Well, think of it this way -- less robot to see from overhead, more natural for the pilot, fewer legs means less cost, higher up means farther visibility, etc.
I realize there's no true best solution here, but look at things like bears (which typically shift to 2 legged mode temporarily for certain benefits) or people, and consider whatever evolutionary benefits were provided -- there are some, and the tanks would need to be built with this in mind.
Actually, a dual mode -- 4 and 2, or even 6 and 2 -- might be best. When you need extra stability or to get lower to the ground, drop down; when you need to reduce your footprint or when you need to be less visible from the air, stand up.
Actually, more interesting designs will be built with the success of these projects. Eventually, balancing on two legs will be workable in the field, and upright legged tanks will be built.
...could it just be that we've forgotten that the market doesn't always reflect logic?
Admittedly, this sounds like an argument that fails the money test (as in, it advises you not to follow the money because the money is somehow misleading). Yet, if I told you half a year before the S&L crisis that you shouldn't get involved with them, I'd have sounded just as crazy, because those guys were making money hand over fist.
Honestly, I don't think anything's necessarily forgotten here. We're talking about the modern financial system as a whole -- when a wave is coming along to topple something floating in the water, it bobs up and down tenuously first. This is a ripple, driven by insider trading (probably) and a bunch of lawyers desperate to boost stock prices before this whole thing goes belly-up.
Were this merely a logic thing, yeah, I'd be worried. Tools require logic. Judges want to be "consistent". Judges want to be convinced that they're doing the right thing, just like any other human being, for some definition of "the right thing". If a bunch of guys doing stuff for free, who have relatively airtight proof they haven't done anything wrong, can somehow be shown to be the "bad guys" compared to what is essentially a business who mismanaged themselves into the ground...well, then we've got a remarkably shitty lawyer.
And somehow I doubt we've got a shitty lawyer. Right Tool For The Right Job.:)
...Google.
Yeah, you heard me. Google. Google's going to be the case for a tight-knit organization that can make money and still not be a bunch of preppies who think in acronyms.
Close second would be Adult Swim, which is doing marvelous things with a niche market of crazy people (myself included). Part of AS's genius is recognizing things that desperately need rerunning, like Futurama and Family Guy (both shows that didn't quite fulfull their niche because of stupid programming decisions). AS cannot make a stupid programming decision; they're operating on a shoestring, and have no real huge margin for error.
And, should anybody be curious, I suspect that a truly lucrative niche can be hollowed out in the small business world if someone would only write a drop-in replacement for the Peachtree accounting package. Small businesses already have to pay for the service; if they can save a couple hundred bucks on the software, they'll do it, and you'll get Peachtree's business while they do it.
...I had very good luck at my house playing the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume One, surprisingly. Also just letting Adult Swim's NYE party run produced some chuckles.
I wonder if these items are being evaluated on a purely objective, scientific basis? Let's look at an excerpt of the list:
Guns: Yes, in checked luggage
Lighters: Yes, in carryon
Gun lighters: No, not in checked or carryon
Gee, I guess not. They will allow actual guns in your checked luggage, but not gun lighters. Apparently there's a huge fear of people being scared by lighters after the owner of the lighter has left the airport.
Profit for SCO's lawyers: 9 million
Earnings for SCO: -1.6 million
Watching SCO die and set a precedent for anybody who tries stupid legal things with Linux: Priceless
It's not the mothers' sob stories. It's the facts. Teenagers have an extremely high accident rate.
Well, yes -- but without the sob stories, nobody would have legislated such a farce. So what was said was correct -- it was because of the sob stories.
There's not really a nice, overall statement that covers why accidents happen except "people aren't perfect". You're not perfect either, just scared. So scare your kid.
If it's a Swiss Army Knife with a satphone then it's trivial to provide scripting capability from the satphone, activate the saw blade, and cut the license out of the snake. Dial your license, and you've got it back. (It's probably blood-resistant, too, so it'll clean up nice.)
Whereas, when your "regular" license gets eaten by a snake...you're just going to run from the snake.
Saab used to give everyone who bought a new 9-3 Viggen a chance to drive it on a closed course with professional drivers (an intensive three day course as I recall.) Everyone I've heard who's been through the program said they learned more about driving there than many years of experience.
Hey, closed courses come cheap in rural areas!:) My father took me to the mall when it was deserted (back when the mall was shut down on Sundays, the lot was clear) so that I could learn how a car truly handled when you slammed onto the emergency brake. Also, I first learned winter driving there, too.
The sensation of a car that's just not doing anything you tell it until it damn well pleases makes you more wary of a car than almost anything else. (As for the anything else: I fell asleep driving once, and let me tell you, I haven't even felt tired in a car since then.)
Yeah, wait until the crying mothers are telling sob stories about teenagers and their fathers getting into crashes. You'll need both parents and an unspecified blood relative over the age of 30 in the car with you.
Then orphans will be crying about their families, and cars will be outlawed.
Is it just me, or is listening to crying people a good way to get spectacularly bad advice in a courtroom proceeding...?
Linux simply isn't ready for the desktop or the unclued user
Neither is thermodynamics. There are still books on thermodynamics at your local library (if it's of any decent size). The mere fact that few people will understand it is precisely why it should
be in a library.
A user wanting to install Linux around here certainly wouldn't check the library.
Let me help you here: "People who want software aren't going to check their local library." "Why not?" "Because it's not there." You've heard of elephant repellant? "This is elephant repellant!" "There aren't elephants for hundreds of miles around here!" "You attest to its effectiveness, then!" They don't look there...because the software
isn't there...yes. Okay. So if, in major metropolitan areas, there were pieces of software, and it was a generally acknowledged fact that software could be found at libraries, then people would look there. This reason sounds suspiciously like a friend of mine who had an always-empty refrigerator; I asked him why he never put food in in, and he said, "Because I never look there." Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
There's really no reason not to have software there; if books and music and videotapes are all archived and publicly accessible forms of media, I fail to see why these same things, as well as the form of expression known as software, shouldn't be. Of course, downloading is faster (for some people), but that's irrelevant; public access is the goal here.
If there were lobbying tomorrow to raise the drinking age to 30, do you think it would happen?
No?
Then perhaps the reason that allows such a thing to happen relates partly to the fact that it doesn't affect the people making the decisions directly, and cannot. "They have kids!" Whoop de doo. I have a niece. You probably have a cousin. We can sit around comparing people we share DNA with, or we can get down to reality -- these are congresspersons. If they cared about other people, they'd never have gotten elected in the first place.
Allow me to clarify for you, since you do not understand.
The reason that the drinking age is 21 is that nobody in Congress is 21. The reason that the age of adulthood is 18 is that anybody in Congress is well past 18.
There's plenty of reasons thrown around why it's good or bad, blah blah blah, but the reality is that these are laws that do not affect the lawmakers. If you were the lawmaker, you'd make beneficial laws affect yourself, and detrimental laws affect others, logically.
Place your glass of ice and alcohol on top of the disk.
Your table is now protected while you fritter away the hours doing the only thing that will prevent complete and total nervous breakdown while your net connection is severed -- Heavy drinking.
Local Sheriff: You're going to need a permit for that. Federal Agent: You'll just need to give me one, then. Local Sheriff: It's 20 bucks a day, and only weekdays. Federal Agent: I can shoot you legally, right now, and the three guys next to me with assault rifles will say you shot yourself. Local Sheriff: Why don't I get you a blank pad of these? You might need more soon.
Usually wiki admins can wipe someone from specific IPs if the need to, in addition to which wikis typically have rollback, so that if a spammer shows up you can wipe everything from when they showed up forward.
It's not a perfect solution, sure, but it's better than nothing, and if anybody spams on a wiki, they'll get nothing from it as long as the wiki admins are on top of everything (which they normally are).
It seems a little surreal that people are having to develop anti-spam weblog tools.
Why should this seem surreal? As anything becomes more popular, it becomes a target for those seeking profit. As any space becomes available, it becomes a target for vandalism.
Profit-seeking vandals have figured out how blogs work. This is the next logical step -- they're trying to deface them for profit.
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Temperature measured in hands would be pretty hardcore -- how much does mercury have to expand for its height to go up about 6 inches?!
I realize there's no true best solution here, but look at things like bears (which typically shift to 2 legged mode temporarily for certain benefits) or people, and consider whatever evolutionary benefits were provided -- there are some, and the tanks would need to be built with this in mind.
Actually, a dual mode -- 4 and 2, or even 6 and 2 -- might be best. When you need extra stability or to get lower to the ground, drop down; when you need to reduce your footprint or when you need to be less visible from the air, stand up.
It presages the age of BIG O!
BIG O! SHOW TIME!
Admittedly, this sounds like an argument that fails the money test (as in, it advises you not to follow the money because the money is somehow misleading). Yet, if I told you half a year before the S&L crisis that you shouldn't get involved with them, I'd have sounded just as crazy, because those guys were making money hand over fist.
Honestly, I don't think anything's necessarily forgotten here. We're talking about the modern financial system as a whole -- when a wave is coming along to topple something floating in the water, it bobs up and down tenuously first. This is a ripple, driven by insider trading (probably) and a bunch of lawyers desperate to boost stock prices before this whole thing goes belly-up.
Were this merely a logic thing, yeah, I'd be worried. Tools require logic. Judges want to be "consistent". Judges want to be convinced that they're doing the right thing, just like any other human being, for some definition of "the right thing". If a bunch of guys doing stuff for free, who have relatively airtight proof they haven't done anything wrong, can somehow be shown to be the "bad guys" compared to what is essentially a business who mismanaged themselves into the ground...well, then we've got a remarkably shitty lawyer.
And somehow I doubt we've got a shitty lawyer. Right Tool For The Right Job. :)
This is not effective terrorism prevention, merely because there're plenty of planes to steal that aren't commercial-passenger air whales.
This is not effective crash prevention, because the pilots shouldn't be sleeping and/or drunk at the controls anyway.
So what is this?
[Network Programming:Adult Swim::Waterfall Development:Agile Development]
And, should anybody be curious, I suspect that a truly lucrative niche can be hollowed out in the small business world if someone would only write a drop-in replacement for the Peachtree accounting package. Small businesses already have to pay for the service; if they can save a couple hundred bucks on the software, they'll do it, and you'll get Peachtree's business while they do it.
But what do I know?
...I had very good luck at my house playing the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume One, surprisingly. Also just letting Adult Swim's NYE party run produced some chuckles.
So you mean Flare?
Gee, I guess not. They will allow actual guns in your checked luggage, but not gun lighters. Apparently there's a huge fear of people being scared by lighters after the owner of the lighter has left the airport.
Profit for SCO's lawyers: 9 million
Earnings for SCO: -1.6 million
Watching SCO die and set a precedent for anybody who tries stupid legal things with Linux: Priceless
It's not the mothers' sob stories. It's the facts. Teenagers have an extremely high accident rate.
Well, yes -- but without the sob stories, nobody would have legislated such a farce. So what was said was correct -- it was because of the sob stories.
There's not really a nice, overall statement that covers why accidents happen except "people aren't perfect". You're not perfect either, just scared. So scare your kid.
Whereas, when your "regular" license gets eaten by a snake...you're just going to run from the snake.
The sensation of a car that's just not doing anything you tell it until it damn well pleases makes you more wary of a car than almost anything else. (As for the anything else: I fell asleep driving once, and let me tell you, I haven't even felt tired in a car since then.)
Then orphans will be crying about their families, and cars will be outlawed.
Is it just me, or is listening to crying people a good way to get spectacularly bad advice in a courtroom proceeding...?
There's really no reason not to have software there; if books and music and videotapes are all archived and publicly accessible forms of media, I fail to see why these same things, as well as the form of expression known as software, shouldn't be. Of course, downloading is faster (for some people), but that's irrelevant; public access is the goal here.
No?
Then perhaps the reason that allows such a thing to happen relates partly to the fact that it doesn't affect the people making the decisions directly, and cannot. "They have kids!" Whoop de doo. I have a niece. You probably have a cousin. We can sit around comparing people we share DNA with, or we can get down to reality -- these are congresspersons. If they cared about other people, they'd never have gotten elected in the first place.
...maybe this is her attempt to show that the editorial standards of academic journals are slipping?
I mean, that sort of thing has happened before.
...could it be...Winsux? :)
The reason that the drinking age is 21 is that nobody in Congress is 21. The reason that the age of adulthood is 18 is that anybody in Congress is well past 18.
There's plenty of reasons thrown around why it's good or bad, blah blah blah, but the reality is that these are laws that do not affect the lawmakers. If you were the lawmaker, you'd make beneficial laws affect yourself, and detrimental laws affect others, logically.
Your table is now protected while you fritter away the hours doing the only thing that will prevent complete and total nervous breakdown while your net connection is severed -- Heavy drinking.
HERETIC! HERETIC! Let's burn him! We burn gamers who talk like that!
This is the federal government, though.
Local Sheriff: You're going to need a permit for that.
Federal Agent: You'll just need to give me one, then.
Local Sheriff: It's 20 bucks a day, and only weekdays.
Federal Agent: I can shoot you legally, right now, and the three guys next to me with assault rifles will say you shot yourself.
Local Sheriff: Why don't I get you a blank pad of these? You might need more soon.
It's not a perfect solution, sure, but it's better than nothing, and if anybody spams on a wiki, they'll get nothing from it as long as the wiki admins are on top of everything (which they normally are).
Profit-seeking vandals have figured out how blogs work. This is the next logical step -- they're trying to deface them for profit.