Try www.rentacoder.com , or other such sites. Although most people on the site are private individuals, there are some organizations with dozens of programmers, that can be hired for any period of time or to accomplish any set goal. Plus there is the benefit of user feedback from others who have hired the same team in the past. You can browse the list of teams with the highest user feedback, and invite them to bid on your project.
From their website, the cameras are only placed in high-fatality locations, and are not revenue-gathering devices. Hurrah. If only all speed cameras were placed as sensibly as these ones.
What if someone is going five under the limit. You try to pass them and they speed up, so you have to got a bit faster and it takes a bit longer to go around them - say 1/2 mile or more. Under the new system you are indeed getting a ticket.
Actually the new system helps this situation. You can floor it and pass the guy in 300m safely, and then slow right down for the next 100m. Under the old system, you are forced to micropass as you describe to avoid getting a ticket.
This is inconsiderate to the guy you were passing -- but if he is the sort to speed up when passed, he deserves it.
I remember seeing something like this technology being tested with police. They setup a unit like this (might be the same thing) on a busy road. Anyways, a few hours later, the system caught a few stolen cars, speeders, and few other things, that led to a record number of arrests that day.
Did the report say how many lives were saved by getting those speeders off the road?
1) The brake pads will wear less because of regenerative braking
Barely... and brake pads are pretty cheap, unlikely to exceed $100 over the lifetime of the car
2) NO transmission repair costs, it uses constant mesh planetary gears instead
Any transmission craps out occasionally. I don't know what a Prius has.. if it has a standard automatic (which is constant mesh planetary gears), they crap out all the time and require oil changes from tiem to time; and if it uses a new system, chances are it will have some bugs because it hasn't been run for 10 years!
3) minimized eng wear because the electric motor handles high torque demands
Huh? The electric motor is used at LOW speeds. The torque needed at low speeds is minimal (think humans pushing a dead car). High torque demands occur when accelerating at high speeds.
4) minimized eng wear because the engine is spun up BEFORE any cylinder ignition 5) minimized eng wear because the engine fires 2 cyl and then the other 2 on start 7) minimized eng and exhaust system wear because of first 5 minute warmup cycle
Anytime the engine is running but the oil hasn't warmed up properly yet, there is (slightly) excessive engine wear. If the engine turns over without the oil even being pumped around properly then you will get excessive wear.
6) The engine was designed lighter because of the shared load so bearing wear is reduced
The Prius is much heavier than your average hatchback, and their wheel bearings often last the car's lifetime.
Seriously though -- what version of IP does I2 use? This would be a great way to drive adoption of IPv6 -- make I2 be IPv6 only. That won't be a barrier to anyone already on it, and as the big companies want to get their slice of the pie, they will all have to support it. The OS vendors will have to build it in to avoid losing market share to Linux, etc. etc. At least it's better than the current IPv6 transition plan (or lack of it).
I can't tell you how many times I've seen +5 comments that were flat-out, 100% wrong about something. But the mods liked what they saw and modded it up. If you try to correct that person, nobody reads you because you've missed that initial reader wave, and you're buried too deeply in the thread tree. So this uninformed (but popular) opinion spreads and spreads, so that you have a culture of misinformation. For instance, witness all the BSOD and Clippy jokes still making the rounds, when BSODs became rare five years ago, and Clippy hasn't been in a default install of Office since Office XP.
Hoist by your own petard. I've had two bluescreens in the last month, so I hope this gets modded to +5 just to annoy you (and so I can improve on my already maxed out karma).
And who brought in the law that you can't make jokes about past events?
This is like saying you need a license to operate a Soda Vending Machine because some idiot decided tipping it over trying to get a free soda was a smart idea.
Terrible eh. Next thing, they will have to put warnings on hot drinks to say that they are hot.
I've had 3G in my pocket for more than a year now. When I first got it, I browsed the front page of slashdot. When my bill came in, I saw that it had cost me $11.
It doesn't have to/reject/ the invalid file. It just has to not allow execution of arbitrary code from an invalid file ! This is not very difficult, these bugs are all the result of sloppy or inexperienced programmers who did not consider all possible inputs to their functions.
(This is your fnord speaking) Muzzy's theory is actually correct. However he was contacted by RIAA soon after making that post, and forced under the DMCA and various other four-letter acronyms, to distance himself from his earlier comments or face a lawsuit.
"The Intelligent Designer doesn't have to be the Christian God, nor does it even need to be a God at all. It could be little green men."
No. This is a philosophical problem called "First Cause". This is what will happen. You will say it was little green men. I will say something like, "And where did they come from?", and you will say something like, "Oh, the little green men before them." And I will say, "And where did THEY come from?" and you will say, "The little green men before THEM". And then at some point, we will reach the end.
Straw man. The Intelligent Designer could be little green men, who evolved naturally on Mars. Then they came to Earth, intelligently designed it, and left again.
(Not that I support that theory, I'm just pointing out that "First Cause" does not disprove some variations of ID, and especially, does not distinguish between God and LGMs).
Does ID include ancient astronaut theories ? IE. Earth has been visited by aliens in the past, who have done a little bit of genetic engineering on humans.
This is exactly the power-tripping attitude that the GP was complaining about, and that gets up the nose of everybody who isn't an op. I think you need a reality check. Having ops on an IRC channel does not elevate your status with anyone except for other people whose life is IRC.
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Try www.rentacoder.com , or other such sites. Although most people on the site are private individuals, there are some organizations with dozens of programmers, that can be hired for any period of time or to accomplish any set goal. Plus there is the benefit of user feedback from others who have hired the same team in the past. You can browse the list of teams with the highest user feedback, and invite them to bid on your project.
From their website, the cameras are only placed in high-fatality locations, and are not revenue-gathering devices. Hurrah. If only all speed cameras were placed as sensibly as these ones.
What if someone is going five under the limit. You try to pass them and they speed up, so you have to got a bit faster and it takes a bit longer to go around them - say 1/2 mile or more. Under the new system you are indeed getting a ticket.
Actually the new system helps this situation. You can floor it and pass the guy in 300m safely, and then slow right down for the next 100m. Under the old system, you are forced to micropass as you describe to avoid getting a ticket.
This is inconsiderate to the guy you were passing -- but if he is the sort to speed up when passed, he deserves it.
I remember seeing something like this technology being tested with police. They setup a unit like this (might be the same thing) on a busy road. Anyways, a few hours later, the system caught a few stolen cars, speeders, and few other things, that led to a record number of arrests that day.
Did the report say how many lives were saved by getting those speeders off the road?
Thought not...
I, for one, have been using tags in HTML for quite some time now. In fact, since the first HTML page I ever wrote, if memory serves me.
1) The brake pads will wear less because of regenerative braking
.. if it has a standard automatic (which is constant mesh planetary gears), they crap out all the time and require oil changes from tiem to time; and if it uses a new system, chances are it will have some bugs because it hasn't been run for 10 years!
Barely... and brake pads are pretty cheap, unlikely to exceed $100 over the lifetime of the car
2) NO transmission repair costs, it uses constant mesh planetary gears instead
Any transmission craps out occasionally. I don't know what a Prius has
3) minimized eng wear because the electric motor handles high torque demands
Huh? The electric motor is used at LOW speeds. The torque needed at low speeds is minimal (think humans pushing a dead car). High torque demands occur when accelerating at high speeds.
4) minimized eng wear because the engine is spun up BEFORE any cylinder ignition
5) minimized eng wear because the engine fires 2 cyl and then the other 2 on start
7) minimized eng and exhaust system wear because of first 5 minute warmup cycle
Anytime the engine is running but the oil hasn't warmed up properly yet, there is (slightly) excessive engine wear. If the engine turns over without the oil even being pumped around properly then you will get excessive wear.
6) The engine was designed lighter because of the shared load so bearing wear is reduced
The Prius is much heavier than your average hatchback, and their wheel bearings often last the car's lifetime.
Seriously though -- what version of IP does I2 use?
This would be a great way to drive adoption of IPv6 -- make I2 be IPv6 only. That won't be a barrier to anyone already on it, and as the big companies want to get their slice of the pie, they will all have to support it. The OS vendors will have to build it in to avoid losing market share to Linux, etc. etc.
At least it's better than the current IPv6 transition plan (or lack of it).
And of course, the woman is in Canada, so US law generally doesn't apply there. (We didn't invade yet, did we?)
Actually, you did, and lost miserably. The Canadian counterstroke included the sacking of Washington DC.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen +5 comments that were flat-out, 100% wrong about something. But the mods liked what they saw and modded it up. If you try to correct that person, nobody reads you because you've missed that initial reader wave, and you're buried too deeply in the thread tree. So this uninformed (but popular) opinion spreads and spreads, so that you have a culture of misinformation. For instance, witness all the BSOD and Clippy jokes still making the rounds, when BSODs became rare five years ago, and Clippy hasn't been in a default install of Office since Office XP.
Hoist by your own petard. I've had two bluescreens in the last month, so I hope this gets modded to +5 just to annoy you (and so I can improve on my already maxed out karma).
And who brought in the law that you can't make jokes about past events?
So many sleepless nights...
:( so many wasted afternoons
I had that on my Spectrum but the tape was dodgy so it only loaded properly about one time in 10
their EULA is GENIUS>.... evil evil genius
Clearly inspired by His Noodly Appendage
In general, I think the USA should change its name to "SueSA".
Sorry, Bush has already changed it to YSM (Yoonard States o' Merka).
Reportedly, the beast was discovered after a search began after a tipoff from a Japanese man on his deathbed
If you subscribe to Verizon's 3G service, you pay a flat $60 fee for unlimited usage.
Mmm... competition... *forlornly reaches towards the light*
This is like saying you need a license to operate a Soda Vending Machine because some idiot decided tipping it over trying to get a free soda was a smart idea.
Terrible eh. Next thing, they will have to put warnings on hot drinks to say that they are hot.
I've had 3G in my pocket for more than a year now. When I first got it, I browsed the front page of slashdot. When my bill came in, I saw that it had cost me $11.
I hope you get it a bit cheaper over there..
It doesn't have to /reject/ the invalid file. It just has to not allow execution of arbitrary code from an invalid file ! This is not very difficult, these bugs are all the result of sloppy or inexperienced programmers who did not consider all possible inputs to their functions.
(This is your fnord speaking) Muzzy's theory is actually correct. However he was contacted by RIAA soon after making that post, and forced under the DMCA and various other four-letter acronyms, to distance himself from his earlier comments or face a lawsuit.
"The Intelligent Designer doesn't have to be the Christian God, nor does it even need to be a God at all. It could be little green men."
No. This is a philosophical problem called "First Cause". This is what will happen. You will say it was little green men. I will say something like, "And where did they come from?", and you will say something like, "Oh, the little green men before them." And I will say, "And where did THEY come from?" and you will say, "The little green men before THEM". And then at some point, we will reach the end.
Straw man. The Intelligent Designer could be little green men, who evolved naturally on Mars. Then they came to Earth, intelligently designed it, and left again.
(Not that I support that theory, I'm just pointing out that "First Cause" does not disprove some variations of ID, and especially, does not distinguish between God and LGMs).
Does ID include ancient astronaut theories ? IE. Earth has been visited by aliens in the past, who have done a little bit of genetic engineering on humans.
Create a view that has those tables joined in the way you want. Then execute your queries against that view.
No - 200,000 is insanely high. 56,000 or so is moderately respectable, but not really.
newgroups just replaced BBS's
Not quite -- you can't play L.O.R.D. on a newsgroup
(Well, not as far as I know, anyway).
IRC does not have "chat rooms". AOL has chat rooms. IRC has channels.
....?
And the difference is
Let me guess - "chat rooms" have a lower average IQ than "channels" ?
Yeah I'm an OP on #winprog. Be jealous.
This is exactly the power-tripping attitude that the GP was complaining about, and that gets up the nose of everybody who isn't an op. I think you need a reality check. Having ops on an IRC channel does not elevate your status with anyone except for other people whose life is IRC.