It depends; most cameras can deal with traffic going in either direction (ie. front or back). For fixed single cameras, that means I'm golden going in at least one direction. If it's a multi-camera setup (uncommon) I'm screwed.
Mobile cameras are usually positioned to take photos of the rear of the main traffic flow. ie. they'll move from one side of the road to the other in the afternoon when the bulk of the traffic starts heading back the other way. It's much easier to hide on the opposite side of a bush or brick wall and shoot someone in the arse than sit in plain view and wait for them to come into range for a head-on shot.
They're sneaky bastards... though not common, they've been known to hide cameras in garbage bins and other innocent looking objects as well.
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What was the stupidest? Did you run from the cops?:eek:
I mostly ride in the city/inner 'burbs where there's plenty of traffic, so I don't have much choice a lot of the time.
And we in Oz have speed cameras everywhere - simply riding even slightly faster than everyone else (moving through their field of vision) can get costly.
And: yes, I always wear full riding gear, even when it's 40 degress (C). I'd have to be a lot further than an hour away from home to get "cold". Drinking and driving is retarded.
Woohoo! Being on the collision avoidance systems!
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Yeah, but they won't.
As a motorcycle rider, I'd welcome anything that clues lazy drivers in to my whereabouts (if the raging engine and the bright light isn't enough of a hint).
Some stupid fucks refuse to acknowledge my existence when I'm right beside the driver's window.. they need all the help they can get.
Whoever pays the bills gets access to whatever accounts they're paying for. Your deal is with them, not their employees. The fact they even have employees is irrelevant as far as you're concerned.
Er... how exactly do you think we're going to get that technology without funding and researching it?
That can be done without actually launching anyone into space. Once people have to fly in it, you up the costs many times over - that money is better spent developing the next generation. Waste money on review boards and anal-retentive revalidation later.
There's.OGM too, but few use that format (except me it would seem, since oggmux gets audio/video in sync without me having to fuck with the offsets like in VirtualDub).
So anything a user would expect to "just work" out of the box is fair game? I hope you've never complained about Microsoft "integrating" IE into Windows then...
Maybe we won't really need the outposts and colonies for 200,000+ years, by which point we'd be pretty damn good at it if we start now by your claims.
Even in 1000 years we'll likely have technology that makes whatever we learn now pretty irrelevant. I remember someone hypothesised that if we were to launch a sub-lightspeed generational ship towards the next nearest star (ie. not ours:), by the time it gets only halfway there we'll have developed the technology to make the trip daily.
So really, the timeframe for useful Mars research is much shorter. "Getting started" will be a waste of money if we're always playing catchup (like 3D games do; take too long, oops our engine is out of date; start again; lather, rinse, repeat). A Mars colony would be way cool, but I don't think the public has the stomach to handle the kind of expense required to get a useful, and most importantly, self-sufficient base up there using current technology.
If we're not hardcore serious about an offworld "disaster recovery" colony, space exploration would be better off targeted at resource harvesting - that at least has a chance of paying for itself. Once the Govt proves it can be done and can be profitable, the corporate whores will step in and spend ungodly amounts of cash developing better spacecraft and space-related technology trying to out do the rest. Costs for a Govt Mars colony go down, or simply written off as R&D for the aformentioned corporations.
I've had a permanent connection for many years - back as far as permanent dialup. I've long stopped thinking in terms of online or offline, Internet use is just another seamless part of daily computing.
Trying to count how long geeks spend online daily would be as stupid as trying to count how long non-geeks spend using electricity each day.
You're toaster doesn't really need a public IP does it?
My coffee machine or air-conditioner might, if I want to be able to turn it on from work so it's ready when I get home, because....
Good use of NAT can solve all of these problems...
Not when a good number of large institutions firewall off everything except HTTP on port 80, and maybe FTP if you're lucky. Running multiple independant servers requires multiple IPs. Name based virtual hosts doesn't work for FTP or https either.
There is no reason why certain companies/schools have millions of addresses each.
Waste is good, it makes routing easier, gives you room to grow, and when you buy/merge with another company, you're not left with thousands of clashing IPs because you both use the same reserved address ranges.
Then Microsoft announced plans to make the data files of its flagship applications executable.
And what do you propose as the alternative? No scripting? No macros? Do you realise you can write a virus in Postscript? Do we migrate to bitmap printing?
What about forcing users to start applications, then load the data file into it, rather than be able to doubleclick the datafile and have it automatically load the application?
What about true executables? Should email attachments not have Execute permissions by default? To accomplish... what?
Nothing you have stated will ever succeed. Users will demand their fucked up frog-in-a-blender, singing-christmas-card and whatever other intra-office crap they get. They will work around the lack of +x and they will switch to competitors products if their macros stop working.
Is this just more proof that Linux was built by amateurs? Or wait - I know - that Linux can't be trusted because the source code is open.
It's proof that Linux isn't the second coming, and that ABM weenies should get the fuck off their high horse and STFU once in a while. Most of my machines run Linux, but jesus christ, get over it already.
The numerous security holes in MS products are a result of bad design, not merely a mistake or two.
Theoretically, the job of the IT industry is to make itself obsolete by self automation (recursive automation?).
While that won't happen for a long time, if ever, continued improvement in technology/manufacturing processes and an increasingly computer literate population mean fewer and fewer 'support' jobs will be required.
Once upon a time, any computer was surrounded by scientists; typically the very ones that designed and built it from scratch. Today, hardware generally takes care of itself most of the time (can you remeber the last time you replaced a vacuum tube?), and software is.. well, ok software took a nosedive, but the general populace are getting more literate so it kind of cancels out..
It's a port, not a bus. I believe it's always been that way, which is why there was the dodgy master/slave thing, to shoehorn two drives into a system designed for one.
"And there are 39,000 people who are born one-armed or one-handed or lose the use of a limb every year," Reed said. "It happens through
repetitive stress injury, carpal tunnel syndrome, fractures, dislocations, strokes, arthritis or birth defects."
Yeah, like shifting all the work from two hands to one is going to improve that situation.
This may be an alright solution for a handful of simpler games, but most are too complex for the limitations of a single hand.
Much better off shifting the load to auxiliary devices for your feet, head, torso or those (experimental?) cameras that read your eye position.
Actually, I wouldn't mind the latter myself, as a fully capable two-handed gamer, so I can fly and shoot in different directions without dislocating my thumb (on the joystick 'hat' switch) in the heat of battle.
Oh, and *insert one-handed-web-browsing joke here*
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Uh, that's coz they're all clusters? And a lot of them aren't even general purpose CPUs?
It depends; most cameras can deal with traffic going in either direction (ie. front or back). For fixed single cameras, that means I'm golden going in at least one direction. If it's a multi-camera setup (uncommon) I'm screwed.
:eek:
Mobile cameras are usually positioned to take photos of the rear of the main traffic flow. ie. they'll move from one side of the road to the other in the afternoon when the bulk of the traffic starts heading back the other way. It's much easier to hide on the opposite side of a bush or brick wall and shoot someone in the arse than sit in plain view and wait for them to come into range for a head-on shot.
They're sneaky bastards... though not common, they've been known to hide cameras in garbage bins and other innocent looking objects as well.
.
What was the stupidest? Did you run from the cops?
I mostly ride in the city/inner 'burbs where there's plenty of traffic, so I don't have much choice a lot of the time.
And we in Oz have speed cameras everywhere - simply riding even slightly faster than everyone else (moving through their field of vision) can get costly.
And: yes, I always wear full riding gear, even when it's 40 degress (C). I'd have to be a lot further than an hour away from home to get "cold". Drinking and driving is retarded.
Yeah, but they won't.
As a motorcycle rider, I'd welcome anything that clues lazy drivers in to my whereabouts (if the raging engine and the bright light isn't enough of a hint).
Some stupid fucks refuse to acknowledge my existence when I'm right beside the driver's window.. they need all the help they can get.
Whoever pays the bills gets access to whatever accounts they're paying for. Your deal is with them, not their employees. The fact they even have employees is irrelevant as far as you're concerned.
He obviously wasn't talking about the movie...
Maybe the authors are somethingaweful fans?
OGM! Sifn't teh uber fromat!
There's .OGM too, but few use that format (except me it would seem, since oggmux gets audio/video in sync without me having to fuck with the offsets like in VirtualDub).
Even in 1000 years we'll likely have technology that makes whatever we learn now pretty irrelevant. I remember someone hypothesised that if we were to launch a sub-lightspeed generational ship towards the next nearest star (ie. not ours
So really, the timeframe for useful Mars research is much shorter. "Getting started" will be a waste of money if we're always playing catchup (like 3D games do; take too long, oops our engine is out of date; start again; lather, rinse, repeat). A Mars colony would be way cool, but I don't think the public has the stomach to handle the kind of expense required to get a useful, and most importantly, self-sufficient base up there using current technology.
If we're not hardcore serious about an offworld "disaster recovery" colony, space exploration would be better off targeted at resource harvesting - that at least has a chance of paying for itself. Once the Govt proves it can be done and can be profitable, the corporate whores will step in and spend ungodly amounts of cash developing better spacecraft and space-related technology trying to out do the rest. Costs for a Govt Mars colony go down, or simply written off as R&D for the aformentioned corporations.
failed reentry means you either crash and burn, or fly off into open space.
Are you high?
NTFS has much finer grained permissions than rwx.
And how many Unix systems have ACLs with [b]dynamic[/b] inheritance?
Pfft. Unix features my left nut.
I've had a permanent connection for many years - back as far as permanent dialup. I've long stopped thinking in terms of online or offline, Internet use is just another seamless part of daily computing.
Trying to count how long geeks spend online daily would be as stupid as trying to count how long non-geeks spend using electricity each day.
My coffee machine or air-conditioner might, if I want to be able to turn it on from work so it's ready when I get home, because....
Not when a good number of large institutions firewall off everything except HTTP on port 80, and maybe FTP if you're lucky. Running multiple independant servers requires multiple IPs. Name based virtual hosts doesn't work for FTP or https either.
Waste is good, it makes routing easier, gives you room to grow, and when you buy/merge with another company, you're not left with thousands of clashing IPs because you both use the same reserved address ranges.
And what do you propose as the alternative? No scripting? No macros? Do you realise you can write a virus in Postscript? Do we migrate to bitmap printing?
What about forcing users to start applications, then load the data file into it, rather than be able to doubleclick the datafile and have it automatically load the application?
What about true executables? Should email attachments not have Execute permissions by default? To accomplish... what?
Nothing you have stated will ever succeed. Users will demand their fucked up frog-in-a-blender, singing-christmas-card and whatever other intra-office crap they get. They will work around the lack of +x and they will switch to competitors products if their macros stop working.
Users are the design flaw.
It's proof that Linux isn't the second coming, and that ABM weenies should get the fuck off their high horse and STFU once in a while. Most of my machines run Linux, but jesus christ, get over it already.
Care to elaborate on this alleged "bad design"?
I think the fact that you're sitting on your arse in front of a computer/TV should be enough to clue you in on the fact that it's not real.
We won't have to deal with total sensory immersion/isolation (ie. jacking in, Matrix style) issues for quite a while.
Yeah, of course.. because there's no such thing as legal online music until one of them is owned by Apple.
:rolleyes: here.
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Theoretically, the job of the IT industry is to make itself obsolete by self automation (recursive automation?).
While that won't happen for a long time, if ever, continued improvement in technology/manufacturing processes and an increasingly computer literate population mean fewer and fewer 'support' jobs will be required.
Once upon a time, any computer was surrounded by scientists; typically the very ones that designed and built it from scratch. Today, hardware generally takes care of itself most of the time (can you remeber the last time you replaced a vacuum tube?), and software is.. well, ok software took a nosedive, but the general populace are getting more literate so it kind of cancels out..
Uh, dude... Violet wasn't real...
Yeah, like shifting all the work from two hands to one is going to improve that situation.
This may be an alright solution for a handful of simpler games, but most are too complex for the limitations of a single hand.
Much better off shifting the load to auxiliary devices for your feet, head, torso or those (experimental?) cameras that read your eye position.
Actually, I wouldn't mind the latter myself, as a fully capable two-handed gamer, so I can fly and shoot in different directions without dislocating my thumb (on the joystick 'hat' switch) in the heat of battle.
Oh, and *insert one-handed-web-browsing joke here*
So does Taco Bell owe me a freebie now?