Didn't all of the Apollo capsules use simple parachute clusters to land? I don't know how controllable a parachute is in general, or how controllable the Apollo chutes were specifically, but with parafoil style parachute, you could surely get a lot closer than 5 miles. You could probably put down with in 50 metres of your target.
Just a couple of points: There wasn't a lot of kung fu and running around in the real world. That was done in the matrix, a virtual reality where physical limitations were irrelevant. Also, since Neo emerged with well formed limbs, his muscles must have been being exercised (possibly due to the process that turns humans into batteries)
Any OS should be administered by a competent system admin who patches and/or disables services as necessary to avoid exploitation.
Riiight! Like that's ever going to happen.
When most people buy a computer, they are buying an appliance. They couldn't care less about administering it. It should just "work". Plug in the power, plug in the internet, and away we go. So, until we have machines that are self adminning out of the box, we are going to have problems.
Sure it would, as long as the object is beyond the sun's focal length. Besides, I don't think that's relevant. It bends light by gravity, therefore it is a gravitational lens.
Huh? The sun isn't big enough to act as a gravitational lens, but it is big enough for its gravity to bend light? Of course it's a gravitational lens. Granted, it is a very weak one, but it is a gravitational lens. Any particle, or collection of particles that generates a gravitational field, generates a gravitational lens.
You fools with your tinfoil hats. Don't you realize that ALCAN is behind it all. They're the ones pulling the strings. You worry about signals from satellites? Don't you know that the brain scanners are in underground caverns? From there, your tinfoil hat makes a beautiful parabolic dish with the focal point in your brain. They *WANT* you to wear your tinfoil hat!
Well, popular opinion at the time was that the purpose of photo radar (which I will refer to as PR) was to suck money out of people's pockets.:-)
Unfortunately, the report you linked compared similar roads at the time photo radar was in place. IE, one section of the 401 without PR, one section with PR, but PR potentially being anywhere. In other words, the chart basically shows the difference in speed between sections of road where you can see the PR van, and where you can't. More to the point, it does not show what the speeds were before PR was put in place. I seriously doubt that the average speed on the 401 was only 106.4 before photo radar.
Another problem with the report, is it only shows the average. What is the distribution of speeders? Were the 150+km/h speeders as numerous as before? What about the 115-125s? Who knows? All I know is that traffic was slowed down to (roughly) the speed limit.
Of course it had no effect on accidents and traffic fatalities. Those things are not speed related (or are minimally speed related), so dropping a few km/h is not going to change anything. I did not make any claims along those lines.
What I said was that photo radar was effective in reducing the speed of traffic on the 401, which it was, and which your report shows.
1 - The photo radar program was scrapped due to public outcry. Speed on the 401 is back up to normal.
2 - Perhaps your speedometer is reading high. Average speed on the 401 is around 120. If you were really doing 130, you'd be passing people. Mine reads high. When my speedometer is reading 110, I am only doing about 104.
3 - There are a bunch of mindless jerks on the road who ignore not only the posted speed limit, and the speed of traffic flow, but the safety of their fellow commuters.
Aren't the file systems long out of the beta stage? It's not like their using newfs0.0.1b to format the disks. I'm sure that a *huge* portion of the OS, is in the "it's been stable for years" end of the spectrum.
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Didn't all of the Apollo capsules use simple parachute clusters to land? I don't know how controllable a parachute is in general, or how controllable the Apollo chutes were specifically, but with parafoil style parachute, you could surely get a lot closer than 5 miles. You could probably put down with in 50 metres of your target.
Just a couple of points: There wasn't a lot of kung fu and running around in the real world. That was done in the matrix, a virtual reality where physical limitations were irrelevant. Also, since Neo emerged with well formed limbs, his muscles must have been being exercised (possibly due to the process that turns humans into batteries)
Not only would it enhance your horror movies, but you could watch Earthquake as it was intended to be seen.
Any OS should be administered by a competent system admin who patches and/or disables services as necessary to avoid exploitation.
Riiight! Like that's ever going to happen.
When most people buy a computer, they are buying an appliance. They couldn't care less about administering it. It should just "work". Plug in the power, plug in the internet, and away we go. So, until we have machines that are self adminning out of the box, we are going to have problems.
Wasn't this the scheme that Tom Cruise used to bring down "The Firm"?
I use a system for filing my papers on my desk. I call it a chronological heap. The older the paperwork, the lower down it is in the pile.
Sure it would, as long as the object is beyond the sun's focal length. Besides, I don't think that's relevant. It bends light by gravity, therefore it is a gravitational lens.
Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I add.
Huh? The sun isn't big enough to act as a gravitational lens, but it is big enough for its gravity to bend light? Of course it's a gravitational lens. Granted, it is a very weak one, but it is a gravitational lens. Any particle, or collection of particles that generates a gravitational field, generates a gravitational lens.
Umm, let's see: A=1, B=2,... M=13
I guess you're both right.
Anyone want to write a script to register every possible combination of digits? That ought to do them in.
You fools with your tinfoil hats. Don't you realize that ALCAN is behind it all. They're the ones pulling the strings. You worry about signals from satellites? Don't you know that the brain scanners are in underground caverns? From there, your tinfoil hat makes a beautiful parabolic dish with the focal point in your brain. They *WANT* you to wear your tinfoil hat!
The cart doesn't support the dinosaur's weight. The cart+dinosaur is a single unit. It is a device with two wheels, and two legs.
Well, popular opinion at the time was that the purpose of photo radar (which I will refer to as PR) was to suck money out of people's pockets. :-)
Unfortunately, the report you linked compared similar roads at the time photo radar was in place. IE, one section of the 401 without PR, one section with PR, but PR potentially being anywhere. In other words, the chart basically shows the difference in speed between sections of road where you can see the PR van, and where you can't. More to the point, it does not show what the speeds were before PR was put in place. I seriously doubt that the average speed on the 401 was only 106.4 before photo radar.
Another problem with the report, is it only shows the average. What is the distribution of speeders? Were the 150+km/h speeders as numerous as before? What about the 115-125s? Who knows? All I know is that traffic was slowed down to (roughly) the speed limit.
Of course it had no effect on accidents and traffic fatalities. Those things are not speed related (or are minimally speed related), so dropping a few km/h is not going to change anything. I did not make any claims along those lines.
What I said was that photo radar was effective in reducing the speed of traffic on the 401, which it was, and which your report shows.
"In summary, these data suggest that there has been a substantial drop in mean speeds at the control and experimental sites."
Average speed for 6 lane highway before Photo Radar: 106.4, During: 100.9
Seems effective to me.
Mass driver? What is that, the Popemobile chauffeur?
No problem. The rate limiter can be designed to permit speeding for, say, 3 minutes, then the limiters kick in.
A couple of possible reasons:
1 - The photo radar program was scrapped due to public outcry. Speed on the 401 is back up to normal.
2 - Perhaps your speedometer is reading high. Average speed on the 401 is around 120. If you were really doing 130, you'd be passing people. Mine reads high. When my speedometer is reading 110, I am only doing about 104.
3 - There are a bunch of mindless jerks on the road who ignore not only the posted speed limit, and the speed of traffic flow, but the safety of their fellow commuters.
They may indeed be a nuisance. However, photo radar was very effective at keeping the speed down on the 401.
Aren't the file systems long out of the beta stage? It's not like their using newfs0.0.1b to format the disks. I'm sure that a *huge* portion of the OS, is in the "it's been stable for years" end of the spectrum.
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Ach! The language of Mordor! You shouldn't utter that here.
Um... No, they weren't. Not by a long shot. Of course, I'm a fan.
Just because a comment gets modded up initially, doesn't mean that it will keep that +5. Comments get modded down all the time.
If we take the sponges out of the ocean, do you know how much more water there would be? Our poor coastal cities... Think about our poor coastal cities.