Isn't that the exact argument they use for the validity of the individual mandate in the new health care legislation?
Not buying health insurance (commerce) is participating in commerce and therefore it is mandatory that you purchase a specific thing?
Or, is it the fact that if you participate in *any* commerce then you can be subject to the individual mandate, and as long as you don't buy, sell, or trade anything you're OK?
That figure for the entire office floor space, not the individual offices/cubes. That is, 500-700 square feet including offices, hallways, break rooms, bathrooms, etc.
In any case, did you think that when I posted that I wasn't aware of auto-pilots?
I didn't really make any judgment about your knowledge or awareness. I wasn't sure what motivated your thought process to declare that we don't let computers pilot planes. Hence my reply, I wanted to draw out your reasoning by providing some likely counterexamples.
Sure, most people know about basic auto-pilots, but maybe not the sophistication level they have reached. Then again, the same comment could be made from a number of perspectives, which turned out to be the case here.
You're right that I can't think of any major accident that was outright blamed on autopilot. However there have certainly been documented non-crash events where autopilot has been blamed, including injuries. For instance: Qantas Flight 72 that dropped 800 feet rapidly and injured several passengers and resulting in pilots calling mayday.
I'll grant you that. But someone who claims to have a "direct neural hookup" to her computer and a response speed to back it up is not likely a not-overly-bright teenager.
Besides, aren't most teenagers not-overly-bright? After all, they are pretty much being led around by raging hormones instead of neural activity...
Hi K ! [ Af:0 At:7 Sp:0] Welcome, k. Type "help" if you need it. K - hello [ Af:0 At:8 Sp:0] Good afternoon. K - it is morning [ Af:0 At:9 Sp:0] OK. You must be in a different time zone. K - gee, you type fast [ Af:0 At:9 Sp:0] I have a direct neural hookup to my computer. K - how convenient [ Af:0 At:9 Sp:0] I don't know. I think I skipped that day in school. K - what?
It stopped responding at that point. But pretty clearly not a human after a few lines. The complete disconnect in conversation where I said "how convenient" gave it away.
Are you actually trashing Peter Jackson for tearing LoTR to shreds? It was one of the most faithful film adaptations ever
All you are doing is pointing out how sadly unfaithful most film adaptations are. That Jackson's LoTR is one of the best doesn't make it good in that respect. Polished crap is still crap.
The technology adds depth. That is a undeniable improvement.
Maybe it's an improvement for you. I wouldn't call it undeniable.
For me, it means having to hang something from my face in order to view it. The obnoxiousness of this vastly outweighs the "3D experience" because I really don't like things hanging off my face. I find it extremely uncomfortable after more than a few minutes and so instead of enjoying the movie, I end up squirming until the point I take them off and leave.
When we think and calculate it in our head, we take 5 and 3, add them to get 8. Then we take 3 and 2, add them, and get 5. Finally, we multiply 8 by 5 to get 40. And guess what? That's exactly how RPN does it. Including giving you the intermediate results of 8 and 5.
You should be able to hold a phone in whatever way is most comfortable for you.
The iPhone 4 is simply not compatible with the way I typically hold a phone. My left thumb sits right over one of the little gaps on the left side. Surely I'm not the only one on the planet that holds a phone like that.
It's not a gun, where you have to put the trigger where the correct finger can get to it, wrap the others around the grip, and keep the pointy end in the direction you want the bullet to go. At least, a phone shouldn't be like that.
Sorry for repeating the link. Someone can feel free to mark me redundant. I had the comment typed out and in my cut and paste buffer, and forgot to delete that line when I changed the first....
I re-did it with graphviz. neato will produce a graph with no crossings.
The first sign that their graph was piss-poor was the unnecessary crossing of Oracle->Google and Nokia->Toshiba.
digraph G {
graph [center ranksep=equally rankdir=LR remincross=true overlap=false splines=true]
center="";
ratio=auto;
ELAN -> Apple;
Oracle -> Google;
Apple -> HTC;
Apple -> Nokia;
Qualcomm -> Nokia;
RIM -> Motorola;
RIM -> Sharp;
Microsoft -> Motorola;
Microsoft -> HTC;
Nokia -> Motorola;
Nokia -> Apple;
Nokia -> Qualcomm;
Nokia -> Toshiba;
Nokia -> "LG-Group";
Nokia -> Hitachi;
Nokia -> Sharp;
Nokia -> Samsung;
Kodak -> Samsung;
Kodak -> "LG-Group";
Kodak -> "Sony-Ericsson";
Kodak -> Sharp; }
P.S. if my graphviz work is shoddy, it's because I don't use it often enough.
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Isn't that the exact argument they use for the validity of the individual mandate in the new health care legislation?
Not buying health insurance (commerce) is participating in commerce and therefore it is mandatory that you purchase a specific thing?
Or, is it the fact that if you participate in *any* commerce then you can be subject to the individual mandate, and as long as you don't buy, sell, or trade anything you're OK?
That figure for the entire office floor space, not the individual offices/cubes. That is, 500-700 square feet including offices, hallways, break rooms, bathrooms, etc.
So *thats* what you do when you have to count past ten fingers...
Seriously, I saw that and I really couldn't proceed any further into the list. That's just plain bad.
So, you are saying most people are individually 100% obedient of the law and polite social custom even when there is nobody watching?
In my experiences with people, I'd have to say that the correct word is 'most,' not 'some.'
I'm a heavy laptop user due to work, and never use the laptop pads. Didn't stop me from getting my wife pregnant within 2 months of trying.
In any case, did you think that when I posted that I wasn't aware of auto-pilots?
I didn't really make any judgment about your knowledge or awareness. I wasn't sure what motivated your thought process to declare that we don't let computers pilot planes. Hence my reply, I wanted to draw out your reasoning by providing some likely counterexamples.
Sure, most people know about basic auto-pilots, but maybe not the sophistication level they have reached. Then again, the same comment could be made from a number of perspectives, which turned out to be the case here.
You're right that I can't think of any major accident that was outright blamed on autopilot. However there have certainly been documented non-crash events where autopilot has been blamed, including injuries. For instance: Qantas Flight 72 that dropped 800 feet rapidly and injured several passengers and resulting in pilots calling mayday.
I'll grant you that. But someone who claims to have a "direct neural hookup" to her computer and a response speed to back it up is not likely a not-overly-bright teenager.
Besides, aren't most teenagers not-overly-bright? After all, they are pretty much being led around by raging hormones instead of neural activity...
Here's mine:
It stopped responding at that point. But pretty clearly not a human after a few lines. The complete disconnect in conversation where I said "how convenient" gave it away.
They're human-piloted with a computer that can assist.
You're splitting hairs here when talking about a machine that has control of the plane throughout most of the flight, the touchdown, and braking.
From my perspective, the computer is flying the plane. The human is the failsafe mechanism.
That is why we don't have computer-piloted cars/planes/etc (emphasis added)
Uh, what?
Maybe if you coddle your eyes throughout life by starting with sunglasses at an early age, you become dependent on them?
I grew up in the desert, never wear sunglasses, and still have perfect vision.
Seriously, you act as if humans didn't evolve for millions of years under direct sunlight.
When Oracle moves OOo into paid tiers
What do you mean moves into paid tiers...?
Are you actually trashing Peter Jackson for tearing LoTR to shreds? It was one of the most faithful film adaptations ever
All you are doing is pointing out how sadly unfaithful most film adaptations are. That Jackson's LoTR is one of the best doesn't make it good in that respect. Polished crap is still crap.
The technology adds depth. That is a undeniable improvement.
Maybe it's an improvement for you. I wouldn't call it undeniable.
For me, it means having to hang something from my face in order to view it. The obnoxiousness of this vastly outweighs the "3D experience" because I really don't like things hanging off my face. I find it extremely uncomfortable after more than a few minutes and so instead of enjoying the movie, I end up squirming until the point I take them off and leave.
That's not the way I think.
I think: 5*3 + 5*2 + 3*3 + 3*2 = 15 + 10 + 9 + 6 = 40.
I think I just foiled your argument.
If there are too many beavers, then some beavers may, indeed, be more valuable as pelts.
Of course, one might be able to extend this argument to humans, as well. Anyone up for some Soylent Green?
You should be able to hold a phone in whatever way is most comfortable for you.
The iPhone 4 is simply not compatible with the way I typically hold a phone. My left thumb sits right over one of the little gaps on the left side. Surely I'm not the only one on the planet that holds a phone like that.
It's not a gun, where you have to put the trigger where the correct finger can get to it, wrap the others around the grip, and keep the pointy end in the direction you want the bullet to go. At least, a phone shouldn't be like that.
Sorry for repeating the link. Someone can feel free to mark me redundant. I had the comment typed out and in my cut and paste buffer, and forgot to delete that line when I changed the first....
I was going to bring up APRS but you beat me to it.
For the uninitiated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System
I re-did it with graphviz. neato will produce a graph with no crossings.
The first sign that their graph was piss-poor was the unnecessary crossing of Oracle->Google and Nokia->Toshiba.
digraph G {
graph [center ranksep=equally rankdir=LR remincross=true overlap=false splines=true]
center="";
ratio=auto;
ELAN -> Apple;
Oracle -> Google;
Apple -> HTC;
Apple -> Nokia;
Qualcomm -> Nokia;
RIM -> Motorola;
RIM -> Sharp;
Microsoft -> Motorola;
Microsoft -> HTC;
Nokia -> Motorola;
Nokia -> Apple;
Nokia -> Qualcomm;
Nokia -> Toshiba;
Nokia -> "LG-Group";
Nokia -> Hitachi;
Nokia -> Sharp;
Nokia -> Samsung;
Kodak -> Samsung;
Kodak -> "LG-Group";
Kodak -> "Sony-Ericsson";
Kodak -> Sharp;
}
P.S. if my graphviz work is shoddy, it's because I don't use it often enough.
The Geysers, the most geothermally active spot on the planet.
[citation needed]
Well, I was mostly just curious if you knew something I didn't... not trying to be the grammar police.
Why are you and the GP talking about SMIT in the past tense? ("did this," "was") It still exists and it still does this.
But here we're talking about civil servants, who never get fired for anything short of criminal malfeasance.
I'm not sure the likelihood of getting fired for that is very high.