I think a better idea, which would serve more people (and be cool) would be to require cars to be able to drive themselves home.
How far off are we from self-driving cars anyway? With just a little infrastructure (some sort of sensors in the road maybe?) it could be possible. (I don't think GPS alone would be trustworthy)
This would serve more of the population and have lots of unintended benefits. Alcohol tax could pay for the small sensors in the road that each car would follow.
Or maybe sensors would be in the main roads. When you got to your neighborhood, you might have to follow a predetermined path. Maybe when you first get the car -- and are sober -- you can "teach the car" the way to your house from the main road.
And you can have very stiff fines for not using it when you're drunk.
What if there was a planned, calculated conspiracy by another country or very powerful corporation? Here's an example of a slightly different project. Imagine if the goals were a little different.
What I've wanted to do for years is to go down to Fry's and just buy a Monster Screw Assortment. You know, 100 of each kind.
I have a bin full of (non-matching) screws from cases I've assembled over the years and what I really really would love to do is to throw them all out.
I did it a few years back with my kitchen silverware - I bought 2 complete sets of new silverware, took it home and threw out all the old stuff. Every single old, knife, fork and spoon got pitched. Now everything matches.
I would love to be able to do the same thing when assembling and taking apart my machines.
tivo advantages: has much better intelligence figuring out what to record. It's way better than dish, but it's not perfect (the superbowl ran over but tivo cut off the end!)
dish advantages: doesn't wimp out on the features, stuff like the skip-forward button for skipping over commercials, and no telephone connection is necessary.
It also has more playback speeds: 1/15x 1/4x, 1x, 4x, 15x, 60x, 300x.
dish disadvantages: bugs dish has always had annoying bugs - like when I reload the program schedule, it never seems to finish, etc.
An optional ($749) accessory Data Verification Kit DVK-E2 will permit verification of original untampered image data, allowing the EOS-1D Mark II to be used in legal proceedings and other applications where the ability to confirm that images haven't been altered in any way is crucial.
I recommend running shoes. No, not the kind you'd buy at target, but real running shoes. The kind that the salesperson will ask "how many miles a week do you run" when he fits you.
Hiking boots really don't come anywhere close to running shoes in comfort and probably have lots of metal.
ESR: "Whenever possible, prototype in an interpreted language before coding C."
Hello, Mr Raymond, there are actually quite a number of high-level compiled languages, that will give you most of the convenience of an interpreted language with most of the speed of C. Write your prototype - and then deploy it, because it's already fast and robust enough for everyday use.
Prototyping in the highest-level language possible before optimizing is sound advice.
I don't buy that Java gives you the convenience or ability to rapidly prototype like perl does.
The thought of this speculation made me remember that Woody Allen movie Annie Hall.
Woody is standing in line for the theater while this guy standing in front of them is spouting all this stuff about Marshall MacLuhan.
They start arguing about things and the guy starts spouting off about how he teaches communications at columbia so he knows what he's talking about.
Then Woody walks over and pulls Marshall MacLuhan into the scene who says to the man "You know nothing of my work. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing."
...and I kind of wonder what Ansel Adams would say if we could just pull him into the scene.;)
My bikes have always had the instruments COMPLETELY outside the field of view of a full-face helmet. I see this as a negative thing because you have to physically rotate your head down so that you can glance at them.
Putting them in your field of view but mounted on a motorcycle would be impossible on all but the most full-dressed motorcycles with full windscreens.
I think helmet-mounted displays are the future.
Given that, I would worry about the use of this when your helmet visor fogs - you don't want to reduce your already limited contrast with side lighting. Maybe a handlebar mounted toggle switch would help, or some way of embedding it in the visor so it couldn't sidelight the rest of the view.
Thinking about improvements, I've always wondered about the motorcycle controls, especially on dirt bikes. It's always physically strenuous and (needlessly?) challenging to work the controls while maintaining your body position.
For instance, you can't use the back brake without your feet on the pegs. It's hard to maintain a contant throttle position when the bike is going over whoops (your body is pitching back and forth, but you have to hold while keeping the throttle steady). Shifting gears up and down is harder at certain bike angles and requires a foot on the pegs.
I wonder if different (maybe electronic) controls could help all these problems, maybe allowing better control during a wider range of scenarios...
Funny, I was thinking it could read my mail and when I say "this is spam", it would know from then on it would help filter out these mortgage/viagra/etc offers
One thought - although this is a way of ensuring that your vote was tallied correctly so you can check it, what about padding the ballot box (for example, what about all the dead people that voted the other way?)
That's interesting because the promise raid controllers (I have an sx4000) have an option that allows you to leave some space allocated from each drive just to solve this problem.
However, the driver support is kind of a pain. You have to install their drivers, and they're specific to one specific kernel. I installed redhat 9.0, but they support only the initial kernel (I think it was 2.4.20-8). If you used up2date to update the kernel (I believe the update was 2.4.20-20.9), the driver doesn't support it. What a pain.
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I think a better idea, which would serve more people (and be cool) would be to require cars to be able to drive themselves home.
How far off are we from self-driving cars anyway? With just a little infrastructure (some sort of sensors in the road maybe?) it could be possible.
(I don't think GPS alone would be trustworthy)
This would serve more of the population and have lots of unintended benefits. Alcohol tax could pay for the small sensors in the road that each car would follow.
Or maybe sensors would be in the main roads. When you got to your neighborhood, you might have to follow a predetermined path. Maybe when you first get the car -- and are sober -- you can "teach the car" the way to your house from the main road.
And you can have very stiff fines for not using it when you're drunk.
I think you're right.
She talks about:
- prevention
- recovery
I would make the list:
- prevention
- detection
- recovery
technically, would it be a worm?
But how do you know?
What if there was a planned, calculated conspiracy by another country or very powerful corporation?
Here's an example of a slightly different project. Imagine if the goals were a little different.
It's not worth taking a chance over.
The performance table on the website for ichat 2.1 says there are 2resolutions:
176x144 and 352x288
When I was using my iSight with iChat, it SEEMED that the resolution was higher than this, especially at fullscreen zoom.
Has apple changed iChat 2.1 to PC resolutions or can you still do higher res like 640x480? (or am I mistaken and you could you never do 640x480?)
try dungeon siege...
awesome!
Mini Storage Box W/Hardware Asst. Pak
Professional Hardware Assortment Pack
Field Service Assortment Pack
What I've wanted to do for years is to go down to Fry's and just buy a Monster Screw Assortment. You know, 100 of each kind.
I have a bin full of (non-matching) screws from cases I've assembled over the years and what I really really would love to do is to throw them all out.
I did it a few years back with my kitchen silverware - I bought 2 complete sets of new silverware, took it home and threw out all the old stuff. Every single old, knife, fork and spoon got pitched. Now everything matches.
I would love to be able to do the same thing when assembling and taking apart my machines.
Does anybody sell such a thing?
tivo advantages: has much better intelligence figuring out what to record. It's way better than dish, but it's not perfect (the superbowl ran over but tivo cut off the end!)
dish advantages: doesn't wimp out on the features, stuff like the skip-forward button for skipping over commercials, and no telephone connection is necessary.
It also has more playback speeds: 1/15x 1/4x, 1x, 4x, 15x, 60x, 300x.
dish disadvantages: bugs
dish has always had annoying bugs - like when I reload the program schedule, it never seems to finish, etc.
It's a good time to reference:
The Table of Condiments (that Periodically Go Bad),
which is arranged in order of lifetime.
From this review of the new eos-1d mark ii:
Straight from Steve Jobs's own weblog comes a more succinct review
I can't help but think of painted tanks and
If marriage is outlawed....
only outlaws will have in-laws.
Mod parent up, especially for the Zen of Palm document reference...
I recommend running shoes. No, not the kind you'd buy at target, but real running shoes. The kind that the salesperson will ask "how many miles a week do you run" when he fits you.
Hiking boots really don't come anywhere close to running shoes in comfort and probably have lots of metal.
Prototyping in the highest-level language possible before optimizing is sound advice.
I don't buy that Java gives you the convenience or ability to rapidly prototype like perl does.
Woody is standing in line for the theater while this guy standing in front of them is spouting all this stuff about Marshall MacLuhan.
They start arguing about things and the guy starts spouting off about how he teaches communications at columbia so he knows what he's talking about.
Then Woody walks over and pulls Marshall MacLuhan into the scene who says to the man "You know nothing of my work. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing."
My bikes have always had the instruments COMPLETELY outside the field of view of a full-face helmet. I see this as a negative thing because you have to physically rotate your head down so that you can glance at them.
Putting them in your field of view but mounted on a motorcycle would be impossible on all but the most full-dressed motorcycles with full windscreens.
I think helmet-mounted displays are the future.
Given that, I would worry about the use of this when your helmet visor fogs - you don't want to reduce your already limited contrast with side lighting. Maybe a handlebar mounted toggle switch would help, or some way of embedding it in the visor so it couldn't sidelight the rest of the view.
Thinking about improvements, I've always wondered about the motorcycle controls, especially on dirt bikes. It's always physically strenuous and (needlessly?) challenging to work the controls while maintaining your body position.
For instance, you can't use the back brake without your feet on the pegs. It's hard to maintain a contant throttle position when the bike is going over whoops (your body is pitching back and forth, but you have to hold while keeping the throttle steady). Shifting gears up and down is harder at certain bike angles and requires a foot on the pegs.
I wonder if different (maybe electronic) controls could help all these problems, maybe allowing better control during a wider range of scenarios...
You should also mention that iChatAV only functions over broadband.
Funny, I was thinking it could read my mail and when I say "this is spam", it would know from then on it would help filter out these mortgage/viagra/etc offers
One thought - although this is a way of ensuring that your vote was tallied correctly so you can check it, what about padding the ballot box (for example, what about all the dead people that voted the other way?)
Can't believe it, that works great. Just a trailing slash, eh? How's that for inflexible rewriting rules... ;)
I tried it on my phone, and the display is lots more readable.
The original version had lots of italics and the text flow wasn't great.
The updated version looked much better (except that the header of the first story was separated from the body by the section nav and poll and stuff)
Handspring Treo 600, blazer browser.
Now there's no reason to fix http://slashdot.org/palm (which doesn't seem to work) to be as good as http://www.wired.com/news_drop/palm looks on a handheld.
Maybe even make it automatic.
That's interesting because the promise raid controllers (I have an sx4000) have an option that allows you to leave some space allocated from each drive just to solve this problem.
However, the driver support is kind of a pain. You have to install their drivers, and they're specific to one specific kernel. I installed redhat 9.0, but they support only the initial kernel (I think it was 2.4.20-8). If you used up2date to update the kernel (I believe the update was 2.4.20-20.9), the driver doesn't support it. What a pain.