It's funny that the Wiki article starts out by calling it idiopathic.... it seems like it's trying to call this idiotic but in a professional, scientific way.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic
Or just tell people to stop following too closely... Majority of people in these accidents are doing two of the three: 1) following too closely; 2) texting/talking on the phone 3)eating while driving.
And I've seen all three being done at the same time commuting to work...
That $15million could have been spent better in road improvement projects than this... but that's just my opinion...
No one in Puerto Rico panics like they do in the US when it comes to Hurricanes. 99.9% of buildings are concrete.
My grand parents live down there and went a whole month without power and electricity during the 2004 hurricanes. They have a cistern in the back that collects rain water in case the water supply gets tainted and generators in case electricity goes out.
Lots of people do and live with it. Hurricanes and mudslides are no problem for us.
No one says a website is "yahooed" or "googled" or "Drudged" if it's been hit by a enmass of visitors after being posted on slashdot or any other site.
It's only on slashdot.org that when a link is posted and it's visited by a ton of people that their server simply acts like it's been DoS attacked, we say the site has been "slashdotted" or/.ed;-).
Slashdot still continues on making little known websites temporarily 404 on visitors even while you're gone...
Are you leaving because of Steve Jobs resigning???
First Steve Jobs leaves and now you.... gee, I wonder who else will leave. Maybe Eric Schmidt will leave Google now. I see a trend forming here....
Good luck bro! Thanks for all the times I used here in reading the interesting articles, instead of using that time to study, work, etc... you know bettering my life...:-P.
Been a reader since 2000, member since 2002 (or 2001?)... Boy it's a long time...
As long as law enforcement doesn't take down social networks... People in London have been using it to protect themselves and communicate with each other from the yobs running around.
Use of this technology was inevitable and people can always argue about the "big brother" feeling with these cameras and technology, but in the end it dOesn't affect normal, law-aBiding citizEns except for Yobs.
I live in a mid sized city in new york state. My time warner cable connection drops randomly, several times a week, forcing me to reload and reenter things like forms(slashdot posts). It is saturatedand Time warner is cheap. I dont have an always on connection so now i cant play diablo III except for early in the morning.
Cable connectioms across the country arent stable enough leaving 100 million potentioal users in the dirt.
How about servicemen in afgahnistan? Or on deployment on ships? They cant play it either. They cant even play Starcraft againist each other in their down time.
Assuming an always on connection is always wrong.
Oh please.... Don't use the military as an example
Have you been in Baghram airforce base? It's the only place troops can have decent R&R as the rest of the country is a battlefield.
These navy ships and bases are technology powerhouses. They have constant internet access, constant satellite connection, etc.
Chances are they won't play those games as it can be too distracting to our troops... but still. Using the military as an example is laughable and only valid if you're talking about the old military, before WW1...
Sure, there are some situations where you cannot connect to internet, but it's really in minority.
You probably wouldn't say that if you lived in a remote location. For some people connecting to the internet means driving to a wifi-enabled cafe or buying a satellite connection, i.e. the majority of situations they can't connect.
If you're Ted Kizinski.... oh please. The only ones complaining are those who like to complain... you'll still buy the damn game and play it.
The target market is the PC Gamer... And 99.1% of them have a constant internet connection.... If you don't have an "always-on" internet connection then you probably aren't the target market for this game...
Let's hope they don't have a private control the orientation of the laser.... you don't want them to hit and ignite the oil drums that powers the rest of the stuff:-P.
It's well known that the current "check engine light" and problem code system is specifically designed to artificially lock customers into dealership service, including car makers suing 3rd party companies that dared to make problem code readers and/or publish lookup tables.
Throw that crap out and it'd be incredibly trivial to display the code to the driver with a one line summary. That gets us 99% of what this new auto Clippy could ever offer.
But Clippy will never happen for the same reason a simple 1 line text summary will never happen: It's still primarily a lock-in system to artificially prop up dealership service centers by making it often impossible for an owner or even the corner shop mechanic to read thus making it effectively impossible to fix without the car manufacturer's blessing.
What you're talking about is when OBD1 was getting phased out with OBD2. Manufacturers were very reluctant in standardizing their computer interfaces because they did want people to only go back to them for car maintenance/service and not a mom and pop shop.
It was a pain in the ass to read computers with OBD1 interfaces as you needed "keys" to access high-level codes, and information. OBDII changed all of that to where there was only a set of codes that was the same on every different car, so if you got a P0411 in your 1997 Nissan Sentra, it was also the same thing if you pulled the code off of a 2009 Toyota Matrix and so on.
So, you're referencing issues that were only around before 1996, before OBDII became 100% standard in all cars thereafter.
However, it has always been the case where a newly released car could only be serviced at the dealership if any issue came up as they would already have access to parts and information that an independent mechanic would have to pay hand-over-fist to get.... plus warranty work.
Displaying the code and other information via an avatar does help the driver out by letting them know what's going on right then and there. Ultimately the car will need to be serviced somewhere... it just doesn't have to be at a stealership...
Get a hold of a 200mhz Pentium Pro... I played ZSNES on that computer when I was younger as that was my first PC. All of my 8/16bit emulators ran fine. When I upgraded to a SocketA Athlon XP 2500+ years later, I noticed that games ran faster than on my old PC.... so it could be that your PC is just too fast...
... well, shit. Designing a motherboard to handle such power is relatively easy and can be done cheap, but there are ton of PSUs out there, even in OEM PCs, such as HP, Dell, Emachine, etc. that are average at best in terms of quality and cannot output their designated wattage and they are usually 300-400watt maximum output. The big PC manufacturers will have to be able to have PSUs, even in the low-end models, to handle that extra wattage capability. I've seen a ton of OEM PSUs go bad after regular use.
My GF has a Virgin Mobile Samsung Intercept. It's a 3G phone and I own a Verizon HTC Eris (rooted with Android 2.2) and difference is astounding. For example, the quality of videos on youtube are much better on my phone than hers (they appear grainy on hers) and loading time takes a long time (coverage is a few bars for her while I get full bars at home). Sometimes her facebook doesn't show up... So yes, the coverage is not as good as Verizon. It all depends on where you live.
The problems my GF has had in the past is texting/calls not going through and not being received due to network outages... so in an emergency situation this is not a very good thing at all.... This has happened twice this year, so far.
Another major difference is the pay. I pay $80/month for my Verizon service including 500txt messages, 350minutes and unlimited data (grandfathered in - for now). Whereas, she only pays $25/month for unlimited data/texting & 250minutes. Texting is what she uses the most and so do I, but I have to watch how much I text and have gone over my limit a few times. But I get much better reception than hers and have yet to experience a network outage, dropped calls, etc.
I also have tethered my phone, but with a program I paid (before I rooted my phone), which is PDANet and have torrented off of it for a few days. Did about 10gigs of data upload alone in a few days but this was back before data caps were implemented and well before this article on slashdot appeared.
Yep, but they are saying that this could be really, really, salty water or solution with some water, which is why it flows out onto the surface and 'stays' there for a period of time. One thing I didnt see in the pix they showed is if the deposits stay there, they seemed to fade away... so it could be evaporating into the atmosphere or seeping back into ground...
All I picked up from it is that there is nearly definitive proof that there is underwater flow of water or a water like solution as the seasons change....
However, water on mars is nearly impossible because they said that the current atmospheric pressure will literally boil water on the surface, even at those low subzero temperatures.
More research and probing will be needed to find a way to create fuel for human visitors to return back to Earth once on Mars...
Something like that.... It could be briny salt water or something else...
Lisa Pratt used the example of putting a bottle of soda in the freezer to a reporter asking questions.... Before soda completely freezes, the bottle of soda forms an ice made of pure water and it is surrounded by a concentrated solution of sugars and syrup that is super sweet still in liquid form. A similar freezing process is believed to be happening in Mars, where they think it is a briny solution that is seeping out of the surface from the underground ice water as that solution has yet to freeze compared to ice water.
It's pretty cool stuff. If there are seasonal cycles like this in the subsurface of Mars, then it is most likely that there are some extreme microbes in there that feed off of this solution... They say that if earth had no seasons, then there would be very little diversity in life and this finding shows there are seasonal cycles that might possibly support life.
From the article, you, the avatar, start out by awakening from an "ark" (fallout 3: Vault 101) created to protect mankind from an asteroid (fallout3: nuclear bombs) and you come out and are greated with wastelanders.
Reading the article simply makes it out to be just like any other mundane post-apocalyptic FPS game, but wait you can play cards now and do other mundane shit you couldn't before... you can drive a car (borderlands) and race it or fight in it.... it's just like any other game... nothing new.
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It's funny that the Wiki article starts out by calling it idiopathic.... it seems like it's trying to call this idiotic but in a professional, scientific way.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic
No use telling her... she won't be able to read this comment...
Or just tell people to stop following too closely... Majority of people in these accidents are doing two of the three: 1) following too closely; 2) texting/talking on the phone 3)eating while driving.
And I've seen all three being done at the same time commuting to work...
That $15million could have been spent better in road improvement projects than this... but that's just my opinion...
The banks that were affected were SunTrust.... which is the most poorly secured bank in Florida, at least...
"Cross-platform play between PC/Mac and PlayStation 3, as seen with Portal 2, is also confirmed."
So what does this mean for hosting your own server with custom maps/mods????
Any word if the multiplayer aspect is severly limited like in Left 4 Dead, BF: Bad Company 2, etc.??
It seems like theres a growing trend in shrinking the mod community... :-(
No one in Puerto Rico panics like they do in the US when it comes to Hurricanes. 99.9% of buildings are concrete.
My grand parents live down there and went a whole month without power and electricity during the 2004 hurricanes. They have a cistern in the back that collects rain water in case the water supply gets tainted and generators in case electricity goes out.
Lots of people do and live with it. Hurricanes and mudslides are no problem for us.
No one says a website is "yahooed" or "googled" or "Drudged" if it's been hit by a enmass of visitors after being posted on slashdot or any other site.
It's only on slashdot.org that when a link is posted and it's visited by a ton of people that their server simply acts like it's been DoS attacked, we say the site has been "slashdotted" or /.ed ;-).
Slashdot still continues on making little known websites temporarily 404 on visitors even while you're gone...
Are you leaving because of Steve Jobs resigning???
First Steve Jobs leaves and now you.... gee, I wonder who else will leave. Maybe Eric Schmidt will leave Google now. I see a trend forming here....
Good luck bro! Thanks for all the times I used here in reading the interesting articles, instead of using that time to study, work, etc... you know bettering my life... :-P.
Been a reader since 2000, member since 2002 (or 2001?)... Boy it's a long time...
I first had Cingular Wireless and they were great.... then they got soaked up by ATT and boy was it horrible. Dropped calls everywhere.
Eventually switched to verizon after all of that shit. I have been with Verizon for over 3 years now and have yet to get a dropped call.
I just wanted to get away from GSM in general and switch to CDMA over the voice clarity.
But with Verizon wanting to cap data limits (i'm grandfathered in for unlimited, but not sure for how long)... I don't know who to go with...
As long as law enforcement doesn't take down social networks... People in London have been using it to protect themselves and communicate with each other from the yobs running around.
Use of this technology was inevitable and people can always argue about the "big brother" feeling with these cameras and technology, but in the end it dOesn't affect normal, law-aBiding citizEns except for Yobs.
Your work here is truly dung.... good job pointing that out.
I live in a mid sized city in new york state. My time warner cable connection drops randomly, several times a week, forcing me to reload and reenter things like forms(slashdot posts). It is saturatedand Time warner is cheap. I dont have an always on connection so now i cant play diablo III except for early in the morning.
Cable connectioms across the country arent stable enough leaving 100 million potentioal users in the dirt.
How about servicemen in afgahnistan? Or on deployment on ships? They cant play it either. They cant even play Starcraft againist each other in their down time.
Assuming an always on connection is always wrong.
Oh please.... Don't use the military as an example
Have you been in Baghram airforce base? It's the only place troops can have decent R&R as the rest of the country is a battlefield.
These navy ships and bases are technology powerhouses. They have constant internet access, constant satellite connection, etc.
Chances are they won't play those games as it can be too distracting to our troops... but still. Using the military as an example is laughable and only valid if you're talking about the old military, before WW1...
Sure, there are some situations where you cannot connect to internet, but it's really in minority.
You probably wouldn't say that if you lived in a remote location. For some people connecting to the internet means driving to a wifi-enabled cafe or buying a satellite connection, i.e. the majority of situations they can't connect.
If you're Ted Kizinski.... oh please. The only ones complaining are those who like to complain... you'll still buy the damn game and play it.
The target market is the PC Gamer... And 99.1% of them have a constant internet connection.... If you don't have an "always-on" internet connection then you probably aren't the target market for this game...
Get over yourselves.
I disagree... It wasn't counterstrike that thrived for realism...
It was Rainbow Six.
One shot kills forced you to truly strategize your entry to A) save the hostages and B) keep all of your men alive.
Let's hope they don't have a private control the orientation of the laser.... you don't want them to hit and ignite the oil drums that powers the rest of the stuff :-P.
It's well known that the current "check engine light" and problem code system is specifically designed to artificially lock customers into dealership service, including car makers suing 3rd party companies that dared to make problem code readers and/or publish lookup tables.
Throw that crap out and it'd be incredibly trivial to display the code to the driver with a one line summary. That gets us 99% of what this new auto Clippy could ever offer.
But Clippy will never happen for the same reason a simple 1 line text summary will never happen: It's still primarily a lock-in system to artificially prop up dealership service centers by making it often impossible for an owner or even the corner shop mechanic to read thus making it effectively impossible to fix without the car manufacturer's blessing.
What you're talking about is when OBD1 was getting phased out with OBD2. Manufacturers were very reluctant in standardizing their computer interfaces because they did want people to only go back to them for car maintenance/service and not a mom and pop shop.
It was a pain in the ass to read computers with OBD1 interfaces as you needed "keys" to access high-level codes, and information. OBDII changed all of that to where there was only a set of codes that was the same on every different car, so if you got a P0411 in your 1997 Nissan Sentra, it was also the same thing if you pulled the code off of a 2009 Toyota Matrix and so on.
So, you're referencing issues that were only around before 1996, before OBDII became 100% standard in all cars thereafter.
However, it has always been the case where a newly released car could only be serviced at the dealership if any issue came up as they would already have access to parts and information that an independent mechanic would have to pay hand-over-fist to get.... plus warranty work.
Displaying the code and other information via an avatar does help the driver out by letting them know what's going on right then and there. Ultimately the car will need to be serviced somewhere... it just doesn't have to be at a stealership...
Get a hold of a 200mhz Pentium Pro... I played ZSNES on that computer when I was younger as that was my first PC. All of my 8/16bit emulators ran fine. When I upgraded to a SocketA Athlon XP 2500+ years later, I noticed that games ran faster than on my old PC.... so it could be that your PC is just too fast...
... well, shit. Designing a motherboard to handle such power is relatively easy and can be done cheap, but there are ton of PSUs out there, even in OEM PCs, such as HP, Dell, Emachine, etc. that are average at best in terms of quality and cannot output their designated wattage and they are usually 300-400watt maximum output.
The big PC manufacturers will have to be able to have PSUs, even in the low-end models, to handle that extra wattage capability. I've seen a ton of OEM PSUs go bad after regular use.
My GF has a Virgin Mobile Samsung Intercept. It's a 3G phone and I own a Verizon HTC Eris (rooted with Android 2.2) and difference is astounding. For example, the quality of videos on youtube are much better on my phone than hers (they appear grainy on hers) and loading time takes a long time (coverage is a few bars for her while I get full bars at home). Sometimes her facebook doesn't show up... So yes, the coverage is not as good as Verizon. It all depends on where you live.
The problems my GF has had in the past is texting/calls not going through and not being received due to network outages... so in an emergency situation this is not a very good thing at all.... This has happened twice this year, so far.
Another major difference is the pay. I pay $80/month for my Verizon service including 500txt messages, 350minutes and unlimited data (grandfathered in - for now). Whereas, she only pays $25/month for unlimited data/texting & 250minutes. Texting is what she uses the most and so do I, but I have to watch how much I text and have gone over my limit a few times. But I get much better reception than hers and have yet to experience a network outage, dropped calls, etc.
I also have tethered my phone, but with a program I paid (before I rooted my phone), which is PDANet and have torrented off of it for a few days. Did about 10gigs of data upload alone in a few days but this was back before data caps were implemented and well before this article on slashdot appeared.
Yep, but they are saying that this could be really, really, salty water or solution with some water, which is why it flows out onto the surface and 'stays' there for a period of time. One thing I didnt see in the pix they showed is if the deposits stay there, they seemed to fade away... so it could be evaporating into the atmosphere or seeping back into ground...
All I picked up from it is that there is nearly definitive proof that there is underwater flow of water or a water like solution as the seasons change....
However, water on mars is nearly impossible because they said that the current atmospheric pressure will literally boil water on the surface, even at those low subzero temperatures.
More research and probing will be needed to find a way to create fuel for human visitors to return back to Earth once on Mars...
Something like that.... It could be briny salt water or something else...
Lisa Pratt used the example of putting a bottle of soda in the freezer to a reporter asking questions.... Before soda completely freezes, the bottle of soda forms an ice made of pure water and it is surrounded by a concentrated solution of sugars and syrup that is super sweet still in liquid form. A similar freezing process is believed to be happening in Mars, where they think it is a briny solution that is seeping out of the surface from the underground ice water as that solution has yet to freeze compared to ice water.
It's pretty cool stuff. If there are seasonal cycles like this in the subsurface of Mars, then it is most likely that there are some extreme microbes in there that feed off of this solution... They say that if earth had no seasons, then there would be very little diversity in life and this finding shows there are seasonal cycles that might possibly support life.
... that the aliens are using the Mars Orbiter against us for them to coordinate an attack on Mars...
They seem to be doing a good job in taking down sites and pushing agendas. Maybe they can earn money while doing taking down China and the likes...
From the article, you, the avatar, start out by awakening from an "ark" (fallout 3: Vault 101) created to protect mankind from an asteroid (fallout3: nuclear bombs) and you come out and are greated with wastelanders.
Reading the article simply makes it out to be just like any other mundane post-apocalyptic FPS game, but wait you can play cards now and do other mundane shit you couldn't before... you can drive a car (borderlands) and race it or fight in it.... it's just like any other game... nothing new.
I ain't holding my breath on this game...