Actually, the limits are exactly the same as they are without the stability control systems. The electronics aren't changing the laws of physics. They're just keeping you reined in.
Depends on the technology. Are you as an individual driver able to independently control the acceleration or braking force to each wheel?
Well, at the very least a car manufacturer could limit the top speed for a car to keep it from speeding on the highway.
Cars should not allow people to hurt themselves or others with cars. Boats should refuse to leave the marina if the waves are predicted to be too large anytime in the next three days. Bicycles should not allow people to ride them off paved surfaces or at greater than 5 mph. Guns should not fire themselves at people unless the gun has determined there is no other option. Shoes should not let people walk on others private property to prevent trespassing. Food should come already pureed and with all non-nutrients removed, with a biodegradable sanitary straw. Beds should not allow people to get off them in the mornings without passing an attitude check. Self responsibility is so passe - governments shouldn't let people make any decisions - they might make a, gasp, bad [1] one.
If they don't update their products people will comment on how much they suck.
If they do update them people will claim instability due to the number of patches.
It's a matter of perception.
No, it's a matter of quality. If the product had been built properly in the first place this vicious cycle would never have been born. However, it was not built that way. You pay now or you pay later - but you do pay, and later always costs more.
The only question left is what sort of quality we'll get. I mean considering HDTV is free, then ideally the online version should match that quality - but no way it will for reasons of bandwidth. Hopefully it'll at least match what you can find on file sharing sites
Hell, just put up a torrent and leave the commercials in. Most people will just download and watch the thing and then delete it. They'll pay no more and no less attention to commercials than they already do. Why make it so damn hard on people to watch a friggin TV show?
Triple-ROT52? +3 Informative? Shame on you, moderators.
You have to remember - thre's no technology-IQ test to get a slashdot account or become a moderator. In slashdot's defense, the odds (seem to be so far that there) will be some moderator who recognizes the subtle humor and moderates appropriatley. To end users, the "right" answer will probably eventually appear.
makes the statement in his article: "One thing I do feel pretty certain of is that if you're against software patents, you're against patents in general."
He couldn't be more wrong.
Software is instructions to hardware. Instructions should not be patentable. Hardware should be patentable - though there may not be a business case to make it worthwhile.
The otehr day I had to give directions to a picnic to a group of soccer players. There's really only one reasonable way to get from where they were to where they'd be going. What if someone had patented the description of how to get from Point A to Point B, that is how to get some hardware from one state to another? Does anyone think it logical that I would have to pay a royalty for telling this bunch of 13-yr olds (well, their parents) directions to get to their picnic? No? Then why are a set of directions to a collection of hardware patentable?
The directions could have included a toll road - or an alternative existed to take a more crowded road instead. Here is a pay-for-the-patented-hardware concept that makes sense. Using the toll road costs money but saves time. Using the public road is cheaper in money, but costs traffic congestion. But either way, the directions to use either road are free for any to use. And for what it's worth - the public road has many services along it that make money. The toll road, built privately by private financing, saves a few minutes. Of course, in this case, the private financiers have taken a bath. They envisioned charging a bunch for the access rights to their frontage property to service providers - but few people use their overpriced path. A better business case could be made that the toll road owners should remove the tolls and collect a royalty from the service providers that would then invest in locating on their frontage road, but hey I'm not an investor in that endeavor so who'd listen to me.
There used to be services (maybe still are) before mapquest and friends that provided directions for trip planning - you paid $10 to AAA and they told you the "best" way to get from point A to point B. No one would have thought of patenting those directions, and you were not paying for a royalty for their use - your payment was for the work someone did (at sometime) to figure out a route - but you're free to look at a map and make some phone calls to the various state traffic agencies to find construction delay zones, etc. and work out your own route.
Say you planned, some years ago, to drive from Chicago to Los Angeles. Say you glanced at a map of the time and decided to "get on Route 66 headed west and stay on it till you see the ocean." Besides a trip with about 1000 burger joints, you now have some directions. Now say you asked your friend his idea of a good route for the trip, and he'd recently done that trip by contacting AAA, giving 'em $10 and they worked out a trip plan for him based on some criteria, and he got back: "get on Route 66 headed west and stay on it till you see the ocean." Do you owe $10 to AAA for those directions? What if they (like software) were patented?
Software patents are a bad idea. They impede progress. They tell (possibly justifiably patentable) hardware how to get from condition A to condition B. If those same directions would work on someone else's nonpatented hardware, then they should be free to be used.
...I used to work for the government, I know that they could program something like this, but it would be clunky, crash constantly, no one would use it...
Are these guys worried about genes of individual people being searched, or privately owned, corperate made|discovered genes?
p.
Some nations believe they can make more money (which of course will only be carefully spent on their people) by claiming ownership of the molecular strucure of anything living within their borders. If some plant is found to have even the slightest medical application, they wish to claim rights to the process. They wish to lcie3nse people to search for such plants - even if you can buy them in the local market.
the major advantage to uavs is they dont risk troop in warzones
Drones don't get tired and make mistakes - if remotely piloted the operator can swap out as frequently as needed with frested personnel. For missions that don't require on-site decision making by a pilot, or neck-bending maneuvering to engage other aircraft, a drone is extremely cost effective.
What can those of us that are outside [overtly] restrictive regimes (such as Iran, China and Saudi Arabia) do to help ordinary 'net users there express their experiences and opinions to the outside world?
(how could they read your mail if it was encrypted?
If it's a pay service, they can forgoe the ads. If they established a policy of only decrypting the email when and while you looked at it and had provided the server the decryption password, which would not be stored once the session was closed, then they could provide relevant ads based on the contents of that single message - the message would still be protected via the https security.
Unfortunately for me, I was going to need at least 22,000 accounts to move a domain over there. I tried. No answer. Oh well.
I asked them to provide me with a hosted account with 10 addresses so I could test it, explaining if I was happy with it I expected to move about 500 accounts there (I assist a charter high school with their computer needs). It took a couple of weeks but I did get the small account invite. So far, the administration is useable as-is, though there are a couple of minor things I don't like.
Any task that can be split into multiple processes. An example is an array of data, where a single algorithm is going to be applied to each element. An array of data can represent anything - an image, or stock prices, or DNA, etc.
for any single task, the thing would not be efficient.
It depends on what you really mean by a single task - a given process consists of multiple sequential tasks, where a task may be as fine-grained as a single CPU operation, or perhaps due to overhead of communication between tasks, a tuning effort can be made to say a "task" is some multiple of operations.
I've noticed that numbers with repeated digits, like XXX-X77X, get more misdialed calls.
I've always wondered why we can't have a check digit (to make the number add to zero, for example) added at the end to prevent misdials. They're just numbers - we've got more of 'em in storage. if we want.
I used to work for VZW, both as customer service and Tier 1/2 tech support. It was my experience that VZW doesnt care...
They don't seem to care about many customer concerns. I was constantly getting calls, with no one there on the answer, from numbers that have been intentionally blocked in some way, i.e. a caller id with all zero's for example. They didn't quit till I threatened to sue Verizon to get the number blocked - they care if you pitch a big enough fit.
I've been a "loyal" (read braindead) Verizon customer for many years, having paid enough in cellular bills over the last dozen years to put some manager's kid through college, but expect to move to someone else in a month when my latest contract expires. I'm simply tired of being told they can't help, and of only gaining access to new hardware long after it's available, and then once getting it discovering it's been intentionally crippled. Enough.
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Depends on the technology. Are you as an individual driver able to independently control the acceleration or braking force to each wheel?
So there is such a thing as a free lunch after all?
Cars should not allow people to hurt themselves or others with cars. Boats should refuse to leave the marina if the waves are predicted to be too large anytime in the next three days. Bicycles should not allow people to ride them off paved surfaces or at greater than 5 mph. Guns should not fire themselves at people unless the gun has determined there is no other option. Shoes should not let people walk on others private property to prevent trespassing. Food should come already pureed and with all non-nutrients removed, with a biodegradable sanitary straw. Beds should not allow people to get off them in the mornings without passing an attitude check. Self responsibility is so passe - governments shouldn't let people make any decisions - they might make a, gasp, bad [1] one.
[1] defined as reducing the tax revenue stream
No, it's a matter of quality. If the product had been built properly in the first place this vicious cycle would never have been born. However, it was not built that way. You pay now or you pay later - but you do pay, and later always costs more.
Yeah, by helping us figure out how much money we're going to make.
Not enough according to yourself and too much according to the guy that has to pay you ... in other words, whatever the market determines it should be.
Hell, just put up a torrent and leave the commercials in. Most people will just download and watch the thing and then delete it. They'll pay no more and no less attention to commercials than they already do. Why make it so damn hard on people to watch a friggin TV show?
You have to remember - thre's no technology-IQ test to get a slashdot account or become a moderator. In slashdot's defense, the odds (seem to be so far that there) will be some moderator who recognizes the subtle humor and moderates appropriatley. To end users, the "right" answer will probably eventually appear.
He couldn't be more wrong.
Software is instructions to hardware. Instructions should not be patentable. Hardware should be patentable - though there may not be a business case to make it worthwhile.
The otehr day I had to give directions to a picnic to a group of soccer players. There's really only one reasonable way to get from where they were to where they'd be going. What if someone had patented the description of how to get from Point A to Point B, that is how to get some hardware from one state to another? Does anyone think it logical that I would have to pay a royalty for telling this bunch of 13-yr olds (well, their parents) directions to get to their picnic? No? Then why are a set of directions to a collection of hardware patentable?
The directions could have included a toll road - or an alternative existed to take a more crowded road instead. Here is a pay-for-the-patented-hardware concept that makes sense. Using the toll road costs money but saves time. Using the public road is cheaper in money, but costs traffic congestion. But either way, the directions to use either road are free for any to use. And for what it's worth - the public road has many services along it that make money. The toll road, built privately by private financing, saves a few minutes. Of course, in this case, the private financiers have taken a bath. They envisioned charging a bunch for the access rights to their frontage property to service providers - but few people use their overpriced path. A better business case could be made that the toll road owners should remove the tolls and collect a royalty from the service providers that would then invest in locating on their frontage road, but hey I'm not an investor in that endeavor so who'd listen to me.
There used to be services (maybe still are) before mapquest and friends that provided directions for trip planning - you paid $10 to AAA and they told you the "best" way to get from point A to point B. No one would have thought of patenting those directions, and you were not paying for a royalty for their use - your payment was for the work someone did (at sometime) to figure out a route - but you're free to look at a map and make some phone calls to the various state traffic agencies to find construction delay zones, etc. and work out your own route.
Say you planned, some years ago, to drive from Chicago to Los Angeles. Say you glanced at a map of the time and decided to "get on Route 66 headed west and stay on it till you see the ocean." Besides a trip with about 1000 burger joints, you now have some directions. Now say you asked your friend his idea of a good route for the trip, and he'd recently done that trip by contacting AAA, giving 'em $10 and they worked out a trip plan for him based on some criteria, and he got back: "get on Route 66 headed west and stay on it till you see the ocean." Do you owe $10 to AAA for those directions? What if they (like software) were patented?
Software patents are a bad idea. They impede progress. They tell (possibly justifiably patentable) hardware how to get from condition A to condition B. If those same directions would work on someone else's nonpatented hardware, then they should be free to be used.
Would you go so far as allowing such text to be sent electronically, or would you hold us to using stone tablets brought down from mountains?
So that's why it's written in Java!
Are these guys worried about genes of individual people being searched, or privately owned, corperate made|discovered genes? p. Some nations believe they can make more money (which of course will only be carefully spent on their people) by claiming ownership of the molecular strucure of anything living within their borders. If some plant is found to have even the slightest medical application, they wish to claim rights to the process. They wish to lcie3nse people to search for such plants - even if you can buy them in the local market.
Drones don't get tired and make mistakes - if remotely piloted the operator can swap out as frequently as needed with frested personnel. For missions that don't require on-site decision making by a pilot, or neck-bending maneuvering to engage other aircraft, a drone is extremely cost effective.
Join the U.S. Marines.
If it's a pay service, they can forgoe the ads. If they established a policy of only decrypting the email when and while you looked at it and had provided the server the decryption password, which would not be stored once the session was closed, then they could provide relevant ads based on the contents of that single message - the message would still be protected via the https security.
I asked them to provide me with a hosted account with 10 addresses so I could test it, explaining if I was happy with it I expected to move about 500 accounts there (I assist a charter high school with their computer needs). It took a couple of weeks but I did get the small account invite. So far, the administration is useable as-is, though there are a couple of minor things I don't like.
There's now an ability to import a CSV file with account info.
Yeah, we wouldn't want anyone knowledgeable about a subject starting threads.
Any task that can be split into multiple processes. An example is an array of data, where a single algorithm is going to be applied to each element. An array of data can represent anything - an image, or stock prices, or DNA, etc.
for any single task, the thing would not be efficient.
It depends on what you really mean by a single task - a given process consists of multiple sequential tasks, where a task may be as fine-grained as a single CPU operation, or perhaps due to overhead of communication between tasks, a tuning effort can be made to say a "task" is some multiple of operations.
I've always wondered why we can't have a check digit (to make the number add to zero, for example) added at the end to prevent misdials. They're just numbers - we've got more of 'em in storage. if we want.
They don't seem to care about many customer concerns. I was constantly getting calls, with no one there on the answer, from numbers that have been intentionally blocked in some way, i.e. a caller id with all zero's for example. They didn't quit till I threatened to sue Verizon to get the number blocked - they care if you pitch a big enough fit.
I've been a "loyal" (read braindead) Verizon customer for many years, having paid enough in cellular bills over the last dozen years to put some manager's kid through college, but expect to move to someone else in a month when my latest contract expires. I'm simply tired of being told they can't help, and of only gaining access to new hardware long after it's available, and then once getting it discovering it's been intentionally crippled. Enough.
They'll never try to voluntarily assist their customers in limiting the number of air minutes used by their customers.
I wouldn't give it that many stars.
Now zactly how would they have any idea of their chance of success having never flown this design before?
I'm holding out for one of these.
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