Again I am going to blame the driver, but because most people do not use the full range of motion for the pedals they sit too far back from the dash. Many drivers have the car set up to not give enough leg extension to fully engage the brake. They can get away with this for day to day driving because power brakes can stop the car with the slightest amount of pressure. I am also tempted to add a comment about belly size interfering with the steering wheel.
As Frank Lloyd Wright pointed out, you can have very simple geometric forms, but the materials and finishes must be very well chosen.
Modern art so lacks workmanship. I recall a piece at the MoMA (I think) made of some candle holders with light bulbs instead of candles. Altogether the idea wasn't bad, but I just couldn't get past the inferior soldering and the wires protruding all over the place.
The bad soldering and protruding wires may have been the point of the piece. It was likely a statement contrasting technology with what came before, or trying to capture how odd it looks when you modernize something old badly. This is like when you tour an old castle and see conduit along the wall.
The cheapo two year old GPS I have does this already (garman Nuvi 200 series). If I am 1/2 a mile from the next turn it leaves off most smaller side streets. When I get within a certain distance of the turn it shows all of the details. You need this because when you are coming into a strange inter section you do ned to see that there are two streets that are very close together and you need a third street that is hidden behind a building.
There are still memory considerations. Consider GTA IV (now pretend that it isn't boring) at any given time there may be a couple of dozen cars on the road that you can see. It would be a major improvement if they could have a traffic jam with hundreds of cars and dense crowds on the sidewalks (it is unclear whether this would make it more fun, but it would be more real). This doesn't change the resolution of the screen, but it takes much more computing power than we have in the current generation of consoles.
Maybe I picked a poor game for an example, but imagine bustling market places and tropical reefs with thousands of fish.
I am sorry I went Chicago for business twice this year once in April and once in June. In April I froze my ass off (but no snow). In June it was sweltering.
I found that the restaurant scene on the outskirts of town was dismal.
Oh yes and Chicago is still my least favorite airport on earth.
This seems like the guppy phenomenon. Under a lack of predation the guppies self select to breed for beauty. Under heavy predation they breed to survive and quickly become plain. We are the guppies. We have no predators. It just takes longer to show up with us because our life cycle takes longer.
And I have taken my BSME and some how transformed myself into a roofing consultant that pulls down 60K/yr. borderline working with my hands but a good feeling at the end of the day.
See you worked in a shitty part of town. I work at a major retailer in a rich town, and the number of people I deal with that are monsters is huge. In my experience most of the people in the shitty part of town tend to be decent, even the druggies tend to be pretty nice when they are coherent. The rich people, women mostly tend to be real assholes, and have changed my mind about the virtues of wealth. It seems being a monster is either a key to becoming rich or a symptom of being rich.
I assumed they were talking about the broken CDs that were all the rage a few years ago, and that were still being sold in Euroland (I think they are still sold here, but I buy all my music used so its hard to tell what new cds are like). The Sony root kit disaster, and the like are what I thought this was about and again it had to do with the ability to rip it to an MP3 player.
Personal energy output is a function of a number of variables, but the most important, are the ambient temperature and the movement of air through the room. The 100 watts per person is a conservative estimate based on a roughly 75 F room.
The Prof in a box experiment has a large issue that contributes to error. He is breathing with a tube, the heat exchange in your lungs is a convection exchange and has too large a magnitude to ignore. If you have doubts about how much heat flows out through breathing next time you are cold in bed pull the covers up over your head and breath under the covers. You will find that the bed gets nice and warm in a very short time.
>Tell me, did you think the creatures at the end of A.I. were aliens too?
What creatures? For me that movie ended when the little robot sat in the submarine staring at the blue fairy. If something happened after that it was some sort of cartoon short with relationship to the movie. That way I can rationalize that movie into being a good movie .
We have personhood for corporations, why couldn't a machine qualify for personhood? Why couldn't a machine own something? If for some reason someone built a machine with interests outside of a primary function why couldn't a machine persue those interests?
Medical power of attorney? If I was a lonely old person having a robot caretaker that understood my wishes and could express them to medical personnel would be valuable. A stable environment for children? Why not? Many children are raised horribly by TV, I see no reason that a child raised by a suitably programed robot could not be very well adjusted. This would have to be intricately programed, along more emotional lines than logical lines, but it could provide more consistent results than many people. As for legal contracts between Man and machine, isn't that the next step in the EULA?
>>> If the Do-Not-Call list were to never expire, eventually it will fill to all available U.S. >>>phone numbers.
>>Um...so what would the problem be with that?
>If I remember correctly the system doesn't even (appear) to confirm that the phone number is yours. >Some industrious fellow could just do all Americans a favor and purchase a phone list of those >active numbers not registered and write a script to register the numbers.
I thought of our lovely local landmark and its iconic walls of used gum. This would not be a good addition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegum_Alley Its pretty gross but its also kind cool
In my town the only freeway across it had a 55 speed limit for ages, people drove 65-70. the speed limit is now now 65 people still drive 65-70. the only change is now it is more dangerous to drive 45 on the freeway like a certain blue haired segment feels the need to do.
Maybe not nuke, but how about a kinetic kill device. 100 tons of slag screaming in at reentry velocity, would put an impressive dent in a city. expensive, impractical, irremediably stupid, achievable through much cheaper means, but none the less impressive.
As a republican who is deeply disappointed with the current administration. I will be voting for Ron Paul in the primaries, however I know that he will get at most 10% of the vote (being very generous). In all likelihood the Repubs will field a Bush clone (hard to tell who since they all look pretty bad), and I will get to vote for a Democrat in the 08 elections.
Ted Stevens is corrupt as hell William Jefferson is corrupt as hell I don't care what letter is after their name I want them out of politics and into jail. I want them both in PMINTA hard time prisons. If possible I want them taking big rocks and breaking them into little rocks. The only way this will happen is if there is a completely independent investigative group who spends all of their time investigating every and I mean every member of the house and the senate, and prosecuting as much as is humanly possible. Honor will not keep them honest, honor has not kept them honest. The only thing that will keep the politicians in line is knowing that if they step out of line they will be caught. They need to be held to a higher standard than the rest of the population because they are in a position to cause much greater harm.
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Again I am going to blame the driver, but because most people do not use the full range of motion for the pedals they sit too far back from the dash.
Many drivers have the car set up to not give enough leg extension to fully engage the brake.
They can get away with this for day to day driving because power brakes can stop the car with the slightest amount of pressure.
I am also tempted to add a comment about belly size interfering with the steering wheel.
As Frank Lloyd Wright pointed out, you can have very simple geometric forms, but the materials and finishes must be very well chosen.
Modern art so lacks workmanship. I recall a piece at the MoMA (I think) made of some candle holders with light bulbs instead of candles. Altogether the idea wasn't bad, but I just couldn't get past the inferior soldering and the wires protruding all over the place.
The bad soldering and protruding wires may have been the point of the piece. It was likely a statement contrasting technology with what came before, or trying to capture how odd it looks when you modernize something old badly. This is like when you tour an old castle and see conduit along the wall.
Here I was about to look the word up and then figure out how to put it in my next report.
obstreperous
1. Noisily and stubbornly defiant.
2. Aggressively boisterous.
I think the word works where you used it.
The cheapo two year old GPS I have does this already (garman Nuvi 200 series). If I am 1/2 a mile from the next turn it leaves off most smaller side streets. When I get within a certain distance of the turn it shows all of the details. You need this because when you are coming into a strange inter section you do ned to see that there are two streets that are very close together and you need a third street that is hidden behind a building.
There are still memory considerations. Consider GTA IV (now pretend that it isn't boring) at any given time there may be a couple of dozen cars on the road that you can see. It would be a major improvement if they could have a traffic jam with hundreds of cars and dense crowds on the sidewalks (it is unclear whether this would make it more fun, but it would be more real). This doesn't change the resolution of the screen, but it takes much more computing power than we have in the current generation of consoles.
Maybe I picked a poor game for an example, but imagine bustling market places and tropical reefs with thousands of fish.
I am sorry I went Chicago for business twice this year once in April and once in June. In April I froze my ass off (but no snow). In June it was sweltering.
I found that the restaurant scene on the outskirts of town was dismal.
Oh yes and Chicago is still my least favorite airport on earth.
yes but in fable 2 you could not only play as a female character, you could also pull off a sex change.
This seems like the guppy phenomenon. Under a lack of predation the guppies self select to breed for beauty. Under heavy predation they breed to survive and quickly become plain. We are the guppies. We have no predators. It just takes longer to show up with us because our life cycle takes longer.
And I have taken my BSME and some how transformed myself into a roofing consultant that pulls down 60K/yr. borderline working with my hands but a good feeling at the end of the day.
See you worked in a shitty part of town. I work at a major retailer in a rich town, and the number of people I deal with that are monsters is huge.
In my experience most of the people in the shitty part of town tend to be decent, even the druggies tend to be pretty nice when they are coherent. The rich people, women mostly tend to be real assholes, and have changed my mind about the virtues of wealth. It seems being a monster is either a key to becoming rich or a symptom of being rich.
I have often wished I could pay a few extra bucks to be guaranteed a flight with no babies on it, I could see expanding it to children under 12.
(It would also be great to do this in movie theaters)
Was there actually a use for the tow truck? It was fun and all but I only remember one or two missions that needed it.
I assumed they were talking about the broken CDs that were all the rage a few years ago, and that were still being sold in Euroland (I think they are still sold here, but I buy all my music used so its hard to tell what new cds are like).
The Sony root kit disaster, and the like are what I thought this was about and again it had to do with the ability to rip it to an MP3 player.
Personal energy output is a function of a number of variables, but the most important, are the ambient temperature and the movement of air through the room. The 100 watts per person is a conservative estimate based on a roughly 75 F room.
The Prof in a box experiment has a large issue that contributes to error. He is breathing with a tube, the heat exchange in your lungs is a convection exchange and has too large a magnitude to ignore. If you have doubts about how much heat flows out through breathing next time you are cold in bed pull the covers up over your head and breath under the covers. You will find that the bed gets nice and warm in a very short time.
>Tell me, did you think the creatures at the end of A.I. were aliens too?
What creatures? For me that movie ended when the little robot sat in the submarine staring at the blue fairy. If something happened after that it was some sort of cartoon short with relationship to the movie. That way I can rationalize that movie into being a good movie .
Works for me, half of the managers I know make decisions based on poorly set up excel spreadsheets, this just eliminates the suit.
We have personhood for corporations, why couldn't a machine qualify for personhood? Why couldn't a machine own something? If for some reason someone built a machine with interests outside of a primary function why couldn't a machine persue those interests?
Medical power of attorney? If I was a lonely old person having a robot caretaker that understood my wishes and could express them to medical personnel would be valuable.
A stable environment for children? Why not? Many children are raised horribly by TV, I see no reason that a child raised by a suitably programed robot could not be very well adjusted. This would have to be intricately programed, along more emotional lines than logical lines, but it could provide more consistent results than many people.
As for legal contracts between Man and machine, isn't that the next step in the EULA?
>>> If the Do-Not-Call list were to never expire, eventually it will fill to all available U.S. >>>phone numbers.
>>Um...so what would the problem be with that?
>If I remember correctly the system doesn't even (appear) to confirm that the phone number is yours. >Some industrious fellow could just do all Americans a favor and purchase a phone list of those >active numbers not registered and write a script to register the numbers.
Still not seeing a problem with this
I thought of our lovely local landmark and its iconic walls of used gum. This would not be a good addition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegum_Alley
Its pretty gross but its also kind cool
In my town the only freeway across it had a 55 speed limit for ages, people drove 65-70. the speed limit is now now 65 people still drive 65-70. the only change is now it is more dangerous to drive 45 on the freeway like a certain blue haired segment feels the need to do.
Coming soon the Duke Nukem forever and Spore Double Pack
In one of the commentaries on the DVDs Zap is described as Captain Kirk doing a William Shatner impression.
Maybe not nuke, but how about a kinetic kill device. 100 tons of slag screaming in at reentry velocity, would put an impressive dent in a city. expensive, impractical, irremediably stupid, achievable through much cheaper means, but none the less impressive.
As a republican who is deeply disappointed with the current administration. I will be voting for Ron Paul in the primaries, however I know that he will get at most 10% of the vote (being very generous). In all likelihood the Repubs will field a Bush clone (hard to tell who since they all look pretty bad), and I will get to vote for a Democrat in the 08 elections.
Ted Stevens is corrupt as hell
William Jefferson is corrupt as hell
I don't care what letter is after their name I want them out of politics and into jail. I want them both in PMINTA hard time prisons. If possible I want them taking big rocks and breaking them into little rocks. The only way this will happen is if there is a completely independent investigative group who spends all of their time investigating every and I mean every member of the house and the senate, and prosecuting as much as is humanly possible.
Honor will not keep them honest, honor has not kept them honest. The only thing that will keep the politicians in line is knowing that if they step out of line they will be caught. They need to be held to a higher standard than the rest of the population because they are in a position to cause much greater harm.