why should the general public have to buy windows to view the documents.
also it is hard to do compatibility when the company keeps their little patented formats to themselves I think all governments need to be sued that use any proprietary system like microsoft's that require the general public to look at THEIR information. It's called freedom (as in speech and the press).
Oh please. Construct a system using only totally free software: Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox. Now go to their website, and show us specifically which documents you cannot look at/read/print with this no-cost system. Call/write, and ask for case files on some crime.
Until you can show a specific document that requires some software to be purchased, then you're just blowing smoke.
Police 'have a high incidence of being shot with their own gun', because they are out there every day with the asshats. I imagine they wouldn't want this, so that their partner can pick up their gun and use it if the situation becomes necessary. Nothing like having a gun and not being able to use it.
Same with the 'ring on the finger' for civilians. Unless you wear it ALL the time, it will likely not be there when/if you actually need it. And one extra bit of technology to fail at the worst time.
These things haven't taken off, because people who actually buy and use guns don't want them. IMHO, anyway.
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Very true. BUT:
People should get exercise. Some level of activity beyond mere sitting on the couch. Those 'extra' calories burned in riding a bike to work are the exact same calories that would otherwise be used in exercise riding a spin bike at the gym. Going absolutely nowhere.
Mulititasking your exercise and transportation solves two problems at the same time.
More to your point, though, all vehicles are built out of 'something'. The ZE everybody keeps talking about is actual usage. Of course, we do have to take into account various manufacturing concerns. Is a building and recycling a bank of batteries beetter or worse than the tailpipe emission of a gas motor over its lifetime.
But a bike probably uses less mined and manufactured resources than the driver seat alone in a standard car...:)
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You can take those out of the equation, because they are being produced by the passenger/driver/operator anyway, whatever the vehicle type.
Real catching, in my opinion, can only be acheived if you can follow through with your hands to "take the speed off the ball"
A human has to do that due to the limitations of the hand and arm. Catching a ball thrown hard enough might well break your wrist. A suitably constructed robot would have no such structural limitations.
A mitt is really useful because it allows the momentum to be absorbed into a wide area.
And you (nor I) cannot catch a ball, thrown directly at you, at 1/2 the speed that this robot can, without one. Ok....maybe once or twice. Try it all day as a catcher at a baseball game, and eventually you'll slip and break a finger.
Think of weightlifting. An Olympic class weightlifter can do maybe 1000 lbs. A robotic forklift can do 10,000 or 100,000 lbs, all day long, without even trying.
So this is a limited tech display. The photo detection and actuator designs may well find themselves in something else. Something more useful.
Hiroshima was as much a 'civilian city' as London or Dresden was. i.e. it wasn't. Or Norfolk/San Diego/Groton/Omaha is today. Today, the difference the specific target. The WTC was a completely different type of target than than the Pentagon. Or Pearl Harbor.
Precisely. The battle leading up to Aug 6, centering on Okinowa between April and July, had 50,000 Americans killed, and an estimated 200,000 Japanese.
In hindsight, it's easy to say the bombs shouldn't have been dropped. But at the time, things were very, very different.
If I have you in a cubicle, I can look over your shoulder and make certain that you are working
If you 'look over my shoulder' more than one time a week, you and I have a problem.
I can track how you're spending your time and if you're ripping me off I'll know it.
As a manager/boss, you should be able to tell that up front. "This will take me X days to finish" "OK"
-here, you, the boss, should be able to determine if 'X' is reasonable. If I say it'll take 80 hours, and you KNOW it should only take me 20...then there needs to be a meeting of the minds. If you also realize that it will take 80 hours....then by next friday, I should hand you a completed whatever. Or a valid reason why it isn't done.
If you don't know WHY something should take 80 hrs vs 20 hrs, maybe you shouldn't be the boss.
So you want to scrap a 70's design that has flown over 100 times, with 2 major crashes, for a Russian copy of that same 70's design, that flew exactly once (never with people, and was never actually finished) and which now is rusting away in a park.
Yeah...thats a good way to kickstart the space industry.
No, you have not knocked on your neighbor's door and asked to come in. You asked a piece of dumb hardware if it is OK. You have assumed that his unlocked door is implicit permission for you to come in and walk around. "Hey...I sent his front doorknob a request, and it turned for me, so that must mean it's ok"
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why should the general public have to buy windows to view the documents.
also it is hard to do compatibility when the company keeps their little patented formats to themselves
I think all governments need to be sued that use any proprietary system like microsoft's that require the general public to look at THEIR information. It's called freedom (as in speech and the press).
Oh please. Construct a system using only totally free software: Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox.
Now go to their website, and show us specifically which documents you cannot look at/read/print with this no-cost system. Call/write, and ask for case files on some crime.
Until you can show a specific document that requires some software to be purchased, then you're just blowing smoke.
Not everything is Bush's fault.
Define 'some'.
95% or 0.003%?
(numbers pulled outta my ass, but you get the idea)
This is actually a quite common law in the states. Just routinely ignored and unenforced.
Basically, this comes down to better driver training.
And the tools that aren't avaiable as OSS? Too bad...find a workaround?
As we're not in that business, what works for Google (customized Linux distros running 10's of thousands of servers) may not work for me.
Same with the 'ring on the finger' for civilians. Unless you wear it ALL the time, it will likely not be there when/if you actually need it.
And one extra bit of technology to fail at the worst time.
These things haven't taken off, because people who actually buy and use guns don't want them. IMHO, anyway.
People should get exercise. Some level of activity beyond mere sitting on the couch. Those 'extra' calories burned in riding a bike to work are the exact same calories that would otherwise be used in exercise riding a spin bike at the gym. Going absolutely nowhere.
Mulititasking your exercise and transportation solves two problems at the same time.
Enviro-wackos look for the biggest, most visible target, not necessarily the best target.
More to your point, though, all vehicles are built out of 'something'. The ZE everybody keeps talking about is actual usage. Of course, we do have to take into account various manufacturing concerns. Is a building and recycling a bank of batteries beetter or worse than the tailpipe emission of a gas motor over its lifetime.
But a bike probably uses less mined and manufactured resources than the driver seat alone in a standard car...:)
You can take those out of the equation, because they are being produced by the passenger/driver/operator anyway, whatever the vehicle type.
A human has to do that due to the limitations of the hand and arm. Catching a ball thrown hard enough might well break your wrist. A suitably constructed robot would have no such structural limitations.
A mitt is really useful because it allows the momentum to be absorbed into a wide area.
And you (nor I) cannot catch a ball, thrown directly at you, at 1/2 the speed that this robot can, without one. Ok....maybe once or twice. Try it all day as a catcher at a baseball game, and eventually you'll slip and break a finger.
Think of weightlifting. An Olympic class weightlifter can do maybe 1000 lbs. A robotic forklift can do 10,000 or 100,000 lbs, all day long, without even trying.
So this is a limited tech display. The photo detection and actuator designs may well find themselves in something else. Something more useful.
Some would disagree.
And there's an even smaller pecentage of people who survive life.
Hiroshima was as much a 'civilian city' as London or Dresden was. i.e. it wasn't. Or Norfolk/San Diego/Groton/Omaha is today. Today, the difference the specific target. The WTC was a completely different type of target than than the Pentagon. Or Pearl Harbor.
Maybe comparable to 12/07/41?
In hindsight, it's easy to say the bombs shouldn't have been dropped. But at the time, things were very, very different.
This, coming from an Anon Coward
Priceless.
Cycles, my man. All those shows go in cycles. Doctors/lawyers this year, engineers/scifi (McGuyver, Star Trek) next year.
Use pencil and paper, and phone booths, instead.
If you 'look over my shoulder' more than one time a week, you and I have a problem.
I can track how you're spending your time and if you're ripping me off I'll know it.
As a manager/boss, you should be able to tell that up front.
"This will take me X days to finish"
"OK"
-here, you, the boss, should be able to determine if 'X' is reasonable. If I say it'll take 80 hours, and you KNOW it should only take me 20...then there needs to be a meeting of the minds. If you also realize that it will take 80 hours....then by next friday, I should hand you a completed whatever. Or a valid reason why it isn't done.
If you don't know WHY something should take 80 hrs vs 20 hrs, maybe you shouldn't be the boss.
Why? So you can have two 700lb gorillas instead of one 800 lb gorilla?
So you want to scrap a 70's design that has flown over 100 times, with 2 major crashes, for a Russian copy of that same 70's design, that flew exactly once (never with people, and was never actually finished) and which now is rusting away in a park.
Yeah...thats a good way to kickstart the space industry.
Do the words "in the local area" mean anything to you? Anything at all?
"Hey...I sent his front doorknob a request, and it turned for me, so that must mean it's ok"
Wrong. (IMHO)