What if, instead of dangling things from ropes and letting them swing around in the wind and such, we put the cargo in boxes on some kind of wheeled support structure that rode on narrow elevated support beams?
The coefficient of rolling friction between steel wheels and a steel support beam is something very very small, 0.001 or such. This has the advantage of keeping the cargo from swinging around so much.
One other improvement would be that, instead of pulling the cargo with a rope, you could make one of these box-on-wheels things that has its own method of locomotion, where it produced the electricity AND the force used to move the cargo. A catchy name for this thing might be "Locomotive" or some other such marketing name.
If you attached all the box-on-wheels things together, let's call them "box cars" to be cute, including the one that produced the electricity and force (Locomotive), then the whole thing moves together as one long train of cars... you could just call the whole thing a "train" to be simple.
I'm glad I talked through this. Which way to the Patent office?
This goes against everything that makes an election fair. One person is suppose to have one vote.
If there is only one candidate I approve of, then I only get one vote. If there are 3 candidates my neighbor approves of, he gets to vote 3 times.
The only "fair" way to do approval voting is that everyone gets to vote multiple times - one vote for each candidate on the ballot. So, if there are 3 candidates, everyone gets 3 votes to allocate as they please. They can give all of their votes to one of the candidates, or 2 and 1, or 1 for each (which is equivalent to abstention).
This amounts to a warrantless search and is an egregious violation of the 4th and 5th amendments.
If the government requires these in all vehicles, then they also have to write into the litigation that the results of the "test" are inadmissible in court and cannot be used in any way by the State to establish Reasonable Articulable Suspicion or Probable Cause.
Don't get me wrong, I have no illusions that the government even tries to obey the law anymore, and I'm fully aware that this technology will eventually be in all cars, but still...
WebM (which uses VP8 video) is not open and free if you want to decode it in hardware. If you want to do that, you have to pay Google and VeriSilicon Holdings INC a LOT of money for the IP rights to decode VP8 in hardware.
You still have not explained where the "40,000" number comes from.
The "38,400" number is derived quite speciously, based upon several assumptions that are not dependable. The assumptions seem to be:
1) There is a uniform distribution of alleged violations across all FBI field offices 2) The rate of violations was also uniformly distributed across all years between 2001 and 2008 3) Non-NSL violations occur at exactly the same frequency as NSL violations
Obviously, all three of these assumptions are total crap and cannot be stated with any level of reasonable certainty. Therefore, it's "new math," and you are the idiot.
They should just post the problem on their Facebook wall or start a Wikipedia article on it and let the Net decide.
After watching a dozen hot topic scientific debates argued by the best and brightest in the world unfold into a never-ending stream of fraud and incompetence, the results from simple net polling couldn't possibly be any worse.
Does McAfee actually scan for viruses anymore? I thought it just popped up annoying messages bothering me to give them more money to keep my computer "protected."
The very people who get rich off of these high-speed trading systems are commissioned to generate a report about the reasons for the 2008 crash, and they find that they high-speed trading systems had nothing to do with it.
It's like when you never change the oil in your car, because when the engine fails, it will leave very unique and trendy explosion marks all over the inside of the engine compartment, based entirely on your own unique trendy driving style.
to Android. Have any of you ever talked to an iPhone user about the possibility that another phone might even exist, let alone be a better choice than the iPhone?
"Less than 5% of IPv4 addresses are left unallocated to the regional Internet registries, which in turn dole them out to network operators. Experts say the free pool of IPv4 addresses will be depleted in a matter of weeks."
Weeks? For how many YEARS have we been hearing this? Oh yeah, I am sure they REALLY mean it this time, too.. just like the last dozen times...
I watched the video... anyone else here this mysterious tapping sound coming from off-camera somewhere? Sounds a lot like the tapping I hear when my neices play guitar hero...
Has the US filed criminal charges against Assange? I wasn't aware that the US was attempting to get a hold of him at all.. His lawyer claimed a US indictment was "imminent" back in early December, and so far there have been crickets from the US Government.
He's just trying to avoid having to answer for his crimes in Sweden.
I recall that when Clinton sold all that defense tech to China, it included stealth technology for aircraft. It was supposedly to help China defend itself against a hypothetical threat from Russia. Right. At least that is what was claimed...
Not only can they search through your phone, but they can arrest you for any crimes they find you might have committed based on the information they find in it.
Don't worry, though. The SCOTUS has ruled repeatedly that you cannot be forced to reveal a password, so just make sure you have a password lock on your phone and you should be good as long as they can't brute force it.
This datacenter is a research facility for the upcoming next-generation iTunes platform, called iTunes Advantage. It combines the intuitive user interface of iTunes with a background streaming protocol that renders the song list in 100% Asynchronous Quicktime, so at most we're talking about half a dozen clients...
You're forgetting the response time it takes for the first driver in line to realize the light has turned green, finish up their text message, and then start driving again.
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How would this work for people like me who don't move their mouse unless there's something they've decided to click on?
My mouse is not an extension of my eyes. It's a tool I use if and only if there's a task to be accomplished with it.
What if, instead of dangling things from ropes and letting them swing around in the wind and such, we put the cargo in boxes on some kind of wheeled support structure that rode on narrow elevated support beams?
The coefficient of rolling friction between steel wheels and a steel support beam is something very very small, 0.001 or such. This has the advantage of keeping the cargo from swinging around so much.
One other improvement would be that, instead of pulling the cargo with a rope, you could make one of these box-on-wheels things that has its own method of locomotion, where it produced the electricity AND the force used to move the cargo. A catchy name for this thing might be "Locomotive" or some other such marketing name.
If you attached all the box-on-wheels things together, let's call them "box cars" to be cute, including the one that produced the electricity and force (Locomotive), then the whole thing moves together as one long train of cars... you could just call the whole thing a "train" to be simple.
I'm glad I talked through this. Which way to the Patent office?
This goes against everything that makes an election fair. One person is suppose to have one vote.
If there is only one candidate I approve of, then I only get one vote. If there are 3 candidates my neighbor approves of, he gets to vote 3 times.
The only "fair" way to do approval voting is that everyone gets to vote multiple times - one vote for each candidate on the ballot. So, if there are 3 candidates, everyone gets 3 votes to allocate as they please. They can give all of their votes to one of the candidates, or 2 and 1, or 1 for each (which is equivalent to abstention).
This amounts to a warrantless search and is an egregious violation of the 4th and 5th amendments.
If the government requires these in all vehicles, then they also have to write into the litigation that the results of the "test" are inadmissible in court and cannot be used in any way by the State to establish Reasonable Articulable Suspicion or Probable Cause.
Don't get me wrong, I have no illusions that the government even tries to obey the law anymore, and I'm fully aware that this technology will eventually be in all cars, but still...
WebM (which uses VP8 video) is not open and free if you want to decode it in hardware. If you want to do that, you have to pay Google and VeriSilicon Holdings INC a LOT of money for the IP rights to decode VP8 in hardware.
You still have not explained where the "40,000" number comes from.
The "38,400" number is derived quite speciously, based upon several assumptions that are not dependable. The assumptions seem to be:
1) There is a uniform distribution of alleged violations across all FBI field offices
2) The rate of violations was also uniformly distributed across all years between 2001 and 2008
3) Non-NSL violations occur at exactly the same frequency as NSL violations
Obviously, all three of these assumptions are total crap and cannot be stated with any level of reasonable certainty. Therefore, it's "new math," and you are the idiot.
They should just post the problem on their Facebook wall or start a Wikipedia article on it and let the Net decide.
After watching a dozen hot topic scientific debates argued by the best and brightest in the world unfold into a never-ending stream of fraud and incompetence, the results from simple net polling couldn't possibly be any worse.
I didn't mean to imply that I actually had one of these things. Game consoles are a ridiculous waste of money.
There's no way US bonds deserve a B+ rating. They're not nearly that safe.
Does McAfee actually scan for viruses anymore? I thought it just popped up annoying messages bothering me to give them more money to keep my computer "protected."
The very people who get rich off of these high-speed trading systems are commissioned to generate a report about the reasons for the 2008 crash, and they find that they high-speed trading systems had nothing to do with it.
SHOCKING!
I paid for it. I am not "licensing" the hardware. I'm not "borrowing" it. I am not "leasing" it.
Once it is mine and I have possession of it, I can modify it any way I know how and there is nothing legally they can do about it. It is my property.
Page takes much longer to load, and the design is rather juvenile. It reminds me of Facebook.
The fixed menus are an eyesore and distract while scrolling. Font scaling is broken, making the site unusable for the vision-impaired.
My usability guy is vomiting in the corner as we speak.
Personally, I will yawn at the story this time, too...
It's like when you never change the oil in your car, because when the engine fails, it will leave very unique and trendy explosion marks all over the inside of the engine compartment, based entirely on your own unique trendy driving style.
Have you given this feedback to the people who run the Android app store?
to Android. Have any of you ever talked to an iPhone user about the possibility that another phone might even exist, let alone be a better choice than the iPhone?
"Less than 5% of IPv4 addresses are left unallocated to the regional Internet registries, which in turn dole them out to network operators. Experts say the free pool of IPv4 addresses will be depleted in a matter of weeks."
Weeks? For how many YEARS have we been hearing this? Oh yeah, I am sure they REALLY mean it this time, too.. just like the last dozen times...
I watched the video... anyone else here this mysterious tapping sound coming from off-camera somewhere? Sounds a lot like the tapping I hear when my neices play guitar hero...
Why modded funny? In the video, you can hear the tapping on the real GH controller coming from off-camera somewhere...
Has the US filed criminal charges against Assange? I wasn't aware that the US was attempting to get a hold of him at all.. His lawyer claimed a US indictment was "imminent" back in early December, and so far there have been crickets from the US Government.
He's just trying to avoid having to answer for his crimes in Sweden.
I recall that when Clinton sold all that defense tech to China, it included stealth technology for aircraft. It was supposedly to help China defend itself against a hypothetical threat from Russia. Right. At least that is what was claimed...
Not only can they search through your phone, but they can arrest you for any crimes they find you might have committed based on the information they find in it.
Don't worry, though. The SCOTUS has ruled repeatedly that you cannot be forced to reveal a password, so just make sure you have a password lock on your phone and you should be good as long as they can't brute force it.
Clearly your estimates are way overblown.
This datacenter is a research facility for the upcoming next-generation iTunes platform, called iTunes Advantage. It combines the intuitive user interface of iTunes with a background streaming protocol that renders the song list in 100% Asynchronous Quicktime, so at most we're talking about half a dozen clients...
You're forgetting the response time it takes for the first driver in line to realize the light has turned green, finish up their text message, and then start driving again.