A ten-fold increase in efficiency, and all they can think of for applications is clothing?
Lightweight power cells are something the military has wanted for a long time. The less weight a soldier has to carry, the better. And they mention powering UAVs with this technology as well; a civilian application can't be far behind.
As for making an electric car practical, it needs to be affordable too. If this technology doesn't drop the price of an electric car, many people won't be able to afford one regardless of how practical it is.
How about a web based client interface for browsing encrypted content that is dispersed throughout the web to increased readership of closed circle content and a trust system for automatically sharing access to friends?
Something like Freenet or some other darknet combined with a web of trust? Maybe a PGP-based model where you can decide how many marginal signatures a person's key needs before they get access would work.
The biggest threat in that implementation would be users being too trusting and making the web of trust unreliable as a result.
Everyone here is saying how "obvious" it is that they should have incompatible fittings. While it seems like a great idea, it's really not that simple. If such a plan was implemented, we'd be reading another article in a few years about how many people died because a doctor or nurse couldn't find the right type of tube in time, or how two incompatible tubes that looked similar ended up leaking medicine all over the floor instead of into the patient.
It's better to have medicine leaking all over the floor than into the patient the wrong way. It's also much better for the doctor or nurse if the patient doesn't die by their hand. That's why everyone is saying incompatible fittings are such an obvious idea. If a doctor or nurse is in an emergency that requires a quick response it greatly decreases the chance they'll accidentally kill someone.
There is, but some people go apeshit the second you touch your horn regardless of how. I've had people literally step out of their vehicles to yell at me for even thinking of honking when the light turned and they didn't go.
My personal policy is that if you've sat at a green for 10 seconds or more you get two quick beeps, what I assume to be the universal "excuse me, but I'd like to go now", but a lot of people in North America seem to disagree.
What if they have a heart attack, die, don't land on the horn, and are speeding out of control in electric silence?
Assuming they push the pedal to the floor during the heart attack and rigor mortis kicks in immediately, the gas engine would kick in and produce noise. Otherwise, their leg muscles would relax once they die making it near impossible for them to push the gas pedal.
Nothing is overpowered when you're playing against a live DM whose intelligence and creativity are on par with the player.
If I had mod points you'd get them all. Though I admit I prefer when the DM can outsmart the players.
Our former DM (fake trap guy I mentioned earlier) outsmarted one of our party in a way I will never forget. One of our members ended up with a monkey's paw with one wish left on it so he spent days crafting his wish to allow for any countereffects the DM would add. The gist of the wish was that he wanted to be able to cast meteor shower simply by saying "meteor shower". It took him several minutes to recite the full details of his wish. When he finished the DM granted the wish with two caveats: he was compelled to respond when anyone asked him a question and the only words the player was able to speak were "meteor shower".
Naturally, the party didn't survive very long after this fiasco but it was well worth it having been a witness to such an epic battle of wills.
I meant to do something with the idea of the pit being illusionary. Or the spikes. I'm not saying the players wouldn't die, just that it wouldn't be straightforward:)
We had a DM that loved fake traps. His best was a room where the ceiling was coming down towards the party, the door slammed shut behind us and wouldn't open, and there was a button next to it on the wall. Every time the button was pushed the ceiling would reset and start coming down again. It took about an hour and a half for everyone to figure out the solution. Turns out there was an invisible ledge with a pressure-sensitive switch that opened the door; the ceiling came to rest on it just outside everyone's reach. Every time someone hit the button they delayed getting out of the room.
So later in the article when it says that "The congestion was expected to last into mid-September as the road project will not be finished until then" you actually think the same cars will be stuck in traffic until mid-september?
The internet does not enable. People using the internet does.
Things do not do, people do.
I'm not trying to anthropomorphise anything here but things can provide the ability (or enable a person) to do something. The Internet enables me to find knowledge faster than the library, a knife enables me to gut a fish more easily, my car enables me to carry more groceries. On their own, these tools are neither good nor bad, but I can do some pretty stupid things with all of them.
These people went into a situation above their skill level because they had technology that enabled them to call for help more easily, it minimized their sense of danger, so they took a risk they normally wouldn't. I'm not blaming technology for the lack of foresight on their part but I do believe the entire article is about how it's enabling new levels of stupidity.
You're probably right, but I don't see much difference between $50 of income from blogging and $50 of "income" from bartering. Neither should really be worth charging someone $300 over.
Have you ever sold a book on Amazon? Or a knick-knack on eBay? Or run a website with ads? Or held a garage sale? Or sold a couch on Craigslist?
You're also required to report barters on your income tax in both Canada and the US. This seems like a system that could probably be broken with over the top honesty. I wonder what would happen if someone reported swapping lunches with a coworker on a regular basis.
My brother shared some stories from his practicum as a paramedic once, it turns out they have to respond to every call because it might be a real emergency. Unfortunately, in the town he was in this led to some people outside of town using the ambulance as a taxi. The person would get picked up and despite the fact that there was nothing wrong they'd have to be delivered to the emergency room. Once they got there, the person would simply wander off into town.
The paramedics mentoring my brother decided to use this as a learning opportunity for him when they picked up the most famous of these characters. "Gee, he looks a little dehydrated, we'd better give him a drip." So my brother got to practice giving people IVs. What was interesting though, was when they started treating it like a real emergency (read: uncomfortable till the end) people stopped taking advantage of it because it was no longer easy.
I don't think you need to let these people die on the mountains, just make the help a little less easy on them so they think twice before wasting your time.
That's kind of the point, isn't? They are rewarding the early adopters.
They're not rewarding the early adopters, they've just been grandfathered. Could you imagine the fallout if Google came asking everyone who already had an account for cash? Though I do find it odd that they picked $5 if it's just to create better safeguards. Why not $1 instead?
Glad you decoded it for me! We are on the same ship.
The best way I ever heard someone describe this idiom was that "a boat is what you get on when the ship's sinking". When you're still on the ship everything is just fine, which means the idiom simply doesn't work. When you're in the boat though, that means there's a problem.;)
You're basically accepting payment for lost life (which can never be recovered). "I'll spend 40 hours programming your software, and I want $1000 in return for my precious life wasted."
I assume we're still talking about collecting bounties from Google when I make the following statement. If the work you do for the possibility of money feels like wasting your life maybe you should do something else, like work for the guarantee of money or simply treat it as a hobby.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously? Flamebait?
A ten-fold increase in efficiency, and all they can think of for applications is clothing?
Lightweight power cells are something the military has wanted for a long time. The less weight a soldier has to carry, the better. And they mention powering UAVs with this technology as well; a civilian application can't be far behind.
As for making an electric car practical, it needs to be affordable too. If this technology doesn't drop the price of an electric car, many people won't be able to afford one regardless of how practical it is.
How about a web based client interface for browsing encrypted content that is dispersed throughout the web to increased readership of closed circle content and a trust system for automatically sharing access to friends?
Something like Freenet or some other darknet combined with a web of trust? Maybe a PGP-based model where you can decide how many marginal signatures a person's key needs before they get access would work.
The biggest threat in that implementation would be users being too trusting and making the web of trust unreliable as a result.
Everyone here is saying how "obvious" it is that they should have incompatible fittings. While it seems like a great idea, it's really not that simple. If such a plan was implemented, we'd be reading another article in a few years about how many people died because a doctor or nurse couldn't find the right type of tube in time, or how two incompatible tubes that looked similar ended up leaking medicine all over the floor instead of into the patient.
It's better to have medicine leaking all over the floor than into the patient the wrong way. It's also much better for the doctor or nurse if the patient doesn't die by their hand. That's why everyone is saying incompatible fittings are such an obvious idea. If a doctor or nurse is in an emergency that requires a quick response it greatly decreases the chance they'll accidentally kill someone.
Gravity is a law I don't see them changing any time soon so I think we'll just have to accept some risk. ;)
There is such a thing.
HOOOOOOOOONK vs Beep Beep
(ie, just "bounce" the horn)
There is, but some people go apeshit the second you touch your horn regardless of how. I've had people literally step out of their vehicles to yell at me for even thinking of honking when the light turned and they didn't go.
My personal policy is that if you've sat at a green for 10 seconds or more you get two quick beeps, what I assume to be the universal "excuse me, but I'd like to go now", but a lot of people in North America seem to disagree.
What if they have a heart attack, die, don't land on the horn, and are speeding out of control in electric silence?
Assuming they push the pedal to the floor during the heart attack and rigor mortis kicks in immediately, the gas engine would kick in and produce noise. Otherwise, their leg muscles would relax once they die making it near impossible for them to push the gas pedal.
Yeah but you don't get that "three-dimensional" feel you'd have in an actual coed shower.
Just because it's a coed shower doesn't mean what you're grabbing belongs to a woman.
Nothing is overpowered when you're playing against a live DM whose intelligence and creativity are on par with the player.
If I had mod points you'd get them all. Though I admit I prefer when the DM can outsmart the players.
Our former DM (fake trap guy I mentioned earlier) outsmarted one of our party in a way I will never forget. One of our members ended up with a monkey's paw with one wish left on it so he spent days crafting his wish to allow for any countereffects the DM would add. The gist of the wish was that he wanted to be able to cast meteor shower simply by saying "meteor shower". It took him several minutes to recite the full details of his wish. When he finished the DM granted the wish with two caveats: he was compelled to respond when anyone asked him a question and the only words the player was able to speak were "meteor shower".
Naturally, the party didn't survive very long after this fiasco but it was well worth it having been a witness to such an epic battle of wills.
I meant to do something with the idea of the pit being illusionary. Or the spikes. I'm not saying the players wouldn't die, just that it wouldn't be straightforward :)
We had a DM that loved fake traps. His best was a room where the ceiling was coming down towards the party, the door slammed shut behind us and wouldn't open, and there was a button next to it on the wall. Every time the button was pushed the ceiling would reset and start coming down again. It took about an hour and a half for everyone to figure out the solution. Turns out there was an invisible ledge with a pressure-sensitive switch that opened the door; the ceiling came to rest on it just outside everyone's reach. Every time someone hit the button they delayed getting out of the room.
i'm hoping it's galaxy quest!
It was Galaxy Quest. By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, I had to post that.
There is nothing on Linux that come near the quality of Adobe applications...
Is this a bad thing or a good thing?
I've never used Photoshop so I can't comment on its performance, but Flash and Reader drive me insane.
So later in the article when it says that "The congestion was expected to last into mid-September as the road project will not be finished until then" you actually think the same cars will be stuck in traffic until mid-september?
Those poor people...
I'll trade you my Canadian sandwich for your American sandwich! Then we can get the Canada Revenue Agency in on it too.
The internet does not enable. People using the internet does.
Things do not do, people do.
I'm not trying to anthropomorphise anything here but things can provide the ability (or enable a person) to do something. The Internet enables me to find knowledge faster than the library, a knife enables me to gut a fish more easily, my car enables me to carry more groceries. On their own, these tools are neither good nor bad, but I can do some pretty stupid things with all of them.
These people went into a situation above their skill level because they had technology that enabled them to call for help more easily, it minimized their sense of danger, so they took a risk they normally wouldn't. I'm not blaming technology for the lack of foresight on their part but I do believe the entire article is about how it's enabling new levels of stupidity.
You're probably right, but I don't see much difference between $50 of income from blogging and $50 of "income" from bartering. Neither should really be worth charging someone $300 over.
... between looking for meat machines and metal machines?
Meat machines have the potential to be delicious.
Have you ever sold a book on Amazon? Or a knick-knack on eBay? Or run a website with ads? Or held a garage sale? Or sold a couch on Craigslist?
You're also required to report barters on your income tax in both Canada and the US. This seems like a system that could probably be broken with over the top honesty. I wonder what would happen if someone reported swapping lunches with a coworker on a regular basis.
No. Stupidity enables Stupidity.
blaming tech for stupid people doing stupid things is well......stupid
Tech enables stupidity on a much larger scale. Take the Internet for example.
My brother shared some stories from his practicum as a paramedic once, it turns out they have to respond to every call because it might be a real emergency. Unfortunately, in the town he was in this led to some people outside of town using the ambulance as a taxi. The person would get picked up and despite the fact that there was nothing wrong they'd have to be delivered to the emergency room. Once they got there, the person would simply wander off into town.
The paramedics mentoring my brother decided to use this as a learning opportunity for him when they picked up the most famous of these characters. "Gee, he looks a little dehydrated, we'd better give him a drip." So my brother got to practice giving people IVs. What was interesting though, was when they started treating it like a real emergency (read: uncomfortable till the end) people stopped taking advantage of it because it was no longer easy.
I don't think you need to let these people die on the mountains, just make the help a little less easy on them so they think twice before wasting your time.
So they're basically dealing with the "I have winter tires so I can stop quickly on the ice" logic.
Were the HELL am I gonna get five fucking hundered dollars man? Are they out of there fucking minds? FUCK YOU GOOGLE ASSWIPEES!
Uh, it's only five dollars. Unless you plan on registering 100 accounts anyway.
That's kind of the point, isn't? They are rewarding the early adopters.
They're not rewarding the early adopters, they've just been grandfathered. Could you imagine the fallout if Google came asking everyone who already had an account for cash? Though I do find it odd that they picked $5 if it's just to create better safeguards. Why not $1 instead?
Glad you decoded it for me! We are on the same ship.
The best way I ever heard someone describe this idiom was that "a boat is what you get on when the ship's sinking". When you're still on the ship everything is just fine, which means the idiom simply doesn't work. When you're in the boat though, that means there's a problem. ;)
A little hot under the colander eh?
You're basically accepting payment for lost life (which can never be recovered). "I'll spend 40 hours programming your software, and I want $1000 in return for my precious life wasted."
I assume we're still talking about collecting bounties from Google when I make the following statement. If the work you do for the possibility of money feels like wasting your life maybe you should do something else, like work for the guarantee of money or simply treat it as a hobby.