Some of us have never given up on Pascal. I still use Delphi and Kylix to this day. Meets my needs and Pascal makes a nice OO programming language, something that dates back to Turbo Pascal 7.
There is a ton of third party support for it and you can do just about everything a little easier then just about everything else. All my DSOs for Apache are done in Kylix...
I love the governments response... Block overseas ISPs for overseas voters and then if you RTFA, you will see the government response to that is to have them call a Toll Free Number. Why would the government have a toll free number in the US for overseas voters?! Don't they know that when you call from overseas the numbers aren't toll free. In France, you have to totally dial the number another way and in fact, most Toll Free Numbers don't allow international terminations without special provisioning. I can only assume they have done that.
Yes, Virginia there are Americans who don't live in America!
Well, that is where I live in the suburbs of Chicago... I don't use it to the drive to work, I use it be IL and WI on the weekends and it works great. It has this nasty beep when someone suddenly juts in infront of you and you weren't expecting it. But that can happen with normal cruise control.
I have a FX35, which is a great gadget car, and I already have the "Adaptive Cruise Control" mentioned. From the Infiniti website:
It's like cruise control, only smarter. Using a laser sensor and digital rangefinder, Intelligent Cruise Control* scans the road and detects vehicles ahead. If cars slow, it automatically decelerates and/or brakes. When traffic clears, cruising speed is resumed. Optional FX45/FX35
*Optional Intelligent Cruise Control is not a collision avoidance or warning device. For highway use only and not intended for congested areas or city driving. The system will not brake automatically to a stop. Failure to apply the brakes could result in an accident.
I have used this a lot while driving on long trips and I totally love it. It takes a bit getting used to letting the car do the braking, but once you get used to it, you wonder what you ever did without it before.
So to answer your question, what will cars of the future look like, I would say the Infiniti FX35 is a good start...
Actually if you read the article you will realize that it only takes about an hour of number crunching, but that the three day storm path accuracy errors have been cut in half... and that 5-day forcast is getting much more accurate.
I guess we should read articles before submitting them...
If you actually read the article, it says that the House only put an admendment into the Spending bill and that the Senate might very well remove it before it gets to the President. So it is far from scrapped, so don't go looking to your boss for your overtime yet...
I in a Comcast area (suburban Illinois) and have been through almost every configuration they have both regular and digital. I had DirecTV and Dish Network back in Phonenix, but now I just moved back to DirecTV.
My biggest desire to move back to DirecTV was HDTV. I feel that DirecTV in the long term will provide better HD options that local cable. Couple that with almost every HD DirecTV receiver able to tune to HD over-air broadcasts and provide local channels via Satellite or over-air, there is little that cable can possibly offer over DirecTV.
I did lots of studying. The most annoying thing is that Comcast doesn't even want to begin to provide you details about when they will offer HDTV in my area, though they advertise it on TV.
As far as reception. I was a bit concerned about the "we loose our signal all the time" and all I can say, mounted on my roof, I get strong signal all the time, even in the snow. I know that heavy weather (it is the water) can distort the signal and you have to be careful if your dish builds up snow, but if that does become an issue, there are several workarounds including sprays, covers and other items that make sure your LNB doesn't get "watered" down.
I totally hated the Digital Cable. They over compress the channels and the receivers were about as slow as molassass.
My DirecTV install experience was excellent, a lot better than my cable, where they didn't even know what they were doing. I expected to have to educate the DirecTV guy (since I have quite an extensive custom built whole house distribution system) but he didn't have a problem and did a very professional clean install. The cable guy just did his thing but the DirecTV guy asked permission before doing any physical changes.
I am VERY happy with the programming selection on DirecTV versus Comcast. They just are damn good at what they do. Calling them recently about getting CBS-HD for the superbowl was super easy and very friendly. Lot better than calling my local cable franchise.
Yes, the legally cannot not take money for their services, but they are donating the proceeds to Kid's Vote, so in the end, it is a good thing and an interesting social experiement.
While I am fully supportive of technology, the one thing that I think might be a problem is how do you keep undue influence away from the voters? We already have a huge problem that isn't addressed in people shuttling old people to the voting poles, telling them who to exactly vote for. Now you can send them directly to their homes and say even "help" them make their selection. It will be ripe for fraud. What used to be a totally private matter can now be exploited by those who want to "stuff" the ballot box.
I am not sure there is a perfect way, but at least voting in person in a private booth makes that person harder to influence. Heck, you could come up with automated "bots" that all you need to do is type in your PIN and "we promise to vote for all the right people to you." Heck, the social engineering issues are ripe for exploitation.
Personally it sucks for me, because I can weed out easier the numbers I know, versus the ones I don't and I get a lot of calls from overseas, which never pass CallerID. So never know if it is some annoying sales person or a friend. I thought about getting privacy manager, but I would hate to annoy my overseas friends.
I am impressed. The DNC registry has worked for me. I used to get calls all the time. The only people who call now are the bill collectors. I did get one charity, which quickly added me to their DNC list after I queried why they were calling me and I got one real pollster doing a real poll, which I don't actually mind.
The only thing left is for the year to end so that the Must Transmit Caller ID information is in force. I thought it took effect the same time as the DNC, but it doesn't actually take effect to the new year. Anyone automated calling to your house must transmit caller ID information and they have to take proactive steps to actually transmit the information. No excuses.
Quite possible! I mean, if someone has a problem with the size of their wiener, then the thought of 2 billion tons of stuff must make their wiener seem pretty insignificant...but then, who'd want a 2 billion ton wiener anyway?
I just have to say it, but did you notice how we are having this conversation about coronal mass ejections? If that doesn't smack of a double entendre, I don't know what does!
I have to just admit the awe I have in watching the SOHO Video... that is just totally amazing. Makes you feel teeny weenie small, doesn't it?
Forget Iraq, the 2004 Election, the economy...
And people question our space exploration budget!!! Silly people!
Re:They are criminals, so how is this abuse?
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The already abused their rights by violating someone elses. Worse was the nature of their crimes. So, I am supposed to feel scared because the government is employing know technology to keep an eye on these "people"?
What if this continues? As a teenager, you make the bad decision to shoplift and they plant an RFID on you. Now you are "stuck" with that label. Aren't you just a criminal too, who abused their rights. Worse was the nature of your crime.
Plus what is a pedophile in your opinion. Not all people violate someone elses rights. Who make the decision to tag them, who makes the decision to untag them? Can someone every reform? What if it was a 19yo having consentual sex with a 15yo? Now they are stuck with that reputation for the rest of their lives?
Why would OEMs buy something that would piss off their customers?
Then you don't understand OEMs. They generally believe their customer are ignorant. That is why they use cheap chipsets and their only solution is to insert the Restore CD and wipe out all their customers information.
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Some of us have never given up on Pascal. I still use Delphi and Kylix to this day. Meets my needs and Pascal makes a nice OO programming language, something that dates back to Turbo Pascal 7.
There is a ton of third party support for it and you can do just about everything a little easier then just about everything else. All my DSOs for Apache are done in Kylix...
Haven't been watching the exchange rates lately...
£200-£300 = $350-$530 USD
Obviously the used XBox and MacOS X is still cheaper, not bright mind you.
I love the governments response... Block overseas ISPs for overseas voters and then if you RTFA, you will see the government response to that is to have them call a Toll Free Number. Why would the government have a toll free number in the US for overseas voters?! Don't they know that when you call from overseas the numbers aren't toll free. In France, you have to totally dial the number another way and in fact, most Toll Free Numbers don't allow international terminations without special provisioning. I can only assume they have done that.
Yes, Virginia there are Americans who don't live in America!
Well, that is where I live in the suburbs of Chicago... I don't use it to the drive to work, I use it be IL and WI on the weekends and it works great. It has this nasty beep when someone suddenly juts in infront of you and you weren't expecting it. But that can happen with normal cruise control.
I have used this a lot while driving on long trips and I totally love it. It takes a bit getting used to letting the car do the braking, but once you get used to it, you wonder what you ever did without it before.
So to answer your question, what will cars of the future look like, I would say the Infiniti FX35 is a good start...
Actually if you read the article you will realize that it only takes about an hour of number crunching, but that the three day storm path accuracy errors have been cut in half... and that 5-day forcast is getting much more accurate.
I guess we should read articles before submitting them...
If you actually read the article, it says that the House only put an admendment into the Spending bill and that the Senate might very well remove it before it gets to the President. So it is far from scrapped, so don't go looking to your boss for your overtime yet...
It might even help people find prior art for some of the goofey patents we get these days.
Well weekends are for dupes it seems
I mean this was interesting a couple days ago, but now it is old news...
Actually, I was referring to an obscure cultural reference.
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) is a song by They Might be Giants which debates where you are gonna show up for your date if it was supposed to be in Constantinople.
I didn't realize I was that obscure.
Do I need to point out Bombay is called Mumbai? Sort of a Instanbul/Constantinople thing.
See this page for information.
I in a Comcast area (suburban Illinois) and have been through almost every configuration they have both regular and digital. I had DirecTV and Dish Network back in Phonenix, but now I just moved back to DirecTV.
My biggest desire to move back to DirecTV was HDTV. I feel that DirecTV in the long term will provide better HD options that local cable. Couple that with almost every HD DirecTV receiver able to tune to HD over-air broadcasts and provide local channels via Satellite or over-air, there is little that cable can possibly offer over DirecTV.
I did lots of studying. The most annoying thing is that Comcast doesn't even want to begin to provide you details about when they will offer HDTV in my area, though they advertise it on TV.
As far as reception. I was a bit concerned about the "we loose our signal all the time" and all I can say, mounted on my roof, I get strong signal all the time, even in the snow. I know that heavy weather (it is the water) can distort the signal and you have to be careful if your dish builds up snow, but if that does become an issue, there are several workarounds including sprays, covers and other items that make sure your LNB doesn't get "watered" down.
I totally hated the Digital Cable. They over compress the channels and the receivers were about as slow as molassass.
My DirecTV install experience was excellent, a lot better than my cable, where they didn't even know what they were doing. I expected to have to educate the DirecTV guy (since I have quite an extensive custom built whole house distribution system) but he didn't have a problem and did a very professional clean install. The cable guy just did his thing but the DirecTV guy asked permission before doing any physical changes.
I am VERY happy with the programming selection on DirecTV versus Comcast. They just are damn good at what they do. Calling them recently about getting CBS-HD for the superbowl was super easy and very friendly. Lot better than calling my local cable franchise.
Well, there are my two cents...
Yes, the legally cannot not take money for their services, but they are donating the proceeds to Kid's Vote, so in the end, it is a good thing and an interesting social experiement.
Well... that would make it only about a TFlop where Big Mac is about 10 TFlops...
While I am fully supportive of technology, the one thing that I think might be a problem is how do you keep undue influence away from the voters? We already have a huge problem that isn't addressed in people shuttling old people to the voting poles, telling them who to exactly vote for. Now you can send them directly to their homes and say even "help" them make their selection. It will be ripe for fraud. What used to be a totally private matter can now be exploited by those who want to "stuff" the ballot box.
I am not sure there is a perfect way, but at least voting in person in a private booth makes that person harder to influence. Heck, you could come up with automated "bots" that all you need to do is type in your PIN and "we promise to vote for all the right people to you." Heck, the social engineering issues are ripe for exploitation.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you need to!
Personally it sucks for me, because I can weed out easier the numbers I know, versus the ones I don't and I get a lot of calls from overseas, which never pass CallerID. So never know if it is some annoying sales person or a friend. I thought about getting privacy manager, but I would hate to annoy my overseas friends.
Of course I do! Sheesh... otherwise why would I put up with them?
I am impressed. The DNC registry has worked for me. I used to get calls all the time. The only people who call now are the bill collectors. I did get one charity, which quickly added me to their DNC list after I queried why they were calling me and I got one real pollster doing a real poll, which I don't actually mind.
The only thing left is for the year to end so that the Must Transmit Caller ID information is in force. I thought it took effect the same time as the DNC, but it doesn't actually take effect to the new year. Anyone automated calling to your house must transmit caller ID information and they have to take proactive steps to actually transmit the information. No excuses.
I just have to say it, but did you notice how we are having this conversation about coronal mass ejections? If that doesn't smack of a double entendre, I don't know what does!
Maybe the moderator has an issue with his wiener size!
I see... you feel spending $86 BILLION on patting down Iraqi's in the Green Zone makes sense. My bad...
Forget Iraq, the 2004 Election, the economy...
And people question our space exploration budget!!! Silly people!
What if this continues? As a teenager, you make the bad decision to shoplift and they plant an RFID on you. Now you are "stuck" with that label. Aren't you just a criminal too, who abused their rights. Worse was the nature of your crime.
Plus what is a pedophile in your opinion. Not all people violate someone elses rights. Who make the decision to tag them, who makes the decision to untag them? Can someone every reform? What if it was a 19yo having consentual sex with a 15yo? Now they are stuck with that reputation for the rest of their lives?
Then you don't understand OEMs. They generally believe their customer are ignorant. That is why they use cheap chipsets and their only solution is to insert the Restore CD and wipe out all their customers information.
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