Because you shouldn't have to micro-manage your speed. It achieves nothing except:
a)training people to drive along spending 3/4 of their time looking out for speed limit changes and watching the dash, rather than watching the road; and
b) not to use their own judgement when choosing how fast to drive. This becomes important when the speed limit is, in fact, too fast ("I was under the limit, it must have been safe!").
Then we fall back to the first point I made - people going "whaaaaaaa! I got a ticket for doing 5 over! How unfair! I couldn't see the police car! waaaaa!"
The point - and complaint - is that this sort of draconian speed enforcement has nothing to do with road safety.
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. It's not suddenly "unfair" because you don't think a cop can see you. If you don't break the law you can't get a ticket.
Shouldn't be a "crime" in the first place. Your choice of tyres or maintenance of suspension, will have more of an impact on your stopping distance and maneuverability than 5km/h. Not to mention your speedometer can legally be up to 10% out.
Speeding fine brackets shouldn't even start until 10% over the posted limit
If you had any brains you would know I was making a hypothetical example, not describing how things are.
"If you had any brains" you'd realise your "hypothetical example" is absurd. Far from being "the logical consequence", it's the complete opposite - a non-sequitur.
The logical consequence of making prostitution legal is that it becomes just another job. In socialists countries people get benefits from the state if they can't find a job. A suitable job. If they do get a suitable job offer, they got to take it or lose their benefits.
Your wife, sister, mother, girlfriend looses her job and can't find another one. The job center tells her the local whorehouse has a vacancy. Are you okay she should take it rather then keep claiming benefits?
Everything you know about the world outside America you learned from Fox News, right ?
Do you really think that the makers of an operating system which requires 3rd party AV to correct its own security shortcomings devised secure boot to protect users from malware?
You also need massive campaign finance reform (in short: ban all campaign contributions above, say $50 per person per year. complete ban on contributions from non-natural persons - corporations, lobby groups, religious organisations, etc).
The best tradeoff for political donations, I believe, is to a) accept donations from natural persons only, and b) to a per-person amount no higher than 4 weeks (or 2 if you're in a country where you only get 2 weeks annual leave per year) worth of full-time, minimum wage work.
The bulk of Microsoft's revenue comes from Windows and Office on the desktop. PC sales have slowed and begun shrinking - people just don't need to upgrade as often and the market is saturated.
Q4 2012 Revenue by Division Windows & Windows Live: $4.15 billion, down from $4.74 billion a year earlier. Server & Tools: $5.09 billion, up from $4.64 billion a year earlier. Business: $6.3 billion, up from $5.87 billion a year earlier. Online Services Business: $735 million, up from $680 million a year earlier. Entertainment & Devices: $1.78 billion, up from $1.49 billion a year earlier.
From the perspective of the passengers ? Since always.
For gods sake, the post specifies workforce meaning people who drive as a job!
This includes the bus driver, the cab driver and the truck driver.
The post I responded to specifically said " self-driving cars". Ie: a replacement for personal transport.
Public transportation is what is going to be replaced first by the Google car. Average Joe doesn't mind driving his own car, the companies that have to pay a salary to a bus driver or a truck driver will be the ones who are eager to automate.
The productivity improvements alluded to in the post I responded to are clearly talking about freeing up the time of the vast number of people who drive single occupant vehicles to work. Not the relative minority who are driving buses, trucks and taxis.
In no way did I present public transport as a "panacea". I pointed out that for the typical person, a proper public transport system delivers most of the advantages of not having to waste time driving. Thus, the 'revolution' of automated cars is in no way going to deliver benefits "similiar to what robotics was to manufacturing". There's simply not that much improvement to existing technologies in the big picture.
I am not suggesting automated vehicles would have no improvements over and above public transport (though in a large subset of cases, I expect that to be true), I am making the point that their improvement would not be "revolutionary" because the "not wasting time driving" aspect is already covered (and has been for decades) by existing technology.
Because the implication it has on the transportation sector is very similiar to what robotics was to manufacturing. Today a lot of workforce is tied up at trivial driving, something that a computer can do cheaper and more effeciently. Just like robots didn't replace all manufacturing self-driving cars will not replace all driver. It will however free a large portion of that workforce without any loss in productivity. This workforce can then be used for something that we can't automate yet.
In most countries this problem is mostly already solved. It's called public transport.
And the next iteration of machines will be retina class (probably PC laptops, too) which makes the whole pixel counting thing irrelevant.
I don't think so. The generation after that, maybe, but I don't think the next one will be able to fit the GPU grunt into the chassis to do a retina display.
VMware would solve a lot of their own problems and probably streamline support if they would support vCenter as a canned Linux appliance installable as a VM or on bare metal.
It's pretty much guaranteed this will come with vSphere 6.0, which will almost certainly be released at VMworld 2013.
This is _highly_ dependent on destination. Moving from the US to Australia, for example, would probably see you paying at least double to repurchase everything vs move it (unless you live in a tent). Indeed, were I fitting out a whole house from scratch - and assuming I wanted decent stuff rather than the cheapest possible - it would be quite a bit cheaper for me to fly to America, buy everything there and ship it back here to Australia.
Cars in the US are much cheaper than anywhere else. There are also a few that are unique enough (in the rest of the world) to be interesting, like old Corvettes and Mustangs.
Exactly what I was thinking. Are you loading the container yourself? If so, add lots extra padding.
Note that insurance costs increase dramatically if you are packing yourself. Many shipping companies either won't let you pack the container yourself, or won't insure you at all if you do.
How well Windows supported it was largely up to how well the video card drivers supported it. Some systems required rebooting in order to get it to recognize the additional monitor; others would work without a problem. It was typically consistent for any given driver, but very hit-and-miss between video cards/driver versions.
Before Windows 2000, yes. Since then, what you describe would be extremely unusual.
That's a little harsh. Labor has only drifted to the centre-right (which is a distinct improvement to the relatively far-right - and moving further - Liberals). They're a long way from their centre-left roots, however.
The really interesting thing is how the Nationals - agrarian socialist rednecks - have teamed up with the Liberal party because they both hate the gays.
I never really got why over the last decades the people of both Canada and Australia have seemingly had governments that are at such odds to their national mindset.
Same reason it's happened the world over. The incredibly successful job America has done at exporting its culture.
Unfortunately, not. You can see it at its most visible in that both Windows and Office want to be activated via Internet connection, although the truly paranoid can call for an activation code, instead. But if you attach a network traffic monitor, you'll see regular conversations. How else do you think you're getting those update alerts?
I'm well aware of that. I was referring to: "Meaning that there's a fairly decent chance that Microsoft could simply switch it off on you. Although more likely, based on their past history, you'll simply discover one day that the latest version of Windows won't run Office 2003 properly any more.".
Dream on. Somewhere around 2000-2003 Microsoft software products started getting real cozy with the Mothership via Internet. Meaning that there's a fairly decent chance that Microsoft could simply switch it off on you. Although more likely, based on their past history, you'll simply discover one day that the latest version of Windows won't run Office 2003 properly any more.
This is some sort of alternative timeline thing, right ?
What's so difficult about switching to IPv6 ? I mean where the cost really is ? It is not like I have to buy all of my hardware again, it is mostly a software issue right ?
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Because you shouldn't have to micro-manage your speed. It achieves nothing except:
a)training people to drive along spending 3/4 of their time looking out for speed limit changes and watching the dash, rather than watching the road; and
b) not to use their own judgement when choosing how fast to drive. This becomes important when the speed limit is, in fact, too fast ("I was under the limit, it must have been safe!").
The point - and complaint - is that this sort of draconian speed enforcement has nothing to do with road safety.
Shouldn't be a "crime" in the first place. Your choice of tyres or maintenance of suspension, will have more of an impact on your stopping distance and maneuverability than 5km/h. Not to mention your speedometer can legally be up to 10% out.
Speeding fine brackets shouldn't even start until 10% over the posted limit
Greens or Democrats.
Linux software RAID and ZFS can certainly do an array scrubs, which is basically the same thing (albeit a bit more intrusive if your system is 24/7).
"If you had any brains" you'd realise your "hypothetical example" is absurd. Far from being "the logical consequence", it's the complete opposite - a non-sequitur.
Everything you know about the world outside America you learned from Fox News, right ?
Which "security shortcomings" does AV fix ?
The best tradeoff for political donations, I believe, is to a) accept donations from natural persons only, and b) to a per-person amount no higher than 4 weeks (or 2 if you're in a country where you only get 2 weeks annual leave per year) worth of full-time, minimum wage work.
Q4 2012 Revenue by Division
Windows & Windows Live: $4.15 billion, down from $4.74 billion a year earlier.
Server & Tools: $5.09 billion, up from $4.64 billion a year earlier.
Business: $6.3 billion, up from $5.87 billion a year earlier.
Online Services Business: $735 million, up from $680 million a year earlier.
Entertainment & Devices: $1.78 billion, up from $1.49 billion a year earlier.
From the perspective of the passengers ? Since always.
The post I responded to specifically said " self-driving cars". Ie: a replacement for personal transport.
The productivity improvements alluded to in the post I responded to are clearly talking about freeing up the time of the vast number of people who drive single occupant vehicles to work. Not the relative minority who are driving buses, trucks and taxis.
In no way did I present public transport as a "panacea".
I pointed out that for the typical person, a proper public transport system delivers most of the advantages of not having to waste time driving.
Thus, the 'revolution' of automated cars is in no way going to deliver benefits "similiar to what robotics was to manufacturing". There's simply not that much improvement to existing technologies in the big picture.
I am not suggesting automated vehicles would have no improvements over and above public transport (though in a large subset of cases, I expect that to be true), I am making the point that their improvement would not be "revolutionary" because the "not wasting time driving" aspect is already covered (and has been for decades) by existing technology.
In most countries this problem is mostly already solved.
It's called public transport.
I don't think so.
The generation after that, maybe, but I don't think the next one will be able to fit the GPU grunt into the chassis to do a retina display.
It's pretty much guaranteed this will come with vSphere 6.0, which will almost certainly be released at VMworld 2013.
This is _highly_ dependent on destination.
Moving from the US to Australia, for example, would probably see you paying at least double to repurchase everything vs move it (unless you live in a tent).
Indeed, were I fitting out a whole house from scratch - and assuming I wanted decent stuff rather than the cheapest possible - it would be quite a bit cheaper for me to fly to America, buy everything there and ship it back here to Australia.
It's not just American cars. The same European and Japanese vehicles sell for substantially less in the US than they do in most other countries.
Cars in the US are much cheaper than anywhere else.
There are also a few that are unique enough (in the rest of the world) to be interesting, like old Corvettes and Mustangs.
Note that insurance costs increase dramatically if you are packing yourself. Many shipping companies either won't let you pack the container yourself, or won't insure you at all if you do.
Your "security" from those things comes from not taking a job with that corporation.
Before Windows 2000, yes. Since then, what you describe would be extremely unusual.
That's a little harsh. Labor has only drifted to the centre-right (which is a distinct improvement to the relatively far-right - and moving further - Liberals). They're a long way from their centre-left roots, however.
The really interesting thing is how the Nationals - agrarian socialist rednecks - have teamed up with the Liberal party because they both hate the gays.
Same reason it's happened the world over. The incredibly successful job America has done at exporting its culture.
I'm well aware of that. I was referring to: "Meaning that there's a fairly decent chance that Microsoft could simply switch it off on you. Although more likely, based on their past history, you'll simply discover one day that the latest version of Windows won't run Office 2003 properly any more.".
This is some sort of alternative timeline thing, right ?
If only it were that simple. Hardware is cheap.