lawsuits and streissand effects coming in 3...2...1...
No big deal. Most modern cars have, to some degree, a black box.
One car company even 'gives you one for free': you can hit the rev limiter fuel cutoff once a year, any more and you void the warranty for parts excessively worn by over revving. (dammit - I can't find the cite right now. The google is weak in me today.)
It's not very often that researchers stumble onto something cheap and simple that could potentially save hundreds of millions of lives. I sure hope it pans out in practice.
No, but it's every other week that some researcher thinks he has.
And every other day that some researcher submits a grant application claiming one.
Game theory does just fine here
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IAAGT (I am a game theorist)
I looked (briefly) but did not find the PNAS article, as I suspect that the medical daily article gets it wrong, and that Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob doesn't bash game theory tools. The Med Daily reporter probably misinterpreted the Prof.'s comments about groups of bacteria versus groups of people.
Why don't all the cells go into 'survival mode'? It's not the best for the colony, and there are many real world examples of altruistic behavior towards one's family / colony / species.
One game theoretical model for this looks through an evolutionary lens: the players are species of bacteria and choose species wide traits. One strategy is 'everybody goes into survival mode', the other strategy is '10% go into survival mode'. Through random mutation, chance, whatever... a species picks its strategy, nature makes its move, and the game goes to the next round.
This is money well spent, at least on busier intersections, and exits from limited access highways.
Drivers can read / recognize mixed case from further distance than all caps.
It's not a great leap to conclude that with this change, drivers will make fewer last second swerves, or stop short less often. TFA alludes to this.
Safety increases ever so slightly, but for millions of people, and for many years.
Though if I were a NY tax payer I would prefer that they replace them through attrition. The fact that it will take until 2018 makes this seem to be partially the case.
As of right now, their [Vietnam's] economy is doing quite a bit better than ours. Funny how it was capitalism that imploded recently, not socialism.
No.
By any measure other than growth, Vietnam's economy trails every G7 economy, even when measured in PPP (purchasing power parity).
If you're going to look at growth (as opposed to per-capita levels), then by your logic some Sub-Saharan African economies are, "...doing quite a bit better than ours."
An analogous example is the USSR economy under Nikita Kruschev not 'crushing us'.
I can't see how this solution could possibly work as well as a small footprint elevated train similar to Bangkok's Skytrain. For this you need a 3m median for support pillars, and a slightly wider (4m?) median to support stations. Entrances and exits are stairways to the sidewalks.
Skytrain type solutions have zero probability of having to stop for gridlocked cross traffic.
I've not researched it, but I'm guessing that the only advantages of the megabus are lower upfront capital outlays (not TCO), and that some highly politically connected group will become extremely wealthy.
Before leaving, set up a computer with decent upstream bandwidth and VNC / screen share. Pretty simple, and only shows a connection to that one IP address. If you use OSX it's a 30 second setup in sharing preferences, and I'm sure that there are windows and Linux equivalents. You may need to tweak the ports to get under the Great Firewall.
However, one significant drawback (with the OSX solution) is that audio is not streamed. Another is lag with slow / far connections.
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Perhaps it's just a case of bad gas caused by God eating the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
No big deal. Most modern cars have, to some degree, a black box.
One car company even 'gives you one for free': you can hit the rev limiter fuel cutoff once a year, any more and you void the warranty for parts excessively worn by over revving. (dammit - I can't find the cite right now. The google is weak in me today.)
... can it find dupes on Slashdot?
And every other day that some researcher submits a grant application claiming one.
... she can fire up Otto.
IAAGT (I am a game theorist)
I looked (briefly) but did not find the PNAS article, as I suspect that the medical daily article gets it wrong, and that Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob doesn't bash game theory tools. The Med Daily reporter probably misinterpreted the Prof.'s comments about groups of bacteria versus groups of people.
Why don't all the cells go into 'survival mode'? It's not the best for the colony, and there are many real world examples of altruistic behavior towards one's family / colony / species.
One game theoretical model for this looks through an evolutionary lens: the players are species of bacteria and choose species wide traits. One strategy is 'everybody goes into survival mode', the other strategy is '10% go into survival mode'. Through random mutation, chance, whatever... a species picks its strategy, nature makes its move, and the game goes to the next round.
That's no moon!
Let's just hope that Bobbie Goatse never googles herself.
This is money well spent, at least on busier intersections, and exits from limited access highways.
Drivers can read / recognize mixed case from further distance than all caps.
It's not a great leap to conclude that with this change, drivers will make fewer last second swerves, or stop short less often. TFA alludes to this.
Safety increases ever so slightly, but for millions of people, and for many years.
Though if I were a NY tax payer I would prefer that they replace them through attrition. The fact that it will take until 2018 makes this seem to be partially the case.
The only reason we have safe laboratories today is because in the 1970's, science kits killed the careless ones.
Hell, even our playgrounds weeded out the stupid.
Woot! capes.
Especially if they're flying, screaming guard monkeys.
If I put Linux on my tablet.
And put my tablet on the desktop.
Would that make 2011 the year of Linux on the desktop?
... who gets most of the way through a search for goatseller
No.
By any measure other than growth, Vietnam's economy trails every G7 economy, even when measured in PPP (purchasing power parity).
If you're going to look at growth (as opposed to per-capita levels), then by your logic some Sub-Saharan African economies are, "...doing quite a bit better than ours."
An analogous example is the USSR economy under Nikita Kruschev not 'crushing us'.
You appear to be unfamiliar with ninjas. Space ninjas.
Can't even imagine writing in assembly code for this monster. I miss dinking around with a nice 6502 system.
... is a car analogy:
Ray Kurzweil does not understand how to parallel park.
Does a church qualify for non-commercial use?
Even if they're using it to proselytize / promote / market / attract paying customers / their particular flavor of god?
Selling God is big business.
Whoa - hold on there cowboy. That's only if you're uploading heavy bits.
Sort of:
http://tinyurl.com/c5gnb3
You ever see a monkey with a Zune?
I can't see how this solution could possibly work as well as a small footprint elevated train similar to Bangkok's Skytrain. For this you need a 3m median for support pillars, and a slightly wider (4m?) median to support stations. Entrances and exits are stairways to the sidewalks.
Skytrain type solutions have zero probability of having to stop for gridlocked cross traffic.
I've not researched it, but I'm guessing that the only advantages of the megabus are lower upfront capital outlays (not TCO), and that some highly politically connected group will become extremely wealthy.
Sounds low by a few orders of magnitude to me. Plus one if you include me.
Before leaving, set up a computer with decent upstream bandwidth and VNC / screen share. Pretty simple, and only shows a connection to that one IP address. If you use OSX it's a 30 second setup in sharing preferences, and I'm sure that there are windows and Linux equivalents. You may need to tweak the ports to get under the Great Firewall.
However, one significant drawback (with the OSX solution) is that audio is not streamed. Another is lag with slow / far connections.
But it will get you the full net.