Seriously, it is not my fault if a pedestrian jumps out from behind a parked van/car/lorry just as I am driving by, within the speed limit, paying attention, looking out for such situations.
That's why you get taught in school about how to cross roads safely. Stop. Look. Listen.
Some "accidents" are unavoidable even though the driver was driving safely with due care and attention, i.e., accidents. Others are avoidable, i.e., non-accidents (dangerous driving, driving without due care and attention). Only the latter should get charges filed - and those charges should be harsh.
Android's SDK includes vast swathes of the Java API (and third partly APIs like Apache HTTPClient, etc) as part of its core. Sure, it doesn't include the full Java platform (replacing UI with Android specific classes, for example), but from a language viewpoint it's mostly Java, might as well be Java, and uses Java development tools like Eclipse.
And ARM CPUs actually now include generic virtual machine instructions, not just Java specific instructions - this is called "Thumb EE" which is present in ARMv7 architectures (Cortex), and replaced the Java bytecode Jazelle functionality. It is a dead cert that Dalvik will eventually make use of Thumb EE (note that the first Android devices were ARMv6 devices using ARM11 CPUs).
Most long distance driving will include a highway, which is very safe - and a lot safer in the UK than in the US according to that link above (despite having a traffic density twice as high). The end points will include non-highway driving, which are equally dangerous per mile. I would imagine in the US the extra distance driven is often highway (aside from popping out to get milk from the shop half a mile away).
Also it looks like the UK is one of the safer countries to drive in, probably the one benefit of a nanny state! Take care in the Czech Republic though...
I believe that hitting someone at 20mph rather than 30mph reduces the death rate by 50% when an accident happens. Never mind that you have so much more time to react at 20mph than 30mph when some brat jumps out in front of you.
Which is why many London non-throughfares are switching to 20mph limits.
I.e., accidents are inevitable, let's make the outcome more palatable.
How can you be responsible for killing someone that ran out in front of you when you were driving safely within the speed limit and taking necessary precautions when driving? Exactly, you're not responsible.
The brat should have learned their green cross code, or they should have crossed at a pedestrian crossing.
There were nearly 6,420,000 auto accidents in the United States in 2005. The financial cost of these crashes is more than 230 Billion dollars. 2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed. About 115 people die every day in vehicle crashes in the United States -- one death every 13 minutes.
The number of people killed in road accidents was down from 2,946 in 2007 to 2,538. In accidents reported to the police the number of people either killed or seriously injured stood at 28,572, a fall of 7%.
So roughly 42,000 deaths versus 2,500 deaths. 307m people in the US version 61m in the UK. Therefore the death rate per 1m people is 137 in the US versus 41 in the UK.
So, no, there aren't more here (where I assume you mean the UK).
Oh, I wonder how my Android phone allows Advanced Task Killer to kill off third party apps that are draining battery and slowing the device down? And that application is mandatory on Android due to the nature of the system - very few apps have "quit" options.
I don't think Apple did the wrong thing in putting off third-party multitasking for a while after the initial launch. Getting the app switching UI correct is important (not three years to implement important...), as well as ensuring that the hardware can support it (CPU, memory, battery).
Maybe one of your neighbours is building a nuclear bomb or something. Or someone has set up a Mosquito because of teenage louts in the area. Or a whole horde of other reasons, sick building syndrome, chemicals, flickering and/or dim lights, the dreary paintwork where you live, your worthless life coming home to cheetos and xbox every night, etc, etc.
You can buy WiFi signal blocking paint at a tenth of the cost.
However if the guy was going to use gold at 1um thickness, I wonder if the gold could be patterned with holes (like the metal in a microwave door that blocks the microwaves but still lets you see in perfectly adequately), further reducing the cost?
"Someone better not tell this guy that cell towers are omnidirectional so he'll experience that radiation regardless. "
Or better still, someone should tell the poor woman and/or her lawyer, otherwise she could end up without a proper technological and scientific defence against the man's claims.
Maybe because of his very rare medical condition he could put a claim in on his medical insurance (or the local government's social care services) to get his place proofed against such evil electro-magnetic waves.
Or he could just get up off his arse and do it himself. Surely the peace of mind that having such paint would give would be enough?
Oh, he'd probably complain about losing his mobile phone signal... o_O
Driving on the A12 between the Blackwall Tunnel and the M11 is one of the most depressing journeys ever, especially at night.
This is made all the worse by having the 2012 Olympics Site right next to the road, which is amazing to look at. That's how bad everything else is. A grimy corridor of traffic.
Oh dear, you're more likely to wake up in a pool of vomit in the hospital waiting room, 4 hours before seeing the doctor, but at least the triage nurse has had a look at you, and then treated you with the care an elephant high on crystal meth shows when juggling Faberge Eggs.
Sorry, but I can drive out of London in under 5 hours, and everyone here would agree that is a fairly good "city to countryside" time for any city in the world, including St. Davids in Wales.
Sure, Google Maps might say it should take 90 minutes (south circular, A2, Blackwall Tunnel, A12, M11, and out), but we all know that Google Maps is optimistic.
Seriously, it's quicker to drive out to the M25* nearest to where you live, and drive around it, than through London.
* The M25 is also known as the never ending car park.
Only if the in-game character you play is Boris Johnson.
It'd be a cross between Bully (by Rockstar), that Table Tennis game (by Rockstar, but renamed "Whiff Whaff"), and GTA (by Rockstar). You might have to make guest appearances on TV comedy quiz panel shows.
As BoJo you would cycle around London being ineffective and borish.
Never mind the mission to push asylum seekers off of the top of tower blocks.
God knows what the marketing would be for GTA: Glasgow
GTA: Glasgow Neds with Attitude (and Buckfast Tonic Wine)
Dunno about the cars. Beat up Citroen Saxos with car kits would be the order of the day. Imaging hijacking a Skoda Favorit! The best car would be a VW Golf with alloy wheels and road-hugging plastic bumpers that break on the first speed hump.
The problem with doing a new GTA: London is that none of the current generation of consoles has the polygon rendering power to render the current roadworks going on in London. I don't even think Fermi can render each of the millions of cones in London right now. You're not going to get far in your stolen car if you're stuck at gas mains works. Never mind the speed cameras, maybe there could be an in-game achievement for racking up 1 million pounds in speeding tickets.
However most of the bridges and tunnels across the Thames are closed for roadworks, which is a bit more close to gaming-life, c.f., GTA Vice City.
I guess that the 3D cameras can space the cameras further apart, thus exaggerating the 3D effect and thus making things appear 3D even though they're further away. Human eyes don't really have that option...
Most people enjoy driving their cars, especially if they're rich and have bought some really nice machines.
Most people hate doing housework however. I'd definitely hire people to sort that out for me. A cleaner for a few hours a week for a start...
What else do I hate... taxes. An accountant would be a few hundred a year to sort that out for me, worthwhile if you're earning money from multiple sources or self-employed. So that would be quite high up the list of desirable hires too. They'll also pay back what they cost in terms of tax savings and advice.
I like gardening, but not weeding. I'd get someone to sort the weeding, but I'd do the planting and growing.
Chauffeur? Quite low down the list. Mistresses - too much work.
"It took an inquiry into the health department by someone who happened to know how the system was supposed to work to get the damn thing fixed!"
The article just says that the question about falls has been moved later in the 999 script. That sounds like a workaround to me, not an actual fix in the logic behind the system.
Yeah, Avatar was made made in 3D and it shows, it was very watchable even with the glasses (dunno what the article's author Alexander Murphy was going on about, his eyesight must be ruined already). Didn't notice any problems but it didn't redefine my life.
Converting 2D films into 3D is just not going to be the same. Even if you can extract objects from scenes into an accurate 3D space, you're going to have to generate content that is obscured in the 2D original, and this is surely going to be noticeable?! The article suggests it would look layered, like an old 80s arcade game with parallax scrolling.
Maybe 3D scenes could be re-rendered, an option for Titanic 3D surely, but you're not going to get any better 3D depth when Kate Winslet is posing for the painting, only the CG parts (and reworking them is probably a good idea anyway).
At least the 3D sports broadcasts are being done with proper 3D cameras.
Do you seriously need to worry about typing speed? Typing pools are so 1960s.
Seriously, unless you transcribe documents as a major part of your job, you don't need such fast typing speeds, especially when you can do over one word a second already. If it's such a major part of your job, you should look at shorthand/stenography solutions.
Maybe your tools are inadequate. A decent IDE includes autocomplete for example.
On the other hand if you can't type fast whilst not looking at the screen and keyboard - i.e., typing whilst looking at source material, or looking at someone else, then it might be worth putting in some effort.
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This clearly isn't the case.
Seriously, it is not my fault if a pedestrian jumps out from behind a parked van/car/lorry just as I am driving by, within the speed limit, paying attention, looking out for such situations.
That's why you get taught in school about how to cross roads safely. Stop. Look. Listen.
Some "accidents" are unavoidable even though the driver was driving safely with due care and attention, i.e., accidents. Others are avoidable, i.e., non-accidents (dangerous driving, driving without due care and attention). Only the latter should get charges filed - and those charges should be harsh.
Android's SDK includes vast swathes of the Java API (and third partly APIs like Apache HTTPClient, etc) as part of its core. Sure, it doesn't include the full Java platform (replacing UI with Android specific classes, for example), but from a language viewpoint it's mostly Java, might as well be Java, and uses Java development tools like Eclipse.
And ARM CPUs actually now include generic virtual machine instructions, not just Java specific instructions - this is called "Thumb EE" which is present in ARMv7 architectures (Cortex), and replaced the Java bytecode Jazelle functionality. It is a dead cert that Dalvik will eventually make use of Thumb EE (note that the first Android devices were ARMv6 devices using ARM11 CPUs).
Given that this metric separates JavaFX from Java, I'm sure that Android development will count separately as well.
Did you miss where I wrote I had an Android phone? Idiot.
Highway/Motorway or City?
Because driving on the motorway is far far safer than driving on any other type of road. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_safety#Motorway
Most long distance driving will include a highway, which is very safe - and a lot safer in the UK than in the US according to that link above (despite having a traffic density twice as high). The end points will include non-highway driving, which are equally dangerous per mile. I would imagine in the US the extra distance driven is often highway (aside from popping out to get milk from the shop half a mile away).
Also it looks like the UK is one of the safer countries to drive in, probably the one benefit of a nanny state! Take care in the Czech Republic though...
I believe that hitting someone at 20mph rather than 30mph reduces the death rate by 50% when an accident happens. Never mind that you have so much more time to react at 20mph than 30mph when some brat jumps out in front of you.
Which is why many London non-throughfares are switching to 20mph limits.
I.e., accidents are inevitable, let's make the outcome more palatable.
How can you be responsible for killing someone that ran out in front of you when you were driving safely within the speed limit and taking necessary precautions when driving? Exactly, you're not responsible.
The brat should have learned their green cross code, or they should have crossed at a pedestrian crossing.
http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/stats.html
There were nearly 6,420,000 auto accidents in the United States in 2005. The financial cost of these crashes is more than 230 Billion dollars. 2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed. About 115 people die every day in vehicle crashes in the United States -- one death every 13 minutes.
http://www.theclaimsconnection.co.uk/road-accident-claims1.html
The number of people killed in road accidents was down from 2,946 in 2007 to 2,538. In accidents reported to the police the number of people either killed or seriously injured stood at 28,572, a fall of 7%.
So roughly 42,000 deaths versus 2,500 deaths. 307m people in the US version 61m in the UK. Therefore the death rate per 1m people is 137 in the US versus 41 in the UK.
So, no, there aren't more here (where I assume you mean the UK).
Oh, I wonder how my Android phone allows Advanced Task Killer to kill off third party apps that are draining battery and slowing the device down? And that application is mandatory on Android due to the nature of the system - very few apps have "quit" options.
I don't think Apple did the wrong thing in putting off third-party multitasking for a while after the initial launch. Getting the app switching UI correct is important (not three years to implement important...), as well as ensuring that the hardware can support it (CPU, memory, battery).
It's not the telco's base station at 70m.
Maybe one of your neighbours is building a nuclear bomb or something. Or someone has set up a Mosquito because of teenage louts in the area. Or a whole horde of other reasons, sick building syndrome, chemicals, flickering and/or dim lights, the dreary paintwork where you live, your worthless life coming home to cheetos and xbox every night, etc, etc.
You can buy WiFi signal blocking paint at a tenth of the cost.
However if the guy was going to use gold at 1um thickness, I wonder if the gold could be patterned with holes (like the metal in a microwave door that blocks the microwaves but still lets you see in perfectly adequately), further reducing the cost?
"Someone better not tell this guy that cell towers are omnidirectional so he'll experience that radiation regardless. "
Or better still, someone should tell the poor woman and/or her lawyer, otherwise she could end up without a proper technological and scientific defence against the man's claims.
I believe you can buy paint that shields from such signals. http://www.out-law.com/page-7953
Maybe because of his very rare medical condition he could put a claim in on his medical insurance (or the local government's social care services) to get his place proofed against such evil electro-magnetic waves.
Or he could just get up off his arse and do it himself. Surely the peace of mind that having such paint would give would be enough?
Oh, he'd probably complain about losing his mobile phone signal... o_O
Driving on the A12 between the Blackwall Tunnel and the M11 is one of the most depressing journeys ever, especially at night.
This is made all the worse by having the 2012 Olympics Site right next to the road, which is amazing to look at. That's how bad everything else is. A grimy corridor of traffic.
Oh dear, you're more likely to wake up in a pool of vomit in the hospital waiting room, 4 hours before seeing the doctor, but at least the triage nurse has had a look at you, and then treated you with the care an elephant high on crystal meth shows when juggling Faberge Eggs.
Sorry, but I can drive out of London in under 5 hours, and everyone here would agree that is a fairly good "city to countryside" time for any city in the world, including St. Davids in Wales.
Sure, Google Maps might say it should take 90 minutes (south circular, A2, Blackwall Tunnel, A12, M11, and out), but we all know that Google Maps is optimistic.
Seriously, it's quicker to drive out to the M25* nearest to where you live, and drive around it, than through London.
* The M25 is also known as the never ending car park.
Only if the in-game character you play is Boris Johnson.
It'd be a cross between Bully (by Rockstar), that Table Tennis game (by Rockstar, but renamed "Whiff Whaff"), and GTA (by Rockstar). You might have to make guest appearances on TV comedy quiz panel shows.
As BoJo you would cycle around London being ineffective and borish.
Never mind the mission to push asylum seekers off of the top of tower blocks.
God knows what the marketing would be for GTA: Glasgow
GTA: Glasgow
Neds with Attitude (and Buckfast Tonic Wine)
Dunno about the cars. Beat up Citroen Saxos with car kits would be the order of the day. Imaging hijacking a Skoda Favorit! The best car would be a VW Golf with alloy wheels and road-hugging plastic bumpers that break on the first speed hump.
The problem with doing a new GTA: London is that none of the current generation of consoles has the polygon rendering power to render the current roadworks going on in London. I don't even think Fermi can render each of the millions of cones in London right now. You're not going to get far in your stolen car if you're stuck at gas mains works. Never mind the speed cameras, maybe there could be an in-game achievement for racking up 1 million pounds in speeding tickets.
However most of the bridges and tunnels across the Thames are closed for roadworks, which is a bit more close to gaming-life, c.f., GTA Vice City.
I guess that the 3D cameras can space the cameras further apart, thus exaggerating the 3D effect and thus making things appear 3D even though they're further away. Human eyes don't really have that option...
But no hope for anything close!
Most people enjoy driving their cars, especially if they're rich and have bought some really nice machines.
Most people hate doing housework however. I'd definitely hire people to sort that out for me. A cleaner for a few hours a week for a start...
What else do I hate ... taxes. An accountant would be a few hundred a year to sort that out for me, worthwhile if you're earning money from multiple sources or self-employed. So that would be quite high up the list of desirable hires too. They'll also pay back what they cost in terms of tax savings and advice.
I like gardening, but not weeding. I'd get someone to sort the weeding, but I'd do the planting and growing.
Chauffeur? Quite low down the list. Mistresses - too much work.
Actually the NHS bills foreigners (non-EU at least) who require treatment. Little known fact, hidden behind Daily Mail "health tourism" rhetoric.
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/nm/index/family_parent/health/nhs_charges_for_people_from_abroad.htm
"It took an inquiry into the health department by someone who happened to know how the system was supposed to work to get the damn thing fixed!"
The article just says that the question about falls has been moved later in the 999 script. That sounds like a workaround to me, not an actual fix in the logic behind the system.
Yeah, Avatar was made made in 3D and it shows, it was very watchable even with the glasses (dunno what the article's author Alexander Murphy was going on about, his eyesight must be ruined already). Didn't notice any problems but it didn't redefine my life.
Converting 2D films into 3D is just not going to be the same. Even if you can extract objects from scenes into an accurate 3D space, you're going to have to generate content that is obscured in the 2D original, and this is surely going to be noticeable?! The article suggests it would look layered, like an old 80s arcade game with parallax scrolling.
Maybe 3D scenes could be re-rendered, an option for Titanic 3D surely, but you're not going to get any better 3D depth when Kate Winslet is posing for the painting, only the CG parts (and reworking them is probably a good idea anyway).
At least the 3D sports broadcasts are being done with proper 3D cameras.
Do you seriously need to worry about typing speed? Typing pools are so 1960s.
Seriously, unless you transcribe documents as a major part of your job, you don't need such fast typing speeds, especially when you can do over one word a second already. If it's such a major part of your job, you should look at shorthand/stenography solutions.
Maybe your tools are inadequate. A decent IDE includes autocomplete for example.
On the other hand if you can't type fast whilst not looking at the screen and keyboard - i.e., typing whilst looking at source material, or looking at someone else, then it might be worth putting in some effort.