The oil guys I can see (peeking through the tin foil). But the car guys? This could be a motor for just another car. They don't care if it's powered by cow farts, as long as they sell you the car at a profit.
Isn't it strange that wartime is the best time for scientific progress? Do we really need war to focus our minds and resources in this way?
Yes we do. In a major war, losing is really, really bad. So you have an all out push to gain any advantage you can. People volunteer for, and can be directed into projects they otherwise might not have pursued. And given a blank check to get it done.
No war? You can take your time on things. Writing papers, doing endless experiments to get it 'just right'.
Clear sound doesn't sell cell phones. Features do. That and geek-chic appeal.
How far we've fallen in deference to the marketing gods Remember the Sprint(?) ads? "So clear, you can hear a pin drop." (not necessarily true, but at least they tried)
Research for whom, though. "Roadcasting was commissioned by a "major automaker" looking for applications to make use of mobile ad hoc networks that will be included in production cars in the next few years."
My problem is....people (and frequently judges) see driving as a total necessity. A "right". Hence breathalyzers letting you still drive, or limited driving (you may drive to and from work).
No...remove the driving privilege altogether. Some percentage of previous drunk drivers will be a LOT more careful if their precious driving "rights" were in jeopardy.
Some small percentage of these clowns will still drive under suspension, and we can deal with them as they are stopped for whatever.
..but there's already something out for people that got a DUI, it basically forces you to take a breathalyzer test before your engine starts.
IMHO, that's the wrong solution.
How about an actual penalty. Get caught DUI? No driving for a year. Period. No excuses, no exemptions. Too bad. Find another way to get to work.
Get caught driving (even sober) during that year. Ok...this is your last chance, and we increase it to two years. After that, you get a little jail time.
I have to prove to my car that I'm not drunk? Please.
This screws the regular driver, while hampering the drunk little or none
Have someone else start the car comes to mnd as the first workaround. Wear gloves. What? No gloves? Oh that will go well in the northern climes. 10 below zero and my car won't start unless I take my gloves off? Yeah...that's a car I won't buy.
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Nonsense. Provided suitable RAM, Win2000 will run, if not snappily, just fine.
Our training room has a bank of ~30 Win2k/Office2k 400mhz Dell boxes. Runs Office2K, Oracle forms client, and various other bits just fine.
If W2000 works for you, nothing. Extended support (security hotfixes) for W2000 doesn't end until March 2010.
I have a Kroger card assigned to BlankName, that has only ever been used with cash. They know that card is being used, but no ties to me.
Yeah, right. Who enforces that an 'adult site' goes into this TLD? Does vacation pics taken at a nude beach count?
The oil guys I can see (peeking through the tin foil). But the car guys? This could be a motor for just another car. They don't care if it's powered by cow farts, as long as they sell you the car at a profit.
Military action is not the only way to get a country to abandon its program.
Yes we do. In a major war, losing is really, really bad. So you have an all out push to gain any advantage you can. People volunteer for, and can be directed into projects they otherwise might not have pursued. And given a blank check to get it done.
No war? You can take your time on things. Writing papers, doing endless experiments to get it 'just right'.
Fear is a great motivator.
Ask, and ye shall receive.
How far we've fallen in deference to the marketing gods
Remember the Sprint(?) ads? "So clear, you can hear a pin drop." (not necessarily true, but at least they tried)
Yeah, yeah....buy a better phone. BS. The tech for reasonably clear sound is trivial. Clean audio should be a base model feature.
Research for whom, though.
"Roadcasting was commissioned by a "major automaker" looking for applications to make use of mobile ad hoc networks that will be included in production cars in the next few years."
Because you have not inserted enough buzzwords into the concept.
WiFi
ad hoc network
*casting
nodes
mesh
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Of course, the FCC and RIAA will be all over this.
'Public performance'
'clogging the spectrum'
'private radio stations'
May be a good concept, but the implementation will be a bitch.
Aren't you glad your parents didn't think it was such a good idea?
It seems we are pretty much in full agreement...:)
But 'those-who-profess-to keep-government-small' may not be as bad as 'those-who-publicly-proclaim-to-make-government-b
I don't agree with the current assclowns either. The other fools may be worse.
While I applaud their efforts, isn't this how the RIAA/MPAA got started for music and movies?
Precisely. We'd probably have more in common with an intelligent brocolli than a true alien.
What if other life had Hitlers who won?
And on this planet, we came soooo close to that happening. Scary.
...and already died out.
Where is the step forward?
No...remove the driving privilege altogether. Some percentage of previous drunk drivers will be a LOT more careful if their precious driving "rights" were in jeopardy.
Some small percentage of these clowns will still drive under suspension, and we can deal with them as they are stopped for whatever.
IMHO, that's the wrong solution.
How about an actual penalty. Get caught DUI? No driving for a year. Period. No excuses, no exemptions. Too bad. Find another way to get to work.
Get caught driving (even sober) during that year. Ok...this is your last chance, and we increase it to two years. After that, you get a little jail time.
It could be worse.
Aarrrggg! I HATE this. A few times, I've had on person on one side, and the other a couple cubes away....call each other, on speakerphone.
Both sides of the conversation, in stereo.
Death by phonecord strangulation was seriously contemplated.
This screws the regular driver, while hampering the drunk little or none
Have someone else start the car comes to mnd as the first workaround.
Wear gloves. What? No gloves? Oh that will go well in the northern climes. 10 below zero and my car won't start unless I take my gloves off? Yeah...that's a car I won't buy.
I'm no fan of big-brotherly ideas,
It appears you are.