Take the basic Linux safety measure. Having to log in as root to do anything significant. Win has this as well (admin, power user, etc) , but most people run as admin, partly because of crappy, admin-rights demanding software, partly because Win doesn't really tell you not to, but also partly because its a PITA to remember, and log in with, that secure PW to do any installs or maintenance.
A "user friendly Linux" (Lindows, anyone?) will have to be very, very careful not to end up down this same path.
He was out, having fun, at a bar. Not at home with his tethered TTY phone.
SMS/cell phones ARE special, in the context of being 'new'. Hearing and vocal people have had a 1-1 phone link for decades. Only very recently has that tech been extended to another segment of the population. Think back 5 years. How many people did you see swapping text messages back and forth?
Even more inconvienient is trying to talk to a loved one, who happens to be deaf, and having to do it through a 3rd party. Ever tried signing to someone 50 miles away? I doubt it. Dumbass.
Jebus. I didn't say that was the be all and end all solution. Just that it seemed an incredibly enabling bit of technology for someone who can't speak or can't hear.
They can, just like everyone else, call someone on the phone and have a 1 on 1 conversation with them. Without a translator.
SMS. I noticed a deaf guy at a bar the other night thumbing away on his cellphone. Evidently having a very good conversation with whomever. I thought "now THERE is a good use for that technology". Obviously, the person on the other end needs one too, but it removes the relay person from the middle of the conversation.
1. Remove all drivers side front airbags and seatbelts. 2. Weld a 6" steel spike in the center of the steering wheel. 3. Sit back and watch everyone drive really carefully. 4. Profit!
This is why yellow lights exist in the first place*.
This is why the designers, in their sadly mistaken thought processes, have put a system in place to cause the signal to do the following:
It immediately turns from green to yellow to red.'
Now, you may be reading into that a much shoter (or nonexistent) interval between green-red. I don't. I see it as simply overriding the regular timed cycle, and initiating a change to yellow, then red, sooner. Not a shorter interval between green and red.
We shall have to wait and see how it works exactly.
As long as it goes through the yellow cycle as well, how is this much different from a normal red light?
You're coming up to the intersection, the light changes, either because the cycle changes, or because a speeder has triggered it. br> In neither case does the speeder (or anyone else) know where the signal is in its cycle.
So it changes as he approaches. Big deal.
without-warning red light if you RTFA, it specifically says there is a yellow pahse before the red.
What I'm saying is it gives people a false sense of control. They are relying on ClearPlay to tell them what the bad parts are, instead of deciding, for themselves, exactly what parts are bad. I have no problem with someone wanting to use this. Just be realistic on who is actually in control.
And what they cut out is apparently pretty extensive. Blood & gore in Harry Potter?
ClearPlay is the service that scans the movies and determines what will be cut out. The player (I think) phones home and checks on each DVD.
Their current list of movies and what they cuy out is here.
For instance: Alien - 1979 Blood & Gore Before:Extreme After: Minor Profanity Before: Moderate After: None Sex & Nudity Before:Moderate After: None Violence Before Heavy After: Moderate
The blood and gore in Alien was a crucial part of the horror movie. Take those out, and it's much less of a horror experience.
But you have little or no control over this either. You're relying on the good and kind folks at ClearPlay to decide what parts you should not see and hear. Does their worldview = yours?
Logically, using a cellphone and driving isn't any more distracting than using one one hand to steer and talking to passengers.
Demonstrably, it IS more distracting, though. Try this test for yourself (which has been used in several studies).
Crank up any task-intensive video game. Driving sim, FPS or similar. Get the best score you can. Now try that game while having a phone conversation. You can even use your fancy hands free thingy. Do you get a lower score? Do you get killed out faster? br>I'm betting you do.
on the road, if you get killed out...there is no reset function.
The lower the income, the higher percentage of that income you pay in taxes. The person who makes $20,000/yr, and spends $20,000 on food/rent/medical/transport (no savings at the end of the year) is taxed on 100% of his income.
The person who makes $100,000/yr, and spends twice as much on those same items is only taxed on 40% of his income. Yes, he pays more total tax, but a far lower percentage of his actual income.
As far as 'loopholes'...there will always be loopholes. Do you tax barter? Do I, the owner of a paving company, pay 'fair tax' on the new fleet of trucks I traded for paving the dealership parking lot? Or does the owner of a stereo shop pay tax on lifetime eats at the local Hooters if I install their new sound system gratis? Does the Hooters manager/owner pay tax on the sound system?
I'm more worried about the non-gamer surgeons. If they have over 1/3 more mistakes than the gamers, what does that say for their skills and the welfare of their patients?
Remember, someone, somewhere, today, has an appointment with the doctor who graduated last in his class...
Um, how can a tricycle design (3 wheels) be common among recumbant bikes (bicycle = 2 wheels).
Sincerely, Lieutenant Nitpick
ok....tadpole trikes (2F/1R) are quite common in the recumbent community, instead of recumbent bike. or....a tadpole trike (2F/1R) is a very common HPV design
The Dymaxion suffered from having rear wheel steering. Tends to be very, very unstable at anything over walking speed. Too easy to overcorrect, swinging the back end wide.
I like to drive.. I love long cross country trips.. but would give it up if I never had to deal with city traffic or risk my life because somone else (or myself) is being stupid.
Take the bus. Or train. Or plane. There are alternatives if you you want them.
So, riding mass transit costs me about twice what it costs me to drive myself on a per-mile basis, or over SIX TIMES what in costs me in absolute terms;
Except for the price of the car/insurance/maintenance, of course.
One member of a family routinely using alternate transport (bus/bike/carpool) allows a two car family to become a one car family. With the attendant huge financial savings.
The monetary increase was proposed for the budget, approved, and was to be instituted in the new budget year beginning Oct 2001.
But that's besides the point. This is not the 'government' declassifying and putting forth these statements, but rather Clarke himself.
Did the Bush administration actively seek to increase the pressure on (and/or eradication of) the Taliban? Or did they not take the threat seriously. These are the two conflicting statemnts coming out of Clarke's mouth (and book). First he says one thing, then quite another.
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Take the basic Linux safety measure. Having to log in as root to do anything significant. Win has this as well (admin, power user, etc) , but most people run as admin, partly because of crappy, admin-rights demanding software, partly because Win doesn't really tell you not to, but also partly because its a PITA to remember, and log in with, that secure PW to do any installs or maintenance.
A "user friendly Linux" (Lindows, anyone?) will have to be very, very careful not to end up down this same path.
umm....didn't the RIAA just have to fess up a zillion $13 checks because they were found guilty of price fixing?
How is this different? (except that they have the balls to tell beforehand)
So what's so special about your SMS story?
He was out, having fun, at a bar. Not at home with his tethered TTY phone.
SMS/cell phones ARE special, in the context of being 'new'. Hearing and vocal people have had a 1-1 phone link for decades. Only very recently has that tech been extended to another segment of the population. Think back 5 years. How many people did you see swapping text messages back and forth?
Even more inconvienient is trying to talk to a loved one, who happens to be deaf, and having to do it through a 3rd party. Ever tried signing to someone 50 miles away? I doubt it. Dumbass.
Jebus. I didn't say that was the be all and end all solution. Just that it seemed an incredibly enabling bit of technology for someone who can't speak or can't hear.
They can, just like everyone else, call someone on the phone and have a 1 on 1 conversation with them. Without a translator.
SMS. I noticed a deaf guy at a bar the other night thumbing away on his cellphone. Evidently having a very good conversation with whomever. I thought "now THERE is a good use for that technology". Obviously, the person on the other end needs one too, but it removes the relay person from the middle of the conversation.
1. Remove all drivers side front airbags and seatbelts.
2. Weld a 6" steel spike in the center of the steering wheel.
3. Sit back and watch everyone drive really carefully.
4. Profit!
This is why yellow lights exist in the first place*.
This is why the designers, in their sadly mistaken thought processes, have put a system in place to cause the signal to do the following:
It immediately turns from green to yellow to red.'
Now, you may be reading into that a much shoter (or nonexistent) interval between green-red. I don't. I see it as simply overriding the regular timed cycle, and initiating a change to yellow, then red, sooner. Not a shorter interval between green and red.
We shall have to wait and see how it works exactly.
As long as it goes through the yellow cycle as well, how is this much different from a normal red light?
You're coming up to the intersection, the light changes, either because the cycle changes, or because a speeder has triggered it. br>
In neither case does the speeder (or anyone else) know where the signal is in its cycle.
So it changes as he approaches. Big deal.
without-warning red light
if you RTFA, it specifically says there is a yellow pahse before the red.
What I'm saying is it gives people a false sense of control. They are relying on ClearPlay to tell them what the bad parts are, instead of deciding, for themselves, exactly what parts are bad. I have no problem with someone wanting to use this. Just be realistic on who is actually in control.
And what they cut out is apparently pretty extensive. Blood & gore in Harry Potter?
ClearPlay is the service that scans the movies and determines what will be cut out. The player (I think) phones home and checks on each DVD.
Their current list of movies and what they cuy out is here.
For instance:
Alien - 1979
Blood & Gore
Before:Extreme
After: Minor
Profanity
Before: Moderate
After: None
Sex & Nudity
Before:Moderate
After: None
Violence
Before Heavy
After: Moderate
The blood and gore in Alien was a crucial part of the horror movie. Take those out, and it's much less of a horror experience.
And you have the ability to block that. Simply program your TV to skip that channel. Or let it require a password for access to that channel.
But you have little or no control over this either. You're relying on the good and kind folks at ClearPlay to decide what parts you should not see and hear.
Does their worldview = yours?
Logically, using a cellphone and driving isn't any more distracting than using one one hand to steer and talking to passengers.
Demonstrably, it IS more distracting, though.
Try this test for yourself (which has been used in several studies).
Crank up any task-intensive video game. Driving sim, FPS or similar. Get the best score you can. Now try that game while having a phone conversation. You can even use your fancy hands free thingy. Do you get a lower score? Do you get killed out faster? br>I'm betting you do.
on the road, if you get killed out...there is no reset function.
If there aren't detailed code reviews...
Like the parent said...boneheaded.
The lower the income, the higher percentage of that income you pay in taxes.
The person who makes $20,000/yr, and spends $20,000 on food/rent/medical/transport (no savings at the end of the year) is taxed on 100% of his income.
The person who makes $100,000/yr, and spends twice as much on those same items is only taxed on 40% of his income.
Yes, he pays more total tax, but a far lower percentage of his actual income.
As far as 'loopholes'...there will always be loopholes. Do you tax barter? Do I, the owner of a paving company, pay 'fair tax' on the new fleet of trucks I traded for paving the dealership parking lot? Or does the owner of a stereo shop pay tax on lifetime eats at the local Hooters if I install their new sound system gratis? Does the Hooters manager/owner pay tax on the sound system?
"We're not 'outsourcing', they are an internal company."
Even though the actual results WRT jobs/people will still be the same.
I'm more worried about the non-gamer surgeons. If they have over 1/3 more mistakes than the gamers, what does that say for their skills and the welfare of their patients?
Remember, someone, somewhere, today, has an appointment with the doctor who graduated last in his class...
Um, how can a tricycle design (3 wheels) be common among recumbant bikes (bicycle = 2 wheels).
Sincerely, Lieutenant Nitpick
ok....tadpole trikes (2F/1R) are quite common in the recumbent community, instead of recumbent bike.
or....a tadpole trike (2F/1R) is a very common HPV design
or...let's spell recumb e nt right.
Yours,
General Pedant
This 'backwards' tricycle design (commonly known as a 'tadpole' shape) is very common among recumbent bikes.
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The Dymaxion suffered from having rear wheel steering. Tends to be very, very unstable at anything over walking speed. Too easy to overcorrect, swinging the back end wide.
If anyone is to build Skynet, we should hope and pray that it is Microsoft. At least then it has a higher possibility of not working right.
I like to drive.. I love long cross country trips.. but would give it up if I never had to deal with city traffic or risk my life because somone else (or myself) is being stupid.
Take the bus. Or train. Or plane. There are alternatives if you you want them.
I'll have road rage in 5 minutes.
Since the car would be driving instead of you, tough titty. Sit inside your cage and yell and stamp your feet all you want.
reliable obstacle avoidance still seems out of reach
And not just obstacle avoidance, but sometimes choosing which obstacle to avoid.
Can we make the computer smart enough to avoid the child, even though it will hit something else, like the skateboard or dog he is chasing?
If the computer mandates a minimum 1 meter bubble with other cars, do we allow it to violate that in order to avoid the kid and dog?
It's clear that the problem can be fixed, but the market isn't there yet to do it.
I'm not so sure that is is clear that it can be fixed for other than limited access freeways. Maybe not even then.
So, riding mass transit costs me about twice what it costs me to drive myself on a per-mile basis, or over SIX TIMES what in costs me in absolute terms;
Except for the price of the car/insurance/maintenance, of course.
One member of a family routinely using alternate transport (bus/bike/carpool) allows a two car family to become a one car family. With the attendant huge financial savings.
The monetary increase was proposed for the budget, approved, and was to be instituted in the new budget year beginning Oct 2001.
But that's besides the point. This is not the 'government' declassifying and putting forth these statements, but rather Clarke himself.
Did the Bush administration actively seek to increase the pressure on (and/or eradication of) the Taliban? Or did they not take the threat seriously.
These are the two conflicting statemnts coming out of Clarke's mouth (and book). First he says one thing, then quite another.
Again, I ask..."which truth"?