Sure its FUD now, but how much of a technological leap will be required for a swarm of autonomous drones to leave a base, independently traverse the intervening terrain, and then independently attack targets based on whatever parameter is fed into them? All without any human intervention other than the initial order? None?
That already exists. Cruise missiles, and to a lesser extent, smart bombs. Leave the launch platform, fly a preprogrammed route, blow up when you get there.
Instead you re-elected Granholm, who had done nothing her first four years and hasn't done anything the second four years. She's just perpetuated the "do nothing and government will take care of you like a big daddy" welfare state. She's encouraged sloth not industriousness.
A politicians main desire is to get elected, or reelected. Whomever they have to appeal to to make that happen. The constituency that elected Granholm (and others) completely buys into the concept of "do nothing and government will take care of you like a big daddy". In other words, 'gimme free money'.
She's encouraging sloth only tangentially. The main purpose is to get (re)elected.
Each time a show is viewed so are the ads, each time the ads are viewed they make money.
The people putting up the ads are only putting them there because they will make money from them. Displaying, and paying for, an ad that the viewer cannot buy, or cannot understand, is a waste of money. They try not to do that.
If IP = US ad for McDonald's new heart attack burger. If IP != US, then just a general ad for McDonalds.
You, the presenter (in this case Hulu) have to convince McDonalds of that. Ads are VERY time and location specific. You don't advertise snow tires in Miami, and you don't advertise sandals in Minnesota. Ok...maybe. But not in February.
Boise, Baltimore, and Barcelona all get different McDonalds ads. And at different times.
As for the Boeing ads...thats just brand awareness. Obviously not a product you will buy, but a brand you, the business owner/voter, may defend in the next round of bailouts.
So you are saying there IS a need for remote notification of this sort.
Yes. But integration into the whole house thing is counter productive.
The remote meat thermo does one thing, and does it well. I have the remote sitting on my desk. When cooking (on the grill or in the oven) I can see instantly what the internal temp is. Don't have to interrupt the movie (even with a popup/overlay), don't have to fish around in the iPhone (that I don't have)...don't have to do anything but glance at the remote readout. Oh, and I can do this literally anywhere in or out of the house. On the can, or on the deck...still have the remote with me.
Could this be integrated into a HA setup. See no reason why not. I'm sure I could get the RF to port to the PC, and then feed into the TiVo or all the screens in the house (because I may be anywhere).Except that it would be much harder to use and more expensive.
For $15 at wallyworld, it does one thing and does it well. For $35 at Amazon, I can get a dual probe monitor, to handle two different cuts or cooking levels.
The ease of use trumps, by far, fiddling around with a full PC based automation setup.
same with outside lights, etc. I have 3 motion sensor lights. Set up once, forget it. It turns on when someone comes up the drive. I don't have to set it when I leave work, or do anything. They turn off after a few minutes, only turns on at night...for a trivial amount of $$.
Unless you like tinkering for tinkerings' sake, individual components are far cheaper and easier.
it's obvious that anyone who cooks has nothing better to do than stand in the kitchen and watch their thermometers and timers until the food is ready;
Trivially done with a $15 remote thermometer. I have one for my grill. Works great. Time, temp, 'doneness' of meat. And the timer? My oven (and I expect yours) dings evey minute or two when the timer goes off. I don't want to HAVE to have the DVR on, just to let me know the oven is done.
Accelerating and braking was done by measuring the force applied
forwards and backwards on the stick without moving the stick, so the only dimension
in wich the stick actually moved was laterally for steering.
The original design of the stick in the F-16 has this type of action. They had to modify it to allow a little more range of motion. Still doesn't move a whole lot, but far more than 'zero'.
Unless you were trying to say that you have never, ever seen anyone bring a bag more than 30 cm wide into a movie theatre, in which case I would have to ask you just what kind of movies legally bind people enjoy.
I've been under an F-15 at an air show and it sounds like God just got home, especially when the afterburners light up. I can only imagine what it's like when there's no concern about popping the eardrums of those on the ground.
The F-15 doesn't get much louder than what happens at an airshow. afterburner is afterburner. A Predator/Reaper is much quieter nearby, and pretty much silent at altitude.
I'll admit Sharepoint is a success when it works with browsers other than IE.
It does, partially. To get the full experience, IE and ActiveX are required. But FF, Safari, etc all work on a basic level. Apparently, SharePoint 2010 will support FF natively "A standards based browser such as Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 or Firefox 3.x will be required to author content."
At least Tesla Motors is on the right track. 500+KM on 45 min charge (recyclable lith ion batteries),
O, ye delusional fanboy.
From Tesla:
Home Connector
Charging rate of 56 miles range per hour at max power
The Home Connector is the fastest way to charge your Roadster and ideal to install in your garage. You can fully recharge your car - from empty to full - in less than 4 hours. This is the most "intelligent" connector making it ideal for long-term storage. Any certified electrician can install this unit. $3000
I would kiss my children and young grandchildren goodbye. Wave to the ex-wife. Kiss my main squeeze goodbye and squeeze her ass a little. Wave goodbye to all of them, and get my ass on the craft.
And while I'm up there, I'd find my way up to the Martian Arctic, and find the Phoenix. And decode my sons name engraved on the DVD.
Slashdot Mirror
Ask yourself if you were introduced to a person and you found out that they were murderers would you think of them the same way?
Honestly, no, I wouldn't think of them the same way as I would someone else.
Because they actually killed someone.
That these guys killed someone and were convicted of it is a recorded, historical fact. No allegations, simple fact.
Are we not allowed to state simple facts now?
Previously, Rensin operated a collection agency at the same address. He was sued for that one as well. And lost.
Maybe they could set up a couple of servers with different settings to make the game more accessible.
Separate but equal?
It's never 'equal'.
I got a ticket for driving 8 in a 5 mile per hour zone on a military base once
I got one for 23 in a 15 zone. On my bicycle.
"Do you see a speedometer on this thing?"
My commander just laughed and said don't worry about it.
Sure its FUD now, but how much of a technological leap will be required for a swarm of autonomous drones to leave a base, independently traverse the intervening terrain, and then independently attack targets based on whatever parameter is fed into them? All without any human intervention other than the initial order? None?
That already exists. Cruise missiles, and to a lesser extent, smart bombs.
Leave the launch platform, fly a preprogrammed route, blow up when you get there.
Instead you re-elected Granholm, who had done nothing her first four years and hasn't done anything the second four years. She's just perpetuated the "do nothing and government will take care of you like a big daddy" welfare state. She's encouraged sloth not industriousness.
A politicians main desire is to get elected, or reelected. Whomever they have to appeal to to make that happen.
The constituency that elected Granholm (and others) completely buys into the concept of "do nothing and government will take care of you like a big daddy". In other words, 'gimme free money'.
She's encouraging sloth only tangentially. The main purpose is to get (re)elected.
Each time a show is viewed so are the ads, each time the ads are viewed they make money.
The people putting up the ads are only putting them there because they will make money from them. Displaying, and paying for, an ad that the viewer cannot buy, or cannot understand, is a waste of money.
They try not to do that.
If IP = US ad for McDonald's new heart attack burger. If IP != US, then just a general ad for McDonalds.
You, the presenter (in this case Hulu) have to convince McDonalds of that.
Ads are VERY time and location specific. You don't advertise snow tires in Miami, and you don't advertise sandals in Minnesota. Ok...maybe. But not in February.
Boise, Baltimore, and Barcelona all get different McDonalds ads. And at different times.
As for the Boeing ads...thats just brand awareness. Obviously not a product you will buy, but a brand you, the business owner/voter, may defend in the next round of bailouts.
Lighten up, Francis. It was a joke. She's actually a very good driver.
(her mother, OTOH)
She gets it from her mother.
So you are saying there IS a need for remote notification of this sort.
Yes. But integration into the whole house thing is counter productive.
The remote meat thermo does one thing, and does it well. I have the remote sitting on my desk. When cooking (on the grill or in the oven) I can see instantly what the internal temp is. Don't have to interrupt the movie (even with a popup/overlay), don't have to fish around in the iPhone (that I don't have)...don't have to do anything but glance at the remote readout. Oh, and I can do this literally anywhere in or out of the house. On the can, or on the deck...still have the remote with me.
Could this be integrated into a HA setup. See no reason why not. I'm sure I could get the RF to port to the PC, and then feed into the TiVo or all the screens in the house (because I may be anywhere). Except that it would be much harder to use and more expensive.
For $15 at wallyworld, it does one thing and does it well. For $35 at Amazon, I can get a dual probe monitor, to handle two different cuts or cooking levels.
The ease of use trumps, by far, fiddling around with a full PC based automation setup.
same with outside lights, etc. I have 3 motion sensor lights. Set up once, forget it. It turns on when someone comes up the drive. I don't have to set it when I leave work, or do anything. They turn off after a few minutes, only turns on at night...for a trivial amount of $$.
Unless you like tinkering for tinkerings' sake, individual components are far cheaper and easier.
it's obvious that anyone who cooks has nothing better to do than stand in the kitchen and watch their thermometers and timers until the food is ready;
Trivially done with a $15 remote thermometer. I have one for my grill. Works great. Time, temp, 'doneness' of meat. And the timer? My oven (and I expect yours) dings evey minute or two when the timer goes off. I don't want to HAVE to have the DVR on, just to let me know the oven is done.
Accelerating and braking was done by measuring the force applied forwards and backwards on the stick without moving the stick, so the only dimension in wich the stick actually moved was laterally for steering.
The original design of the stick in the F-16 has this type of action. They had to modify it to allow a little more range of motion. Still doesn't move a whole lot, but far more than 'zero'.
Unless you were trying to say that you have never, ever seen anyone bring a bag more than 30 cm wide into a movie theatre, in which case I would have to ask you just what kind of movies legally bind people enjoy.
Secretary?
I've been under an F-15 at an air show and it sounds like God just got home, especially when the afterburners light up. I can only imagine what it's like when there's no concern about popping the eardrums of those on the ground.
The F-15 doesn't get much louder than what happens at an airshow. afterburner is afterburner. A Predator/Reaper is much quieter nearby, and pretty much silent at altitude.
USA is still the only country that has used nuclear weapons against other nation,
Fighting a war is bad. Very bad.
Losing a war is worse.
and while on that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Compared to the *millions* killed by the other participants in that war.
I'm permabanned from Fark. :)
hmm...I wonder why.
czarangelus - We've been missing you on Fark.com. Please come home.
Too late. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is testing them over Lake Erie and Ontario, and have been for several years over the Mexican border.
I'll admit Sharepoint is a success when it works with browsers other than IE.
It does, partially. To get the full experience, IE and ActiveX are required. But FF, Safari, etc all work on a basic level.
Apparently, SharePoint 2010 will support FF natively
"A standards based browser such as Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 or Firefox 3.x will be required to author content."
I also don't see the point of all the critics. Everyone alludes to how easily someone can steal your money with this. Ok... how?
Why would you purposely introduce another entity between you and the bank? A decidedly non-secure entity.
At least Tesla Motors is on the right track. 500+KM on 45 min charge (recyclable lith ion batteries),
O, ye delusional fanboy.
From Tesla:
Home Connector
Charging rate of 56 miles range per hour at max power
The Home Connector is the fastest way to charge your Roadster and ideal to install in your garage. You can fully recharge your car - from empty to full - in less than 4 hours. This is the most "intelligent" connector making it ideal for long-term storage. Any certified electrician can install this unit.
$3000
Blue corvette with three gringos heading south
Those are some very close friends.
Yes. Allow me to reiterate that, yes.
I would kiss my children and young grandchildren goodbye. Wave to the ex-wife. Kiss my main squeeze goodbye and squeeze her ass a little.
Wave goodbye to all of them, and get my ass on the craft.
And while I'm up there, I'd find my way up to the Martian Arctic, and find the Phoenix. And decode my sons name engraved on the DVD.
Did I say HELL YES!