This sounds like the episode of Star Trek Voyager where a future Starfleet timeship captain ends up being arrested by his XO for a crime he's going to commit. Unlike Minority Report (where arrests actually do prevent crimes from occurring), the arrest ruins his career and makes him start plotting revenge against Janeway.
That was one of the most idiotic plot points on that show, and that's saying a lot.
I'm really hoping that someone's going to admonish me with a "woosh!" indicating that you were just being satiric or ironic or something and not serious, because if you really believe that the US military is capable of preventing hundreds of thousands of military personnel from learning about documents that have been leaked on the Internet just by telling them "don't look at any leaked documents on the Internet" then you might as well tell them to not think of elephants.
You'd have to muzzle access to the personnel's family and friends too, and then *their* family and friends.
You wouldn't want those family and friends asking soldiers inopportune questions about the leaked materials, lest they come off as ignoramuses with no idea what literally the rest of the world already knows.
We should save it for heart shaped balloons and making funny voices at parties?
It would certainly last longer that way, and bring joy to millions of kids instead of bringing millions to people too shortsighted to realize (or just don't care) how very time-limited this endeavour is.
You realize you just labelled the parent and probably yourself as male, and that gender, more than race or religion, is the single most obvious way to differentiate humans?
I was originally going for funny, but there's a serious note to this. Just as there's never-ending conflict between the two fundamental halves of humanity, male and female, we'll never eliminate the identities we give ourselves and others. An us-versus-them mentality is inherent to the species, from countries and race, left-versus-right wing politics, all the way down to family conflicts and even trivial school rivalries. Although this doesn't mean we can't come together for common cause, competitiveness by making yourself or your group more important than another is a basic survival trait and we won't be rid of it anytime soon.
Indeed, and this becomes problematic when putting French on the web if you're doing a simple copy-and-paste, because the browser might put the punctuation mark on the next line if it runs out of space. You have to manually replace all such spaces with (non-breaking space character) in the code to ensure the last word in the sentence will always be attached to the punctuation, it's annoying as hell.
Notice when you read shit on the internet it is single spaced after punctuation, and not double spaced?
HTML, also by not employing indentation at the start of paragraphs by, has steered people toward double-spacing between paragraphs. Print media prefers not to waste the line between paragraphs and sticks with indentation of the first line of paragraphs.
Never mind HTML (i.e. web developers), textarea input boxes even to this day don't allow you to type tabs, the tab key just jumps you to the next form element. This means that ever since webmail became available, everyone had to double-space their paragraphs.
Notice the default Word 2007 style also adds a space between paragraphs. I usually switch a new document's style back to Word 2003 to get rid of it.
Bingo, nothing will ever replace the in-person experience, even if it's vicariously (i.e. through an astronaut).
A few weeks ago I saw Saturn and its rings for the first time with my own eyes (through a telescope, obviously). It was still barely more than a speck of light, with tiny bulges on its sides. None of the colours or grandeur that we see in pictures taken by various space probes, and yet it was a far more profound experience because it was *my* experience, not that of a dispassionate machine.
I am surprised, though, that corning never managed to sell any serious quantity as a structural material. Glass-coated skyscrapers have been considered quite stylish for decades, and I'd imagine that "resists birdstrike, rocks, wind forces, and idiots leaning against the windows just as well as ordinary glass, at 20% the weight" would be a selling point.
Not to mention, if this had been around back in '86 Scotty could've used sheets of this to build the tank for those humpback whales; instead he had to reveal the formula for transparent aluminum in exchange for sheets of heavy, 6"-thick plexiglass!
Unless the car's a clunker, restarting the car and putting it into drive should take no more than 5 seconds.
Boredom and texting is irrelevant, they can just as easily do that if their car is idling the entire time.
If, after 3 minutes of red, that light isn't green for at least 30 seconds, that's a problem with traffic management, not with turning off the car to save gas and emissions. Mind you, a 3 minute wait is already a problem IMHO.
I noticed the ridiculously long intersection wait times along major roads when visiting Orlando, and thought that was ridiculous.
On the other hand, the amount of gas used to start a modern car engine is roughly 20 seconds of idling, so people could wise up and actually turn off their cars during those 3 minutes instead of uselessly polluting the air.
The other thing that significantly improves safety as far as light timing goes is having a second or two of "all ways red" before giving the green light to the other direction. The first thing I noticed about traffic lights when I came to California from Tennessee was that in California, there was often no delay at all before the cross direction turned green. No surprise that California had to implement the stupid red light cameras to cut down on the T-bone crashes, which in turn, increased the rate of rear end collisions. It's all completely predictable by anyone with the slightest bit of common sense, really.
Interestingly this doesn't happen in Quebec, where there is no "all ways red" (at least in the cities of Montreal and Gatineau), but there is in the province of Ontario. Drivers in Ontario routinely blow through red lights, because they know there's a safety buffer of a second or two. Meanwhile in Montreal, home to some of the most aggressive drivers in North America, almost no one blows a red because they know there's no buffer.
There's one other really simple thing that cities can do: mark outer limit lines on the asphalt. After all, assuming cars are traveling at the speed limit, you can trivially calculate how far they can travel in the yellow time. Subtract the length of a typical vehicle, subtract the width of the intersection, measure that distance away from the intersection, and mark an obvious line (maybe we should standardize on a particular color so that it has meaning) that goes all the way across the street.
Absolutely, and in most multi-lane roads this is exactly what they do here. Supposedly it's to indicate the point after where no lane changes should be made before entering an intersection (the white dashed lane separators turn solid), but I've timed these and they are indeed fairly good guides as to whether you'll make it into the intersection before it goes red, if you're going the speed limit.
Pedestrian countdown timers are also being installed in many intersections, also very effective. And about time too; timers were in many cities I visited in China almost 15 years ago.
My take is that there wasn't enough time for the perception of weightlessness in the 1st and 2nd layer to propagate into the 3rd.
Look at Saito being shot while in the 1st layer. After dropping into the 2nd layer, it took some time before he started bleeding there. This all happened during the several subjective minutes it took for the van to reach the bridge. When Yusuf crashes the van over the railing, they'd already entered the 3rd layer except for Arthur, and Saito was whole again for awhile at that level.
I'll grant that the exponentially increasing subjective time in deeper layers didn't make much sense, but I was willing to suspend my disbelief for that minor niggle in an otherwise great movie.
Stock splits are accounted for in any respectable system that generates stock graphs and such. Otherwise it would be impossible to produce meaningful comparisons, like this.
What's the stock done for a decade? Nothing. A decent wage, and even great benefits are not enough to get smart people to work like slaves; ruin marriages, with some threatening suicide in the parking lots. For that, you need the promise of wealth.
As a long-term investment it would've been better if it had done nothing. According to Google Finance it's currently down over 25% from 10 years ago, though of course there have been ups and downs over the years. Meanwhile, inflation has gone up about 27%, according to the US Department of Labour's calculator. Dividends might be the only reason to keep holding on to Microsoft stock right now.
If someone has "stuff" on his hands and was going to make you a sandwich, I'm sure you'd rather that someone wash his hands "hospital/surgeon style", and not just use toilet paper to wipe it off...
Who the heck doesn't wash their hands anyway after using toilet paper for its intended use!? I can *barely* accept someone not washing after taking a leak, but refusing to do so after a number 2 is just disgusting.
But what drove me to sell the thing on eBay was the glossy screen. Gloss makes it absolutely impossible to do any work with any bright light source over my shoulder. I do a lot of work in a terminal, and a black background is just impossible to read. So I switched them to a light background. That actually wasn't easy because the Terminal in OS X at the time (10.4, I think) made it really hard to switch colors--I had to download some sort of plugin to do something that X11 terminals have been capable of for years. Even with a light background, though, it was hard to do work if there was a lamp behind me and impossible to do work if there was a window behind me.
I don't get it, I've had my Terminal as black text on white (translucent) background since OSX 10.0, almost a decade ago. What were you trying to do that required a plug-in?
That's fine, that's the architect's job. However, the structural engineer ultimately has to sign-off on it since it's his or her professional ass on the line if it collapses.
Funny, you'd think a blackberry user would remember the bb storm. All screen, no keyboard and it distinguishes hovering from clicking.
Not that I'm saying the bb storm touchscreen was particularly good, but at least it let you interact with the web as if you had a mouse. Now if only it didn't freeze up every other week.
We're looking at different Canadian carriers for replacement work phones, all offer the iPhone and classic keyboard-equipped Blackberries, none offer Storm on their business plans. When asked, one of them said it didn't meet their quality requirements for a business device.
Interestingly they have no problems selling it to consumers.
No, that wasn't a misquote from the NMPA, that's a quote from Canada's Heritage Minister James Moore in response to reasoned opposition to his Bill C-32, which introduces DMCA-style IP laws, labelling any opposed to it or in favour of a more balanced approach, like Michael Geist, as "radical extremists."
Unsurprisingly, these inflammatory words come from the ruling party which takes as many pages from the neo-conservative playbook as they can.
The phrasing is so similar that Moore should sue the NMPA for willful copyright infringement.
Also, in the UK many of the games are on the BBC, and the BBC doesn't openly advertise -- there's no actual commercial breaks, and all its advertising is done unethically, through covert product placement -- since it's forbidden from advertising. Not that that stops them.
I knew there was a reason for all the industrial dohickeys on the console of the Doctor's new TARDIS!
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This sounds like the episode of Star Trek Voyager where a future Starfleet timeship captain ends up being arrested by his XO for a crime he's going to commit. Unlike Minority Report (where arrests actually do prevent crimes from occurring), the arrest ruins his career and makes him start plotting revenge against Janeway.
That was one of the most idiotic plot points on that show, and that's saying a lot.
I'm really hoping that someone's going to admonish me with a "woosh!" indicating that you were just being satiric or ironic or something and not serious, because if you really believe that the US military is capable of preventing hundreds of thousands of military personnel from learning about documents that have been leaked on the Internet just by telling them "don't look at any leaked documents on the Internet" then you might as well tell them to not think of elephants.
You'd have to muzzle access to the personnel's family and friends too, and then *their* family and friends.
You wouldn't want those family and friends asking soldiers inopportune questions about the leaked materials, lest they come off as ignoramuses with no idea what literally the rest of the world already knows.
We should save it for heart shaped balloons and making funny voices at parties?
It would certainly last longer that way, and bring joy to millions of kids instead of bringing millions to people too shortsighted to realize (or just don't care) how very time-limited this endeavour is.
amen brother
You realize you just labelled the parent and probably yourself as male, and that gender, more than race or religion, is the single most obvious way to differentiate humans?
I was originally going for funny, but there's a serious note to this. Just as there's never-ending conflict between the two fundamental halves of humanity, male and female, we'll never eliminate the identities we give ourselves and others. An us-versus-them mentality is inherent to the species, from countries and race, left-versus-right wing politics, all the way down to family conflicts and even trivial school rivalries. Although this doesn't mean we can't come together for common cause, competitiveness by making yourself or your group more important than another is a basic survival trait and we won't be rid of it anytime soon.
Indeed, and this becomes problematic when putting French on the web if you're doing a simple copy-and-paste, because the browser might put the punctuation mark on the next line if it runs out of space. You have to manually replace all such spaces with (non-breaking space character) in the code to ensure the last word in the sentence will always be attached to the punctuation, it's annoying as hell.
Five random novels on my shelf and a national newspaper suggest otherwise about humans.
In all of them, sentences are separated by a single space after a period.
Notice when you read shit on the internet it is single spaced after punctuation, and not double spaced?
HTML, also by not employing indentation at the start of paragraphs by, has steered people toward double-spacing between paragraphs. Print media prefers not to waste the line between paragraphs and sticks with indentation of the first line of paragraphs.
Never mind HTML (i.e. web developers), textarea input boxes even to this day don't allow you to type tabs, the tab key just jumps you to the next form element. This means that ever since webmail became available, everyone had to double-space their paragraphs.
Notice the default Word 2007 style also adds a space between paragraphs. I usually switch a new document's style back to Word 2003 to get rid of it.
Bingo, nothing will ever replace the in-person experience, even if it's vicariously (i.e. through an astronaut).
A few weeks ago I saw Saturn and its rings for the first time with my own eyes (through a telescope, obviously). It was still barely more than a speck of light, with tiny bulges on its sides. None of the colours or grandeur that we see in pictures taken by various space probes, and yet it was a far more profound experience because it was *my* experience, not that of a dispassionate machine.
I am surprised, though, that corning never managed to sell any serious quantity as a structural material. Glass-coated skyscrapers have been considered quite stylish for decades, and I'd imagine that "resists birdstrike, rocks, wind forces, and idiots leaning against the windows just as well as ordinary glass, at 20% the weight" would be a selling point.
Not to mention, if this had been around back in '86 Scotty could've used sheets of this to build the tank for those humpback whales; instead he had to reveal the formula for transparent aluminum in exchange for sheets of heavy, 6"-thick plexiglass!
Best check the latest stats. IE is down to somewhere between 50% and 60% usage share
Mod parent up, I was planning to make the exact same point.
That's what your car's horn is for.
Unless the car's a clunker, restarting the car and putting it into drive should take no more than 5 seconds.
Boredom and texting is irrelevant, they can just as easily do that if their car is idling the entire time.
If, after 3 minutes of red, that light isn't green for at least 30 seconds, that's a problem with traffic management, not with turning off the car to save gas and emissions. Mind you, a 3 minute wait is already a problem IMHO.
I'm sure you're joking, but in case you're not...
Fire, ambulance and other emergency responders are absolutely going to love your idea. So will the people they're trying to reach in a hurry.
I noticed the ridiculously long intersection wait times along major roads when visiting Orlando, and thought that was ridiculous.
On the other hand, the amount of gas used to start a modern car engine is roughly 20 seconds of idling, so people could wise up and actually turn off their cars during those 3 minutes instead of uselessly polluting the air.
The other thing that significantly improves safety as far as light timing goes is having a second or two of "all ways red" before giving the green light to the other direction. The first thing I noticed about traffic lights when I came to California from Tennessee was that in California, there was often no delay at all before the cross direction turned green. No surprise that California had to implement the stupid red light cameras to cut down on the T-bone crashes, which in turn, increased the rate of rear end collisions. It's all completely predictable by anyone with the slightest bit of common sense, really.
Interestingly this doesn't happen in Quebec, where there is no "all ways red" (at least in the cities of Montreal and Gatineau), but there is in the province of Ontario. Drivers in Ontario routinely blow through red lights, because they know there's a safety buffer of a second or two. Meanwhile in Montreal, home to some of the most aggressive drivers in North America, almost no one blows a red because they know there's no buffer.
There's one other really simple thing that cities can do: mark outer limit lines on the asphalt. After all, assuming cars are traveling at the speed limit, you can trivially calculate how far they can travel in the yellow time. Subtract the length of a typical vehicle, subtract the width of the intersection, measure that distance away from the intersection, and mark an obvious line (maybe we should standardize on a particular color so that it has meaning) that goes all the way across the street.
Absolutely, and in most multi-lane roads this is exactly what they do here. Supposedly it's to indicate the point after where no lane changes should be made before entering an intersection (the white dashed lane separators turn solid), but I've timed these and they are indeed fairly good guides as to whether you'll make it into the intersection before it goes red, if you're going the speed limit.
Pedestrian countdown timers are also being installed in many intersections, also very effective. And about time too; timers were in many cities I visited in China almost 15 years ago.
My take is that there wasn't enough time for the perception of weightlessness in the 1st and 2nd layer to propagate into the 3rd.
Look at Saito being shot while in the 1st layer. After dropping into the 2nd layer, it took some time before he started bleeding there. This all happened during the several subjective minutes it took for the van to reach the bridge. When Yusuf crashes the van over the railing, they'd already entered the 3rd layer except for Arthur, and Saito was whole again for awhile at that level.
I'll grant that the exponentially increasing subjective time in deeper layers didn't make much sense, but I was willing to suspend my disbelief for that minor niggle in an otherwise great movie.
Stock splits are accounted for in any respectable system that generates stock graphs and such. Otherwise it would be impossible to produce meaningful comparisons, like this.
What's the stock done for a decade? Nothing. A decent wage, and even great benefits are not enough to get smart people to work like slaves; ruin marriages, with some threatening suicide in the parking lots. For that, you need the promise of wealth.
As a long-term investment it would've been better if it had done nothing. According to Google Finance it's currently down over 25% from 10 years ago, though of course there have been ups and downs over the years. Meanwhile, inflation has gone up about 27%, according to the US Department of Labour's calculator. Dividends might be the only reason to keep holding on to Microsoft stock right now.
If someone has "stuff" on his hands and was going to make you a sandwich, I'm sure you'd rather that someone wash his hands "hospital/surgeon style", and not just use toilet paper to wipe it off...
Who the heck doesn't wash their hands anyway after using toilet paper for its intended use!? I can *barely* accept someone not washing after taking a leak, but refusing to do so after a number 2 is just disgusting.
Are you running the PowerPC version of your software on your Core 2 Duo using Rosetta?
You missed the part where he said the Core 2 Duo was a PC.
But what drove me to sell the thing on eBay was the glossy screen. Gloss makes it absolutely impossible to do any work with any bright light source over my shoulder. I do a lot of work in a terminal, and a black background is just impossible to read. So I switched them to a light background. That actually wasn't easy because the Terminal in OS X at the time (10.4, I think) made it really hard to switch colors--I had to download some sort of plugin to do something that X11 terminals have been capable of for years. Even with a light background, though, it was hard to do work if there was a lamp behind me and impossible to do work if there was a window behind me.
I don't get it, I've had my Terminal as black text on white (translucent) background since OSX 10.0, almost a decade ago. What were you trying to do that required a plug-in?
That's fine, that's the architect's job. However, the structural engineer ultimately has to sign-off on it since it's his or her professional ass on the line if it collapses.
Funny, you'd think a blackberry user would remember the bb storm. All screen, no keyboard and it distinguishes hovering from clicking.
Not that I'm saying the bb storm touchscreen was particularly good, but at least it let you interact with the web as if you had a mouse. Now if only it didn't freeze up every other week.
We're looking at different Canadian carriers for replacement work phones, all offer the iPhone and classic keyboard-equipped Blackberries, none offer Storm on their business plans. When asked, one of them said it didn't meet their quality requirements for a business device.
Interestingly they have no problems selling it to consumers.
No, that wasn't a misquote from the NMPA, that's a quote from Canada's Heritage Minister James Moore in response to reasoned opposition to his Bill C-32, which introduces DMCA-style IP laws, labelling any opposed to it or in favour of a more balanced approach, like Michael Geist, as "radical extremists."
Unsurprisingly, these inflammatory words come from the ruling party which takes as many pages from the neo-conservative playbook as they can.
The phrasing is so similar that Moore should sue the NMPA for willful copyright infringement.
Also, in the UK many of the games are on the BBC, and the BBC doesn't openly advertise -- there's no actual commercial breaks, and all its advertising is done unethically, through covert product placement -- since it's forbidden from advertising. Not that that stops them.
I knew there was a reason for all the industrial dohickeys on the console of the Doctor's new TARDIS!