True. It was a missed opportunity, and you're probably right about the reason.
Personally I think it'd be most useful to know the height of the visible area (in cm), and the aspect ratio.
well you can assume it's 16:9, since ALL tvs are this. I think the right thing is to just give the horizontal width. it's a wide screen tv, so how wide is it?
area. I think it has improved a little since the early 90s, but probably not much.
BART finally made it to SFO. the bart station there is one of the stops on the shuttle tram that connects the terminals with each other and the parking structure. it's pretty sweet that you don't need a cab to get to the city.
At OAK bart runs an "air bart" shuttle that directly goes between the coliseum station and the airport. it's seamless in that the shuttle accepts bart tickets as payment and the stations are nicely located.
SJC: you take a free bus (SCVTA to caltrain, 20 mins. I used to commute on this, from caltrain to an office park on the other side of the airport. No connection yet between SJC and east bay bart. BART is building into san jose right now, and should have a station in the city by 2018. Still though, I'm not sure why anybody would want to go to east bay.
i think you're getting a bit wound up here. generally speaking the govt can override constitutional rights if there is a compelling societal/governmental/national interest. fire in a public theater, etc. if you're a felon you can't vote or own a gun, even though both of those are constitutional rights. You could get on a soap box about that but surely there are many other issues more pressing to soap box about.
specific for driving, considering that car accidents are the leading cause of death for all americans under 45, there's a compelling national interest in regulating it closely, even if it impinges on the (implied) constitutional right to free travel.
in fact, for travel specifically, I much more quickly get my dander up over the no fly list. What is the purpose of this list? is the argument that the people on this list are such a danger in mid-air that they are too dangerous to let on an airplane, even though all their stuff has been searched and their nuts grabbed? that makes no possible sense. Or is the govt just restricting the travel of people who have not been convicted or even accused of any crime. I suspect the latter.
FUD. are any of these true for a taxi company? i guarantee that those vehicles if inspected at all the "inspectors" either work for the taxi company or get a lot of money in bribes. i seriously doubt they get background checks, unless it is to confirm that taxi drivers are the lowest form of nasty on the road.
the whole thing just annoys me. just go out of business already! you're obsolete, get out of my way. good luck being an uber or lyft driver, you'd last 2 weeks then your ratings would go so low uber or lyft would cut you off and not serve you any more rides.
god the whole airport thing really burns my ass. where better to use uber than when flying in to a new city and needing a lift to your hotel or office? its so stupidly easy. i hope the taxi union and the corrupt city hall go out of business.
yes except the workers made the bad decision to take an IOU instead of payment up front. Now the retired workers are just another creditor like a bank, and when a place declares bankrupcy the creditors get shafted. Always take payment up front.
no it's not the case for mccain because the dems had a competitive primary as well -- Obama vs. Hillary -- so most dems would still have voted dem. you only vote in the other primary if your primary is safe/boring.
In California for state legislature we switched to an open primary in the spring and runoff in the fall, where the runoff is the top two candidates regardless of party. so in very conservative areas the top two candidates could be two republicans, and in liberal areas the top two candidates will be democrats. This has the effect of pushing the most polarized districts to more moderate representation, because if two repubs are in the final election, the more moderate one will appeal to a wider base.
this is so important because california's legislature is so horribly disfunctional, and because you need 2/3 vote to pass any bill that levies taxes, it means a minority can basically shut down regular operation.
btdubs this was just one of the reforms passed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who I think will be remembered as one of the best governors in CA history.
if we got rid of unions it wouldn't make any difference to consumer prices, because consumer goods manufacturing have all been shipped overseas due to union pressure at home.
why should state legislatures treat teachers with any kind of respect? it's not like they're going to go anywhere. all they have to do is skirt by the contract or trade away something at the next negotiation and they can continue pretending teachers are shit. it's not like teachers are going anywhere. they're captive employees who can't switch jobs, even into other districts. and there's no point in paying more because you'll never poach someone from a different industry.
it's because of the tenure lock in that teachers have no options, and this explains why they are treated so.
i think people should be able to retire whenever their savings allow. you want to go move to florida or whatever, cool. if you can afford to do it at 55, then go for it. but public pensions aren't self-funded, they have shifted liabilities to future taxpayers. So I as a future taxpayer am paying my money so somebody *who hasn't earned it* can sit on the beach.
if your idea of "the way things used to be" is that a select few lived from the pockets of many, then don't be surprised if that way is now gone.
yes but there are millions of public employees who are adequately covered under current laws, they don't need a special tenure bonus. if it works for everybody else is there is no reason why it can't work for teachers.
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i see. amateur hour as usual. wikipedia much?
No dinosaurs lived in the water.
but what about the ictheosaur and all those other ones? and megaloposhark?
slashdotters hate who?
True. It was a missed opportunity, and you're probably right about the reason.
Personally I think it'd be most useful to know the height of the visible area (in cm), and the aspect ratio.
well you can assume it's 16:9, since ALL tvs are this. I think the right thing is to just give the horizontal width. it's a wide screen tv, so how wide is it?
the headline might as well have been, "one weird trick to designing a turing test"
area. I think it has improved a little since the early 90s, but probably not much.
BART finally made it to SFO. the bart station there is one of the stops on the shuttle tram that connects the terminals with each other and the parking structure. it's pretty sweet that you don't need a cab to get to the city.
At OAK bart runs an "air bart" shuttle that directly goes between the coliseum station and the airport. it's seamless in that the shuttle accepts bart tickets as payment and the stations are nicely located.
SJC: you take a free bus (SCVTA to caltrain, 20 mins. I used to commute on this, from caltrain to an office park on the other side of the airport. No connection yet between SJC and east bay bart. BART is building into san jose right now, and should have a station in the city by 2018. Still though, I'm not sure why anybody would want to go to east bay.
i think you're getting a bit wound up here. generally speaking the govt can override constitutional rights if there is a compelling societal/governmental/national interest. fire in a public theater, etc. if you're a felon you can't vote or own a gun, even though both of those are constitutional rights. You could get on a soap box about that but surely there are many other issues more pressing to soap box about.
specific for driving, considering that car accidents are the leading cause of death for all americans under 45, there's a compelling national interest in regulating it closely, even if it impinges on the (implied) constitutional right to free travel.
in fact, for travel specifically, I much more quickly get my dander up over the no fly list. What is the purpose of this list? is the argument that the people on this list are such a danger in mid-air that they are too dangerous to let on an airplane, even though all their stuff has been searched and their nuts grabbed? that makes no possible sense. Or is the govt just restricting the travel of people who have not been convicted or even accused of any crime. I suspect the latter.
no doubt they scan everybody's plates every time they enter. it's the new america.
FUD. are any of these true for a taxi company? i guarantee that those vehicles if inspected at all the "inspectors" either work for the taxi company or get a lot of money in bribes. i seriously doubt they get background checks, unless it is to confirm that taxi drivers are the lowest form of nasty on the road.
the whole thing just annoys me. just go out of business already! you're obsolete, get out of my way. good luck being an uber or lyft driver, you'd last 2 weeks then your ratings would go so low uber or lyft would cut you off and not serve you any more rides.
god the whole airport thing really burns my ass. where better to use uber than when flying in to a new city and needing a lift to your hotel or office? its so stupidly easy. i hope the taxi union and the corrupt city hall go out of business.
holy shit! what if the police call in a tip of their own, nobody would ever know!!! packing my bags, I'm out of here.
does anyone else see the irony of using a Van Der Waals force to climb, wait for it, walls?
well i'm going bankrupt so i'm tired of paying for others to sit around on their butts.
yes except the workers made the bad decision to take an IOU instead of payment up front. Now the retired workers are just another creditor like a bank, and when a place declares bankrupcy the creditors get shafted. Always take payment up front.
uber provides plenty of insurance stop gaps. what do you expect them to do? http://blog.uber.com/rideshari...
fyi i get my facts from facts not from youtube videos. maru!
no it's not the case for mccain because the dems had a competitive primary as well -- Obama vs. Hillary -- so most dems would still have voted dem. you only vote in the other primary if your primary is safe/boring.
In California for state legislature we switched to an open primary in the spring and runoff in the fall, where the runoff is the top two candidates regardless of party. so in very conservative areas the top two candidates could be two republicans, and in liberal areas the top two candidates will be democrats. This has the effect of pushing the most polarized districts to more moderate representation, because if two repubs are in the final election, the more moderate one will appeal to a wider base.
this is so important because california's legislature is so horribly disfunctional, and because you need 2/3 vote to pass any bill that levies taxes, it means a minority can basically shut down regular operation.
btdubs this was just one of the reforms passed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who I think will be remembered as one of the best governors in CA history.
hell, I'm coasting now! mod up if you're coasting through your job and reading this at work!
sounds like a defined contribution plan, rather than a defined benefits plan. we're talking about defined benefits plan here.
no, just being a dick. but I'm wary of apps that aren't in the apple/google/amazon stores.
if we got rid of unions it wouldn't make any difference to consumer prices, because consumer goods manufacturing have all been shipped overseas due to union pressure at home.
why should state legislatures treat teachers with any kind of respect? it's not like they're going to go anywhere. all they have to do is skirt by the contract or trade away something at the next negotiation and they can continue pretending teachers are shit. it's not like teachers are going anywhere. they're captive employees who can't switch jobs, even into other districts. and there's no point in paying more because you'll never poach someone from a different industry.
it's because of the tenure lock in that teachers have no options, and this explains why they are treated so.
i think people should be able to retire whenever their savings allow. you want to go move to florida or whatever, cool. if you can afford to do it at 55, then go for it. but public pensions aren't self-funded, they have shifted liabilities to future taxpayers. So I as a future taxpayer am paying my money so somebody *who hasn't earned it* can sit on the beach.
if your idea of "the way things used to be" is that a select few lived from the pockets of many, then don't be surprised if that way is now gone.
you must be an accountant.
yes but there are millions of public employees who are adequately covered under current laws, they don't need a special tenure bonus. if it works for everybody else is there is no reason why it can't work for teachers.