I hear ya... Who wants to steal a crappy car with a manual transmission anyway?
I buy the manual because it's cheaper and lasts longer and I'm only interested in getting to point a to point b for as long as possible as cheaply as possible. Nobody want's my car because it's a bare bones pile of loosely related scrap metal and used car parts for most of the time I drive it.
Huh. A while back I was looking at new cars: for the one I wanted I could get a 6 speed automatic with better mileage and the same price as the 5 speed manual. If you are buying Japanese, I don't think there has been a strong economic argument for buying manual this century: their automatic transmissions last quite well. Buy manual because you like driving.
Why is re-inventing the wheel called progress? What is wrong with the old system?
This is the old system: paddle shifters have been around for decades. The problem is this implementation is too similar to the traditional automatic shift pattern. Vaguely related: Audi put the gas and brake pedals close together on cars in the mid 80's, something that was traditional on performance cars (heel n' toe). But in the US it meant people accidentally stomped on the gas instead of the brake.
Lego Mindstorms is an example of this. Drag and drop the objects, have the robot do something and then troubleshoot why it did not work (both hardware and software). Then build on success.
Any thoughts on Labview? My only experience for using it to build a simple robot (albeit with lots of levels of nested structures) was that I would have spent a lot less time learning Arduino's cut down version of C to do the same thing.
You are kidding right? If you buy a porsche you have decided to buy a drivers car over countless other more comfortable, more relaxed just as prestiges cars.
Yeah, that's exactly what I think every time I see a Cayenne.
They would be selling to manufacturers, not consumers. I'd guess 99% of consumers have no clue which chip is in their phone, and 90% don't know which is in their laptop.
Why would any poor benighted fool pay money for a Porsche that didn't need to be driven? The entire point of their ridiculously inflated price tags is they're a joy to drive.
er, no. The point for most buyers is to own it, talk about owning it, talk about how much better it is than brand-X, and be seen in it. The actual driving is done in stop and go urban traffic where the only joy would be a self-driving car.
The ideology of civilian disarmament depends on constantly keeping people terrified of sensationalized emotional and irrational fallacies. That's not a behavior pattern frequently found in hardcore tech folks.
Now that's really, really funny. Irrational fallacy? objective thinking? Violent crime has been steadily decreasing, yet slashdotters continually yammer on about how much they need guns to protect themselves. And no, violent crime isn't decreasing because everyone is defending themselves with guns: the percentage of homes with guns has actually been decreasing for 40 years. Also - who exactly are the victims of violent crimes? Most common: criminals. Second most common: young black males. Third most common: older black males. What percentage of slashdotters talking about how they are going to defend themselves with guns fall into those categories? Much more likely that they fall into the socioeconomic categories where their family is at a very low risk of victimization from outside the home - low enough so that spousal violence, child suicide, and other family based tragedies are at least as significant a risk. And quite a few seem to have delusions of persecution about the gubmint coming for their guns at least as deep as those of the the black helicopter crowd.
How about this: People enjoy gear of all sorts, and enjoy talking about it: from guns to bikes to gaming PCs. People also enjoy fantasizing about being badasses. All well and good, and I have no objections to people responsibly owning and using guns. But people also prefer feeling safe and feeling they are in control - and when something gives them those feelings they don't always take an actuarial approach to risk analysis to see if those feelings are justified. And I think most folks' claims that they are safer with a gun than without one are hogwash.
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Eh, the keyboard on my yoga 2 pro was easy to get used to. The malware they install as system utilities, now THAT is a pisser.
I hear ya... Who wants to steal a crappy car with a manual transmission anyway?
I buy the manual because it's cheaper and lasts longer and I'm only interested in getting to point a to point b for as long as possible as cheaply as possible. Nobody want's my car because it's a bare bones pile of loosely related scrap metal and used car parts for most of the time I drive it.
Huh. A while back I was looking at new cars: for the one I wanted I could get a 6 speed automatic with better mileage and the same price as the 5 speed manual. If you are buying Japanese, I don't think there has been a strong economic argument for buying manual this century: their automatic transmissions last quite well. Buy manual because you like driving.
Why is re-inventing the wheel called progress? What is wrong with the old system?
This is the old system: paddle shifters have been around for decades. The problem is this implementation is too similar to the traditional automatic shift pattern. Vaguely related: Audi put the gas and brake pedals close together on cars in the mid 80's, something that was traditional on performance cars (heel n' toe). But in the US it meant people accidentally stomped on the gas instead of the brake.
The authority concluded there were safety benefits to removing it on roads with a 30mph or less speed limit.
So would adding a center line would increase safety on residential streets and other streets with a 25 mph speed limit?
Lego Mindstorms is an example of this. Drag and drop the objects, have the robot do something and then troubleshoot why it did not work (both hardware and software). Then build on success.
Any thoughts on Labview? My only experience for using it to build a simple robot (albeit with lots of levels of nested structures) was that I would have spent a lot less time learning Arduino's cut down version of C to do the same thing.
You are kidding right? If you buy a porsche you have decided to buy a drivers car over countless other more comfortable, more relaxed just as prestiges cars.
Yeah, that's exactly what I think every time I see a Cayenne.
Marketing and branding might not go so well.
They would be selling to manufacturers, not consumers. I'd guess 99% of consumers have no clue which chip is in their phone, and 90% don't know which is in their laptop.
Why would any poor benighted fool pay money for a Porsche that didn't need to be driven? The entire point of their ridiculously inflated price tags is they're a joy to drive.
er, no. The point for most buyers is to own it, talk about owning it, talk about how much better it is than brand-X, and be seen in it. The actual driving is done in stop and go urban traffic where the only joy would be a self-driving car.
The ideology of civilian disarmament depends on constantly keeping people terrified of sensationalized emotional and irrational fallacies. That's not a behavior pattern frequently found in hardcore tech folks.
Now that's really, really funny. Irrational fallacy? objective thinking? Violent crime has been steadily decreasing, yet slashdotters continually yammer on about how much they need guns to protect themselves. And no, violent crime isn't decreasing because everyone is defending themselves with guns: the percentage of homes with guns has actually been decreasing for 40 years. Also - who exactly are the victims of violent crimes? Most common: criminals. Second most common: young black males. Third most common: older black males. What percentage of slashdotters talking about how they are going to defend themselves with guns fall into those categories? Much more likely that they fall into the socioeconomic categories where their family is at a very low risk of victimization from outside the home - low enough so that spousal violence, child suicide, and other family based tragedies are at least as significant a risk. And quite a few seem to have delusions of persecution about the gubmint coming for their guns at least as deep as those of the the black helicopter crowd.
How about this: People enjoy gear of all sorts, and enjoy talking about it: from guns to bikes to gaming PCs. People also enjoy fantasizing about being badasses. All well and good, and I have no objections to people responsibly owning and using guns. But people also prefer feeling safe and feeling they are in control - and when something gives them those feelings they don't always take an actuarial approach to risk analysis to see if those feelings are justified. And I think most folks' claims that they are safer with a gun than without one are hogwash.
We the Church of God's Light feel our message should be spread and shared. God's light cannot be spread by sound or by electrons. This is God's Light: it must be sent by photons. Google fiber is perfect for spreading God's Light, but many areas are sadly deficient. Members may also string their own fiber optic networks on their local telephone poles to stay in good standing. If your municipality, HOA, or zoning board objects: please explain they will have to ban Jewish eruvs as well and how much luck they will have with that.
Sermons are from 6:00:00 PM EST to 6:00:30 on the summer solstice. Members are warmly encouraged to spread light on their networks at other times and for other purposes. It is all God's Light.
Can I get an Amen?