permissive... just don't accelerate to go through since that has been legally interpreted as *not* "with caution"...)
The problem isn't "running the yellow", it's running the red. If it's still yellow it's not against the law. But yeah, I would bet the increase in "same direction collisions" they noticed (which basically was the same as the decrease in right angle collisions) was due precisely to the person behind not paying attention to someone slamming on the brakes...
And I'd be willing to bet the overwhelming majority of accidents are just due to running a red, not "jumping the green". In my current commute I probably see 10 people a day run red lights (especially on left turns), but I have yet to see a single "green jumper". Funny thing is, I swear at least once a week someone runs a light right in front of a cop car, and I have also yet to see that cop actually give a crap and ticket them. Man, if I were the cop I'd make sure they got a ticket just for being so clueless... but I guess that's the point, they know most police don't really care unless they are specifically given that job.
Actually, it's damn lies in the slashdot summary, too. From TFA:
"The DOT’s report noted that two intersections in Newark have been part of the camera program for two years, and that 24 others in six communities have been recording violations for at least one year. At the Newark sites, the report said, crashes in the latest year were down by 57 percent from the “pre-camera year,” with decreases of 86 percent for right-angle collisions and 42 percent for same-direction crashes.
It said the number of citations issued at the Newark intersections fell by 85 percent over the two-year period. “
So, crashes are up a total of 0.9% in a year, but the intersections that have had cameras for 2 years are *way* down, as are citations. So, it's also very possible (though still a hypothesis) that it takes a year or so for locals to get used to the concept of cameras, at which point they really start proving their worth.
And even in the "new" cameras, an increase of only 0.9% means while there was a slight increase overall, it's practically a given that a collision from behind because someone couldn't stop fast enough in reaction to hard braking is going to be less dangerous that T-boning someone trying to beat the light...
Even more props to GoG - I found the guide to doing this on their site, linked from the game page...
http://www.gog.com/news/mod_spotlight_planescape_torment_mods_guide
Most important thing when going through this is to decide the resolution you want to run at up front and stick to it - and also, apply all of the mods you want before saving any games. The save games usually have issues if you change resolution or mods and then try to load one.
Actually, DK2 is one of the apps I have bought from GoG that hasn't run very well on Win7 - major performance issues for some reason. Maybe I'll get back to fiddling with it some day, but I bought too many other old games for $5 to care right now ;)
I think the other I have had issues with is Ultima 7: The Black Gate, which didn't work at all for me. But ironically, it works perfectly running on a Macbook Pro under Boxer (only problem is the Mac touchpad is horribly painful to use with it, really needs a separate mouse).
I actually bought it from GoG, installed on Windows 7 running in a Parallels VM on a Macbook Pro Retina, and it just worked. Of course, I then downloaded and installed all of the custom patches/mods to allow running at high resolutions, improved graphics, fix a ton of little bugs, etc, which was a bit more of a pain. In the end the only problem I had was it just wasn't happy trying to run at the native 2880x1800 :) But it works fine (and looks great) at 1440x900...
Skype doesn't come pre-installed, so you had to volitionally install it from the store.
Nope, that's not true.
"Skype for Windows 8 will be in the Windows Store on October 26, the day Windows 8 and its ARM-based sibling, Windows RT, are generally available. Skype for Windows 8 also will be preinstalled on "the top 12 Windows OEMs' machines," Skype officials said."
http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-skype-for-windows-8-to-launch-october-26-7000006145/
Which is funny because it could have very easily been spun in the opposite direction. How about "save $99 to accept preloaded trial software." With that position everyone would be talking about how great a deal it is just to delete a few crappy trial apps.
And given how many stupid things the PC using masses already download (let's face it, if they didn't spyware would not exist) to get "coupons", "enter a drawing for a free iPad", whatever - I'm sure a lot of people would be happy for that $99 savings. Microsoft/OEMs just made yet another brain-dead marketing call...
The article was not about "computer enthusiasts", it was about "enthusiast PCs", which in fact have a very specific meaning. They are the kinds of PCs that have $600 video cards, packed with RAM, SSDs, water cooling etc, and are upgraded way more often than probably necessary - hence the desire for a socketed motherboard.
Yes, obviously you can be "enthusiastic" about computers and not build one of those, but that's not what this article is remotely about, so why bother trying to change the semantics for some irrelevant point?
Just like you can be a car enthusiast and still own a stock Toyota Prius. But a stock Prius is not an "enthusiast car". And of course we know you will somehow try to disagree with that as well, but you are talking to yourself because the "car enthusiast community" that makes the whole term have meaning other than some dictionary definition will have no more interest than arguing your semantics than anyone here.
To use a cliche - "you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means..."
So far the most interesting argument I have seen against their new approach is that no manufacturer will want to make dozens of motherboard SKUs to support the ridiculous range of chips Intel always introduces to cover all price points, features, etc. You may not change the CPU, but you probably had to decide between a bunch of different models.
Not the point of the article, though (which is BS, I agree). But if Intel wants mobo manufacturers to sell boards with the chip soldered on, they better consolidate their offering a bit. According to this, Intel has released over 50 desktop models based on Sandy Bridge in the last 18 months.
My AMD systems from 2007 are Athlon64
Aaaand, you just proved his point.
If in "90% of what everyone uses" you define "everyone" as "the few percent of desktop x86 enthusiasts who only run Linux".
But even notwithstanding that, unless you can point out an *ARM* platform with 6-8 3GHz 64 bit cores that supports 16GB+ RAM *and* a socketed motherboard for the CPU, it's irrelevant to his post, anyway.
1) Depending on who you ask, either iOS or BlackBerry App World makes the most money (they apparently jockey for #1 and #2 spots in developer revenue).
2) #3 spot is apparently owned by Amazon.
Depending on who you ask, if some of the people you ask are completely making shit up! Apple est. app store revenues for 2011 of $2.9B and RIM $280M. Order of magnitude, not "jockeying for #1 and #2 spots". And if you take all Android stores (probably combining Amazon, Google, and Samsung is plenty) they are well ahead of RIM for #2. The only thing RIM leads at is "revenue per app" which makes sense when they have a tiny fraction of the apps of the other stores, and those they have tend to be higher priced.
So Apple is "hanging on" because developers make money from the platform, despite being only 20% (of smartphone sales - they make a killing on tablets and ipods as well, which are compatible).
My words were "kicking ass", not "hanging on", not sure where you got that "parahprase". But no, Apple is not hanging on or kicking ass because of their app store, it's because they sell a shitload of high margin phones and tablets, and have a loyal customer base who tends to replace them every couple years. The app store is still only a few percent of the ~$35B in revenue they take in every quarter.
And as far as "crappy Androids" - they aren't free, they are *subsidized*. The manufacturer can still have plenty of margin. You can get an iPhone 4S for $100 or 5 for $200, and that's the "high end market". $0-$100 with a ~$300-400 subsidy can still get you a perfectly capable Android smartphone.
What? How is this +5? Nothing about bitcoins is ever going to remotely show anything about a deflationary spiral unless you think this silly geek experiment could actually lead to lower production and wages at a macroeconomic scale. And if you DO think that, I have a new currency called "bytebills" that I'd like to sell you...
With a gold standard (that no longer even exists, of course) it's only inflationary if the new supply of gold grows faster than economic expansion. Otherwise even gold can be limiting and deflationary.
Bitcoins, on the other hand, will be completely deflationary due to their very finite and rate limited supply. Using them as a currency would encourage hoarding and completely dry up lending, pretty much sending economic growth down the toilet.
I mean, seriously, can't geeks get over bitcoins' digital nature and understand basic the economics and psychology behind this? How about imagining bitcoins are WoW gold and new supply just stopped completely. Basically anyone who hoarded them is now "rich", and anyone new to the game and without them is screwed. Sort of like how it would happen in real life if we went back on the gold standard, let alone a "bit coin standard".
"Every chance"? Heh. No, not really.
Even iOS is actually small compared to the overall marketshare of Android. And that's because it's a single manufacturer trying to push its own OS in the days of smartphones largely dependent on their app ecosystem, etc to thrive.
And why did Android come out of nowhere to be the market leader? Because it works, and it's *free* - so it's not one company making up that 70% share, it's a dozen or more. And unlike Apple, most of the other manufacturers have a relatively tight margin and so their choice is either develop their own OS or license one. (Apple is still kicking ass because they were first, and they make a high quality, high end, high margin product with amazing marketing that will ensure them a profitable 15-20% of the market).
This SAME THING has already happened in the video space (TVs, BD players, and set-top boxes). 10 years ago Tivo was one of the few devices using Linux, and everyone else was paying license fees for VXWorks, WinCE, PowerTV, QNX, etc. Now (as I mentioned previously) almost every connected TV and BD player runs Linux, because it works and it's free.
And even more ironically during all of this RIM bought QNX and closed the source so they could ride another proprietary OS into the ground. They should have been paying attention to Palm and HP's fiasco. Their WebOS was actually a *good* design, and it still failed miserably. RIM (like Palm) is in a horrible position in the market because they are a single manufacturer that's going to have a harder and harder time convincing developers to bother with Blackberry apps. Even Microsoft may have a better shot, since they are trying to build an app market by licensing their OS and consolidating their experience on their other hugely successful products...
This is Slashdot. You actually have to know something to post here. So Fuck off.
ACphincter says what? You have already proven the opposite. But if you disagree, at least have a point...
Go ask Palm and Symbian how great it is to fight for the last few percent of the mobile market...
When 3rd place is 4% of the market and falling, yes, it is irrelevant.
And Linux *is* pretty much irrelevant from a business point of view on the desktop, if that's what you mean. But it (via Android) was 70% of smartphone sales last quarter. It also has 60%+ market share of web servers, and runs on about 95% of networked TVs and BD players. So actually, if you look at market share of "connected devices" it's solidly in 1st, and pulling away.
But I guess RIM has that Playbook in the tablet market to save them, right? Yeah...
Hah. 3rd place in the mobile OS market is kind of like 3rd place in the Superbowl. They don't even get to show up for the game.
Again, that's something they are already doing...
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Prosecutors-Stolen-metal-found-at-7-businesses-3650523.php