In New York where temperatures can go below freezing, a more devastating attack might be bust them enough to shut them down due to damage. Damage enough and the repair guys won't have enough parts or time to repair them all before the water starts freezing and causing even more problems. If the goal of terrorism is to upset the people, shutting the heat off on a bunch of lower income folks during a cold snap might trigger the desired instability.
"Good safety systems require little if any cognitive input in emergencies."
Better safety systems include training and rehearsal to make the appropriate input practically instinctive. The balance of automation vs education is tipping dangerously away from education.
While probably not the most amazing stuff out there, up here in Canada, my (asperger) son has found a venue for expressing himself thanks to easy access to music producing software, and actually has a chance at being heard thanks to free distribution sites like soundcloud and bandcamp.
I don't hold a lot of hope of the CRTC protecting his cultural expression. An open and free net is probably the only way he'll be heard.
In the clip I just saw, the whole assembly tumbles for a while, but as the atmosphere thickens, it stabilizes into a flat spin with screen facing up. The spin I'm sure generates some lift, which along with the large surface area results in minimum terminal velocity. Combine that with it landing nearly flat on its back - against the protective cover - results in maximum protection.
Curious how it would survive being dropped from a second story balcony onto pavement, oriented so that it lands on a corner - or even face down. Bet the screen is destroyed, and its brains scrambled.
before fussing about the 'cost' of delivering iPads. Are those 38 pounds actually noticeable? A 737 can weigh anywhere from 62,000lbs empty to over 175,000lbs. 38lbs is 0.06% of the total weight. Those savings will be lost in the noise. Are there statisticians (sp?) who would be willing to prove the money is actually be saved after the fact? I suspect it is just lost in the noise, and the real reason is more like convenience of use, updates, etc.
Ctrl-F works great if you know the word you are looking for, however, sometimes I'm looking for a picture or more loosely a concept. I know I've seen it, and in my subconscuous I have an idea of what it looks like which is why I like to flip through a dead-tree manual.
I want google to enhance the Android to provide a document reader with a mutli-touch interface that displays a book like the iPod's scrolling album covers. A quick fling of my finger across the screen to rapidly display many page images at once.
Looking up the phrase "terrorist organization", it seems obvious to me that members of a terrorist organization were present at the time the kid's MP3 player was destroyed.
You can't just drain the coolant from a reactor, even when its already been shut down
I remember getting a tour of a research CANDU in the Pinawa, MB area years ago ("powered" by large electric heaters - not uranium, hence the research status). I thought one of the major self-limiting safety features was the heavy water / primary coolant. If anything went wrong / ran away / threatened melt down - there was a large trap door at the bottom that opened and dumped the heavy water effectively stopping the reaction.
I'm sure this is Canadian propaganda I'm spewing from my youth, but these things seemed to be the magical answer the world needed. They ran on lower quality uranium and were fail safe. Perfect for selling to less stable countries or for places like Japan that were prone to natural disasters.
I guess the lack of sales shows I missed some of the less than perfect details to the design.
Not quite. You are not allowed to ENTER the intersection on a red light. You are allowed to enter on Yellow (to turn left for example - establishing yourself, of if it is not safe / possible to stop in time).
What you are clear NOT allowed to do is cross the stop line after the light turns red. This is what the camera's are catching. As long as your tail is over the line BEFORE the light turns red there will be no photo.
Go and take a look at the intersections with red light cameras. Where normally there may be one or more diamond shaped cuts in the road for traffic sensors, there will be 2 (count them - TWO) rectangular cuts just in front of the stop line. They calculate speed and will trigger if you are travelling above the posted limit or if you cross the stop line after the light turns red.
I actually kind of like the cameras because they clearly indicate what the letter of the law is.
(shortening yellows to increase red light infractions on the other hand is entrapment and should be treated as such)
You get a consumer car like a Honda Insight, it's impressive. You look at [race cars] that's industry-specific, specialized hardware and software that doesn't have a lot of competition, it costs thousands and feels primitive in comparison. It must be the lack of competition means there's no real reason to improve the product beyond what it already does.
Fixed that for you.
When Quickbooks can handle the multi-million transaction ledger of an publicly traded enterprise come back and try again.
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An interesting way to validate this study would be a lab controlled experiment where people are connected to a calorie consumption monitor while either watching tv (track "entertainment" vs "educational" programming), using a computer (track "working - coding, writing docs, etc." vs "gaming" vs "reading"), or reading (track "news paper" vs "fictional novel").
Brains use a fair bit of calories thinking and processing information. Should be easy enough to prove (or disprove) that watching TV requires fewer calories.
What you eat while performing these activities probably has a greater impact on your weight - which is what the article is probably referring to. I'd read it, but I'm trying to lose weight and think that posting consumes more calories then reading:-)
The summary implies that students comprehend the lectures better when taking notes with a pen & paper vs using laptops as glorified typewriters. I strongly disagree - actually it largely depends on the professor's teaching ability. I recall frantically transcribing notes during lectures so fast I was barely keeping up - any attempt to pause and comprehend would set me back so far that I would never catch up. With a laptop I might have had a fighting chance to keep up - I have always been able to type much faster then I can write.
I wasn't alone - in one infamous math lecture, after scribing a couple pages of some proof or such thing the prof realized he made a mistake and started over. A collective and frustrated sigh arose from the class along with the collective sound of hundreds of pages of paper being torn out of notebooks and crumpled. No one had caught the mistake - why? Because they were all frantically transcribing and not comprehending. Comprehension was for later when you would review the notes.
If your students are not comprehending anything in your class - you are either boring, moving too fast or diving too deep into details that are overwhelming and confusing. In any case, no technology no matter how primitive or advanced is going to help your students during class - however, advanced note taking might help them capture enough information to be able to learn on their own while doing the assignments.
I would like to see my credit card display a time sync'd rolling number instead of the lame 3 digit code on the back of the card. As I see it, the problem with credit card fraud is not stolen cards, but stolen numbers. If I lose my card, I will know fairly soon and can have the card canceled. However, it may take quite a while to determine my number has been compromised. When shopping online I would like to enter my card number and a second number generated by the card. Cards expire after 2 years, so this should be doable from a battery life point of view. It could even be introduced as an extra fee initially to those who want the extra online shopping security.
I have the same beef here in Canada. The major effort is in tax software is the code to grind the calculations. Governments should provide open source libraries that accept an XML document of inputs (income, deductions, etc.) and spit out an XML document acceptable to their tax submission web service. Then Intuit (and anyone else - Linux included) can easily wrap and skin the library and produce a reasonably reliable tax preparation package. Features that gain market share would be in ease of use (UI), importing data from related accounting packages, price, etc.
Which after years of controversy and intense packet analysis would finally be corrected as "That's one small tweet for a man. One giant tweet for mankind".
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In New York where temperatures can go below freezing, a more devastating attack might be bust them enough to shut them down due to damage. Damage enough and the repair guys won't have enough parts or time to repair them all before the water starts freezing and causing even more problems. If the goal of terrorism is to upset the people, shutting the heat off on a bunch of lower income folks during a cold snap might trigger the desired instability.
"Good safety systems require little if any cognitive input in emergencies."
Better safety systems include training and rehearsal to make the appropriate input practically instinctive. The balance of automation vs education is tipping dangerously away from education.
While probably not the most amazing stuff out there, up here in Canada, my (asperger) son has found a venue for expressing himself thanks to easy access to music producing software, and actually has a chance at being heard thanks to free distribution sites like soundcloud and bandcamp.
I don't hold a lot of hope of the CRTC protecting his cultural expression. An open and free net is probably the only way he'll be heard.
In the clip I just saw, the whole assembly tumbles for a while, but as the atmosphere thickens, it stabilizes into a flat spin with screen facing up. The spin I'm sure generates some lift, which along with the large surface area results in minimum terminal velocity. Combine that with it landing nearly flat on its back - against the protective cover - results in maximum protection.
Curious how it would survive being dropped from a second story balcony onto pavement, oriented so that it lands on a corner - or even face down. Bet the screen is destroyed, and its brains scrambled.
At least it shouldn't be. I mean, when guys are building fully collimated displays in their garage, in their spare time, the big boys had better have holodecks.
Sparkfun just posted an article about a clever device for visually impaired people to use to navigate with their hand. Google better leave them alone!
before fussing about the 'cost' of delivering iPads. Are those 38 pounds actually noticeable? A 737 can weigh anywhere from 62,000lbs empty to over 175,000lbs. 38lbs is 0.06% of the total weight. Those savings will be lost in the noise. Are there statisticians (sp?) who would be willing to prove the money is actually be saved after the fact? I suspect it is just lost in the noise, and the real reason is more like convenience of use, updates, etc.
Ctrl-F works great if you know the word you are looking for, however, sometimes I'm looking for a picture or more loosely a concept. I know I've seen it, and in my subconscuous I have an idea of what it looks like which is why I like to flip through a dead-tree manual.
I want google to enhance the Android to provide a document reader with a mutli-touch interface that displays a book like the iPod's scrolling album covers. A quick fling of my finger across the screen to rapidly display many page images at once.
Looking up the phrase "terrorist organization", it seems obvious to me that members of a terrorist organization were present at the time the kid's MP3 player was destroyed.
And the kid was not one of them.
Anyone else see the irony of robbing the RBC Bank - aka the Royal Bank of Canada (Bank) to get healthcare?
You can't just drain the coolant from a reactor, even when its already been shut down
I remember getting a tour of a research CANDU in the Pinawa, MB area years ago ("powered" by large electric heaters - not uranium, hence the research status). I thought one of the major self-limiting safety features was the heavy water / primary coolant. If anything went wrong / ran away / threatened melt down - there was a large trap door at the bottom that opened and dumped the heavy water effectively stopping the reaction.
I'm sure this is Canadian propaganda I'm spewing from my youth, but these things seemed to be the magical answer the world needed. They ran on lower quality uranium and were fail safe. Perfect for selling to less stable countries or for places like Japan that were prone to natural disasters.
I guess the lack of sales shows I missed some of the less than perfect details to the design.
The house still has value, if the contents would be removed.
The loss of value concern is only valid if the cost of safe removal exceeds the cost of rebuilding / replacing the structure.
Often the safest way to dispose of explosives, is to burn it. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2006/08/24/old-dynamite.html
One could even test crosswind, tailwind, or gail force wind landings...
So no online banking?
If an person must reach an altitude 62 miles to be considered an astronaut, that would be where I would draw the line.
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Not quite. You are not allowed to ENTER the intersection on a red light. You are allowed to enter on Yellow (to turn left for example - establishing yourself, of if it is not safe / possible to stop in time).
What you are clear NOT allowed to do is cross the stop line after the light turns red. This is what the camera's are catching. As long as your tail is over the line BEFORE the light turns red there will be no photo.
Go and take a look at the intersections with red light cameras. Where normally there may be one or more diamond shaped cuts in the road for traffic sensors, there will be 2 (count them - TWO) rectangular cuts just in front of the stop line. They calculate speed and will trigger if you are travelling above the posted limit or if you cross the stop line after the light turns red.
I actually kind of like the cameras because they clearly indicate what the letter of the law is.
(shortening yellows to increase red light infractions on the other hand is entrapment and should be treated as such)
You get a consumer car like a Honda Insight, it's impressive. You look at [race cars] that's industry-specific, specialized hardware and software that doesn't have a lot of competition, it costs thousands and feels primitive in comparison. It must be the lack of competition means there's no real reason to improve the product beyond what it already does. Fixed that for you. When Quickbooks can handle the multi-million transaction ledger of an publicly traded enterprise come back and try again.
SSSSHHHHH! You'll give away Canada'a secret weapon!!
An interesting way to validate this study would be a lab controlled experiment where people are connected to a calorie consumption monitor while either watching tv (track "entertainment" vs "educational" programming), using a computer (track "working - coding, writing docs, etc." vs "gaming" vs "reading"), or reading (track "news paper" vs "fictional novel").
Brains use a fair bit of calories thinking and processing information. Should be easy enough to prove (or disprove) that watching TV requires fewer calories.
What you eat while performing these activities probably has a greater impact on your weight - which is what the article is probably referring to. I'd read it, but I'm trying to lose weight and think that posting consumes more calories then reading :-)
The summary implies that students comprehend the lectures better when taking notes with a pen & paper vs using laptops as glorified typewriters. I strongly disagree - actually it largely depends on the professor's teaching ability. I recall frantically transcribing notes during lectures so fast I was barely keeping up - any attempt to pause and comprehend would set me back so far that I would never catch up. With a laptop I might have had a fighting chance to keep up - I have always been able to type much faster then I can write.
I wasn't alone - in one infamous math lecture, after scribing a couple pages of some proof or such thing the prof realized he made a mistake and started over. A collective and frustrated sigh arose from the class along with the collective sound of hundreds of pages of paper being torn out of notebooks and crumpled. No one had caught the mistake - why? Because they were all frantically transcribing and not comprehending. Comprehension was for later when you would review the notes.
If your students are not comprehending anything in your class - you are either boring, moving too fast or diving too deep into details that are overwhelming and confusing. In any case, no technology no matter how primitive or advanced is going to help your students during class - however, advanced note taking might help them capture enough information to be able to learn on their own while doing the assignments.
I would like to see my credit card display a time sync'd rolling number instead of the lame 3 digit code on the back of the card. As I see it, the problem with credit card fraud is not stolen cards, but stolen numbers. If I lose my card, I will know fairly soon and can have the card canceled. However, it may take quite a while to determine my number has been compromised. When shopping online I would like to enter my card number and a second number generated by the card. Cards expire after 2 years, so this should be doable from a battery life point of view. It could even be introduced as an extra fee initially to those who want the extra online shopping security.
I have the same beef here in Canada. The major effort is in tax software is the code to grind the calculations. Governments should provide open source libraries that accept an XML document of inputs (income, deductions, etc.) and spit out an XML document acceptable to their tax submission web service. Then Intuit (and anyone else - Linux included) can easily wrap and skin the library and produce a reasonably reliable tax preparation package. Features that gain market share would be in ease of use (UI), importing data from related accounting packages, price, etc.
Which after years of controversy and intense packet analysis would finally be corrected as "That's one small tweet for a man. One giant tweet for mankind".